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Landlord and Tenant Law Change Requires ‘HABITABILITY
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In two hotly contested battles, advocates for tenants and landlords in the state sparred over a pair of bills which aimed to reform the eviction process in Arkansas
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CESA Releases First National Study of Solar for Manufactured Homes By Samantha Donalds
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The report, Solar for Manufactured Homes: An Assessment of the Opportunities and Challenges in 14 States, provides a landscape assessment of the manufactured housing market and shows where these homes are located across the country. It explains the general obstacles to solar access by low-and moderate-income (LMI) communities, as well as additional challenges related specifically to installing solar PV with manufactured housing.
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Is the Community Owner Responsible when 911 Can't Get There in Time? By Mark J. Fletcher, ENP
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240 million times each year, 911 is dialed for emergency help. That equates to a staggering 27,400 phone calls per hour, or
over
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HOW THE UNWINDING OF THE CDC EVICTIONS MORATORIUM WILL PLAY OUT By Frank Rolfe
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Despite every bad faith attempt by the Biden administration to accept the Federal Court’s decision that it’s unconstitutional, the national “masks off” policy will probably finally force a day of reckoning on June 30th
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THE SECRETS TO SUCCESSFULLY GETTING EXTENSIONS FROM A SELLER By Frank Rolfe
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Many deals – despite you doing everything correctly to the best of your ability – reach a moment where an extension is necessary from the seller. It typically is the result of the bank’s attorney not getting the loan documents togethe
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NON-RECOURSE DEBT VS. RECOURSE DEBT VS. THE GOVERNOR OF WEST VIRGINIA By Frank Rolfe
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When I got into the mobile home park business with my first property “Glenhaven”, one of the chief attractions was the financing. The deal was $400,000 with $10,000 down and the seller financed the remaining $390,000 with non-recourse debt.
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LEARNING FROM UNHAPPY CUSTOMERS
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Bill Gates once said “your most unhappy customers are your greatest sense of learning”. It’s an unusual adage from someone who held a virtual monopoly over the personal computer for decades, but this mantra is true for all industries. So what can you learn from unhappy......
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THREE HUGE REASONS THAT MOBILE HOME PARKS WILL OUTPERFORM ALL OTHER REAL ESTATE SECTORS IN THE YEARS AHEAD – AND ONES THAT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT By Frank Rolfe
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Mobile home parks have outperformed virtually all other sectors of real estate in recent years. But that’s only about to accelerate. The net effect of the new America – created by the impact from the pandemic, urban unrest,
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WHY SAM ZELL IS CONSIDERED A "GRAVEDANCER" -- AND WHY THAT'S A GOOD INVESTMENT STRATEGY By Dave Reynolds
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Sam Zell is the largest owner of mobile home parks in the U.S. He’s also been the largest owner of apartments and office buildings. But regardless of the sector, his strategy has always remained to buy assets that are near death and then bring them back to life. Why has this strategy worked so well?
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WHEN A MASTER LEASE WITH OPTION IS – AND IS NOT – A GOOD SOLUTION
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There’s a unique strategy that has been used to construct clever mobile home park deals over the decades, but it rarely gets much notoriety. The name of this strategy is a “master lease with option
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