Gold just broke $4,300 per ounce – the highest level in history. It’s being fueled by the near certain prospect of U.S. stagflation. In this short video I describe why gold is rising and how mobile home parks offer a better hedge to stagflation than gold.

Running a mobile home park successfully requires more than just owning the land and collecting rent—it demands a dependable, aligned team behind the scenes. This article intends to break down how to create and lead a team that keeps your park thriving.

Many park owners are also their resident’s news source – at least for a couple minutes a day. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review how to provide timely tips and content to your community on a recurring basis.

There are a few things worse than spending a weekend training your mobile home park manager. You have the travel time and cost, but – even worse – simply the loss of a couple of days of your life to give some basic training to a manager that may not even stick around for a week before you have to replace them again. You know the drill. But are you aware that MHU.com offers a defensive-driving-style manager training course that gets the basic job done without you having to be there?

We interviewed Ryan five years ago, when he talked about how he went to Boot Camp and then purchased around seven mobile home parks. But in this follow-up interview, we discuss his success in growing that portfolio to now around 20 parks and approaching 2,000 lots (that’s roughly $100+ million in value at current cap rates). And he did this despite 1) Covid 2) the “eviction moratorium” under the Biden administration and 3) Jerome Powell’s skyrocketing Fed funds rate. Pretty amazing.

Discussions abound regarding the rumored $10 billion sale of YES communities to Brookfield, a Canadian REIT. While we don’t really know all the facts at this point, there are some certainties that this deal represents, and we’re going to explore what those items are in depth.

It’s a shame that nobody in high school or college ever offered a course in mobile home repair, as it can be a whole lot more lucrative than calculus! If you own a mobile home park, then you know the value in using used mobile homes to fill vacant lots, as well as the necessity to make smart repairs to keep your park-owned homes in good running condition. But how do you know what to do?

Most mobile home parks fall somewhere between “functional” and “forgettable.” A straight road with rows of homes may get the job done, but it rarely feels like a neighborhood. Creating that sense of place takes more than luck — it requires intention, investment, and a manager who genuinely cares.

There’s a new type of deal construction out there called the “stack”. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore this type of structure and identify its strengths and weaknesses. With “creative dealmaking” the key to buying some communities, this might be an option for your next acquisition.

In this short video, Frank Rolfe reviews some of the formulas that have been developed to ensure success with mobile home park investing, forged over decades of mobile home park ownership and experimentation. Whether it’s “spread”, “IDEAL” or the standard operating expense breakdown, there is a reliable algorithm for every component of positive outcomes with “trailer parks” – with a consistency greater than any other sector of commercial real estate.

With every mobile home park acquisition comes a survey. And with those surveys there are often issues to address. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the most common survey problems and what the typical methods are to fix them.