I've been a bit burned by CR and the way they measure reliability.  I've started looking at Yale Appliance's take on things on their YT channel. Obviously, they sell appliances, and some of their reviews are not appli...

As an alternative, possibly provide the prospective tenants or buyers resources to rent a boat or purchase a boat instead.

We have a property that has been label high risk and as we have claims in the past couple years all due to natural disaster that hit Des Moines, IA ( storms )Current policy has been cancel and having troubles getting new policy.

Alternatively, hire a company that utilizes dust collectors with the grinders.

If you are naturally inclined toward project management and flipping, get that process running smoothly and then focus on developing your business in the other areas.

I've seen quite a few alternate lending products that are pretty competitive with MFR loan pricing even on gov backed loans.

Alternatively, I could put tenant interview as one of the contingencies.

The way the proposal is written, it will limit the average investor instead and the type of investment (i.e. no alternative investments), reduce diversification, increase risk, and limit hard working savers ability to save for retirement. 

My other strategy, which seems way too unwieldy and unfocused, has been to open Google Maps, and pick random cities that I have either heard of, or are adjacent to population centers or natural attractions (mountains, lakes, parks etc), and start looking at Zillow and comparing historical data for the props I see listed to try to gauge where we might be on the bell curve of appreciation.

The alternative is to hire a broker for a business that you form and own.