There's a lot of manufactured homes, too.

Lets say you own a manufacturing business, and you decide to purchase the property that you use to run your business. 

Forget the stock market, I'd buy investment properties near a Toilet Paper/Paper Towel manufacturing plant, watch it spike in value for the short term & then sell before it dies down :)

I'm not as convinced with manufactured housing in the short term, I think there will be some issues with collections, but will perform very well in the long run simply due to the lack of affordable housing.

Built like a trailer with 2x3 inch exterior walls and 1x2 or 2x2 interior wall const. which makes them very flimsy and difficult even dangerous to repair.Interior paneling is usually a 3/16 inch photo-finished veneer which for the most part isn't even manufactured any longer.Flimsy aluminum siding no longer manufactured and hard to repair.Trying to replace interior wall paneling and/or aluminum siding with heavier materials which is about all that's available with today's material selections can drastically overload exterior walls causing sagging and settling unless reinforced by perimeter piers which still isn't a good idea for lots of engineering reasons.Roof were usual a 1x2 truss system with a rolled aluminum skin place on top.

Ive thought of doing this same thing but with modular/manufactured multi unit buildings.

Tenant will use appliances and fixtures in accordance with manufacturer instructions.ALTERATIONS.

Replacing the oversized and bulky furnace and water heater tank with underfloor space heating and a much smaller tankless hot water on demand we've just enhanced the cubic foot space dramatically by as much as 60 to 70 cubic feet.There's a lot more to this story but I hope it gives you a little insight into some of the challenges and perplexities that exist with old and even new MH's be they PRE HUD trailers and/or mobile homes or HUD Manufactured Homes.

I am not much of a risk taker in manufacturing as I have seen manufacturing go off shore for years.

I am half way thru a Purchase Agreement for my manufactured home.   2 years ago, I received a companion dog prescribed by my doctor and submitted this to park management/owners.