Time is running out to sign up for the Mobile Home Park Investor’s Boot Camp that’s coming up in Dallas a week from Friday. This is the best, most thorough thing we do, and you will be amazed at how much you will learn over three days of total immersion. Read more »
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July 9, 2010 11:33 am | 
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July 16th To 18th In Dallas, Texas
The Mobile Home Park Investors’ Boot Camp will be held in Dallas, Texas on July 16th to 18th. This is the immersion event in which students learn everything there is to know about finding, negotiating, buying, turning-around, operating, problem-solving, financing, and selling mobile home parks in one information-packed weekend. Read more »
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The owners of Besaro Mobile Home Park in Freemont, California have appealed in state and federal court the blockage of their attempt to raise rents by as much as 40%. If the appeal fails, the owners’ attorney says that they will close the park. Read more »
The 62 year old ex-manager of the Chico Mobile County Club was sentenced to 6 months in prison for the admitted embezzlement of $132,000 from the mobile home park over a period of three years. Read more »
Leisure Lake Mobile Home Park residents are excited about a new sound wall that is proposed to be built as part of the widening of Highway 101. The 1,100 ft. wall would be 14’ to 16’ in height. Read more »
The Glenn Whitaker Trailer Court is closing in Huntsville, after 50 years in business. By July 1st, every trailer must be gone.
Glenn Whitaker, the owner, says that he is closing the park because he is in bad health and the park is as worn out as he is. The sewer lines are bad, and few of the residents pay their rent – and he doesn’t hassle them because he knows they can’t afford to pay it. Read more »
One of the most difficult and time consuming tasks of a mobile home park manager is in the collection of rents. It has been my experience that about 50 percent of your residents will never have a problem paying on time. Then about 25 percent may be late on occasion and are also not a major problem. It is the other 25 percent that will take most of your time and efforts.
It is this last 25 percent that will often make or break the deal. Read more »
Written by Frank Rolfe and Dave Reynolds, MobileHomeParkStore.com, LLC
When I first got in the mobile home park business, I was very inexperienced in collections. My natural instinct was to be nice to my customers and never offensive. So when I first encountered customers who would not pay their rent, I did not want to offend them by filing evictions. Instead I tried phoning them or sending reminder letters. Time marched on. After they promised to pay several times and still never did, I realized my methods were not working and that I would need to “toughen up” and change my ways – and I started filing evictions as soon as I could once they had failed to pay on time. Read more »
