I'll address Texas later after I am done driving.You can drive and do BP on a mobile device?

I have a self-directed IRA with approximately $30K that I used to buy some notes on mobile homes.

You can probably go online and find the chapter of your states' statutes dedicated solely to property tax leins and all the accompanying rules, regulations, and procedures.

However, my business currently isn't large enough to justify a full-time dedicated truck, so I use my personal pick-up and expense the mileage.Now, if I was in the business of selling high-performance auto parts and accessories, then my Carrera might qualify. :-)

We started with single family - moved on to apartments and then into mobile home parks.

Experience in rehabs, vacation and long term rentals, small commercial and mobiles (lonnie deals and land/home), private lending.

Short sales were extremely successful in the second half of '09 and the first half of '10 because the $8K tax credit incentivized buyer's causing them to mobilize.

That's my thinking, Jeffrey.If we've got a forum dedicated to something that for all intensive purposes, doesn't exist, aren't we just as bad as the people who are trying to sell folks on the dream that it is possible to do these deals?

Read "Deals on Wheels" by Lonnie Scruggs and you can use your $12K in the mobile home arena without using hard money.

With less than a 15% closure rate.I will be dedicating some of my own portfolio to this strategy going forward, so I will know within the year or so.