As you pay down loans and increase rents suddenly you’re making more and more money and those suspended loses go away.

Or would it be preferable (and cheaper and faster) to just hire a contractor to renovate the old mobile home to HUD standards?

Yes, you both will be on the loan and it would increase your buying power.

I've never had a water bill that wasn't uneven.And since it changed hands 10 times between that guy and myself.....how come nobody else came across it, when the standard is that closing attorneys have to fax for water payoff? 

For example, all the tickets I got until I got my US license never resulted in “points” nor increase in insurance premiumI feel like an eviction record without SSN may not mean anything to them

This is a pretty standard rookie mistake- don't just grab lease from one of us yahoos and hope it's okay.

Zillow says I can get $2900 on a standard 1 year unfurnished lease. 

The builder construction cost for materials has increased by 33% from June 2023 to January/February 2024?

It's a great time to be in development, not necessarily AirBnB in CA due to the ever-increasing restrictions and fire hazard severity zones - but that's still something great to have experience with.

They offer a renovation loan that converts to a standard mortgage upon completion of the project.