Thus, they are appraised as such - valued based off the sales comp approach - i.e how much have other similar single family homes sold for?

These are the best recommendations.  

@Phillip Austin Rent by the room investing is an excellent strategy.

There is a reason we lenders require "skin in the game" and experience.

Why did the previous owner sell it for only $85,000?

There are a few spots like below the basement window where you might want to paint just that wall or spot paint a scrape.

If they might stay, I pad my calendar so someone doesn't book it when I could just keep the current person.

Excellent insight showing just how ridiculous this “don’t need capital, just drive for dollars” nonsense is. 

Because I live in a neighborhood that has no crime but it shows up as very high crime because we had two neighbors who would call the cops over each others dogs barking so it lit it up to show it as negative…

They can finance the land, but not the mobile home.