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Thanksgiving is the time of year in which we all gather to give thanks for our blessings. And the entire manufactured housing industry has a great dea...

When I got into the business over two decades ago, I didn’t even know that Manufactured Housing Associations (also known as MHAs) existed. Back then t...

I am firmly convinced that the manufactured home community industry has fallen into one of the most envious positions of any real estate sector in U.S...

There many different strategies that buyers utilize when trying to buy a manufactured home community. Some get these concepts from books they buy at B...

There are three types of manufactured home communities out there: 1) legal conforming 2) legal non-conforming and 3) illegal. Of these, by far the maj...

The other day I was driving through one of our communities in Illinois and I noticed a nicely dressed young couple on the deck of a new Clayton home w...

Of all the expense categories to get a handle on when buying or operating a manufactured home community, perhaps the hardest is “repair and maintenanc...

Cap rates are the generally accepted method of comparing different properties and sorting piles of listings into the “make offer” and “don’t bother to...

One of the most important elements of any manufactured home community is location. On the micro level that includes the surrounding neighborhood and s...

There seems to be confusion on what makes for a good manufactured home community market. Investors who migrate in from the apartment and retail backgr...