Don't buy a mobile  ( manufactured ) home.  

We always loved working with clients from the US and are thinking about entering the US market first.We have developed some modular building models that will be manufactured in Europe using premium materials and equipment mainly from our longstanding suppliers in Spain.

Don't just look at Houses and just one Price...look at Townhomes and Condos and Manufactured and Land etc. etc. to get the overall picture of what is available.

I realize that some of the content would not be useable by anyone other than me, but it might give people some ideas of what they could write in their own letters:Rishel Family TrustApril 7, 2016As an owner of a manufactured housing community in the Springfield, Illinois area you may be aware that I: serve currently the Chairman of the Board of the Illinois Manufactured Housing Association;Am the Managing Director of Rishel Consulting Group, a national consultancy on chattel finance of manufactured homes;serve in numerous appointed and elected positions at the regional and national level in the manufactured housing industry;am the publisher of the Chattel Finance Newsletter, a national publication for the manufactured housing industry with 20,000 subscribers.What you may not know is that I have developed and owned communities since 1975, are currently  invested with partners in other Illinois communities, and that I have recently decided I have an interest in owning a smaller community in Springfield to use as a training ground for employees of the trust.If you have a smaller community in the Springfield area that you are considering selling, please consider discussing it with me. 

This is very true - there are still a large percentage of jobs like retail, hospitality, manufacturing, etc that can't be done remotely. 

Did you ever consider renting out the rest of your land area as a place for manufactured/mobile homes?

Seek property in a State where it's more affordable for me to purchase, buy SFR, or Manufactured Home?

Just last week I read in the news a huge manufacturing plant will be built not far from me in about a year and now I wonder if I should step up my time line.Also thinking of changing focus to single family homes. 

Employment seemed somewhat diverse with roughly 25% in manufacturing, 25% in ag, and the rest kind of spread out. 

The date you make a contract is on the manufactured housing sale purchase agreement which should state the closing date and the possession date.