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Articles by Frank Rolfe & Dave Reynolds, MobileHomeParkStore.com

How to Make Huge Returns on Mobile Home Parks - New
How To Make 10% To 20% On Your Money With Simple Mobile Home Investments
City Of Aiken Relaxes Requirements On Age Of Mobile Homes
Palm Springs Mobile Home Park Gets City Water Hook-Up Through Grant

Why The Retail Home Sales Debacle Has Been Great For Communiity Owners

How Mobile Home Parks Make More Money Than Single-Family Home Investing
How To Make $100,000 A Year Cash Flow With One Mobile Home Park Investment
Manufactured Housing Industry Turnaround Plan
How To Turnaround a Mobile Home Park

How To Retire On Just One Mobile Home Park

How To Dispose of Ancillary Assets To A Mobile Home Park
How To Get Zero Down Financing On A Mobile Home Park
How To Make Money In Mobile Home Parks
How I Made a Million Dollars with One Mobile Home Park
Buying A Mobile Home Park Is Like Flying An Airplane
Do Manufactured Homes Have A Shelf Life
Press Release - Event Focuses on Prospering in Mobile Home Parks in a Recession
How the Obama Presidency Will Effect the Mobile Home Park Industry
How to Evaluate a Mobile Home Park by the Grass
How to get all of the Leaks out of your Mobile Home Park Water System
Invest in Landscaping for your Mobile Home Park
Let's Give up on the Star System
Beware of the Seller Financing Trap

Forget Ike & Katrina:  The Perfect Storm is Building in Mobile Home Parks

What's in a Name - A lot if it is a Manufactured Home Community

How to Enforce Rules in a Mobile Home Park

How to Charge Late Fees in a Mobile Home Park

How to Name a Mobile Home Park

How to Make Money in the Mobile Home Park Business

How to Help your Mobile Home Park Tenants and Keep your Cash Flow

How to Harness the Best Opportunity to Buy Mobile Home Parks in the Last Decade

Mobile Home Parks and City Inspectors

What will you tell your Grandchildren if you miss this Opportunity to Buy Mobile Home Parks

Lessons from the Olympics

How to Prepare your Mobile Home Park for a Recession

How to Accept and Love your Mobile Home Park Utilities

How to Take Advantage of the Greatest Mobile Home Park Buying Opportunities in Decades

How to Handle your Mobile Home Park Tenants

How to Help your Mobile Home Park Tenants and Keep Your Cash Flow

Why Pretty Mobile Home Parks Often have Ugly Returns

Why the Mobile Home Business Works and the Manufactured Home Business Doesn't

How to Spot Crime in a Mobile Home Park

How to Rent Mobile Home Lots in a Down Economy

How to Diffuse a Difficult Mobile Home Park Tenant

How to Build Pride of Ownership in Your Manufactured Home Community

Marketing Your Mobile Home Park to Potential Customers

How to Really Fill your Vacant Mobile Home Park Lots

The Effect of Formaldehyde Litigation on the Mobile Home Park Side of the Business

Mobile Home Park Investment Bus Tour - Press Release

The Complete Guide to Moving a Mobile Home

Don't Hold Park Residents to a Higher Standard than their Subdivision Neighbors

Finding & Evaluating Mobile Home Park Investments

The Only People who get Rich Renting Mobile Homes are the Tenants and Maintenance Men

Fixing Mobile Home Park Vacancy Problems
Mobile Home Park Collection Tips
Being Soft on Collections Doesn't Help Anybody
Mobile Home Park Selling Tips
Valuing a Mobile Home Park Excerpt
Mobile Home Park Lease Options
Mobile Home Parks versus Apartments & other Real Estate
Mobile Home Parks versus RV Parks and Campgrounds
4 of the Top 10 Ways to Increase the Value of your Mobile Home Park
Mobile Home Park Five Star Cash Flow

A Great Sign for your Mobile Home Park is an Investment, Not a Cost

What to do when your Mobile Park has Less Skirting than a Men's Store

 

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MHWeekly - Our Weekly Online Magazine for the Manufactured Housing Industry

 

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Mobile Home Park Weekly Tips

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Articles & Press Releases from Tony Petosa and Nick Bertino, Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage

Manufactured Housing Institute Selects Wells Fargo the Community Lender of the Year - 3 Years in a Row - New

Wells Fargo Third Edition of the Manufactured Home Community Financing Handbook - Tony Petosa and Nick Bertino, Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage - New

Your Loan is Coming Due... Now What?

Wells Fargo Named Manufactured Housing Community Lender of the Year for 2007

Land-lease Community Financing:   Challenges and Solutions

Overcoming Financing Obstacles

Obtaining Permanent Financing for a Manufactured Home Community 

Preparing Your Manufactured Home Community For Financing

Wells Fargo Commercial Mortgage Arranges Simultaneous Refinance and Acquisition Loans for Adjacent Mobile Home Parks in Tucson, Arizona.

Articles by Steve Murden, Star Capital

Lower Occupancy Mobile Home Parks -  New

Lower Occupancy Mobile Home Parks

Alternative Mobile Home Park Financing

Current Financing For Mobile Home Parks - January 2009

What are Lenders Looking for in a Tough Lending Market

Mobile Home Park Down Payments

Mobile Home Income in Park Valuation

Upside Potential on Mobile Home Parks

"Park Owned" versus "Pad Only"

Articles by David Harley, ProMortgage

State of the Manufacture Housing Lending Market 2009

Articles by Marc Faulkner, Creative Funding Service

Creating Salable and Secure Seller Financed Mobile Home Notes

Articles by John Turzer - JLT & Associates

2008 National Manufactured Home Community Rent Survey Summary - pdf

Joanne Stevens - NAI Iowa Realty Commercial

April 2009 Newsletter - Parks are Still Selling Briskly
Free Market Evaluation

August 2008 Newsletter

Selling the Land Lease Concept to Potential Residents

Starker Services, Inc.

Common Questions on doing an Exchange

Articles by Tim Key, Modular Today

Modular Homes Can Be Another Option for Manufactured Home Owner

Articles by Buddy Dufau, Residential & Commercial Mtg Company

Misconceptions of Mobile Home Park Financing

Articles by Richard Stephens, Professional MH Management

Mobile Home Park - Setting up an LLC

Articles by Dean Thompson, KC Capital

Will Your Next Purchase Contract Be Set Up To Succeed?

Articles Anita Bruckner, Charter Real Estate Brokerage

Get the Dirt on Investing in Mobile Home Parks...

Articles Kurt Kelley, Mobile Insurance

The Double-Wide Two Step:  What to expect when one half of a multi-section home is destroyed.

Articles Jay Zandman, Manning & Nozick Insurance Agency

When to File an Insurance Claim

Risk Management Guidelines

Articles Edith E. Lasson, Flagstaff Insurance Agency

Shopping For Insurance, How to Get the Best out of the Insurance Marketplace

Articles Steve Murden, Star Capital Corporation

Financing Smaller Mobile Home Parks

Articles & Press Releases By London Computer Systems - Rent Manager

Rent Manager's Specialized MHC Software
How to Choose a Property Management Software Program
Press Releases By Athena Real Estate, LLC
Cedar Park Estates in Charlotte, NC.
Out O' Space Storage in Pensacola, FL

Articles & Newsletters By Jim Carmichael

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9-1-04
4-8-04
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8-15-03

Archive of the Writings of Carl Davidson

SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF RECRUITING SALESPEOPLE
ARE YOU REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT DEVELOPING A WINNING SALES TEAM?
LOCKING UP THE MARKET
ONE PRICE SELLING OR WHEEL AND DEAL?

Other Articles

How Mobile Home Insurance Works

How To Purchase an Investment Property and/
Or Business With Your IRA
&
How To Defer Capital Gains on the Sale of a Highly
Appreciated Property or Business without a 1031 Exchange

By Allan Roth

Why Mobile Home Communities Are Superior Investments

News Releases

Marcus & Millichap Facilitates Record Price Per Space For a Mobile Home Park in Las Vegas