Be sure to check with the municipality first about the continued use of a manufactured home. 

Both suburbs have potential:Kyle has a decent distribution and manufacturing hub with its location between Austin and San Antonio as well as sitting on the I35 corridor to Dallas / DFW.  

I am invested in many types of real estate deals (single-family rentals, multi-family, office, flex, manufactured housing, syndications, BRRRs, hard money lending, etc.) and my favorite type of real estate investment are REITs because they are truly passive and run by well-established companies with access to cheaper capital and better deal flow than most.

Your lender should be named as the mortgagee or more broadly by some insurance companies, the loss payee.3) Lender instructions, rarely discussed on this board, define all of this and much more.

In Texas, my 1st lien set of docs includes a warranty deed w/ vendor's lien, promissory note, deed of trust, business purpose affidavit (for entity borrower) OR personal guaranty (for individual borrowers), lender's instructions to title closer, and a letter of non-representation (mandatory). 

Some even include tax information.If you can't find it, just call your county office and ask them for instructions.

Manufactured home isn't in the best shape , was built in 1993, but has some good bones (kitchen is functional etc).

A quick internet search only shows the manufacturer - with a freight/shipping charge?        

Then instruct the property manager to coordinate a transfer with your new property manager. 

There's a diverse economy with banking, manufacturing, healthcare, tech, real estate, along with other industries, which means the local economy is more robust than what you would find in other parts of the country.CLT has had constant population growth for quite a while, which means continual demand growth for housing.