If you’re buying a mobile home to fill a vacant lot – new or used – there are a few things you have to double-check because if you make the wrong decision the damage can be in the tens of thousands of dollars. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review those items and explore how to get them right.

I have been harassed by the woke media for nearly 20 years for my quote that a "mobile home parks is like a Waffle House where the customers are chained to their booths". This stemmed from my explanation of why mobile home parks are a safer investment than a restaurant to a new reporter from Bloomberg. Obviously, mobile home park residents are not physically chained to their homes. But they don't move because of something much larger than a metal constraint: raw economics. There's simply nothing else they can possibly ever find in the world of housing as affordable as where their mobile home park. So even with rising lot rents, mobile home park residents stay put as mobile home parks cost around 75% less than apartment or single-family home options. And now my analogy relates to a much larger group. The entire population of the United States seems to be "chained to their booths" due to economic factors, as revealed in a new article in the New York Times.

We’ve filled over 6,000 vacant lots and homes in our own portfolio over the past decade and, as we near 100% occupancy, we’ve completely run out of vacant inventory to sell. As a result, we are looking for situations where fellow operators are facing the need to fill 20+ vacant lots and would like to hire our sales department to do so at greater speed, home expertise, and without adding any overhead.

Most mobile home park owners are good-natured people who like to be helpful. But most park manager requests for “favors” need to be avoided at all costs. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the typical manager requests, why they rarely work out well, and how to fend them off.

The Trump administration is proposing to take Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac public, as well as to merge them into one entity in the process. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review why this would be a good thing for commercial real estate in general, and the mobile home park industry in particular.

In mobile home park investing, the most costly mistakes often come from skipped steps. Good due diligence isn’t just a checklist—it’s your best protection from bad outcomes. Here’s a breakdown of what to focus on when evaluating a property.

The only in-person instruction we do is the Mobile Home Park Master Class. It’s a two-day weekend mega-immersion in the correct way to buy, turn-around and operate mobile home parks, and it happens right in Frank Rolfe’s historic dining room in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri on September 27th & 28th.

If you are looking to fill vacant lots in your mobile home park with used homes, one option that is rarely mentioned is “tax sales” stemming from unpaid property tax. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore how this process works in the real world and things to watch out for.