She lives with family while going to school, and works around 15-20 hours a week year round.  

I’ve spent the last several years working 80-100 hours a week and do not intend to do so forever and I believe real estate is my key to financial independence!

whatever you stance on that, it has created a situation where we (americans) look down on factory built homes.Without the artificial input I believe we would have giant , efficient, factories in every city pumping out modular homes, that are green, affordable and accepted as "normal" and probably cost as much as a nice new truck.If you have ever built a new home, the insanity of "site built" becomes apparent as the waste of materials and man hours can be staggering.

The plumber opened up three walls, never called the management company, finished the job in less then 5 hours, charged my unsuspecting tenant, an older lady, whooping $2400 (about $500 per hour) and left. 

I would post written notice on his door that if he's not out within three days, I'm filing for eviction and coming after him for every penny owed.

The main reasons I am not in the pawn shop industry today is I don't want to stand behind a counter 8-10 hours a day and I don't want employees!

You may want to find a market with at least three forms of industry.

I would try to lower my resell price since he is probably motivated as a seller and has earned two or three times his original price.The age of the house and all of the weather it has been through does concern me as well as the basement condition.( I might be a little biased because I've been in Dallas,Texas all of my life (for 61 years). 

I do not work right now and spend about 12 hours a day, 7 days per week, on learning about real estate investing with a current dream of being able to walk again someday, work,  and to contribute to my family again.I do not know why this happened but I will continue on. 

It’s about an hour and a half drive from Birmingham, and I was thinking about driving up tomorrow (6/24) to look around and get the lay of the land.