Sadly, the park does not allow renting so I would have to sell the trailer if I choose the house-hack route.I realize these aren't the only 2 options so I am open to suggestions and would love to hear others' opinions.

You just want to make sure that you aren't contacting the same people as all those other investors.

You can search online for companies in your area that lend that way.But I'm guessing if you talked to the people around you, showed them what real estate investing can do, and offered a good enough return, you could pool money from multiple family and friend sources to make it happen.Most people aren't sitting on tens of thousands of dollars, but most people have 401ks or IRAs and if they trust you, and you are trustworthy, you can teach them how to pull loans on their retirement accounts that don't penalize them, and give you access to more money than you realize you had access to.Probably start there.

These are two markets that aren't at all comparable.However, your cost of entry, and management will be easier for a Poconos location.

Most commonly this is someone seasoned in the widget business, who just opened their own widget shop, and they aren't saddled with 15 layers of middle management, so the new business might not do as many units of widgets, but those widgets they do sell, the business reaps the profits that otherwise would have been paid out to useless middle management.

The process looked like this:  TSP wash and degrease area by switch plates, scrub baseboards, scrub angle turn valve, scrub top of vanity light bar, scrub top of door frame...then cut in ceiling of each room, then remove exhaust vent cover and vacuum around it, then paint ceiling of each room, then paint baseboards, then cut in wall color (which actually means entirely paint some tight areas), then apply first coat of wall color, then apply second coat of wall color, then hit the cut in areas again where there aren't two coats. 

I could probably write an entire book on screening tenants but at the very least creating a set of house rules that everyone agrees to is crucial.E -Expect and Embrace a High Turnover Rate – In this method of management, your largest competition is the big-name brand apartments, therefore you need to be prepared to do what they aren’t willing to do.

For example, 3 consecutive  quarters of 25% would mean that it roughly doubles in 9 months, assuming those %'s aren't annualized.

So, (assuming your numbers are accurate) if you sell you aren't losing money even though you bought this house a year ago.

But if the base is out in the middle of Oklahoma (like Altus, OK or Enid, OK) and (not saying they will b/c both bases have clear missions currently) but IF they did close... there aren't a lot of jobs to replace the jobs lost from the base closure....therefore renters might leave.