I am currently a Peace Corps Volunteer serving in Paraguay, South America, working on Agricultural/Environmental/Health projects in my assigned rural community. 

I'm a former builder who got rocked pretty good in 2008 then took a job out of state and just recently moved back to the gulf coast.  

I’m listening to podcast 273 on note investing and it’s pretty interesting so far.

So rents and home prices movements can diverge, and rather dramatically.In the current real estate market it seems that in most major markets across the US there's a pretty tight correlation between rising rents and rising home prices, some markets even in percentage terms (which I find somewhat remarkable). 

I'll check with him. has to be done by a broker or at least signed off by your broker.. there are mandatory disclosure docs right on the DRE website you can pull off and read.. pretty basic stuff..  

Your focus seems pretty spread out, are looking for Realtor leadership in finding the type of property, or just open to any type and want a realtor to bring you what they know best?

His expenses seem pretty high to me with about $40k/year in materials and $60k/yr in labor for maintaining the park and maintenance for the homes.

Even in the US inflation during the 70s was pretty high

I've fixed pretty much everything unless it was over my skill set (replacing capacitor on A/C system, for instance; landlord told me when I moved in it was okay to repaint or whatever as long as it improved the house), my neighbors love me - they've told him so; I've resodded the yard twice (FL grass sucks with a dog), had the landscape crew redo the trees in front so they look good, replanted flower beds (perennials), power washed the house every year after wet season ended, ensured the pest control worked...The BUT part ...As a sole practioning consultant (pre-IPO weakness remediation, large financial systems implementations, global audit recommendations for SEC registrants, etc.) at times during the last 3 years things have been sink or sink lower credit wise and the ID theft didn't help (apparently, I bought a car in GA and own some property in TX).

Also, floors should probably favor long-wearing/cheaper, rather than pretty to look at.