. - particularly for a unique situation like this, try and get a full 3 years worth of Sch.

Hattie, unfortunately (as you know) your experience is not unique. 

Did you find that there were any unique obstacles to building modular homes other than the obvious building code, zoning etc. that you encountered in SoCal that you wouldn't elsewhere?

Now, if there were legal issues, title matters, something more unique about the property such as an environmental issue and the agent or investor solved that problem outside the general scope of facilitating a transaction, then there is a value added as solving such issues would be incurred by another professional, an attorney, engineer, title company.Need some economics to understand the underlying justifications of "value" as well as laws of equity need to be applied.

He told me if my housing authority was capping rents and reducing rents arbartrarly to report to the regional field office and he gave me a name and number og the person to report to.

My main point was this: if you live here, you have the unique option to try and invest here.

Where I can contribute my ambition, create long lasting relationships, and allow me to cater to whatever unique need that particular business may need.ANY RECOMMANDATIONS?? 

The best potential for lenders is someone that is in your own  geographical region that knows the local market.

I find CMHC and stats can way to broad and they can lag a couple months behind, I use what people are actually paying within the last couple months to determine my rates for maximum rental rates.The best part is its broken down with points on the map so you can check specific areas and neighborhoods down to the street.Samuel,That must be a regional thing as sites like PadMapper, Rent Donkey, etc tend not to be any more useful here (Maritimes) than what you can scrape from Kijiji yourself.  

@Cory Mccarthy  it was regionalized to a degree.Texas values held.. one of the few places that did.Certain parts of CA barely fell.PDX were we live fell 20 to 30% from all time highs. on the buy and hold though we were pretty strong here.. but still had issues I sold a group of 32 duplex's in 06 as a broker.. and about 1/3 went back to the bank by 2009.You had job loss every were.. out here on the West it was in construction.