I have a hard time visualizing the target market for a property this big. in Laurel, MD, I have found that large properties with some privacy from the road, tend to attract a certain class that will lease out rooms (and even closets!)

I use a solid property manager who has found quality tenants. 

I just started Google searching buyer's agents in my area and it's actually not so simple to find anything. Where do you go/how do you go about finding a real estate agent that meets your needs. I need them to have mu...

Anything can.If the house is older in a neighborhood that is old.If the appliances are old, windows old and leaking, visual cosmetics are tired looking.How is the floors, electric, plumbing, and even the landscaping.In general, its impossible to know unless you compare properties and neighborhoods.

We pay cash for all our properties, and as contractors do all of our own work which is very high quality.

I'll even go one further and say that some of my most successful and profitable have been "0.75% deals" ... so to me the 2% rule is less than worthless as it will tend to get you into low quality properties in low quality neighborhoods where you have low quality tenants resulting in low quality, highly volatile, and very management intensive cash flow along with zero appreciaiton (actually, negative appreciation after factoring in inflation) in both prices and rents.

It's an endless revolving door of quality tenants!

Ask them to pull comps of what other houses in the area are selling for - only manufactured homes.Looking at your listing, the finish quality looks ok but the manufactured walls don't help. 

However, the higher response rate didn't necessarily translate to a higher-quality seller.

If you qualify for and utilize a Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) then you will be able to have access to institutional quality real estate from the proceeds of your 1031 exchange.