He had an employee mentality and he wanted me to pay him as he learned skills such as roofing, dry walling, etc.  

I do wish I could hear more stories from SINGLE female house hackers to put my mind at ease or give me tips.3) Pets: My 12 year old dog/daughter loves people and other animals and traveled everywhere with me, but I do have concerns leaving her in the home with someone I feel is not familiar with dogs (may let her out, give her unsafe foods, etc) or someone that may harm her.

I would recommend changing your mentality about business relationships.What I mean by this is: the lender is probably not "full of ****" or "bsing you". 

Whether or not it's ugly/cute factor weighs into the appraisal likely depends on the mental game of whoever is doing the appraising.

The latter pass code inspections.My daughter had one in an old college dorm & when it fired up the suspended ceiling rattled terribly due to back pressure as it would suck in air from random ceiling cold air returns.Then again it could be like one of those (in pic) that we had in a ranch we owned & was not code compliant. 

Since I was mentally 'full time' but physically splitting my time with my previous full time business for over a year after licensing, it took me 9 months of hustling, training, learning, offering, etc until I closed my first deal.

SFR tenants are renters, so they tend to see the home as a temporary solution, while MHP tenants own their mobile home, so they tend to have more of a homeowner mentality.

I think you should figure out what specific areas you want to start looking to buy in, what kind of property you can mentally and financially afford to get into, and other things that will help you gauge where you stand.

We have a CEO of a company wanting to rent our place to get his children into our school district and wants our neighborhood as his daughters already have friends here.

@Jess Wood Congratulations on mentally being ready to pull that trigger!