Assuming it's newer build it shouldn't have major issues for a while so slimmer margins aren't as bad in the mean time until rents raise with the coming inflation.

How thin the margins generally are. 

Then if you still want to pursue building wealth through MHPs etc, you’ll have a chance to do it when you’ve got some time and financial margin.  

Holding long distance is difficult enough, but getting a big enough margin to make flipping worth it from a distance is a bigger challenge than I would go for.

While the STR idea for snowbirds is appealing, I'm starting to think the amount of money to automate (or hire a property manager) pretty much makes STR's like airbnb makes the margins quite narrow. 

But option 2 sounds wiser but much more responsible but also man I want to move faster. " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "open sans", sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; overflow: hidden; caret-color: rgb(52, 65, 77); color: rgb(52, 65, 77); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; height: 872px;">Hey everyone.

What are one or two things a buyer should focus on that could affect cash flow and/or margin in the long run?

But my concern is not that you can't find a property with the right margins to make it work, even accounting for the mistakes you will make.  

Lower returns, yet higher margin of physical safety net/reassurance.

do you feel with this demand you can really pick and choose the absolute best credit , job situations  or is the demand simply 100s of marginal potential tenants bombarding you because landlords burnt by the Covid tenants are becoming super picky ??