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Announcing New Alternative Loan Programs! Financing for Parks Not Serviced by Conventional Lenders Development Loans for Acquisition and Improvements RV and Mobile Home Hybrid Parks Alt-Bank Financing

ARA’s National Manufactured Housing Group Executes Sale of Lake Bryant Manufactured Home Community in Florida   Buyer Acquires a 180–Site All A...

Date: 6/3/2014     The Madison Group (TMG), a commercial broker and loan consultant, has facilitated the financing for a 79 unit mobile home communit...

Atlanta-headquartered ARA, the largest privately held, full-service investment advisory brokerage firm in the nation focusing exclusively on the multihousing industry, is pleased to announce the sale of Whispering Sands Manufactured Home Community in Las Vegas, Nevada.

An article I wrote recently, telling the story of my first manufactured home community that I purchased for People have different goals. Some people are only concerned with trying to get a higher return on their cash, which is currently getting 1% in a CD. Others are trying to create substantial wealth, far beyond a simple return on their down-payment. It's a free country, so there's no law on what you have to make from a manufactured home community purchase.

There are over 60,000,000 Americans with household incomes under $20,000 per year. To this giant market, a mobile home is the only form of detached housing that they will ever be able to afford.

Atlanta-headquartered ARA, the largest privately held, full-service investment advisory brokerage firm in the nation focusing exclusively on the multihousing industry, is pleased to announce the sale of Jade Isle Manufactured Home Community in St. Cloud, Florida.

It was Day 2 of Mobile Home University, an intensive, three-day course on how to strike it rich in the trailer-park business. Seventy-five or so students had signed up for the class, which Rolfe offers every other month in different places around the country. Most of the enrollees weren’t real estate speculators; they were jittery members of a hard-pressed middle class.

Solar lighting has been available for many years, but people often perceive its quality and brightness to be low. That’s not the case anymore, and solar lighting consumers should expect higher quality and brighter light from Gama Sonic.

Lending conditions improved in 2013. Although banks remained cautious, we observed more competition and interest in financing 2, 3, and 4 star quality parks, properties that would not have been approved in 2012. Many of these parks had a ‘story’ and their owners have a few scars from the Great Recession. Our careful loan packaging and strong oversight of both the underwriters and the appraisers made for successful outcomes.