By screening everyone in the household, you can potentially avoid an eviction and other tenant problems.  

Assuming you have no pressing liquidity concerns and have a stable household income, I would prefer to buy houses in middle-to-upper middle parts of the metroplex.

I think some of the challenges you're going to have speculating appreciation with a new build in UT county are (and this is my skeptic side, so take this with a bit of a sarcastic tone - and sorry, I just re-read this and it's long... ):Lot sizes are ridiculously tiny - you're not going to find a lot of availability of a spacious lots (or any size lot) for a reasonable price.  

When inhaled, diacetyl causes bronchiolitis obliterans - more commonly referred to as "popcorn lung" - a scarring of the tiny air sacs in the lungs resulting in the thickening and narrowing of the airways.Not something you want in the air especially with other employees or tenants living there in a multifamily situation

I’ve not had a chance to research the percentage of households that were renting at the end of the recession as compared to before to see if there might be a potential benefit to having rental property in a period of time when people are not buying homes.Good luck with the first property!!

Sounds like you are doing well in that tiny part of AL! 

This brings my to my current plan which any feedback would be greatly appreciated. l could buy a piece of property in between the two locations and rent tiny houses to the students with a recreational building located on the property.

(She rents land and lives in her own tiny house on wheels.)Now she’s too afraid to live there and is moving out.

Not a chance in hell....Do it this time and you just set yourself up for expecting rent reductions for every tiny thing.If an issue comes up that affects habitability for a decent amount of time, then we can talk...... if you want to reduce rent for every time that the unit isn't perfect, you are setting yourself up for failure

This property caught my eye for several reasonsmostly because I drive by it frequentlyit offers a commercial space, apartments, and mobile home lotsit's close to my other investments and where I liveI feel like this is an area ready to grow (it's the non-interstate link from big town to small town)it's not so expensive I can't find a way to do the dealI've been investigating mobile home investing lately, and this is one way to learn thatI don't have a physical office space for my business, and this would lend credibility to my business (and allow me to have high-speed internet, which I can't get currently)I can use an apartment and rent my SFR for morethe mixed use feels like diversificationI wouldn't be surprised to see an investor try to buy this and several other spaces up for a large developmentI see potential in possibly converting the mobiles to tiny houses and increase rents accordinglyI'm not in love with the deal, but a couple of those reasons would sway me to consider a less-than-great deal, for non-financial reasons.The numbers really look not very good, and it looks like a bad deal as it sits, considering I'm adding 1000 in rent increase and no rehab in this scenario.