I read about environmental report elsewhere on BP and it looked like some kind of racket to me: pay for phase I only to be forced to do phase 2 when none are needed.ThanksNick

Perhaps I consider 1.4% rule on stick built, and force manufactured to hit 1.6% rule?  

In our example, if the pad and the LAG were both above 103', you would still be in the flood zone, but a flood cert and LOMA would be used to get an exemption letter so you wouldn't be force to carry flood insurance.

See if a storage facility lease can be used, since you don't want to be forced to go through regulations that would apply if it were somebody's residence. 

well now you have explained it your talking Manufactored homes.. the most difficult to loan on.. the government forced lenders to loan on them for Owner occ. that's why they get the loans.. for you its going to be tough.. you defiantly need a private banker who can make loans outside the box

Investors in listed REITs buy and sell securities on a public exchange, the price of which is often influenced by supply and demand as well as other non-real estate market forces.

I almost thinking I am forced to invest in outside states.

“Landlords of rent stabilized units who try to use a temporary lapse in the rent stabilization laws to break existing leases, to raise rents improperly, to intimidate tenants, or to coerce tenants into leaving their homes, will be subject to the full force of law for any such action,” Cuomo wrote in a letter to be sent Sunday to landlords.The letter, obtained by the Daily News, states that despite any temporary lapses, the new rent laws once approved will be retroactive to June 15 — so “your legal obligations under existing leases and under the passage of the new rent stabilization program will not expire on that day.”De Blasio says if rent-regulated apartments law expires it would be 'end to New York City as we have known it'The governor directed landlords to continue to follow the current law until a new law is enacted and any changes are fully understood.

What I mean is really pertisapait stay late force yourself to go to drinks or food afterwords it's where the real teaching takes place.  

You could also try doing a brute force method.I paid a virtual assistant on UpWork (Odesk), $9 to generate a list of contact info for all contractors within a radius of the subject property.This gave me a list of 200 or so contractors.