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Charles Becker is a Professor of Economics at Duke University. He’s also the first economist to study the manufactured home community industry.

Some things require the owner to be there 16 hours a day to succeed, such as a restaurant. Others mandate that the owner be there 8 hours per day, suc...

Time magazine determined that the mobile home park is the ideal home for an aging America. We could not agree with them more. Affordable housing is the greatest problem in America – and opportunity. When you invest in mobile home parks, you are part of the solution.

The mobile home park has been around as a real estate sector for over half a century. However, it has remained in complete obscurity except for a few ...

When you buy a Mobile Home Park that needs to be turned around (and most parks need some type of turnaround), the first thing you need to do is disengage the prior ownership/management.

By Joe Evans and Jeff Meierhofer Mobile home communities are a hot commodity on the investment property market today. We have seen a demand for finan...

Manufactured homes were the REIT industry’s best performers in the first half of 2015 with a 3.75% return, followed by self-storage with a 3.72% total return, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.

I will never forget my first drive through of one of my communities with a conduit lender. The property was about a one-star in quality, but was a cash-flow wonder. I wasn't sure what the bank's reaction would be to my down and dirty "family" community status. As we drove out of the property, I nervously asked the lender "so what do you think?"

Overview of Mobile Home Park Lenders. Presented by David Harley, BluePoint Commercial Mortgage.

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