Like others above, I would caution you that buying rehabbed properties in that price range are almost certainly going to not work out for you in the long run when you are investing at a distance.  

As investment vehicles the IRA and 401k are largely similar.  

I think the issues that you are going to run into is that technically you incurred these costs before you started your rental activities and before you placed the property into service.

In my part of Virginia there are neighborhoods that run the gamut and many times they're fairly close to each other.

You are running a business selling a product. 

Per the chart below, we typically have a huge run up every decade.

I'm hoping to keep them in mind when buying or selling mobile homes and avoid running afoul of the laws of my current state to which I've recently returned. 

Robert Scaife Pure anecdote here but I find Zestimates to run a little high.

I am looking to purchase my first property in the island and that can potentially save me some stress in the future if i run into this issue.

I feel like I can build for cheaper than buying, running the numbers tells me otherwise.