When we sign the lease, we always go through it line by line and the tenants initial each page. 

Ideally (and in future), what you want to see is that after rehab, your Lender's appraisal would come in at say $130k (for this example), so that when you come to Refinance 70% of ARV (per the "BRRRR strategy"), you'd get back all your initial deposit and rehab cost, which would enable you to scale your buys much quicker than having to save your own $20k every time you want to buy.

Long term goal is to get involved with enough buy and hold rentals to generate passive income and, ideally, financial freedom.

We spent about $1500 in December out of our cash flow to finish up some deferred maintenance items found during our initial inspection, so that weighed on our NOI a little bit but shouldn't be an ongoing expenditure. 

I know of mortgage products for example that will allow you to look at the income being generated from the property itself (don't care about W2, tax returns, etc).

In fact any documents an attorney can generate you can generate and get those fees removed from the closing.However, having an attorney review the docs is still a good idea.

His or her initial feeling/position on your request.

It's how I  got through the initial  class requirements before getting my license. 

From my initial research, it appears that the title for the mobile home has not been retired.

When Homeaway began to restrict the ability for owners to see the guest's email address or telephone number I was worried that because I could not talk to the guest when they initially inquired (as was my procedure) I would end up having to cancel bookings because the guest might not meet my requirements (age, number in party, non-smoker, no parties, etc.)