Kevin Piver with CDK Geomatics (www.cdk-geo.com) has done many surveys for my residential clients.

Buying fee simple performing properties at those prices will be difficult unless you go in to towns that are extremely tertiary, even then I'd be surprised to see pricing around that.

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My point is definitely get some investor clients lined up so you can at least sell some homes while learning what investors are looking for.

I would assume that resale for those areas may be pretty difficult, but those areas potentially could be good for acquiring rental properties.

The only issue with that  is that it will make it more difficult to sell them individually in the future.  

I have several clients in CO where the majority of their locations are 2-4 units. 

Just from my experience, part-time would be okay if you have one or two clients at a time, but I think it would be hard to work full-time, do real estate part-time and manage properties (if you do that yourself).

The great majority of our community owner clients are using related finance companies as a tool to buy low occupancy communities and fill and modernize them thus making major changes in the values of the communities they acquire.I wonder how he intends to do it? 

If it's mostly automated, it's not that hard...I easily do 2000+ entries per month across all my businesses and my personal finances, and because I'm seeing many of the same transactions over and over, it's not difficult to automate.