Gloria,Based on the excerpt below from the TN Business Tax Guide (google this for your reference), operators of residential and non-residential buildings other than hotels, motels, or rooming houses are exempt.

You can hire a skip tracer to do this pretty cheap through upwork.com  We filter the lists, send them to the skiptracer, the lists comes back with numbers and addresses and we get to work.

If you decide to move a mobile, make sure you know exactly where the spigots are, and your concrete guy(if you need concrete) doesn't put the crawl space entrance immediately below it. 

Well below 1% rule.

On the below example of 108k replacement and 35k market value.

It would be purchased well below market with plenty of opportunity to increase value.

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We have an extremely diverse array of positive economic drivers that yield stability AND growth, and virtually no permits to build units that rent from $650-$1000/mo.... keep in mind, we're still able to find 7 and 8 caps, with value add potential due to below market rents. 

All other rooms and mold types were non-detect or below outside air levels. 

The offer sounds tempting since  the group has to finance about 3M$ (the rest comes from a bank with a low interest) and the building is bought about 1.5M below value, so when we sell we should expect a 50% return when selling which should be 3 years from now.The thing that bugs me is the way the building value was evaluated, i am copying a section from the presentation:"Market activity has shown similar properties consistently trading in the 4.75-5.25% cap range (refer to “Comparables” slide for specifics).