People want close-in, relatively "affordable" housing as city's become more in favor simply because we are moving away from a city based manufacturing country(dirty and low wage) and into a services country("green" and high wage). 

I think it still has a bit of a stigma (unfairly deserved) probably because many people confuse it with manufactured housing.

Our realtor has suggested having the seller move the manufactured home off the property while it is being appraised and closed on.

But in Ford's case the manufacturer gets the breaks.

Property #6: Ebson (Florida) manufactured home.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Here are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbu

Some will stay, but the repetitive jobs (transportation, manufacturing, etc.) will all eventually be automated.

He highly suggested me doing the same - VRBO for manufactured units.  

Migration of technology companies, business services and manufacturing firms to the heartland is likely to accelerate.Completion of Nationwide High-Speed Rail System.

Being on I-85 its home to lots of warehousing, distribution and light manufacturing businesses and the service economy there continues to grow - all demanding workforce housing, of which there's a chronic shortage.