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In over 20 years of buying and operating manufactured home communities, I’ve been able to determine some important points on market selection. And one...

In the first quarter of 2018, the manufactured housing, self-storage and industrial sectors were the stars of the REIT show, as real estate investment firm PGIM Real Estate noted in a market review.

"Benjamin Franklin once said “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Although he never owned a manufactured home community, Franklin had t...

The distance between my house and my first manufactured home community was only 15 minutes of drive time. Even worse, I decided to office out of that ...

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

I keep watching the new Clayton “Have It Made” ad over and over, because I feel like I’m watching the first volley in the manufactured housing revolut...

I was recently given a private tour of Tony Hsieh’s Airstream Village in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was impressed with the dedication to the concept of cr...

Many people get excited about college football. We get excited about college-town manufactured home communities. These properties display unique chara...

It’s often been said that the best things come in small packages – and that’s often true of manufactured home communities. While large properties tend...

One of the biggest losses we will all have over the years ahead is the loss of the Greatest Generation of community owners. It will be hard to even explain the lessons learned from them to the younger generation, as they will not believe such people actually existed. I’m glad that I’ve been able to learn so much from them.