I owe Frank & Dave a huge thank you. They have made Investing in mobile home parks very easy for me. I have been to endless amounts of real estate boot-camps and seminars and although I gained knowledge from each event, I always left feeling like there were missing links or like I was still one step away from what I was seeking. And then… I went to Frank & Dave's mobile home park investing boot-camp. And unlike ever before, I actually had everything I needed. I literally walked out of the event with a business plan to buy my first mobile home park and all the tools I needed to do it. I went to Frank & Dave's boot camp in January, then 3 months later in April I had my first park under contract, and then in July, 6 months after attending their boot-camp, I was the proud owner of my first mobile home park. I had everything I needed throughout the whole process. I can't thank Frank & Dave enough. Without Frank and Dave, who knows how many mistakes I could have made or long it would have taken me. If you're reading this, then you're thinking about going to the boot-camp, and if you're thinking about going, then just do it. It's the best value that you will find anywhere without a doubt! Thanks Frank & Dave!

— Bryce R, Irvine, CA

I have closed a 102 space park. I made $600,000 equity and $10,000 positive cash flow per month from the closing. Here is my story - I went to Dave Reynolds and Frank Rolfe bootcamp in Chicago. Frank was the instructor and he taught me everything I needed to know - How to find, How to negotiate, How to do due diligence, how to get financing and how to manage a park. First time in my life I saw a Mobile Home from inside. With all the tools he gave me in the boot camp, I found an IDEAL (Infrastructure, Density, Expense, Age, Location - if you go to the bootcamp, learn it right.) park. Immediately I sent an email to Frank. I thought he will ignore my email. But to my surprise he replied within 5 minutes. He analyzed the deal for me. After a flurries of emails going back and forth between him and me, he said you are stealing the deal, go and buy it. He gave me a 30 day due diligence book during the bootcamp and I followed the book line by line for due diligence. He gave me reference to inspectors, lenders, brokers etc. I used his referrals throughout the transactions. Very nice to work with them. I bought his management course(extra course, but very inexpensive) and realize that the current owners were not managing right. So I fired the existing management. That saved me $58,000 per year. I was doing all these as if I had 10 years of experience in Mobile Home Park business. I have put another 3 parks under contract and should be closing soon. Frank reviewed those too. Thank you Frank for guiding me by my side and bringing me to the Mobile Park Industry. I could not have done it without you and still I would have been doing my old Engineering job. I owe you big time Frank.

— Prabin D.

I TOOK THEIR BOOT CAMP

I have had the pleasure of attending one of MHU's boot camps in Texas. Frank opened up with his humorous undertones about how the low income live and how many Mom & Pops operate parks. It is only with this frank (No pun intended) perspective that someone new to the industry can ramp up so quickly- boot camp! Otherwise it is human nature to believe & make exceptions for many of the insane stories and conditions that come with every park- as Frank also says "every park has a personality of its own". This could not be more true, and having founded and successfully sold a business in the past, the same irrefutable laws of business buildup apply to trailer parks. Making any exceptions for residents or employees spells disaster for systematically improving the overall business. I found Frank's style to be music to my ears. Having built up a company and learning from the school of hard knocks, it was extremely impressive to see Frank give the class not just a lesson about how to acquire & manage a park but more importantly perhaps, how any business should be run. The class included the perfect park buying tool box coupled with people management concepts- doesn't get any better than that!

HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS?

For anyone attending boot camp, I personally believe that the education of how to manage people alone is worth the cost, much less the added behind the scenes unfiltered curriculum of park buying.

NEWBIES

For those that have the luxury of making a boot camp & are newbies to this investment type, I must add that I had no prior real estate knowledge. For this comment to not come across as subjective, to be more specific– my knowledge of plumbing was limited to how to flush the toilet, electric included how to flip the light switch on and off, and the terms zoning and sub-metered were Greek to me.

ATTENDEES

While jumping into the park business may not be for everyone, I have to throw in the old adage 'nothing is for Free or Easy'. Now, there may be a few naysayers that say it is virtually impossible to get into without some capital but for those I say – Reference: prior statement– 'nothing is easy'. Not being a pedigree business person myself and starting out practically paycheck to paycheck without a degree, I chose the 'work hard' route and bootstrapped my way to profitability before I knew there was a term for it– 'bootstrapping', who knew! Before MHU, we owe it to some friends of ours that first introduced us to the park business (financially retired in their late 20's). They entered the world without a silver spoon & borrowed friend/family money for their first park. As we were killing ourselves daily we thought, this is something to look into.

— Stathis E.

Your boot camp was the best education I ever received, and I have attended many. I now own a 78 lot park that I purchased for $350k and I refinanced it to $700k on just the value of his turn around systems. That means that I didn't have to reach into my own pocket for that value. I now own another 122 lot park for $1.22 million. I owe all this to you guys for the education and the support after the event. So thanks again Frank and Dave for everything you have done for me. You have made my life so much easier!

— Debby Majors-Degnan

I wanted to take a moment and tell you thanks for a great "reality immersion" at boot camp. It was packed full with real value that creates confidence and a method to take the next step and "tie up" a park. The differences between your method and Frank's was a bonus that was extremely valuable. It showed that there is more then one way to view a deal. The tour of the parks on Saturday injected some real life examples to what we leaned in our manual. I am excited and can't wait to put our first park under contract. The variety of food was excellent. That was great not to have to find our meals individually. Thanks again......you guys are awesome!!! To your success,

— Bob Green

Hello Dave,

I wanted to email you and let you know how much I enjoyed the last boot camp you held. I learned a tremendous amount and now feel confident pulling the trigger. Please send a thank you to everybody there including, Frank, Perry, Jim, Amy, Todd, etc. They were all great and I look forward to working with you in the future. I am now on the hunt for my first deal!!!!

— Kacey W.

Dave,

I like to thank you and Frank for such a wonderful job you guys did. The Boot Camp was really great. We learnt a lot. It was worth the time and money. I had some knowledge of MHP investments, but after taking the boot camp, I am more confident and I know what I did wrong with our MHPs. I will recommend your class to anyone without any reservation. In the near future I want to focus on improving the existing parks that we own (from the knowledge gained from the boot camp). Once I am happy with them, I want look into buying more. Thanks for offering your help. I will be in touch with you. Thanks for the great pictures.

— Pratap

Hi you guys! We wanted to thank you so much for all the effort and planning that you put into the boot camp this weekend. You gave us so much "real" information that we can put to use immediately, as well as tons of things to file away for the future. We have been working on reading all the great books that were included with the boot camp and find them to be packed full of information PLUS so much fun to read after meeting you both! THANKS AGAIN FOR EVERYTHING!

— Patrice A.

Dave,

I just wanted to send you a quick note to say thank you so much for the excellent MHP Boot Camp! I think that you guys did a phenomenal job, and it was far above and beyond anything that could have been expected- thank you very much! Again, thank you so much. I think the weekend completely OVER-delivered and I was so impressed - thank you!

— Jamie S.

Hey Frank,

My brother and I wanted to thank you again for such an amazing weekend! We both have gone to tons of courses on real estate, from flipping houses to you name it. We both agreed that yours was different because you were honest, up front, didn't sugar coat anything and everything you presented is applicable right away! I feel competent to move forward from your boot camp and we can't thank you enough for all the time and information you shared with us. Take care Frank and I'm sure we'll be speaking to you soon.

— Amir and Reza K.

Frank & Dave,

I just closed on my first park since attending your boot camp in Dallas this past July. This deal was one that Frank evaluated for me and gave it a "thumbs up" as a good deal. The park consists of two smaller parks for a total of 35 spaces and 33 park-owned homes that I plan to sell to tenants immediately. The park had a mortgage of over 500k on it and the owner hadn't made a payment in many months. In August I got the owner and the bank to accept a short-sale price of 210k. Even at 210k, no bank in the area would touch the park since it was in less than great shape and had virtually no income and expense records. The bank that owned the note agreed to finance the deal, but after months of back and forth, simply could not get the job done. However, knowing that the bank was in financial trouble I made an offer of 125k all cash, as is, and can close before the end of the year...they accepted! The knowledge I gained during your boot camp really helped me save a lot of money and totally control the negotiation process....thanks again!

— James