We answer the top 20 questions we receive most frequently about mobile home park buying and operations, providing you with truthful answers to help you decide if investing in this industry is right for you.

A discussion of how mobile home park ownership offers you the ability to make money without investing a huge amount of time in management. There’s also an additional hour of questions on all types of topics.

The mobile home park industry has been around for about 70 years, starting in the early 1950s. And the challenges that park owners have faced have changed dramatically over those years. In this Lecture Series Event, we’re going to explore what those hurdles have been and how the industry has adapted to those challenges and continues to morph itself as time goes on.

Buying a mobile home park is an attainable strategy even in a depressed America. It is, perhaps, the last such opportunity left in U.S. real estate. But how big is that opportunity and how do you approach it? That’s the topic of this Lecture Series Event.

There’s no class in high school or college about mobile home park investing – and HGTV has never had a program that showcases how to buy and operate a “trailer park”.

One of the most common questions we get is “how much time would I actually have to devote to buying and operating a mobile home park?” That’s the topic of this event. It will offer a factual look at the time required to find, evaluate, buy and operate a mobile home park.

In this event titled Preaching To The Quire, we hear story of Anthony Quire who owns and operates 5 mobile home parks what at the same time maintaining a full-time job as a teacher of special needs children. He accomplished all those mobile home park acquisitions despite the demands of a regular career and family. And it’s a really fascinating narrative on how the average investor can successfully juggle owning “trailer parks” while not missing a beat with their regular job.

Alex and Steve came to Mobile Home Park Boot Camp in 2017 following a decision forged on a vacation in Japan. They pursued their joint dream of building a portfolio of mobile home parks and how own seven properties with two more under contract.

You can’t be thinking about mobile home park investing without having a ton of questions. That’s where we were in the mid-1990s when we bought our first parks. Only – back then – there was nobody to answer concerns, or explain the science, or even hold out any hope that you could make money with “trailer parks”.

A common question we receive is “What would it take to replace my salary with a mobile home park?” We’ll be answering that question on this event titled “Swapping Your Salary With Spaces”. We go over the mathematics of how to replace $50,000, $100,000, $250,000 and $500,000 salary ranges with a comparable income from mobile home park investing, including what the playbook would look like.

We nterview Vijay and Sumeet on their victory in buying four mobile home parks in less than one year. Discussions will include how they found each property, how they financed them, what the turn-around plan was, lessons learned, amount of time spent in managing them, and related topics that will be greatly of interest in evaluating whether or not to invest in mobile home parks.

In the 1950s and 1960s, mobile home parks were the hottest sector of real estate. The demographics of mobile home park residents was higher than stick-built dwellings. Elvis lived in a mobile home park in two movies. Frank Lloyd Wright designed a mobile home prototype

80% of world economists predict the next U.S. Great Recession will begin in 2021; 2020 was just a prelude to the main event. But what is it the right course of action for you? For that matter, how does a mobile home park even work? To answer these questions, we hosted an Ask Me Anything event.

There are many types of mobile home parks in the U.S. but only one of these is probably right for you. So how do you select the type of park that will fit your goals? That’s the topic of this event. Frank Rolfe - who along with his partner Dave Reynolds, is one of the largest mobile home park owner in the U.S. and has appeared as an industry expert in many publications - will tackle the idea of how to choose the correct type of park to buy.

There are many types of mobile home parks in the U.S. but only one of these is probably right for you. So how do you select the type of park that will fit your goals? That’s the topic of this event.

Abraham Anderson went to our Boot Camp in 2019 with nothing more than the vision of investing in mobile home parks. Less than two years later, he is the 100th largest owner of mobile home parks in the U.S. with 11 parks totaling 632 lots.

We are pleased to present an "Ask Me Anything" event this week, hosted by Frank Rolfe, probably the best known authority on mobile home parks in the U.S. – a right he earned through 25 years of buying and operating mobile home communities. This is a continuous Q&A session with no subject taboo. 

When you decide to sell a mobile home park there’s only one option, right? You list it with a broker and try to find someone who wants to buy the community at your target price. But there’s another alternative that’s working for many sellers and that’s selling the park to the residents.

What are the issues with risk and reward in this sector, and how can you model that into the perfect mobile home park? That’s the topic of this lecture. We examine what the typical risk vs. reward scenarios under various basic buyer tranches from low capital and high risk to high capital and low risk.

The biggest topic in America right now is the impact of Covid-19 on our economy. As a result we are hosted a thorough discussion of the pandemic and how it is impacting (or not impacting) the mobile home park business. We go to go over both the macro and micro levels of the industry to illuminate the good and bad aspects economically, as well as predictions for the future.

The impact of disasters (natural and economic) on mobile home park investing. Sure, Covid-19 is the current disaster in America, but it’s not the only one we’ve endured over the last three decades (The Texas S&L Crisis, the Dot.com bust, earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, Katrina, Harvey, and the Great Recession). So if catastrophes are a part of American life, what is the impact on the mobile home park industry and how will these events impact your investment?

What is the time and travel commitment required to buy and own a mobile home park? Is it possible to own a mobile home park without disturbing your successful day job? These are the questions we are going to answer on this recording!

Eddie Biller and David Joreteg have purchased several communities since they attended our Mobile Home Park Investor’s Boot Camp a few years ago -- and they’re still buying more. We’re going to discuss how they got into the industry, how they found each of the parks they own, the basic economics behind these acquisitions, the turn-around plans, and their lessons learned. It’s going to be a huge amount of facts in a short period of time and will then be followed by bottomless Q&A until all questions are answered.

There’s only one Sean of the Dead – the guy that buys mobile home parks that are completely dead and brings them back to life. Unpaid property taxes, embezzling seller, massive vacancy, utility disasters – all no problem for Sean. His deals are legendary for low up-front investment and huge rates of return. We’ve been trying to get him on a Lecture Series event for years, and now we’ve finally succeeded.

Many of the best deals out there come from “contract assignments” – buyers who have placed mobile home parks under contract and then sell those deals to a willing buyer. With many buyers having the capital to make a purchase but lacking the time to pursue the perfect opportunity, the contract assignment business model has been flourishing over the years. In this MobileHomeUniversity.com Lecture Series Event, we’re going to go over the entire process of buying and selling contract assignments, with our guest Jimmy Johnson. This is an important part of the mobile home park industry that few people have ever heard of yet is a win/win for both buyer and seller.