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There are a lot of books out there extolling the financial benefits of buying mobile homes for purposes of renting them out. DON'T BE SUCKERED INTO THIS WITHOUT GETTING THE FULL STORY.

Most every mobile home park owner in the U.S. has a list of rules attached to their lease which is longer than the lease itself. While it's always a good idea to cover your bases and address every possible behavior concern, it's another to expect people to follow more rules than the local prison.

After 10 years of helping mobile home and mobile home park investors buy, sell and operate their mobile home park, MobileHomeParkStore.com will be having it's first ever seminar on April 12, 2008.

One of the biggest news stories emerging from the embattled mobile home manufacturing and sales side of the industry is the current and proposed litigation concerning formaldehyde contamination in mobile homes.

I can remember when a good, well-located community could fill seven or eight lots per month with nothing more than some flyers at a manufactured home...

By Dave Reynolds, MobileHomeParkStore.com When I am looking to market my mobile home park whether it be to potential residents to bring their homes i...

There is no shortage of difficult to handle tenants inside of a mobile home park. In fact, the challenge is to find nice, rational ones. Until that changes, it is important to know how to diffuse the difficult tenant to minimize stress and disruption to your business.

You can't be a mobile home park owner and not realize that the good old days are over in filling up vacant mobile home park lots. Those of us who owned parks in the late 1990s became spoiled with how easy it was to fill up a mobile home park.

Unless you have spent time in law enforcement, there are certain signs of crime that you would never notice as a result of your sheltered existence. However, there are important crime signals that every park owner should know, but that nobody will tell you due to political correctness. So here they are:

When I got in the mobile home park business, many of the sellers I bought from called the mobile homes "coaches" and "trailers". Roger Miller even wrote a hit song with the lyrics "trailers for sale or rent". But manufacturers and dealers thought the business needed an upgrade, so they changed the name to "mobile home".