I'm fairly new myself but I would say that the first step in being a successful Real Estate Investor is to network with people who are actually doing what you want to do.

Hard to answer this without knowing any of your numbers but a rough way to calculate would be to take your projected profit and give me an additional % that corresponds to a fair hourly rate for the time and expertise he will be putting into managing the project.

I do not particularly care for maintaining my mobile homes from tenants, and feel that a seller financing avenue would benefit me a lot more.

It was a fair market sale.

Broker Price Opinions are fairly popular, though their reliability varies based on the experience, education and talent of the broker as well as how closely sales comps to the subject property exist.

YouTube is a great resource for videos on sheetrock patching, replacing tank components for toilets, wax rings, replacing broken faucets, fixing drains, etc.Those are just a few things that come to mind for me that are fairly simple.

It is clean, houses are well maintained, and that park is great.

And, you know what, I think that is fair and still a pretty good investment.

Couple that with the huge drop off in people actually reading newspapers and it is now a fairly expensive media that most people say if not that effective either.I know some markets still have it being useful (to market to buyers or sellers or renters) but I have never heard of one MA investor say that it was useful for them (for any of those groups).

In my market #'s are fairly high and I found most multi's from a cash flow investing basis do not make sense (which is why I'm looking into investing out of state.)