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What About Your Utility Systems?
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When purchasing a manufactured home community, experienced investors focus considerable pre-purchase due diligence on the community's utility systems. This infrastructure is a large part of the value of most properties.
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RENTAL APPLICATIONS AND LEASE AGREEMENTS THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPLETE AGREEMENTS
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Once you have a tenant in your community you are, for lack of a more politically correct way of saying this stuck with them. Keeping this in mind, there are a few things you can do to improve the quality of future tenants and help you collect from those tenants who end up owing you money.
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Community Management: The $20,000 Dog
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It's exciting. You just purchased a manufactured home community. It has fifty (50) sites, forty eight (48) of which are occupied by home owning tenants paying $300/month in rent. You were pleased to purchase it for $960,000, or $20,000 per site.
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Top 10 Dumb Management Ideas for Manufactured Home Retailers
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Decide to save money by reusing old rickety wood steps without hand rails on all your show homes;
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While Waiting on The Supreme Court: What is happening to Health Care Costs and Insurance?
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For the last six months, I’ve served on The Woodlands, Texas Chamber of Commerce Health Care Program Committee. These efforts culminated on April 27th with a conference that featured health care providers, hospital CEO’s, health insurance professionals, and a Congressman.
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Rate Shopping...Is That Your Lowest Rate??
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I've often said that if I had a dollar for each time I am asked during the year...
'So...what's your lowest rate?' A mortgage professional can tel...
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You Get What You Pay For...
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It seems all we talk about these days is 'the competition' and how to beat them. From board games to reality TV, the concept has never been more prevalent in modern culture. But when does quality come into play?
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Are You a Good Boy Scout?
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Sometimes, borrowers have the best of intentions but lack the industry expertise to swiftly navigate the ebb and flow of the market’s products.
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Credit Reports….No Maserati’s please!
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Over the years, I’ve worked with all kinds of investors…from those just starting out with their very first commercial investment, to CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies developing large parcels of raw land into mega malls.
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Press Release Hometown America Portfolio Sale January 9, 2012
Press Release
Largest Brokered Deal Comprised of 16- Properties Totaling 5,919 Home Sites in Four States
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