If so, how did you structure it?

I purchased a 4-family last year using this method and would do it again in a heartbeat.Student rentals can be lucrative because they rent by the bedroom, but are hard to come by.

Hampton & Hampton (Fee structure for them at the bottom of this post.

Its technically 6 units even thought they are not connected, which makes it a commercial property, but the scale and structure pushes it to the residential side.

I both sell and purchase properties via the lease option method and one of my protections as the lease option buyer is knowing that the seller / owner cannot sell or refinance the house out from under me as long as I have that recorded option against the property effectively creating a lien. 

What is the current condition of the property's structural components?

I have heard that getting funding for MH's is difficult due to them usually being treated as a depreciating vehicle and not as a permanent structure. 

If you are doing this while employed under a broker you need to discuss his/ her take on it first anyway but standard commission structures do not apply to wholesale deals because...

There was little plumbing involved (other than a water line for the washer) or structural changes needed (there was a concrete slab already where the patio was).

Do any of my fellow Canadians want to tell some stories of creative deals they put together in the US, preferably with none of their own money down?