I do recommend to use inspection, especially since I am abroad investor.In addition, the inspection report help me to make sure the contractor quote covered all major issues, and I also use the inspector to visit during the rehab to make sure the contractor finished each construction stage.Investing ~$250 in inspection in compare to the money you invest in buying and rehabbing is not major and reduce your risk.Good luck.

I do only have this one house, and I keep very detailed records, but I realize there are suddenly a bunch of tax rules that may affect me and I know little about.Should I have a home inspection done to determine any code issues or safety issues to correct prior to converting the property to a rental?

Yes/NoAny follow up conversation information will then be logged after:6/20/18:  Called again and spoke to David, he is interested in meeting at the property for a walk through on 6/25/18.6/25/18:  Met at property, will be expecting itemized estimate from David by 6/30/186/30/18: Received estimate, need to go over this and compare to other two estimates.And so on and so on, so I don't lose track of my communications with each person.That is the sort of stuff I am talking about. 

Have you ever purchased a mobile home and wanted to improve the property only to learn there were things that you missed prior to closing that you should have known?

I have a background in real estate, prior to getting married I was a realtor in Florida, then worked as a marketing director in a real estate office.

It's the middle one with 187k the homes are slanted compared to the roads...

I'm trying to gauge what I might be in for prior to contacting this potential coach (who btw seems like the type of person I would like to learn from).Does anybody have experiences with a coach they could share?

LBP is nothing to be afraid of and simply needs to be disclosed to the tenant or buyer that the property  was built prior to 1978 and may contain LBP.

Get out your tape measure, try and figure out the distance from the bottom of the tub to the slab under it and compare to the types of low profile P traps you see online.

We actually farmed garlic for a few years which proved exceedingly difficult compared to Centennial just a half hour away; we get about half the precipitation of the Denver metro area and what does fall tends to evaporate with the winds very quickly.