In the end, as a guest, with a good experience on or near the property, I'm open to everything. 

I'm just curious to learn from others' experiences.

I want to know of people’s previous experience with them before I proceed.

I have no experience on how to value land or trailers though.It's 295k. 2% earnest money. 

what are your thoughts/experience with turnkey for starting

Sorry to hear you haven't had a great experience.

So again, my only concern with Lifestyles is that it has a draw to many newbies, but most newbies are not your father, they are guys wanting to do deals themselves with likely no real estate experience prior to joining Lifestyles.  

Closed in mid-March.TDLR; In my experience, the criterias you adjust for after a couple months of just looking and running numbers will help you determine which market might suit you the best.

In my experience Loan to After Repair Value (LTARV) is most commonly used as an Underwriting metric to ensure "the juice is worth the squeeze", or in other words, to make sure the project is worth the investment.

in the SF peninsula and down to Cupertino there was a builder who built about 30k homes in the 50s and 60s  called Eickler these were modern heat in the floor tons of glass interior walk ways with gardens in them etc etc.. very unique ..