I too can relate to your struggle in finding a good REIA.

The thing that popped into my head, because of having some very irresponsible relatives in my life, was that I hope she doesn't get used to not having a rent payment and rack up the rest of her bills, making it hard to pay rent once the lump sum ran out.

Census.gov is a good free site to analyze economic data, population forecasts and identify trends.

If your agent specializes in investment properties, then he/she should have an ecosystem of investment related professionals that could help you out.

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So the work may be a bit harder since most (hopefully not all) of discussions are being USA only related.

The lack of sex appeal and the relative undiscovered/unloved nature of MHP's were major draw for me.  

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Is the market mostly university related?

Good data.