When we started the Affordable Housing Summit series nearly twenty years ago, we had a very simple premise: what if we could explore the current status and projections going forward in each category of the mobile home park business? And, given that, shouldn’t everyone who attends be able to come away with at least a few game-changer ideas that make –or save – everyone who attends thousands of dollars?

Most mobile home parks have a powerful marketing tool that is rarely used but highly effective – and nearly free of cost. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore how to use your road frontage as a successful marketing opportunity on a number of fronts.

Land is easy to build on until local rules, politics, and neighbors say “no.” That simple reality is why manufactured housing communities keep behaving differently than almost every other real estate niche, and why values have held up even through rough cycles.

We used to have three different population classifications and now we have five. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore how and why America added two new types of population classifications and how you can use that to your advantage in finding good mobile home parks to buy.

A 5% CD is twenty times more than what you could get in 2021. But it's still not enough. Not nearly enough if you're trying to amass wealth – or even tread water with real inflation. Here's why a 5% CD isn't getting you anywhere:

In bringing old mobile home parks back to life, a common challenge is how to use the existing pieces to create reasonable aesthetics. But some parks don’t even have any pieces to work with. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore available methods to make even the ugliest of properties attractive again.

Years ago, we took a Dallas park that was “almost there” and quietly pushed it over a milestone that changed the buyer pool overnight. It was not a flashy project. It was a careful, local-politics-heavy grind. The lesson still holds in 2026: adding even a handful of sites can move the value needle, but only if you treat approvals as the main job, not an afterthought.

In the CMBS “conduit” loan industry, non-performing apartment loans are up to 75% of the raw volume of defaults. While office foreclosures are massive at around $50 million to $100 million per loan, apartment loans average around $15 million so that, despite the sheer volume of apartment distress, office still makes up the bulk of CMBS debt losses. But what’s unusual is the contributing reason that these apartment loans are going into default. It’s not only collections problems, but what loan servicers are finding is that there are a huge number of apartment tenants having committed fraud in their applications. And it’s something getting very little media attention right now.

In 1996 I informed all my friends and family that I was buying a mobile home park called "Glenhaven" on South I-35 E in Dallas. They all thought I was crazy. Reactions ranged from "you'll lose your down payment" to "you'll get killed". But all that changed years later when Glenhaven sold for around $1 million more than I bought it for. That's a common story if you talk to mobile home park owners – but why? It all boils down to some basic issues.

The demand for affordable housing is enormous, and most homes sell fast in today’s market. But if you’ve brought in a new or used home – and it’s not moving quickly enough – then there are some steps you can take to make it more desirable. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review some of the lessons we’ve learned to help get homes out the door.