Whether or not people can use mass transportation for getting to and from work, most people still own cars for traveling to visit relatives, vacation, etc. and not planning for parking is going to create a mess. 

As you probably know, Mass laws seem to be some of the worst for landlords in the whole country, but if you can get past that and screen tenants like crazy and be pickey, the numbers are pretty strong for buy and hold.  

We stopped building in mass during the last crash and we never got back to the pace we were building. 

We are in Mass and because of that RE is quite pricey which makes for larger down payments.  

If you are worried about someone trying to muscle you out of your deal or out bid you after your seller signs it you can have them sign it with a notary and have that purchase agreement recorded at the county recorders which would cloud title.

After you know all those laws, I would talk with the seller about notifying the tenant that you will only (this can be done through the contract) be purchasing the property if they evict the tenant in the time period of escrow, and the unit needs to be investigated while in escrow, or you want a reduction in price due to the lack of knowledge of that unit.I have inherited a tenant and California is way different and more strict with tenant/landlord laws than most states, but luckily the tenant left without too much muscle (figuratively speaking).

I would like to lay out a scenario, and see you guys flex your BP muscles and show me the way. 

Soft-pull is usually you checking your own credit, or when some lender "pre-qualifies" you for an offer when they mass-mail.

Part of the problem is the whole manufactured housing industry is a niche industry, and the volume of prospective buyers for anything is far lower than what one would expect in the mass market, so the need to charge more per customer is greater.If I were qualified to write a book on buying and owning apartment complexes - which I am not - I might expect to sell 50,000 copies.

I have never done a full on thousand letter mass mailing or yellowletters or anything like that.