For my auction.com purchase they used some half-baked closing firm out of Pittsburgh with real crummy customer service.

@'Ty Taylor & @Maurice Miller Thank you guys for the advice and encouragement!

If you are interested in buy and hold, I would encourage you to reach out to him.

This really encourages me to expand more quickly and is a big morale boost for me!

Also, there are many details left out here but I just wanted to share the overall details to encourage you first-timers out there to see that it can definitely happen for you, if you want it to.

While it's definitely possible to be successful as a part-time agent, my opinion is that most agents don't understand how hard it is to generate a pipeline of customers.

Worst part was that he had gotten himself a roommate (without my permission) whose employment (as he described it; I'm not kidding) was "marketing".As my son and I were clearing out the house after the eviction, four of his "customers" stopped by to pick up their supplies which involved little packets of white powder (we found some in the kitchen cabinet that "TJ" over looked).

I have mine customized the way I want it, and I know how to do stuff in my MLS that the average Realtor probably never thought about.

In answer to Jon's question, we are not seeing the cap rate compression that apartments have been experiencing, probably due to the fact that the majority of real estate investors are scared to buy mobile home parks due to basic misconceptions about our customers and how the business model works.

I believe they just have such a high volume of listings and properties to maintain, that customer service is their first priority.