They started long ago acquiring and gradually transitioned to consolidating in a couple geographies and then managing their holdings for about 30-40 years before selling out for $140 Million. 

Remember your P & I remained fixed, while rents will gradually rise. 

Have a Local Realtor run comps for your area.When it comes time to list the unit(s) for rent, you can start high and gradually lower the List price, till you get a tenant.

Over the past 8 months or so I've  been gradually educating myself on real estate investing .I'm very excited to get started and so happy to have found BiggerPockets and all of the helpful folks and invaluable info on here!

Prices are gradually easing and going slightly down however massive influx of fed capital will continue to drive rates down and prices up but the balance will be an evening out of these forces and hence there will be pockets of low price good deals mostly conning from non investor type sellers and few from older investors who were at the sell point of their "career" and who cannot risk a 5 year downturn- so they cautious/panic sell.Conclusion is that you will see no changes in this market until you look carefully.

To me it looks like Rhove buys in to the deal and then gradually sells their shares to tenants who meet the criteria.

New jobless claims have been receding gradually as Americans return to work and the economy reopens.

Suppose, however, that a well-funded buyer has a different strategy: gradually acquire all homes in the park and rent them out at full market value.In some locales, rent control begins when someone buys a manufactured home and moves in (agreeing to whatever rent the park owner currently asks), and ends when the homeowner vacates.In that situation, it seems that park owners may raise new rent so high that vacating homeowners would find it impossible to sell the home (except maybe at a ridiculously low price).

In the last few weeks, I’ve made gradual efforts to search for and reach out to wholesalers.

Establish a contract stating rents will be gradually increasing $50/month until the monthly rent has reached the amount of $825/month.