The trash trucks are huge and make a very loud wining, banging, beeping, diesel engine revving, sounds--sometimes before dawn.Sometimes they leak smelly drippings from their loads, that someone will have to deal with cleaning up.Sometimes they blow hydrolic lines and mess up the parking lot, and someone will have to deal with them (trying to) get them to clean that mess up.Anything outside the dumpster does not get picked up.The dumpster area should be sanitized from time to time if there is food waste or grease on the pavement (who will do that, and who will pay for it, and who will ensure it is being done as scheduled).You may want to fence it off, the dumpster company may require an pre open fence gate, and may not close it upon leaving--someone will have to prepare the gate for pickup and secure it when done.If you have a lot of Hobo's in the area begging, expect them to discover it's fenced area as a night time sleep spot and latrine area--do you have security to boot them, some one will have to do this (and clean up any physical mess left behind as a gift).The route to the dumpster will have to handle the weight of the dumpster truck, or it will crumble the path over time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Doing HELOC all on 9 property, you get double blow, you pay min. 8% high interest rate for the money that you could gain for free in high inflation environment.

@Tommy TotevskiAnother thing to consider ; don’t blow all your money getting the next deal .

Purchase and rehab might be a better outcome than full blow development.I think the point of the Oliver piece was to illustrate how predatory the entire process of buying mobile homes, to getting loans, to renting the land has been for the poor folks that bought into these places.It’s sad and there are not many good solutions unless the residents can afford to form an entity and purchase the land for themselves.

But for refinances, if you're just looking at existing data rather than doing an experiment, it looks like this:I roll a pair of dice, they come back snake eyes.I blow on them and re-roll, they come back lucky 7s.The dice could be loaded.

The bank isn't going to let you blow their money.

One thing to do is open the windows before bed and blow the heat out one window while sucking the cooler outside air in another.

They can make all kinds of excuses - the unit already smelled like smoke ;  the neighbor smokes not me ; the wind blows it in from next door ; I didn't see the cigarette burns during the move in inspection ; I only did it once ; somebody else left those cigarette butts outside my door, etc.   

The biggest problem with Detroit is the Detroiter's.I am glad you picked up a good deal and its good for the neighborhood that you are living there and giving it a go but don't blow smoke up people's rears. 

@Doug Pretorius that's mind blow for me, never thought about that!