There are also great opportunities for networking with others in the industry that provide access to people you may want to invest with and an opportunity to ask questions of others in the industry that might bring light to an investment opportunity or warn you off of a potentially disastrous investment.Contrast this with Wall Street Investment firms that pay our firm $500 per hour for information and for opinions on their strategies in the manufactured housing industry.

It is also a warning sign that there are additional problems to come.

(they probably won't bother - and if they do get someone to listen you'll just get a warning at first - and maybe at that point you could bend the ear of a local official and get the town to remove the easement for you.

Not only is it an amazing resource it has a positive flow and gives warnings about GURU's and snake oil salesmen.

I don't know if my expectations are too high or if I need to heed the initial warning signs and take a different route. 

Needing to fall under the 5 day warning like hotels can issue.

Maybe think about the fact, that this might be bigger than your monthly fee and that you'd hope that other landlords would have done something to warn you about tenant like this.

Anyone can make a loan, the real challenge is to finance a successful transaction wherein you get paid off at maturity.There is lots of fraud out there, recent title transfers with max cash out, borrower will to pay super high fees and costs, cash out wherein the borrower has no cash left in the deal are just a few warning signs that there could be trouble and warrant closer scrutiny.If you don't have sufficient funds to make a first trust deed, there are many professionally managed mortgage pools that will combine you funds with funds of other investors to make loans you can't due to loan size.

I've learned a ton from reading past forum posts but I will warn  you that the majority of those on the STR forum lean towards self-managing. 

Like warnings on the tendency to use the business to write-off so many expenses that it actually appears you make less than you actually do affecting your ability to get a home loan later.