We should jump on a call and trade ideas

It’s a jack of all trades here with little to no trade offs/cons when comparing apples to apples to other large STR markets.The key to success here though comes in the knowledge and execution.

Eventually, I'd like to utilize a 1031 exchange to trade up into larger multifamily units.Thanks in advance for your insights!

Meanwhile, the assets lack fundamentals, and rarely trade for remotely close to where they appraise.

If the former, you may be trading $10K today for a long-term risk that could crush you at any time.

You will never lose more money than you will skimping on these two trades in your portfolio.

From my perspective, when I started house hacking, I really enjoyed learning about all of the trades, but as you said-  it becomes harder to do all those things while building.  

But they don't have any foreign currency risk investing in Mexico or the Dominican Republic either because properties there are traded in US dollars as well.Counterintuitively, this is another advantage for countries like Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

Some may want to move and then you'll be left with an older, used mobile home which you may have to fix up or trade in for a newer, used mobile home depending on the condition. 

When I started trading stocks in 1988 commissions were 4%.