My market is very transient, with a lot of oil & gas and manufacturing industries that bring in workers for 2-4 year jobs, so many are not looking to purchase homes, but rather rent.

Look at Detroit, car manufacturers started moving away and so did the housing and economy. 

Escrowing Taxes and Insurance is required by federal law and has been since October of 2010 on almost all manufactured homes - including chattel loans.

I’ve lived in the area my entire life (in a small town about 30 minutes out), worked here since I’ve been out of college, and started investing here in 2012.Industry/manufacturing is the heart of the city’s economy although it is less dominate than it was in the city’s prime 10-20 years ago.

In the nine situations specified,lenders may not enforce due-on-sale provisions in real property loans“secured by a lien on residential real property containing lessthan five dwelling units, including a lien on the stock allocated toa dwelling unit in a cooperative housing corporation, or on aresidential manufactured home.”If you are interested and want toknow exactly what the law says, as applicable to you, you can read ithere,https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...

We recently sold our manufacturing business in Orange, California and are ready to begin a new chapter in REI.  

We frown on assault on landlords and the manufacture of methamphetamine".

Can you do a manufactured home? 

The home is in the Branson, MO area - meth capital - leaving it empty would either be an invitation to meth manufacturing, or someone squatting and/or stripping the place.  

In fact, they may have tons of cash from their successful meth manufacturing business.BTW, be sure you can collect that much deposit.