Although rents have increased, they have not increased at the same speed as property values.This means that rent to value ratios on single family homes started getting less and less attractive starting almost 5 years ago. 

From what I've seen the extremely low priced MHP's are a real PIA to bring up to speed with new or upgraded homes, good renters and low vacancies, maintenance, etc.I've always been one for onesie Twozie deals since I've been in the biz and it's created a very comfortable livelihood and consistent income stream, paid my mortgages off, and put all 5 of my kids through college. 

There are methods to speed this up such as contacting the previous owner and negotiating with them to sign the property over immediately. 

I look at a lot of IT careers like getting on a treadmill on a healthy 8 or 10% incline and cranking the speed up. 

That's not to say you won't run into some speed bumps along the way, but you and your husband will figure it out!

With all the public transportation money being spent - The high speed rail being added from Miami to Orlando International Airport - and the theme parks (that everyone knows Orlando for) the amount of international investment is certainly increasing. 

So far we have done a lot of the work on the houses ourselves while both having full time jobs but now we're interested speeding our process up and growing this into a successful business.

Like everyone, I am interested in getting a deal (it is investing after all), but my largest concern is the speed with which I can turn a new purchase into a cash producing property. 

Maybe a 3-4 day $600 class makes sense, but not the full blown $16,000 (and up) training courses like "Note School", from Eddie Speed.  

A group of guys and myself are in the preliminary phases of jumping into the buy/hold business within the next year or so, and I've been educating myself via long stints of podcast listening at 1.5x speed and reading everything I can get my hands on.