Would you like residents who stay for 10+ years, handle their own repairs and find new renters when they do leave? Consider investing in mobile home parks. Kevin Bupp has spent the last 5 years investing in mobile home park communities and explains that this misunderstood niche is more about affordability than quality. Kevin is the host of two top real estate podcasts, Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow and Mobile Home Park Academy. Today, he talks about housing affordability and massive returns in the only real estate class that is seeing a diminishing supply.
Key Market Insights
Started investing at the age of 19 after being invited to a real estate bootcamp
Asked his mentor if he could help him to learn more about what he did and became his assistant and protégé
Owned close to 500 apartments, along with offices, strip malls and land before focusing on mobile home parks for the last 5 years
Mobile home parks are small communities where individual mobile home lots reside
Owning the communities means owning the lots, roads, plumbing**, rent the space to owners
Mobile park homes are more about affordability than quality
When seeking markets for mobile homes, look at housing affordability
Mobile home parks range from high-end lifestyle communities in to low-end trailer parks
What to Look for in Mobile Home Markets: median home price needs to be $100k, median 3-bed apartment rents of $800, median income of $40k or above, economic stability, diverse employers, and at least 100k population
Only real estate class that has a diminishing supply
Local municipalities have no interest in building mobile home communities
Only 50,000 mobile home parks in the country, want 60 lots or larger
Evictions force them to move the home, or many people abandon or try to sell the home back to the owner
Average tenant stay is 10+ years, typically sell if they want to move
Responsibility is all on resident to find a new renter and pay lot rent
Less upkeep than apartments, less overhead costs
3rd party management is not the norm, so you have to build a PM
Plans for 2018: Ramp up marketing efforts and double the portfolio
Bull’s Eye Tips:
Winning Your Market: Put the time in and master the market, spend 50-60 hours researching the market
Tracking Market Changes: Become apart of key associations
Daily Habit: Exercise, healthy eating habits
Resources:
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow Podcast
Best Business Books:
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish
The Making of a Blockbuster by Gail DeGeorge
Digital Resources
GoPro – Use GoPro cameras for onsite management to drive through the community weekly
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