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.

Back in the late 1990s – a period in which few investors gave a second thought to mobile home parks – there occurred perhaps the industry’s greatest failure. Known as the “Great Chattel Collapse”, this horrific event resulted in a roughly 70% reduction in mobile home manufacturing and bankrupted many home lenders. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore what lead to this event and what the industry learned as a result.

Mobile home parks are often like villages in which residents rarely tread beyond their familiar territory – yet there are huge benefits for park owners in helping to make their connection to the community at large. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore how mobile home park owners can expand their residents’ support network.

Imagine a mobile home park as a chess board and every vacant lot as an opportunity to make the right move towards your goal of maximizing park income, value, and ease of operations. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the time-proven methods to optimize your move on each and every vacant lot.

Peace and tranquility is not often associated with lending, but the point is to always continue pressing forward towards that goal. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore methods to reduce stress and worry and mitigate the inherent risk of fickle lending markets.

"Amenities" are defined as a "desirable or useful feature of a building or place". In the never ending desire of mobile home park owners to provide the highest quality of life for residents, new concepts are constantly being introduced – and many of them are terrible. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the world of bad amenities: features that do not provide a desirable impact on the community.

In the cyclical nature of the American economy, even entire neighborhoods can recycle every so many years. And harnessing these shifts can be very profitable. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the conditions that create gentrification and how to monitor and spot them.

A bad mobile home park manager is often like a cancer that can infect other organs, and you have to know where else to look when it turns out that your manager must be replaced. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review what needs to be investigated and fixed upon a manager change over, as well as how to proactively minimize the damage.

The mobile home park industry is notorious for jargon that is either politically incorrect or meaningless. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore commonly used terms and what the correct versions of them should be. 

Just because a mobile home park is under contract does not mean that you can’t still buy it – you just have to wait for the current buyer to drop the deal. And when that occurs you will have an advantage if you already have an active back-up contract. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review how back-up contracts work as well as some basic strategies to do them properly.