Alabama is #3 in auto manufacturing, Honda, Toyata, Hyundai, Mazda, & Mercedes.Boeing, Airbus, & Google are also in the state.Plus, when you win as many national championships in football as Alabama does we get the winner's paycheck.

Make sure you buy well, all ways make your money when you buy, by been able to manufacture equity with value add deals. 

Just raw land for example drops by about 10X from property on/near lakes like Torch and in tourist towns, to a few miles down the road, or the next town over..Houses IN my town for example, including property, are worth less than it would cost to build one, or even put a decent manufactured house.. 

The manufacturer makes the product and sells to a wholesaler at a certain price , the wholesaler sells it to retail outlets at a markup and the retail outlet marks it up even further.  

All that being said, we now have manufacturing jobs in this high cost living SFBA.

Yet just because we look for the value, we eat healthier than most everyone we know, at a cost lower than most people who buy manufactured crap!

I have read some articles that the general global economy has been slowing down a bit, primarily the manufacturing sector. 

As for financing, you may want to work with a lender that specializes in financing for manufactured homes.

I work for an auto manufacturer on the corporate side, and I would highly recommend a CPO.

There is has also been an uptick of claims (a higher percentage than in the past are manufactured claims) of landlords having code violations and various other infractions.