@James Wise My market I was looking at is a dying rual manufacturing town that is losing the the jobs.

Rentals generate the other kind of income, passive, which cannot be used to fund retirement plans.So first, you will have to restructure your setup to "manufacture" active income.

After getting my degree, I worked for a manufacturing company that moved me out to Harrisburg, PA for a year and then to Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, IA for 4 years after that. 

Kenosha/Pleasant Prairie has seen massive industry and manufacturing expansion in the past 4 years thanks to large scale trendsetters like Uline and Amazon.   

(https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i5695.pdf):"You may be able to take the credits if you made energy saving improvements to your home located in the United States... ...A home is where you lived in 2017 and can include a house, houseboat, mobile home, cooperative apartment, condominium, and a manufactured home... ...Your main home is generally the home where you live most of the time.

(https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i5695.pdf):"You may be able to take the credits if you made energy saving improvements to your home located in the United States...  ...A home is where you lived in 2017 and can include a house, houseboat, mobile home, cooperative apartment, condominium, and a manufactured home... ...Your main home is generally the home where you live most of the time.

I have found that many fellow landlord's will not buy manufactured homes mainly because of their personal feelings rather than the numbers.

I'm looking for a career in manufactured home sales, my nay sayers say stay away, but I say otherwise. 

View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.I have done the numbers on two identical manufactured homes.

If you go to the Vermont Manufactured Housing Association website, vtmha.org, and look at the member directory, I'm sure there is someone there that can sell you a beautiful modular home.