I hear you on the pay down and tax advantage, but I have no idea if it takes 10 hours or 1000 hours of effort per year.  

Another question I have is about double wide in parks, can you buy them and rent them or are they are they really not worth the effort?

Jon,Understood, my comments have been an effort to open some eyes to the potential of SDIRAs

But what has been described so far will not work unfortunately without  a great deal of expense and added effort.  

The interest wasn't a whole lot, but for the little time and effort, it was absolutely worth it.In 2007, when I purchased my 1st home, I took some of the balance transfer money (which was already sitting in my bank account) towards my down-payment. 

I just need to make a concerted effort to ask them, so they'll let me know.

I think whatever I do plan to do, the time and effort will be put in with due diligence.  

I was disappointed that they weren't proactively sending me emails letting me know of the status, and expected me to put in the effort to contact them about it.

You went to effort to sign up on BiggerPockets to talk about this issue and you phrased your question like you wanted input from others.

Wholesaling, brokering, or bird dogging all require significant time, effort and no small amount of money.