By the way, my husband and I are professionals with full-time jobs.

However, chances are professional trades will be faster and better than you at their craft.

I felt I had ample justification (i.e. multiple comps, professional appraisals, etc) on both of them for why I felt the assessed value should be lower.In response, the County lowered one of the properties to what I suggested.

Good point, this can translate into any type of RE investment vehicle, not just MHP's.

I have a steady 9-5 professional job decent income but under 6-figures.

Specifically, I was lucky that I was born a white male in the United States in a time of unprecedented prosperity and technical advancement; I was lucky to get out of college during the technology bubble and to join a couple companies that provided a lot of compensation in the form of stock options; I was really lucky that a ten came on the turn when I most needed it to; I was lucky that I was able to get on an earlier flight than the one I had booked; there are a million reasons why I was able to take the skills I had and translate it into a good bit of money...but, a decent amount of it was simply luck.- Btw, I'm hoping to be able to make real estate the third industry where I can make over $1M.

Property is so expensive in Australia so we are constantly stunned by what you can buy here, and so many are cashflowing really well.We've just had a bit of trouble organising property management too, I guess its very easy and professional in Oz.

What really keeps that going are the professional students as Ph.d, MD, JD students.

If you want to buy liens or are building a strategy that is not common speak with a professional in the state that really knows the rules.

When a tenant stained it, with professional cleaning, the stain would generally blend in and if not, it was easy to cut out a piece and patch back in with some original leftover scraps.