The mgmt companies marketing ability plays a big roll in occupancy and your bottom line. 

I would go with familiarity and ability to build relationships organically over pure numbers for a market.

You said a baby is coming and your ability to do a lot of OT once it's here may be gone.  

So if you have the ability to have that downpayment money in your bank for enough time to generate 2 statements that won't show that deposit that would be the best method.Feel free to ask more questions if you need but I hope this helps.  

Also relevant (and maybe deserving of its own question) -- my neighbors currently own five of the building's six units, and so I think will have to time the sale so that it happens concurrently with the sale of another unit (I'm foggy on the rules here, but it relates to buyers' abilities to get a mortgage). 

Celebrity, ability to speak, personal friendship,  race, class, sex, etc.    

I am expanding my portfolio of properties into East Tenn.I currently live in Middle Tenn and don't have the ability to be as hands on as I am here.  

SF will provide with a good life but MF has the ability to create life changing wealth.MF is hard in it's own right as a syndicator but if you are looking to invest passively then the extent of your work is really about finding a syndicator you like and trust and then invest with them as soon as you like one of the deals they present you with.  

You can NEVER remove and or discount the human element from the court room. 

In it I explain how I work many hours and still have the ability to manage my own MHP investments.