He also does light development work on projects he flips so he knows costs.  

You do NOT want someone else telling you how much you can sell your house for, what color to paint things, or how much to pay your people. 

Hard to tell from the pictures but I think the variation in color we're seeing in #2, 3, 4 is the moisture?

My favorite color is purple.

I fixed it up super nice: all new flooring, 2 inch blinds, sinks, lights, fans, paint, mirrors, toilets, ss appliances, new roof on the back porch.

Most affordable housing buyers want the basics, a pleasant color palate, and a price they can afford.

It's an older mobile and two different blue colors.

Avg cost for MH is about $500.Paint - My handyman can do the entire exterior 2 color paint in about 1-1.5 days.

Neither will shed enough light on how to purchase or build a facility, but they both made me realIze self storage is very different than other asset classes.

That's always the case . . . always . . . but the bliss is that IF your PM is working in integrity and if they know their local pricing then it should be a light and trust-laden thing to know that IF they paid that THEN it must be the going rate.IMO