It seems to me that your choices are 1) Buy, change the rules, constantly watch to see if they break the rules and hoping that they pay you because in their mind you are now a "pet hater". 2) Buy, suck up the damages/troubles that these obviously irresponsible tenants will cause. 3) Pass.

If you have family there that makes the choice more simple, if it was me of course.Keep the liquid cash while renting for a short period to validate the market and business to yourself.

They are looking for another installer but to be honest, I don't think they really care about my time frame.This is not a large area with a lot of choices.

Then go to a lender with all the paperwork after finding the area of choice.

This house wouldn't have been my top choice as a rental, circumstances just made it one. 

I wanted to live there but now seeing my daughter and seeing the properties Its a hard choice to make sacrifice for a year and just suck it or up or get my family into a rental give myself a year or two to buy and then get a house after the initial investment 

Additionally, in 7.5 years we will both be in our mid-50's, which is the age I would like to have the choice to "Do Whatever I Want". 

We currently live a 10 minute drive from the ocean, and that's hard to give up.For quality of life, our first choice was California, but we don't have the capital to invest there right away.So, here's the question we're currently faced with: If you could move anywhere in the country, where would you move? 

My first choice would be to sell the lot to the MH tenants on terms, but if not, I'll be looking into a rental/lease situation while I try to flip the parcel to another buyer. 

I had the tenants make a choice.