Are there any fines, code violations on record with the County, because of this mobile home?

Sadly this person is being outed (as well as the family) * side note (family of MD's and Esquire's) and the courts are not being as kind to him (them) but are still not favoring the landlords or the town he counter sue's for doing things like cutting the grass when he does not or even perform repairs on the home to remain in code with the town....

You might be expected to bring it up to current code in a gut rehab.

The sump pump outlet usually will have to be sent to the exterior yard to be to code.  

Have short rafters between the roof and the pergola.Cover the concrete steps and landing with a very simple, natural stone material.If code allows, enclosing the area under the deck would provide a good bit of storage space.

Check your building code in Texas.  

This will take you to a list of the counties in that state, click on the desired county or type the city and state or zip code into the box below and it will tell you which county to click on.Once at the right county, you will find the links to the local property assessor's site, register of deeds/clerk of courts, tax collector's site, along with mapping and gis sites etc along with phone numbers to their offices if they don't have a site.  

Garland just has strict code compliance.

It is easy to do on average using some rules of thumb, but as you stated moving these larger cash flows forward or backward 5 years can alter your analysis significantly; especially if your investment duration is under when the cash flow would occur2.

You want to keep people from using your property a as cut through.Setting up even a fake camera with a sign with the county or city code on it that dumping is illegal. this site is monitored, and violaters will be prosecuted helps curb things.