But I've done cash/private money deals so I'm not the best person to ask about conventional financing. 

I have tried to fight this battle on the West coast and you can for sure landlock a property if  the person owned both properties and failed to give a together with easement when they sold one .the easement by necessity sounds like the play here and then its up to a trier of fact and maybe the other party wont want to spend legal fee's defending. ???

What this is, is still very much a Roth IRA, just with different processing capacity and therefore the ability to invest outside the stock market into things like real estate, private equity and other allowable asset classes.Such an IRA is not a means for you to access funds to add to your real estate investing. 

We used private money to purchase and rehab took 9 months, got it up and running in spring of 2017 and so far it's been good.It's a large 2 bedroom flat 2ndFL with two 1 bedrooms on the first floor.

I've read that hiring a private insurance adjuster can be a good idea, and that I should ask the insurance to provide for housing/hotel, as well as keep all receipts for eating out since we don't have a kitchen anymore.Any info & advice will be greatly appreciated!

It has been on the market for over 200 days, and hasn't sold.

I'd say a lot of parks I've seen sold recently are in the $30k - $40k per pad range on average, so the 1% Rule seems to hold up fairly well.

I got lucky buying a foreclosure which I sold for a stupid amount and put into a duplex.

Private funds from Myself and another investor.

My partner and I run a vertically integrated, private equity, real estate management firm with 75 employees.