Since being abroad will make it harder to monitor or adjust if issues come up, I would recommend buying in a nicer area that's less prone to management headaches as well.

In some jurisdictions they even monitor for those transactions.Hate to say it but the investing community brought this on themselves.

I was wanting to know if there is a way to try and monitor these with some type of search term in the notes , say mobile home park ( but that might bring homes up in a park)  ?  

I monitor the MLS everyday and look at every MF in Hillsborough County.

The reason is because Expedia is monitoring our conversion rate (turning inquiries into bookings) and if that conversion rate is low or drops off from what it was before they will assume that we are taking payments outside of their system in order to help guests avoid having to pay the service fee.

I am always looking for personal investment opportunities and my work allows me to closely monitor the pulse of the market and monitor values and markets (an property types) with attractive margins or potential.While I do maintain a Broker's License, I do not actively pursue listings or representations.  

I don't want to put words in @Brandon Sturgill's mouth, but by his profile, it looks like he already has some experience with smaller properties, and I'm thinking his question was not so much, "What is the infrastructure that I need in place in order to acquire 300 units?"

But on the other hand, even if I could increase profits significantly from the business, it would just be getting taxed like crazy so I would still want to find a way to re-invest in some kind of retirement plan.Also, I'm still in the process of solidifying some infrastructure that's necessary in order for me to re-invest in the business in terms of marketing.  

Retail SFH = no property management, no infrastructure = you will be hands onTurnkey = all work is complete and the property is producing income immediately = passive income It all boils down to how much time you have to entertain all the infrastructure that REI requires to be successful.

If they were great, long term tenants and this was the first problem, my advice woule be to suck it up and tell them that next time something like this occurs, they'll need to cover the cost, it's their responsibility to monitor leaks, etc.