I have all the skills and attributes to make a home beautiful.

Check into city codes and regulations.The conditions of the city surrounding the mobile home park; the conditions of the overall appearance of the land and mobile homes; and the skill set of the management that is in place will be MAJOR factors to consider.Prepare your questions before contacting anyone, then go over them several times.I hope that this information was a boost to get you started on your path to successful investing in mobile home parks.Anthony

I'm sure having the experience of and skill of having a trade will help you in your investing. 

If you can borrow the money at 8% interest and no points you'd be much better off, unless the deal fails (in which case you are liable for the unpaid principal and interest whether the deal makes money or not, versus equity where your partners are taking the risk along with you).There is one more option that I should mention...if the people you approach can contribute a skill and become an active partner they can invest their money without the private offering. 

Christine Legadre - managing director of the IMF had a weird speech last year where she stated " i want to test your numerology skills on the magic number 7, most of you know that is quite a number" apparently its implied no one knew what she was talking about.

I've been thinking about getting licensed in order to build my sales skills in real estate and learn while doing.

It took 3 weeks of tenant screening to find a guy with a steady income, crap credit, and handyman skills. 

It depends on your negotiating skills."

I would look to make sure you have a strategy you understand and a solid business plan to go with it first (you have some idea about your financing, if you plan or rehabbing you need some skills or someone on your team who does, etc, basically all the moving parts of investing that you can read about all over BP) so that when you start interviewing a realtor, both you and him/her are clear about what is going to be  expected from the relationship. 

There are tons of moving parts, and a copious amount of skill sets necessary (managing people, determining rehab costs, buying at the correct price, picking a good location, to name a few).