I have spent the majority of my career stationed at Bragg.

(Realized the hard way how bad those are too get) lol With the lease option should I consider reaching out to a realtor or a broker to help with more information on that process and if my tenants are willing to do that what would be the best option for me to do since I'd like to purchase a duplex next year?

I used to say I am a real estate investor or that I owned a real estate investment company, but people either thought that I was a flipper or real estate broker. years back in ulta liberal Portlandia I could not tell people what I did.I was logging ( raping the forests)  I was building subdivisions ( big bad developer ) and I had a courthouse steps buying division ( kicking poor people out of their houses)  so I just said I was in real estate  LOL>  

You may have better luck going to east Plano and east McKinney.Good luck in your search and your new career.

My guess is they were in a hurry and skipped the scan or they had a bad battery or some reason it didn't get picked up.

Choosing the older single person.... bad juju.

The bad: the park is about 45 years old and most of the utilities are from that era.

Do you think this is a good or bad strategy?

Do the math again (make sure to shop around for a bank with lower fees) and see if there is a solution to increases the value of it in a short time, so you can refinance it later after get a new appraisal after  rehabe....No deal is batter than a bad deal which will stress you out and not worthy of the time and $.  

Made $80k profit from the sale in a bad market which I split with the money lender.