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Many people get excited about college football. We get excited about college-town manufactured home communities. These properties display unique chara...

It’s often been said that the best things come in small packages – and that’s often true of manufactured home communities. While large properties tend...

One of the biggest losses we will all have over the years ahead is the loss of the Greatest Generation of community owners. It will be hard to even explain the lessons learned from them to the younger generation, as they will not believe such people actually existed. I’m glad that I’ve been able to learn so much from them.

Charles Becker is a Professor of Economics at Duke University. He’s also the first economist to study the manufactured home community industry.

Some things require the owner to be there 16 hours a day to succeed, such as a restaurant. Others mandate that the owner be there 8 hours per day, suc...

Time magazine determined that the mobile home park is the ideal home for an aging America. We could not agree with them more. Affordable housing is the greatest problem in America – and opportunity. When you invest in mobile home parks, you are part of the solution.

The mobile home park has been around as a real estate sector for over half a century. However, it has remained in complete obscurity except for a few ...

When you buy a Mobile Home Park that needs to be turned around (and most parks need some type of turnaround), the first thing you need to do is disengage the prior ownership/management.

By Joe Evans and Jeff Meierhofer Mobile home communities are a hot commodity on the investment property market today. We have seen a demand for finan...

Manufactured homes were the REIT industry’s best performers in the first half of 2015 with a 3.75% return, followed by self-storage with a 3.72% total return, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.