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It comes as no secret that mobile home parks are finally receiving the type of respect they deserved years ago. Because of the ridiculous stereotype that the media created for “trailer park” residents, many professional investors avoided the asset class altogether. Recently, however, even the largest private equity group in the U.S. – the Carlyle Group – has started to invest in mobile home parks. Few people realize that Warren Buffet is now the largest owner of mobile home manufacturing and financing, and that Sam Zell is the largest owner of mobile home parks. So why is Wall Street so impressed with the mobile home park business?

Our Weekly Mobile Home Park Investing Tips. Along with comments from investors. Enjoy!

Our Weekly Mobile Home Park Investing Tips. Along with comments from investors. Enjoy!

Our Weekly Mobile Home Park Investing Tips. Along with comments from investors. Enjoy! 6-10

Our Weekly Mobile Home Park Investing Tips. Along with comments from investors. Enjoy! 1-5

An article I wrote recently, telling the story of my first manufactured home community that I purchased for People have different goals. Some people are only concerned with trying to get a higher return on their cash, which is currently getting 1% in a CD. Others are trying to create substantial wealth, far beyond a simple return on their down-payment. It's a free country, so there's no law on what you have to make from a manufactured home community purchase.

There are over 60,000,000 Americans with household incomes under $20,000 per year. To this giant market, a mobile home is the only form of detached housing that they will ever be able to afford.

It was Day 2 of Mobile Home University, an intensive, three-day course on how to strike it rich in the trailer-park business. Seventy-five or so students had signed up for the class, which Rolfe offers every other month in different places around the country. Most of the enrollees weren’t real estate speculators; they were jittery members of a hard-pressed middle class.

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SHOULD MY CLIENT CONSIDER AN EXCHANGE? This is an individual decision based on the investor’s overall retirement plan and investment goals. Although they may have a financial or tax advisor, ultimately the taxpayer will be writing the check to the Internal Revenue Service if they decide to sell and pay the capital gains tax.