A few thoughts: 1.) before investing, consume a TON of info.

How it works with us is a mobile home would be a consumer secured loan, the same as an auto loan.

Targeted is like sniper rifle with a scope- more responses from qualified sellers.EDDM is great for consumer products marketing but not for motivated R.E. sellers- a highly specialized niche or target group.

We all know that overhead gets passed down to the end consumer, and the big problem I face J., is that I'm competing with Craigslist Hacks that have no continuing education, that have no licenses, that have no insurance, that don't have a trailer full of tools, and are working for $15 per hour.

i was the last person i know to get a cell phone, the last to get a smart phone, the last to sign up for facebook, twitter, linkedin...fortunately, i never did set up a myspace page.not that those aren't great inventions, but i don't like to have my life consumed by gadgets, gizmos, and social websites.with that said, i see the value of maximizing social media in the real estate investing business.

Plus, I know that rent trends modestly up decade over decade and if I can lock in someone else's low interest mortgage I will have some plays in the future.

This way I could set up a home office in my primary and deduct business expenses like home office and utilities involved in running it and travel expenses to and from investment property etc. and I assume after depreciation and other expense deductions I would show a loss on paper for the investment property and not pay tax on my rental income.My goal is very modest, in 15 years to have 20k/year in cashflow coming in and a million dollars networth.

Here is what we did but you may find it tough to find a GC who will work within these parameters & its time consuming but being retired it was just another experience for us.We also went with 2x6 because of the weather up here & it certainly paid off over the last winter.

I found cold calling works better, but it's more time consuming.

Or you could hire them to draw one up.I also found it helpful to read up on landlord tenant and fair housing laws:https://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/tenants.shtmlhttp://recenter.tamu.edu/pdf/866.pdfhttp://guides.sll.texas.gov/landlord-tenant-lawThere are specialized books by Nolo press.