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  • What REO Sellers Need to Understand Better
    We purchased thousands of lots last year, so we must know what we're doing. But only a small portion of those deals were REO properties.
    Published 03Mar2012, viewed 49 times
  • How to Negotiate a Manufactured Home Park Purchase Price
    Many people are in such a rush to buy a manufactured home park that they forego proper due diligence and launch themselves into a nightmare that it's hard to escape from. NEVER buy a manufactured home park without following our 30 Days of Diligence format, and obtaining the necessary third party reports. While there are some great parks for sale out there, there are an equal number of stinkers that you should never get involved in.
    Published 10Nov2011, viewed 122 times
  • How to Make Money in Self-Storage
    Most Americans have more stuff than they know what to do with. As a result, they need extra space to store their stuff in. This basic need is the back-bone of the self-storage industry. But just because the demand is there doesn't mean that making money filling that void is simple and guaranteed. The self-storage industry is more complicated than it looks, and there are many important issues to understand and address.
    Published 24Sep2011, viewed 230 times
  • How to Profit from Changes in the RV Park Industry
    We are in an age of uncertainty and change. The biggest force in today's market are trends which can shift once powerful business models into failures at very fast speeds. You have to be on top of these trends to succeed. And there are definite market trends at play in the RV park industry.
    Published 22Sep2011, viewed 123 times
  • How to Rent Billboard Space in a Recession
    Advertisers are the same as you and me - they just want to make money. As long as you do not lose sight of that fact, you can rent almost any billboard. But it's all about dollars and cents.
    Published 22Sep2011, viewed 166 times
  • How to Handle the "Impossible" Tenant
    Everybody has had them. I can remember the name of every one of them. These are the tenants that won't play by the rules, and have no limitations to the amount of grief they can cause you - most actually delight in calling a hundred times a day, and complaining about things that most people would never dream to even talk about.
    Published 18Sep2011, viewed 147 times
  • How to Value an Under-Performing RV Park
    Everyone loves the old adage "buy low and sell high". But when you buy "low", that often means buying an asset that is not working properly. So how do you value an RV park that is not running on all eight cylinders. It's a lot more difficult than you think. You cannot overpay for an RV park and succeed.
    Published 03Jul2011, viewed 428 times
  • How to Survive Cash Flow Problems with Your Small Business
    Every company suffers from cash-flow problems, and even the largest companies in the U.S. have stood on the verge of insolvency at least once in the history of their existence. Every owner of a business must know the strategies required to survive such periods of hardship and to control and recover from these episodes. There are several steps to managing and taking control of cash flow emergencies.
    Published 03Jul2011, viewed 240 times
  • How to Structure a Mobile Home Park Partnership
    One of the initial building blocks to investing in a mobile home park is to decide on the structure of the investment. There are many different options. But one of the blessings of mobile home park investing - unlike most other real estate asset types - is that the yields on mobile home parks are high enough to allow for solid returns for everyone involved.
    Published 03Jul2011, viewed 204 times
  • How to Rent a Vacant Billboard By Lowering the Cost- Without Costing You a Penny
    The United States is in a Depression. Money is short. And advertisers want real value for their dollar. One of the best ways of attracted advertisers- and providing a great return on their advertising dollar- is to reduce the cost of their advertisement. But, how can you do that, when you have a minimum amount you can take for the sign?
    Published 03Jul2011, viewed 146 times
  • How to Buy a Forclosed Self-Storage Facility From a Bank
    It comes as no surprise that there are foreclosed properties of every description sitting with U.S. banks at the moment, as they attempt to dispose of them in an orderly manner. A big portion of these failed deals are self-storage facilities. Some of these are among the best self-storage facility deals available in the U.S. at the moment. But you have to know how to approach them. So how do you buy a foreclosed self-storage facility from a bank?
    Published 03Jul2011, viewed 315 times
  • The Secret of Mobile Home Park Investments: Keeping Lots Affordable
    To understand mobile home park investing, you have to first move away from the term "mobile home" and think instead in terms of "affordable housing". The very name "mobile home" is inaccurate, as the homes are anything but mobile once they have been delivered from the factory. It costs around $4,000 to move a mobile home - if they can be moved at all.
    Published 26Apr2011, viewed 156 times
  • Mobile Home Investing: What Savvy Investors Need to Know
    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. And, as a result, the demand for mobile homes has never been higher. But how can you take advantage of this opportunity?
    Published 12Apr2011, viewed 167 times
  • Mobile Home Park Investing
    Mobile home park investing is one of the most misunderstood - and most lucrative - forms of real estate investing. With cap rates of 10% to 20%, and cash-on-cash returns of 20% to 40%, it stands as the highest yielding real estate asset class. And with over 50,000 mobile home parks in the U.S. - and 35,000 of those still in the hands of the original "Moms & Pops" - there is opportunity in virtually every state in the U.S.
    Published 09Apr2011, viewed 197 times
  • Why Inflation Will Be Great For Manufactured Home Community Owners
    With the price of oil nearing $100 a barrel, and other commodities heading up sharply, only a fool would not see the trend to a more inflationary environment in the U.S.. And despite the government's attempts to stem the increases, clearly inflation will be the big news story right up to the elections in 2012. But what will the effects of inflation be on manufactured home communities as an investment? It appears only positive.
    Published 08Apr2011, viewed 223 times
  • RV Parks - Is Buying an RV Park Worth the Investment?
    Do you enjoy people? Do you like being outdoors? Do you like being your own boss? If the answer is "no", then buying an RV Park is the worst thing that you could do. If you answered "yes", then read on and learn more about owning an RV Park.
    Published 21Mar2011, viewed 242 times
  • How To Make Huge Returns On Mobile Home Parks
    When you write about mobile home park returns you always run the risk of being branded a liar, as nobody believes that you can make 20% plus returns on anything anymore.
    Published 27Jun2010, viewed 388 times
  • How To Make 10% To 20% On Your Money With Simple Mobile Home Investments
    When you hear the words "mobile home", what do you immediately think? Hillbillies with rebel flags in their windows? The show COPS? Sure, that's the stereotype, but the truth is that a huge number of Americans- about 20 million of them- live in mobile homes.
    Published 27May2010, viewed 176 times
  • How To Make Every Day A Holiday When You Own An Rv Park
    Many people live out their lives without really enjoying their work. Then they retire and try to enjoy their final years, but really spend all their time fretting if their retirement savings will hold out. What if you could combine investing your savings with having the time of your life? Well, you can. And here's how to do it.
    Published 27May2010, viewed 356 times
  • How To Raise Rents In Mobile Home Parks And Not Lose One Customer
    Many landlords are terrified to even think about raising rents on their single-family home, apartment complex, retail center, and self-storage investments. In an economy like this, how can anyone even think about raising rents? Won't everyone just move out?
    Published 09May2010, viewed 207 times
  • How To Make $100,000 A Year Cash Flow With One Mobile Home Park Investment
    With the national economy in free fall, and millions of jobs being cut across all industry segments, many people are trying to formulate a plan to replace their income if they get laid off. And to many people, that income can approach $100,000 or more. So how do you replace $100,000 of income. For many people, the answer may be in a good old fashioned trailer park.
    Published 17Mar2010, viewed 180 times
  • How To Make $100,000 Per Year In The Billboard Business
    With unemployment at its highest level in decades, many people are worried about their jobs and are tired of living with that uncertainty. But how can they replace their earnings of $40,000 to $100,000 per year? One option may be the billboard business.
    Published 17Mar2010, viewed 374 times
  • How RV Parks Are A Better Investment Than Single Family Homes - And A Whole Lot More Fun, Too
    When most people think of investing in real estate, they always think of single-family homes. Since most of us own a house, we feel like we have a pretty good handle on evaluating them and spotting a winner from a loser. But the problem is that everyone thinks that! As a result, you have so many people chasing houses that there is no profit in any of them.
    Published 06Feb2010, viewed 321 times
  • How Mobile Home Parks Make More Money Than Single-Family Home Investing
    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.
    Published 06Feb2010, viewed 415 times
  • How To Buy A Self-Storage Facility Properly
    Buying a self-storage facility is a lot harder than you think - particularly if you want to make money with it. Over the years, there are some basic traits that separate winning facilities from losers. And that genetic code is hard to break.
    Published 10Feb2010, viewed 356 times
  • How Mobile Home Parks Are The Best Strategy For Affordable Housing In Commercial Real Estate
    Mobile home parks have higher investment returns than apartments for two main reasons. The first is that they are priced to allow a significantly higher return. Due to the lower investor demand for these properties, they are priced to often yield a 10% cap rate on the front end, as compared with a 7% in apartments. This is almost a 50% greater return.
    Published 09Jan2010, viewed 184 times
  • How To Make Money In The Self-Storage Industry
    There is a ton of bad information out there on the self-storage or "mini-storage" industry. Contrary to what you may read, there is virtually no money in building new facilities or buying them at a 7% cap rate. If you really want to make money in self-storage, you have to put in significantly more work, and follow a different game plan entirely.
    Published 09Jan2010, viewed 351 times
  • How To Change Your Life With A Few Billboard Signs
    You drive by billboards every day, and never think much about them other than to read the ads. But did you know that those same billboards could dramatically improve your life? Well, they can. Just a few billboard signs, if you own them, can significantly change your life for the better. And it's not as hard to do as you think.
    Published 09Jan2010, viewed 393 times
  • Why You Can't Manage A Self-Storage Facility From Just A Kiosk
    There is urban legend going around, created by some "gurus" trying to sell their books, that you can manage an entire self-storage facility from a "kiosk", basically a walk-up automated teller like an ATM machine. Although the concept of having a "robot" manage a self-storage facility is attractive from a cost-savings and low management perspective.
    Published 08Jan2010, viewed 280 times
  • How To Retain "Snowbirds" In Your RV Park
    "Snowbird" is the name given to folks who travel from cold climates in the northern part of the U.S. to warmer climates in the south. They make this pilgrimage every year, which is where the bird name comes into play - they migrate like birds every winter. However, also like birds, they are unpredictable in their exact patterns and don't always land back at the same RV park year after year.
    Published 02Jan2010, viewed 255 times
  • How To Take Advantage of the Recession By Buying an RV Park
    For those investors who believe in the adage "buy low and sell high", there is no better time to buy something than during a recession. And of all the forms of commercial real estate, few drop as far in value during a recession as RV parks.
    Published 24Dec2009, viewed 425 times
  • How To Find Stability and High Returns In Commercial Real Estate Through Mobile Home Parks
    America is in its worst crisis since the Great Depression. A simple drive around town reveals vacant big-box retail, see-through office buildings and self-storage where they will virtually pay you to move in. Yet hidden behind all these items is a real sleeper that has shown spectacular returns during recessions in the past, yet is still virtually ignored by modern real estate investors.
    Published 24Dec2009, viewed 287 times
  • How To Participate In The Outdoor Billboard Industry With Little Or No Capital
    The outdoor billboard industry offers the ability to make a substantial monthly income, as well as to build enormous equity in a group of signs. Four of the Forbes 400 made the list from profits in the billboard industry - including one billionaire: John Kluge. Even Ted Turner made his first fortune in the outdoor billboard industry.
    Published 24Dec2009, viewed 394 times

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