If you are spending $300/month on random dining and entertainment, see where you can scale that back a little bit.

On the small scale you did it, you're less likely to have repercussions, but your plans to expand could cause you problems."

In Rich Dad Poor Dad lingo, my current "profession" is developing energy efficiency and reliability opportunities in Chrysler manufacturing facilities, lowering manufacturing facility/process life cycle costs.

I started my own moulding manufacturing company a year ago and that has been, and continues to be a great learning experience in itself.

Douglas,We've developed some economies of scale and definitely a lot of buying power with our contractors due to the number of renovations we do, but I would assume our model ("contract everything out at the best price and highest quality possible") is very similar to your business.

I have looked modular, but not into manufactured duplexes.

One was a double-wide manufactured home, and one was a house that had burned to the ground.

There is a navy base, a coastguard base, and 3 major manufacturers nearby.

However, if you had a ER and the data is received with Assessed Value you could do some quick calculations to get in the ballpark on a global scale opposed to looking up individual properties.

I do it on a much smaller scale. http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/1256...