Offer contingency rests heavily on condition of the park and the interiors of the abandoned homes...and assessing whether these homes can be repaired—and if so, will it cost me an arm and a leg to repair 1 or 5 or 10 of them.Obviously, this is a distressed, non-performing MHP, which has a ton of risk. 

Second, typically even if properties are in great shape you still will want to spend some money on repairs, typically one of the better ways to make money in real estate is to find properties that can have value added to them, via hiring contractors to do repairs and improve the property. 

Any amounts paid to improve a building, its structural components, or a "building system" is an improvement to the building. 

Bigger issue is if there are violations from prior to the purchase many times those violations do not appear on a title search and there's a buyer everyone should always ask the title company to perform the additional search of all Marion County city in County violations.

(b) If the landlord does not perform a personal reference check or does not obtain a consumer credit report or tenant screening report, the landlord must return any amount of the applicant screening fee that is not used for those purposes.

The group leveraged less than 50% out performed the other two by almost 10% annually when averaged over the last 35 years. 

Thankfully, the house had been improved over the two years prior to illness, so there was a newer roof, A/C and PVC windows.  

By then you will be a lot more savvy.I don't foresee real estate performing as well in the next 10 years as it did in the past 10. 

Getting that curly W is super for motivation.You might also consider adding Land Trust to your toolbox as a means to improve anonymity and for ease of transfer since you can simply assign beneficial interest. 

Naturally if you can get in with private money and show you can make it perform they'll be more apt to give you a better deal but asking what they'll do is like asking what the weather will be like tomorrow in East TN.