I've been having this conversation lately with a lot of the owners I work with as well as those who self-manage. For a long time, the mindset for investors has been to get the highest rents possible on their units. Th...

Mostly on trade accounts with local businesses for the materials, some business credit cards, some of the contractors were OK with waiting 30 days for payment. 

I've read/listened a lot to why buying Mobile Home Parks specifically can be a very lucrative investment, but is the same true for just mobile homes?

I don't beleive this is true based on the IRS site stating you don't have to issue a 1099 if you are "not engaged in a trade or business."  

As a Canadian, most of what you say regarding BC and Ontario is true due to Vancouver and Toronto being the major cities in Canada, but your immigration numbers and link to housing shortage is a bit of political rhetoric.

Buying hood properties with what is basically credit card debt in today’s market is so extremely high risk it borders on recklessness.

Quote from @Dennis Knapp: they got ahold of me on fb through one of my groups and claim to be a direct lender. they seem to good to be true.

It is true that you'll probably only be responsible for paying off the interest for the first ten years. 

(PS I'm sure you experienced folks have your contractors in line already but it never hurts to add another trusted one to the phone book, I'd love to send over our business cards and talk about how we could be of assistance to your team) Again thank you all for the help - Brennan 

Hello BP,I've been working as a Gov contractor providing Cloud Engineer services for a while, but my true passion is commercial real estate.