So you think that buying and turning around mobile home parks in California is impossible? Meet Mitch from Palm Springs who has purchased four parks so far and is going to tell you how he did it.

Warren Buffett is a big fan of “moats” that protect your investment, but probably the largest ones in America are industries that are “regulated”, thus constructing the supply of competition. There are only a handful of such business sectors, and I have been fortunate enough to be involved in two of them: billboards and mobile home parks.

In honor of the start of baseball season, our next event is titled “Three Home Runs” and it’s the story of Nevelle from Utah’s fantastic journey from zero mobile home parks before Boot Camp to now three deals purchased.

Before you invest in anything, you need to carefully consider the good and bad aspects and see if it honestly meets your goals. That’s the purpose of this event titled “A Pessimist’s Guide to Mobile Home Park Investing”.

Would you be better off selling your mobile home park or keeping it through a “cash out” refinancing? How does that process even work? That’s the topic in this case study in which M.J. Vukovich of Bellwether goes step-by-step though the process of refinancing mobile home parks, as gives numerous case studies of how these deals work and the amount of money that was available for “cash out”.

Chris and Jan from Louisiana had very definite ideas of what they wanted in a mobile home park investment. And they stuck with those criteria until they found the right parks – and what a great decision that turned out to be.

It’s the holiday tradition for those in the mobile home park industry: the Frank & Dave Christmas Show. And this year’s program is ready to warm your heart and give you important information on the most in-demand segment of affordable housing in the U.S.

There are a lot of businesses and real estate assets you can own. But few that give you as much freedom as mobile home parks do. In this event, Frank Rolfe gives you a video review of how owning mobile home parks can give you vast rewards that are greater than just financial.

There’s a science to profitably buying and operating mobile home parks, and no better way to understand this science than through case studies. This is a case study of a park we bought, turned-around, operated and sold in Indiana.

Ambient light is one of the best ways to secure your park and create a more attractive environment. Some Park owners think that solar lighting is just for aesthetics, but the truth is that modern solar lights can put out plenty of bright light, particularly along roads and paths. Introducing Gama Sonic’s newest and brightest option: the (GS-102) Modern Solar Light.

In the 1960’s, Finland manufactured a mobile home called the Futuro. There are only 63 of them known to exist around the world, with only around 5 known in the U.S.

The mobile home park industry is an interesting sector, as markets that don’t work well with other niches seem to do just fine with the affordable housing product. In this case study we review a mobile home park in Wisconsin that has little exciting going on, other than the ability to make huge profits.

Todd from Ohio built a huge single-family home portfolio and then lost most of it during the Great Recession of 2008, as did most Americans during that dark period in American history. Then he found a new investment he felt worthy of his talents: mobile home parks.

There’s no better way to illustrate how the mobile home park business works than with a case study, so here’s a property in Colorado that we purchased, brought back to life, and sold years later – including all the numbers and how the profit drivers worked. As you will see, there’s a certain repetitive pattern to making money with mobile home parks.

All mobile home park owners are striving to find new ways to improve the quality of life in their properties and, in return, feel warranted in raising lot rents to market levels. And one area in which many properties fail to meet their full potential is in ambient lighting – both for security and aesthetic reasons. High-qualify security lights look good in both day and night and give a much-appreciated form of extra value to your residents.

If you ask most clients at the Mobile Home Park Investor’s Boot Camp how they heard of the event, it’s typically from someone they know who had attended.

One of the most frequent questions we receive is “what software do you recommend using for mobile home park management”? This is a simple question for us to answer, as we have been using Rent Manager for over a decade, and selected them for a variety of reasons.

Frank Rolfe has been reviewing mobile home park deals with potential mhp buyers for over a decade. It’s the similarities and correlation between these properties and their respective values that is the topic of this event titled “Lessons Learned from Over 1,000 Mobile Home Park Deals Reviewed”. He’s discusses a variety of factors that serve as macro and micro clues that a deal is attractive vs. not something any buyer should pursue.

Mobile home parks are, at the end of the day, all about making money, and in this video we give you a tour of a property we bought and sold and review how much money it made and what the key profit drivers were. This property was a total turnaround that needed infrastructure repair and new leadership to bring it back to life – it had piles of dead leaves higher than the decks in some spots. However, using the standard science of cleaning up the common areas and then helping the residents to regain their pride of ownership, the community came out of its coma and the financial rewards were huge.

Ryan from Charleston knew nothing about mobile home parks. He decided that affordable housing was a great place to invest, given the trajectory of the U.S. economy. He went to Boot Camp. He made offers. He bought parks. He quit his day job. He has a dream life.

At the end of the day, the only thing that matters with income properties is just that: money. So that being the case, we prepared the above video to demonstrate the methods and potential of a mobile home park we own in the Midwest.

They say a picture tells a thousand words, so we decided to shoot this short video to demonstrate the attributes of the GamaSonic GS-100 that make us repeat customers. The first part of the video is in the daytime, which shows how the GS-100 brings a little extra “class” to any mobile home park or other property. The second part of the video is shot at night to demonstrate the ambient light these fixtures provide as well as, again, the “upscale” feel they add to your mobile home park.

It’s one thing to talk about the potential paper profit from a property and an entirely different one to actually have bought it, run it, sold it and received the cashier’s check from the title company. In this video we discuss the true story of a park in the Midwest and how we found it, turned it around, and increased the value by over $2 million.

In this video, Abraham gives us a personal tour of one of his properties. Abraham is bringing old mobile home parks back to life one community at a time, and this video demonstrates the impact this has on America.

The Frank & Dave Christmas Show only comes once a year. It’s time to put 2020 behind us and this show should put you in the holiday spirit - mobile home park style.