To say the amount of real estate info I have processed over the last month (through books, blogs, articles, and this site) has been overwhelming and intimidating is an understatement.

Overall there seems to be a modest drop of 5% or less overall. 

These resources should be helpful. https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/how-to-estimate-rehab-costshttps://www.biggerpockets.com/store/estimating-rehab-costs-ultimate

All of their episodes thus far have encouraged posting on their forums so i hope this is the right area (despite being 26, i'm awful with message boards/blogs/forums etc) for this sort of post. 

My blog has example and happy to answer questions.

Here is a great primer on seller financing: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/6405/90747-the-dark-art-of-seller-financing-explained

I am currently focusing on mobile home parks (30+ pads) in the greater Atlanta metro for a number of reasons, most of which are explained very well in this BP blog post.

My poor fingers got tired of typing the same thing over and over, so I put my tips and tricks in a blog post.

She specializes in this area and has written on this topic extensively for the BP blog.

I'm thinking of putting 20% down on a home (will likely need to leverage some of the equity we have in our current home, either through a HELOC, cash-out REFI, or just selling the house altogether...) that would provide modest positive cash flow out of the gate while allowing us to get our foot in the door of the Hawaii market at current prices rather than higher purchase prices that I assume will exist a few years from now.