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Evaluating Mobile Home Park Investments Why Warren Buffet Invests In Mobile Home Park Communities



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ortgage interest rates         to these families. Yet, because   
are rising and single          of the negative stigma associated 
family homes are more          with mobile home parks, city      
expensive than ever. The American     officials will generally do       
dream is becoming more like a         whatever it takes to prevent new  
fantasy to most average hard          park developments. Couple this    
working Americans already             fact with the significant cash    
struggling to pay the rent.           requirements to build a mobile    
                                      home park and you have a powerful 
Additionally, what is going to        discrepancy between demand and    
happen to countless families that     supply. Savvy real estate         
recently purchased their first        investors know this and are       
home under those new adjustable       already profiting from our        
rate mortgage loans that take         nation's lack of affordable       
effect after a very short fixed       housing.                          
rate period? These people are                                           
going to have serious payment         Still not sure if a mobile home   
shock when they realize the           park investment is a good idea?   
effect that two percentage points     Perhaps, this might change your   
has on a long term, several           mind. The king of Wall Street,    
hundred thousand dollar mortgage.     Warren Buffet recently invested   
Foreclosure numbers are going to      1.7 billion of Berkshire          
skyrocket in this country. A          Hathaway's capital by purchasing  
severely damaged credit score         Clayton Homes Inc, one of the     
rating will drive these people        largest manufactured housing      
back to the rental market or into     companies in the world. This was  
some type of "owner financed"         after an unsuccessful bid to buy  
property.                             a huge portfolio of delinquent    
                                      mobile home loans from Conseco    
A mobile home offers a solution       Inc.                              



                                      accomplish this seemingly         
Typically, when Warren jumps,         impossible feat with every park   
millions follow and bank on           they purchase. These are          
yearly 12% returns. However, this     generally deemed "turnaround"     
is a unique opportunity for           mobile home parks, where the      
investors to gain huge profits        investor finds an owner that has  
from Buffets financial wisdom in      managed his/her park poorly over  
the short term. The "Oracle of        the years, either out of apathy   
Omaha" as always been know for        or ignorance. Once locking up the 
buying value, buckling down for       property (many times with the     
the long haul and closing his         previous owner carrying the       
position decades later when he's      mobile home park loan) this       
squeezed every penny from each        knowledgeable mobile home         
respective stock. The beautiful       investor makes the sweeping       
thing about a mobile home park        changes necessary to increase net 
investment is that (provided you      operating income.                 
know what you're doing) you don't                                       
have to wait a decade to realize      However, you don't have to buy a  
triple digit returns on your          poorly run park to realize        
money. Every day, mobile home         significant returns. Most of      
park investors sell parks for         mobile home parks are between 15  
multiples of what they paid for       and 30 acres. Historically, that  
them a few years prior. Corey         land becomes so valuable that     
Donaldson, an experienced mobile      over time those mobile homes are  
home investor was recently able       replaced by larger commercial,    
to retire as he doubled his           retail or residential             
equity (1.2 million) with his         developments. However, unlike     
Texas mobile home park in just        most land investments that are    
one year. Similar investors           considered sunken costs until     
across the globe are able to          someone sells or builds, mobile   



home parks are producing large        leasing the land to people as the 
monthly cash flows as you rent        value of your land appreciates.   
the dirt the mobile homes sit on.     

                              
In other words, you can profit by     






About the Author:

Steve Case is a professional mobile home investor. He has complied his extensive knowledge of mobile home parks into a detailed course in order to help other investors realize his level of success. Mobile Home Park Investment

Source: www.isnare.com


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