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Why Now Is The Time To Buy a Mobile Home Park
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There are a lot of reasons to buy a mobile home park. One is the fact that there are virtually no new ones that can ever be built, effectively capping supply. Another is that you can raise and raise the rent, and nobody can afford the $3,000 or so to move out, so they have to put up with it. Or, maybe it's the fact that mobile home parks are sold on higher cap rates than any other form of real estate. Well, I’m going to add one more reason: There are too many on the market right now, and the seller’s are getting desperate.
Ten years ago, there were big, well-heeled buyers for almost every park – especially Affordable Residential Communities and Hometown. And the smaller parks that they wouldn't buy had 100 buyers standing in line. As a result, sellers got spoiled and thought that there would always be a huge number of buyers if they ever wanted to sell. Well, they were wrong. Those days are over; for now. And parks are stacking up like unsold merchandise, stacked to the roof. What happened? Where did all the buyers go?
A lot of the buying fever over the last decade was in the form of lucky California, Florida and Arizona investors who sold a property for a huge windfall, and needed a 1031 exchange. These buyers flooded the market and for some reason, mobile home parks became one of their targets of choice. They made perfect buyers – they had wads of cash and a short fuse of 1031 time limit.
However, with the decline of California, Florida and Arizona real estate values, these buyers have gone the way of the buffalo. Without selling their coastal property, they have no cash for a 1031 replacement. Things were so crazy five years ago that you would have a school teacher sell her house in California for a $500,000 profit, and immediately plunk that down on a $2,500,000 1031 replacement, without ever having owned commercial real estate before. Today, that same school teacher would have just a “For Sale” sign in her yard and a stack of flyers on her kitchen counter.
So, who’s going to fill the gap and start buying all of these parks? Nobody until the prices become attractive. Real attractive. And we are already seeing that. Some parks have had their asking prices reduced by 50% or more. And a lot of sellers are offering to carry paper at very attractive terms.
Every day we are seeing more parks stack up; and more desperate sellers! And even lower prices and more attractive terms. This has become one of the best buying opportunities in a decade!
So, if you are looking at buying a mobile home park, your timing couldn’t be better. Don’t get so aggressive that you scrimp on your due diligence, however. There are still a lot of landmines in bad mobile home park deals. But, if you put in the time and effort to find a good park to buy, you may be able to steal it. And there is no better way to make money in mobile home parks than buying a park for a penny on the dollar.
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Dave Reynolds is a successful real estate investor that has specialized in the purchasing of Mobile Home and RV Parks for the past 12 years. He has the keen ability to quickly assess deals, cut through hype, measure upside vs. downside risk, and make sound decisions. He has owned and operated over 55 Mobile Home & RV parks over the past 12 years in 16 different states. He currently owns over $10,000,000 in mobile home park real estate.
Dave Reynolds received a B.S. in Accounting from Mesa State College in Colorado in 1992 and attended graduate school majoring in Accounting and Taxation at Colorado State University in 1993-1994.
Frank Rolfe was born in Missouri, the "Show Me" state, and has been starting up businesses since high school. He has had two big successes: a billboard business that he sold to a public company in 1996, and a mobile home park business that he sold to various buyers beginning in 2004. He always has several start-ups in the hopper - currently an old time photography business, a web-based educational products business, an art school, and a return to the billboard business. Frank Rolfe holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.
Dave Reynolds and Frank Rolfe have combined forces to bring the real estate market a better perspective on the multiple successes you can have with Mobile Home Parks. Together they have a combined experience of 20+ years and over $100,000,000 worth of deals under their belt.
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