But house doesn't have a good a ring to it, and we want to deal in mobile homes too, which aren't houses.Maybe I'm overthinking things.

I just don't think thats a prudent use of my capital, especially as a first timer in a tricky market and with a tricky house (one of the issues is creating a master suite from a 1960s style house where the master doesn't really stand out like it does in more modern houses and another issue is creating a half bath to service LR + DR in main hall).I have looked at FHA financing, both the 3.5% down and the 203k rehab loans, but I am not 100% sure that I would want to live there for the appropriate amount of time.

I'll address Texas later after I am done driving.You can drive and do BP on a mobile device?

Others are being torn down and replaced with traditional brick homes from various builders.Maybe I am being way to sentimental but I love taken the old rundown house and modernizing it with all the latest technology while still making it look "Old style".

I have a self-directed IRA with approximately $30K that I used to buy some notes on mobile homes.

To be truthful, I have never purchased anything in CT.Everything I don't is online with mobile notaries, real estate agents and title companies.

The anal landlord was completely covered and was able to buy his neighbor's lot, building a brand new modern 8-plex on the land.

We started with single family - moved on to apartments and then into mobile home parks.

Experience in rehabs, vacation and long term rentals, small commercial and mobiles (lonnie deals and land/home), private lending.

Short sales were extremely successful in the second half of '09 and the first half of '10 because the $8K tax credit incentivized buyer's causing them to mobilize.