Plus a regular home will have established value and appreciation while a container home will be hard to comp.

I have not read the Virginia law on this, but we fund deals for wholesalers in Virginia regularly, so to the best of my knowledge there are no rules requiring a real estate license to do a same day back to back closing.

If your regular depreciation is not enough to erase all of your net income, cost segregation can do the trick.

(I don’t know if a regular warranty company would use this as a reason not to cover you as well, especially if the repair was expensive.)

This is just a general spreadsheet for calculating capex, regular expenses, vacancy, etc.

I guess I can ask for more rent from the host than from a regular tenant?

We also have other great lenders we work with regularly, some as long as about 20 years. 

Take notes and review those notes regularly.

I am looking at a prospective out of state long distance deal that has been difficult to obtain lending on as there is both a regular home and mobile home on the same property and the mobile home causes the potential investment to not meet conventional guidelines and therefore not even DSCR loans are an option.

Do now hire a "regular" realtor.