What do you get when you cross two industry experts who have owned and operated over $100,000,000 of mobile home parks with two guys who really enjoy teaching? The result is the Mobile Home Park Investing Boot Camp, taught by industry veterans Frank Rolfe and Dave Reynolds. By popular demand they are holding the event in Dallas, Texas on April 30th to May 2nd. Read more »
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Uncategorized | Frank Rolfe | 
March 5, 2010 3:43 pm | 
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Just about anybody who watches late night TV, or receives email, or reads, knows that there are hundreds of people promoting concepts to make money in single family homes. “Buy foreclosures”, “profit from short sales”, “wholesale houses” – there are at least 1,000 different concepts. Unfortunately, the only people who actually make money in many of these ideas are the promoters. There are so many people chasing after single-family homes to invest in that the market is beyond saturated, and any profitability has been extinguished. Read more »
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Uncategorized | Frank Rolfe | February 11, 2010 5:48 pm | Comments (3)
The Department of Environmental Protection has fined a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania mobile home park owner $123,570 for allowing sewage from his treatment plant to discharge into a nearby stream.
Frank Perano, the owner of Dauphin County Mobile Home Park, has allowed repeated cases of discharge from his over-loaded treatment plant. Read more »
By Frank Rolfe
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”. Of course, the name was misleading, because mobile homes are far from mobile. Some can’t survive any movement at all, and moving one can cost $3,000 or more. And I guess they stuck the word “home” on there to make it sound reassuing or folksy (as opposed to saying “mobile unit”), or to give you greater direction on what you were supposed to do with the thing. But I embraced the new moniker, and so did everybody else. Read more »
By Frank Rolfe
The election is over and the President-elect is Barrack Obama. While that ends a lot of uncertainty over the general direction of the government, it only opens new worries over what this means to the economy and, on the micro scale, the mobile home park industry. Will Obama help improve the mobile home and mobile home park industry? Or will he further damage the already anemic manufacturing part of the industry, and cause new problems for the still resilient mobile home park part of the business? Read more »
