Showing posts with label Mobile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mobile. Show all posts

Friday, January 28, 2011

Mobile Home Loan Refinancing - What You Should Know

While home refinancing is quite common, many people don't know that mobile home loan refinancing is also a viable option as well. For anyone who owns a manufactured home you may want to take a closer look at your options. Here is a look at what you should know about refinancing a mobile home loan.

Why would you want to consider refinancing? Well, the main reasons include a much lower interest rate or loan terms, debt consolidation, or money to buy big ticket items.

How does manufactured home refinancing work? When you decide to refinance your loan you are paying off the loan you now have and signing a new loan that has lower interest rates and fees. This lower payment frees up cash to use however you wish. Refinancing is also something people will do in order to shorten the length of their mortgage.

Regardless of whether your mobile home is on acreage somewhere or in a mobile home park you can still qualify for loan refinancing. With that being said, it is important to understand individual state laws which may be different from others. You should definitely speak with your lender about your particular state's laws regarding manufactured home refinancing.

As with any type of home refinance there will be closing costs involved. Most lenders will allow you to add these costs into the total loan amount or give you the option of paying for them yourself upfront. Keep in mind that while it may seem convenient to go ahead and add them to your balance, you will be paying interest on those fees for the life of the loan. That could add up to a lot of extra money over many years. If you are short on cash then you may not have a choice.

Also, mobile home loan refinancing could involve points in order to get the lowest possible interest rate. This could easily add $1000-$2000 in extra fees that must be paid upfront. But, you also have the choice to add these point fees into the loan as well.

Refinancing a manufactured home loan can be a good move if you will be living in the home for years to come. If you plan on moving within a few years then you may want to reconsider refinancing.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Marketing Your Mobile Home Park

When I am looking to market my mobile home park whether it be to potential residents to bring their homes in or to sell homes in the park, I believe that the first contact with the potential customer is key. This first contact may be via a telephone call to your office, a drive-by by the potential resident, or in many cases could be a referral from a current resident or some other local business (chamber of commerce, dealer, broker, etc).

Let's face it, if you or your manager is rude when they call in, they probably will call the next park. If they drive in and the roads are in bad shape, the sign is falling down, or there are dangerous dogs running around, they probably will turn around and look for the next park. And the same holds true with referrals from your current customers. If you current customers don't like living there they will bad mouth you all over town and never refer their friends and relatives to move in. Continuing on to other local businesses that would otherwise refer your community to potential residents, you don't stand a chance if you have a bad reputation.

So I think the best form of marketing is to build your credibility in your town, keep your current residents happy, and make sure that those potential customers have a good first impression whether it be a phone call or a drive-by.

Before you ever spend one penny on a newspaper ad, a flyer a the local dealer, or some type of direct mailing to apartment complexes, you should make sure that you have everything in place to attract good residents once they respond. Here is my top 5 list of things you need to do first:

Focus on the entrance to the park: A nice sign that says "Welcome to ___________ Mobile Home Community". Also plant some bushes or trees near the entrance and keep the grass mowed and trimmed nicely.

Roads: Your roads don't have to paved and have curb and gutters, but they do have to be passable. If there are large potholes, patch them immediately. If they need graded, grade them. Before a potential resident ever gets out of the car they will see your entrance and drive on the roads. Make that a good experience.

Park Office: with the park office you want to make sure that it looks inviting. I have been to many an office that is not properly marked with "Welcome" or some other inviting remark. Instead it says something like, "if your rent is not paid by the 5th it is late" or "take your excuses somewhere else". Is that any way to greet a potential resident?

Park Office again: I have also been to many parks that as you are walking up to the office you are greeted by a fence with a dog inside and you have to decide whether to enter or not. Other times you knock on the door and then there are 3 dogs scratching at the door waiting to pounce on you. I don't have a problem with my manager's home being duplicated as the park office, but I do think they need to take precautions against scaring people off with their own dogs.

General Appearance of the Community: once the potential resident enters the park and is satisfied with the entrance and roads, they will encounter the rest of the park. If the park is a complete disaster with trash, junk, high grass and weeds, and so on, do you think this will be a good selling point for potential customers? At least it is not a good selling point for the customers you are hoping to attract.

Ok, now that we have the entrance, roads, office, and general look of the community ready for new residents, what do we do next? Let's suppose that we are talking about getting new customers to move their home into our park and that we have 25 vacant lots. Now apply one of the best marketing ideas I have ever heard which goes something like this. Is it better to do ONE thing 25 times to fill those lots? Or is it better to do TWENTY-FIVE things one time to fill those lots? I think the latter is the better approach. Maybe in the past you could just bring a flyer down to the local mobile home dealer and watch as he fills up the park. This is not going to happen anymore. You need to to get the flyer down to the dealer, run an ad in the paper, get referrals from your customers, join the chamber, and generally get the word out about your mobile home park.

Here is a list of some of my ideas that should get you started.

Flyer to all Mobile Home Dealers in a 25 mile radius - On the flyer, offer some form of move in special (free 3 months, lower rent, etc).

Join the Chamber of Commerce - then in all of your flyers and ads you can put that you are a member of the Chamber - builds credibility.

Entrance Sign - it works for you 24/7 and make sure to put your phone number on it!

Sponsor a Referral Program to your residents - if they refer someone give them a nice reward (not a $5 discount on the rent).

Talk to local Real Estate Brokers - if they have a customer that can't qualify on a house, maybe they will send them your way (give them a referral fee as well).

Advertisement in the paper or papers - make your ad different from the rest of the ads in the paper - not the simple... mobile home lots for rent, call ???. Instead, try something like... Incredibly Large and Spacious Mobile Home Sites... We will pay you $1,000.00 to help with moving costs! The first five callers will also get the first 3 months Rent FREE! - you get the point, make it stand out and make it enticing.

Start a Community Newsletter and send out the best stories from your newsletter to the local paper to have published. Most local newspapers have a community or local section and are always looking for good stories to publish. Also, if you get the email address from all potential prospects, you can send them this newsletter every month so when they think about moving they won't have forgot about you.

Signs on Vacant Lots - put nice signs on your vacant lots with a phone number for people to call.

Banner signs at entrance - big move in special or discounted rate or we pay you $1,000 to move your home to our park type of banners around the perimeter on high traffic areas of the park.

Telephone Book - make sure that you have an ad in the phone book as this is where many of your potential customers will find you. In the ad, you might want to include something about your move-in specials or direct them to your website to find out the move-in special of the month.

Finally, when you are out there doing your marketing, it is important to test what is working and what is not working. If you run ads in the paper and get no calls... then stop running that ad and try a different one. If none of your park residents are referring people to move in, find out way and up the ante.

To view Mobile Home Park Investing articles click here

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Preparing your mobile home park near the U.S. recession

Unless George Bush, you probably already know that we are in a national recession. And if you agree that it is worth in the position of financial problems, so be prepared to survive - and thrive - during this cycle. It 'important to remember that it takes time to make adjustments in your business plan, you should start without delay the changes.

Focus on Affordable Housing

The universal desire during a recession,To reduce costs. Consumers looking for cheap accommodation can be found. Instead of focusing on the development of new homes, the parks look good rather than focus on the oldest, the worst that can be rented or sold at low prices. Remember that the houses do not have the ugly monthly mortgage payment - which means your customers to pay rent even to survive. This is a bill payment with solid tenants have paid the highest real estate.

Be more difficult than everCollections

If money is scarce, tenants have the option, and select the invoices to be paid. You can never assume that the rent may be delayed or lost. You need to evacuate large club hanging over their heads at all times. Never miss a beat to get information from their research and records of evictions. And obey the orders of execution - do not hesitate because they lose tenants in a recession concerns. These people are not everywhere. They can not afford to go to their homes, but can not afford to pay the rent much. At a minimum, you can pay the average rent for the lot of mobile homes $ 200 per month or less. Be as cruel and keep their tenants clear priorities.

Keep An increase in rent per year

Some owners make the mistake of parking, delay or eliminate the amount of annual rent increases during recessions. The problem is that you still need an annual increase in operating cost is increased coverage> Park, and more cash flow on your budget and the risk premium to purchase a park. There is no way for the tenant, a fee of $ 10 to $ 20 per month will be further delayed. However, if you keep the rent increases, one can find when you lose the battle with a reduction in annual net profit. If you do not increase the rent a bit 'more every year to make a big jump in the road, and is much moreOffensive to their tenants.

Costs

Each issue of payment invoice. Do you really need that extra line for you? Can you cut the lawn every two weeks instead of the week? Do not write a check without thinking at least three different ways to reduce costs. Not very often that the energy bill, there is much to learn. long time, however, to exercise some discretionary control over what you spend, particularly in the repair and maintenance of such categories Parkand administrative costs and office. Even if you do not live the life you want in this way, it does not hurt to play the role of avaricious greed of a Dickens novel. Focusing on cost control, are spreading the Gospel throughout the organization.

How to obtain the renewal in advance

One of the main obstacles to a recession and the sudden disappearance of traditional banks and other lenders. may fail in a world where IndyMac, why not your lender, too? In this typethe environment, you need to give more time online for a loan. If your current credit expires in two years, you can attack this problem. You can stay together for two months to refine our loan package, two months to find a lender, and four to six months for business. What then is the second year? Only in the case that creditors will disintegrate before closing and you have to start over. I'd rather pay a small depositThe pain of my existing loans from the outset, instead of not being able to find a replacement and loans at the end of execution.

Never before paying for all

They have more than all other companies that we look at the business with great caution. In a recession, anything can happen. Companies for decades can suddenly disappear overnight. Therefore, you should not pay for any project to completion. In fact, I have had cases in a recession, when the contractordisappeared in the middle or even to cancel the contract. I once had a guy build a brick and stone entrance to a park - really - and disappeared when the project was completed to 95%. Never seen again. expires before I had to pay in advance for the project, but refused to pay him until it happened. By refusing to pay until the end I found myself with almost free, the voice of the imagination. So where is this guy going? I have no idea. Maybe he ran because he was soa lot of money.

Being more aggressive on the acquisition side

Some of the best purchases of the mobile home park in history have been during recessions. This is the moment when all the planets are doing the alignment of an ideal. This is what you really begin to listen and offer mobile home park in an emergency. You can see the price you never would have dreamed of seeing. And what is more important than ever to maintain smoothYou can use the rewards you reap can only make a recession.

Conclusion

Recessions are terrible things. However, if you use them, are like a big storm. You want to make sure you have a big screen, where they met, and be sure not to enter into a puddle. But if more, then everything is clean and smells better, and if you put in the right position, you may find yourself with some great parks that you bought for a pennyDollars.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Investing in a mobile home for a lifetime of cash flow and equity!

Home Park 'Mobile investors around the country embark on the mass of individual property investors, while many of the difficulties in making profits on a monthly basis. Well, not exactly like investing on Madison Avenue. You can, however, if you have the knowledge to do so as Donald Trump in real estate. Just ask Jim Clayton of Clayton homes who sold his company and its portfolio of Warren Buffet RV Parks for $ 1,700,000,000 chargeDollar!

Why are mobile home parks the "poor relation in the world of red commercial real estate investment? Perhaps one reason why most investors ignore this lucrative asset class, except for obvious reasons, irritated eyes and found a negative connotation of caravan (we call it the Jerry Springer effect), because I think it takes a lot of money and personal benefits and income of their relationships clearly. This can true if you try to bank financing of your property, a large number of mobile home parks are purchased by the bank, but much less than 20% down and with few financial reserves through, in fact, the mobile home parks may be purchased with financing seller.

The farms are small and medium-sized enterprises in general, "The owners of mom and dad" who have one or the supervision of responsible respectively of the park for an extended period. Many of these owners of mobile phones Home> Parks, which are vacant because of the great flood of 1990 took possession of the mobile home from mobile home industry at the end of overheating. It 'difficult to park for these homeowners to refinance or sell the mobile home parks classical result in meaningful employment.

In addition, some of these entrepreneurs prefer the old (excluding banks and real estate agents). In other words, a significant percentage of mobilePark owners prefer any financial support initial contribution, make a good profit every month, the interest of your letter, and do not worry about the parking problems of daily application also want to> do not have much problem with a big tax if you sold the shares in park would provide Exchange 1031 in a little 'bigger, but it would be the same situation.

Investing in mobile home parks is aabsolutely wonderful! It 's just the end of Long Game is the earth, but there are many ways to "make money through various profit centers in a family house with a park and the apartments are only a" One Trick Pony "with a single source of income ... rent steps. It is much easier to achieve your financial goals with home trailer parks because of the following:

1. The parks are generally in a less favorable part of the city. Therefore, the country is good and Spread the cost over many campers.

2. Assuming you buy the right mobile home park, mobile home sites will offer free extras. (Yeah, yeah .... want to release at least 20% of the park to have a big head!) You are healthy, strong and full of energy, improve the quality of the park to raise rents and maximize your rent roll. Incidentally, it will immediately increase the value of your mobile phoneHome> Park roof at the rate of assessment.

Example

Space Park 30, months of rent roll of 300 € (50% vacancy rate) = $ 45,000 annual fee

$ 45,000 to 15,000 (33% of income is spent on management costs) = $ 30,000

$ 30,000 (NOI) / 9.0% (rate) = $ 333,333 (purchase price)

Beyond:

30 Space Park, 100% occupancy, $ 320 monthly roll = $ 115,200 annual income

$ 115.200 - $ 34.560 (30% of the cost of running the park) =$ 80,640

$ 80,640 (NOI) / 9.0% (rate) = $ 896,000 (100% capacity utilization)

Acquiring more than $ 500,000!

3. If cash flow is low, you can earn extra income by adding a coin laundry mat coin vending machines, lawn service, child care, conservation, etc.

4. You can buy a mobile home with a discount of 40% -50% and sold under (or with a lease option or note). Homeownership is the American dream so when home advertising "$ 2,000 in cash, lower monthly payments - bad credit OK Boca Vista Mobile Home Park called "The phone is ringing off the hook, trust me the details of the documents of life. From there to stop payment and sign the lease with option Yes you, because the loans sold a mobile home park is not good .... but I wonder:

A. Now you can collect the rents very much. Pure gain no additional cost.

B. Now you have someone in yourPark, which has pride of ownership and is therefore likely that a better supply of the mobile home as a tenant.

C. No need for costly maintenance. The buyer is responsible for all maintenance work.

D. You can taste and buy the trailer and sells wholesale to retail customers. In many cases, you can double your money at home in each. In addition, we calculated a rate of 10-15%.

E. Some buyers will not be the end of the duration of the loan and giveThey returned in good condition. At this point, the property at 100% again, put the option to pay $ 2000 and repeat the entire process.

As you can see, mobile home parks are an incredible real estate investment house. Where else will you find a rental property as income from many sites (with the exception of self-storage). Mobile home parks are huge and, finally, play is a cash cow country. Enjoy shopping for our good fortune,exists in the mobile home park industry before discovering through the masses!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

A great sign of his mobile home park is an investment not an expense

RV parks have purchased more design - came with a standard signal 4 "x 8" counter-plated with a bad name written on it disappeared and no phone number. This should be a very popular model because I have seen anywhere. The design of metal or wood letters on a brick or masonry with the missing letters. My favorite is when a guy had taken the letters and paint a sort of compensation, so that the sign of pride, "said Blankety blankEstates. What is interesting is that the previous owner cared so little signal that it had nothing - I went several years later was already done.

You must understand that the park is very important to earn money for signing. Your character is very busy and very personal:


He offers to tenants and potential tenants of the positive first impression of your property.



And 'the phone number of the park for all concernedleaving a lot.



Account with the inspectors and municipal officials



Impresses bankers and consultants



It works for you 24 / 7, do not take vacations, and I saw something different from sunlight.

I would say that a significant investment of your lower part of the mobile home park to buy and install in a sign of professional quality.

It would be good to recommend against the signs of wooden construction.exposed outdoors, woodworking is not easy. It hides cracks and eventually decay. Even sandblasted signs do not seem to be built for longevity.

I prefer the characters of metal or plastic or vinyl construction in the form of letters - nothing painted. Paint fades and flakes off over time.

I always put the name and address on the park sign, then place the phone on two suspension hooks to sign. I'm sure if you change your phone numbera sign may change this panel, not all. Even if you sell a park, if necessary, sufficient to resolve the telephone number and the new owner, with the combined number of your phone number.

I recommend the park to choose a standard that is at home, can be used on all mobile phones. Really impress the banker, and just go with the design of his dream once, then use it again and again.

Can I choose a character design that works well with white vinylFencing also still at the entrance. It would be a great touch, if you come with a default gateway that has helped to accentuate the design attractive signs.

Clearly a sign of professional quality is expensive - but you can see the benefits. If you are the buyer to sell the park to sign that gives the first impression of Nice can be 100 times more than the cost of signs. And this does not include all revenues park impressed drivingTenants.

Remember that a sign is not a cost - it's an investment!

Thursday, August 26, 2010

How Mobile Home Parks are the best strategy for affordable housing in commercial property

When most investors think of affordable housing, just think of how to respond to this niche of apartments. In fact, most of the apartments of affordable housing. However, after the lemming tactic has never been a great investment. Parks for Campers and the apartments are not suitable for high performance in this growing market segment.

Why affordable housing?

In our new economy, depressed, the only form of housing demandconsistent as housing for the poor is increasing - the so-called "affordable housing". These are the people who work minimum wage jobs and often have few economic resources. A quick look using the "want of his paper shows that most jobs available in these" favorable "demographics. The people of Section 8, the agenda of the government in Parliament that can not pay, housing, is also Part of this area.

Why home to mobile home parks in this highNiche

An important advantage of mobile home parks in apartments is that the house is solely responsible for the land under the phone, while owners of apartment buildings facing. And with the construction of affordable housing with customers in the collapse of major investment in this sector.

customers to affordable housing is notoriously rough in their homes. Her chaotic lifestyle, often a large number of childrenand an attitude of coarse lead and dropping to the many problems of maintenance and repair. Almost all units in the pauses during his tenure - faucets, handles, drawers, cabinets, windows, screens, doors, everything must be replaced. Not to mention the endless calls for a repair than a toilet and sink off.

The owners are overwhelmed by these problems. When the phone rings in a mobile home park, the concept of repair is much easier.Just say "sorry, but you do not have their own home." In fact, the owner of the fleet is the only guarantee of roads, landscapes and water, sanitation, gas and electricity many.

And do not forget the responsibility

One of the problems of tenants additional affordable housing is their insatiable appetite for litigation. You see the legal system as a way to make money quickly if the request is legitimate. These lawsAvenues as black mold, formaldehyde and housing of lower quality. You can also drag on the loss of any repair or maintenance of a process and the risk of new, like a faulty smoke detector.

a mobile home park, claims he can not do - you do not have the device.

Because the RV parks have a yield higher

Mobile Home Parks have higher yields than the apartments for two main reasons.

The first is that they are cheap, so thatperformance significantly. With lower demand from investors for these properties are often the price rate of up to 10% return to the front, compared to 7% in flats. It 's almost a return of 50% higher.

The other reason for returning the mobile home park are more than the price information is often imperfect. The age and mothers seem to have mobile home parks, most are very poor in managing their homes. Often you can increase revenue by an enormousAmount - often 100% - because of the lack of increase in fees in recent years for the market. Moreover, the majority of mothers and systems of cost control opens very poor. You can find mobile home parks home, the bear management in top form of wages, which can in a park of 15,000 should be $ 50,000. These problems can be solved overnight, and profits are huge.

And do not forget seller financing

Most mobile homesfleet operators are happy to take the role. This almost never happens in residential buildings. Like most mothers, and also seems to complete the property can afford to finance, often with a minimum of 10% to 20% less than that - although in some cases even 100% financing if the property clearly working to make a U-turn

And seller financing, unlike apartment complexes, often without recourse.

In a terrible real estate financingWe are in this additional benefit for the mobile home park is extremely important.

End

If you want to invest in affordable housing - and is more or less the only piece of commercial property that the future of the sample at this time - you must park destination for campers.'m Encouraged intensive farming, have more head, and are more expensive than most of the yields to allow apartments.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Mobile Home Community - decisions

If you're sure to see a park with his family, to ensure that the park is clean and safe. Some basic options for the safe storage of the parks include a tenant on the screen of registered sex offenders, children have to live unnoticed in a park. Other precautions must be found, with an attractive risk pool as a narrow and protected children enter accompanied by an adult. Most pools are not in service when so rescuersIt overlooks a pool with a park, make sure the children understand what they can for help to stay out of the pool without an adult with them or for their personal safety. Most parks that include a swimming pool of attractive but potentially dangerous for children and take many precautions as safe as possible.

If you look at the parking lot of the views of neighboring houses and see if there are children insame age as her. Although not excluded from a home when children are not the same age as your making it better when their children have easy access to playmates and often the parents of the children of the same age tolerated problems are the appearance of each box.

It is strongly recommended to take to the park at different times of day and week for a while ', the park is what you expect. If you do not know where you want to be,are taken to the rental agency if, for a few days to ensure that the park is a good long-term. A park in the afternoon on weekdays during the silent but very noisy on weekends and evenings, as it may be a good fit. If you have something to do and repeatedly for driving the cars can not be later against park rules, as happens to change, and the music blasting, you must take over the management of the park is lax and no problemappropriately by management.

If you are looking for an adult only park must assume, the Park and ordered to run in silent mode. Assessment within a certain age, you can often visit during a given period, but if you have more than one guest talk comfortably with the administration to get an idea of how many young visitors, in general, and as time. See the smallest break in the spring may not be the rule when there is usually aA handful of children visiting on weekends.

Whatever you decide to park too, so that the final decision on the basis of data accurate enough to go home to a realistic assessment of the place called.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Mobile Home loan refinancing

Mobile loan refinancing first home could replace existing mortgage for a new mortgage, presumably with better rates and better terms. Often, you have a mobile home loan refinancing if the interest rate has fallen by more than 2% of what exists in the existing mortgage. main purpose of a locking mobile refinance loan interest rates lower and save a considerable sum by the total loanPayments.

However, there are many considerations before refinancing. The first question is whether there will be an economy for all costs of refinancing to pay. While the refinancing of a loan, taxes are points, document preparation fees, service charges, fees and lender. Points can be very stressful because they can be 1 or 2% of total loans. Another point to consider is whetherpenalties for early repayment of existing mortgage. You can also close the tax, the cost of borrowing can be increased, and the owner may pay more than the savings.

It should be noted that the loans refinance mobile home loan is different from a mobile home. In a refinancing loan, the owner of replacing the original with a mortgage, while in equity, ready for the new owner of a mortgage on the new capital built over time. A loan refinancinga new mortgage in the first place, while an equity loan is a second mortgage.

Virtually all lenders follow the same procedures for the disbursement of the loan to refinance a home. The first step would be to conduct a reassessment of the property. The amount of the loan to refinance the original mortgage, because, taking into account the evaluation. The new rates and mortgage holders intelligent lock in which the interest for the remainingTerm of the loan. There is less paperwork, as the majority is the same as he did, keeping the first loan.

People with bad credit and late payment penalty on their mortgages mobile home is difficult to achieve, refinanced their loans. However, a refinanced loan is a prudent way to reduce monthly bills and a nice sum of all mortgages on mobile homes.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Pour Mobile Home Parks Apartments - The investment is the best?

Family History

We are in our third generation of income from real estate investors. My father started our business when I was a child. My husband and I bought our first property in 1974 and now our children even in the business. We have apartments owns and operates mobile home parks and housing. There are several reasons why you prefer to park on the ground, so let's review some of them.

Jobs

Its vacancy rate fixedThe income and success for rent. If you compare the construction of a park in the rental of rooms with a standard amount of rotation is much smaller for the park is expensive to move mobile homes. There are tenants in our park, the site has raised one in their families. It 's rare that this situation in a residential complex.

Initial Investment

How not to buy property with a permanentHome park, the initial investment is usually much lower. This gives you immediate cash to better use. Speaking of upgrades brings us closer to the depreciation -.

Depreciation

rental property must be depreciated over 27.5 years, according to our tax laws. Land improvements are amortized over 15 years, though. This would make things better public services, a wall or fence, etc., are needed for plantsIts use in construction or landscaping are depreciated over 7 years. We found the large tax benefits by improving our property or the purchase of equipment. If you opt for this choice of a good income in a year that can compensate for an amount of income.

Maintenance

If a mobile home moved their property, may leave a few blocks or a concrete drain pipe. You can not rake the yard. It takes only one minute instead of returning to the state of profitability. A houseOn the other hand may be a week for cleaning and repair. That is, if not to replace the carpet or vinyl. These are just some reasons why you decided to stick to the mobile home parks. Hope this helps your decision, too!

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Park model mobile homes, mobile homes Done that has more sense than ever

A model of the mobile home park is all that during these tough economic times. They are high quality, convenient and offer a sophisticated lifestyle. Especially for a Boomer who thinks or can not afford to retire.

Once known as "Caravan" Clearly, the communities of these houses, like a cruise or a summer camp for adults. The list of activities in these communities, just over 2,000 pieces, is so deep, not enough time for all ... Thus, the cruise shipAnalogy.

The term is misleading mobile ... The phones are usually only once ... Factory Community Park. Once on the site any number of chassis are classified in the class left. Most are around 350-500 square meters. It can be as large as 1200 square meters, transported in sections.

was mounted on your house modern factories, quality control of these units are first class. You've come a long way in a short time. Many will be surprised to be so beautiful, as inWhat is your dollar will stretch accommodation.

The cost of starting a new home for $ 20,000, including equipment. There are two ways in the house, the country park sits on your phone model, sale or lease outright. Most parks offer last ... It pays from $ 250 to $ 600 per month. This price includes taxes, security (many parks are closed), the common area and operating costs of many services. The choice is yours.

A unit of area used for 10 yearspurchased for $ 15,000 and more, including land.

the largest concentration of mobile community model home park in Florida and some in Arizona. They are so cheap, many people have two types of parks and travel between them.

With the current economic crisis, many years are reluctant to retire. They think they can not afford to stop working. Park model offers a viable alternative to the board in a warmer climateClimate.

Before you decide to continue working instead of retiring, have a good view of the park model mobile homes. You'll be surprised what you find. More?

Monday, June 7, 2010

FHA Mobile Home Mortgage Loans - How?

If your house waiting to buy a phone and a limited amount of money for the purchase, you can search on a mobile FHA loan. Means FHA Federal Housing Administration and is responsible for housing and development Urban Development (HUD known too.) FHA help ensure your mortgage lender if you get a bargain even if you do not have a substantial down payment.

Under the FHA camperThere are two types of loan programs from the ceiling. One thing is for people to own land and mobile home and the other is for people to choose their home to find the mobile home park on a mobile.

Lenders consider loans as a candidate for the mobile home backed by FHA, which must follow certain criteria. These requirements include, taking into account the creditworthiness of the applicant's income and ability to repay theDebt.

A loan or title may be used to buy a mobile home for an amount in a mobile home space. Loans are at home, the principal residence of the person or persons who receive it. There are maximum loan amount and loan conditions that must be met, as follows. For a mobile home only a maximum of $ 48,600. For a land or lot, the maximum of $ 16.200, while the maximum for a combination of both is $ 64.800. Maximum loan termsMobile home for FHA loans is 20 years for a mobile home or a single section mobile home and lot, playing for 15 years and 25 years for a moving part of the multi-site home.

Most of the time when you buy a mobile home, you can purchase and finance the purchase at the dealership where her mobile home. Sometimes, these distributors do not offer FHA loans are insured. If they do, ask for a referral to aDonors, the use of FHA. Or you might consider finding a lender online.

To qualify for a mobile home or FHA loans backed by the production, must meet certain minimum criteria. You should be able to provider a five per cent less pay (although there are other programs to help if you add), proof of income and a place to find the house is on your phone (this may be one of home or a caravan park).

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Mobile Home Park Loans

Mobile home parks are a popular choice of home and investment in the present day. There are various types of loans that buyers can apply for once they decide on the home of their choice.

The loans available are either fixed rate loans or adjustable rate loans. The basic difference between the two is that in case of fixed rate, the interest rate and the monthly payment rate remains fixed or locked for the entire period of the loan whereas adjustable rate loan or mortgage has fluctuating interest. This keeps varying as per the market flux on specific index changes from time to time.

Loans available for purchase of home park loans are government loans or conventional loans. There are various government agencies that come forward to offer mortgage and assist a specific group of society. The Federal Housing Administration offers various subsidized loans with lower down payment requirements to its clientele and these loans are easier to qualify. Veteran Affairs loans also allow service and military personnel, payment received home loans with little down. It 's easy for former combatants to take advantage of this loan of Veterans Affairs. Rural Housing Service is another organization that loans to rural residents with minimal closing costs and no payment guarantees.

Many states and cities have programs for services for low to moderate and financing of public deposit. ThisThe programs are more lenient on qualifications and guidelines are often even lower intentional. There are loan programs available to help local or national. To enable the holder of a tax credit for a portion of interest payments. These programs are usually fixed-rate mortgages and interest rates below the current market price.

In addition to these loans and mortgages, conventional mortgages are also available.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

The new mobile home: A new breed - a new distinction

If someone in your house has mentioned the word "mobile" We often have visions of unity shaped milk carton in ruins, the wheels are raised and look like a box in the form of millions of chimneys, others. Although you might think this way, mobile homes these days, a mobile home is actually a housing choice that several million people have chosen America as their home. Now, before concluding that there are about 9 million people in the countrybad taste in the choice of the house, you should know that your mobile home is not new to the mobile home that may melt in the imagination.

The New Breed

If, today, mobile homes, may still be used as mobile homes, these days, notify the majority of people who buy Mobile homes on permanent foundations of houses for Areas throughout the country. This new generation of mobile homes is the same way as their older colleagues were built - factory-builtin an assembly line. The similarity with previous versions, however, stop there. This new type of mobile homes are models and sizes, typical of the houses being built from the ground regularly. The difference between mobile homes and site built their cousins in the amount of money to have a house of a certain quality. With only a fraction of the cost, can now have a home that can be easily measured, that the houses are builtfor a period of several months in a house next to you, ready to be built and ready to use.

The new price

Mobile homes can not do, because, with the brackets and wheels and other accessories that are called to move them. Although the place to be used until the house to a state to another and from a mobile home park to another, the sudden change in these homes to be clear for the chance to be incorporated is MobileAlso another nickname in the light of these units. They are now called prefabricated houses.

These mobile homes are manufactured in house and do not get a single call. They are fully factory built to the manufacturer's assembly and shipping, please home buyers at the national level they like. While homebuyers may actually decide on a journey to another place in their campers, most people acquireManufactured homes are built on concrete bases and live in the same area for a long period of time.

The last movement of mobile homes manufactured homes are able to do at home, mobile home parks in neighborhoods with the emergence of multi-section prefabricated houses and apartments are regular as wide as three fifty-seven rooms. This recent change in the way houses are built and millions of people in the U.S. aOpportunity to own a beautiful home offers a wide use in comparison with the house can be locked. Now with the new mobile home, looking for a quality home, should not be so expensive.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Mobile Home Park Collection Tips

One of the most difficult and time consuming tasks of a mobile home park manager is in the collection of rents. It has been my experience that about 50 percent of your residents will never have a problem paying on time. Then about 25 percent may be late on occasion and are also not a major problem. It is the other 25 percent that will take most of your time and efforts.

It is this last 25 percent that will often make or break the deal. This is usually the money that is left over after you make your loan payment and cover the other operating expenses. So what is a manager/owner to do to make sure that these slow paying residents get motivated to pay?

Here are a few strategies I have used. Of course, make sure that any of these programs are legal in your state. If you have any other thoughts I will post a followup in the next newsletter.

Rent Discounts. Using a rent discount program, I set the rent a little higher than I typically would and then reward those that pay on time. For example, I might set the rent at $220.00 per month and for all of those residents that have paid by the 1st of the month, they will receive a discount of $20.00 for a total of $200.00 per month. Taking this program further, I have had a rent schedule that goes something like this: Rent of $200.00 by the 1st, $220.00 by the 5th, and $240.00 by the 10th and so on.

Late Fees: Whether used in conjunction with the discount program or as a stand alone program, this program will charge late payers a penalty for not paying the rent on time. In most of my parks, this will be a late charge of $20.00 to $25.00 if the rent is not paid by the 5th of the month.

Taking Credit or Debit Cards: In the world of plastic, many people do not carry cash or checks anymore and by adding this convenient payment method you may be able to increase collections. Many times in the past I have had someone fall behind and in order to avoid an pending eviction, one of their relatives will call with a credit card to catch up the balance. I have even taken this to the point that a few of my residents have their credit or debit card on file and we automatically charge them on the first of each month.

Send out Invoices: Even if the rent is exactly the same every month and there is no utility billing, sending out an invoice is a good way to get your rent bill on the pile, so to speak. People are more apt to pay the bills with an invoice first. Using self-addressed stamped envelopes are also an option. In the world of high tech, you might even be able to accomplish sending out the invoices via email. By using a mail merge on excel and word this can be done within minutes. There are also software specific programs out there that will do most of the work.

Sending out Late Notices: It is important to send these out on time every month so your residents know that you haven't forgot about them. You should be persistent and follow-up with phone calls and in person visits. This way they know you mean business.

The 3,5, 7, or 10 day notice: If they have not paid then send them the legal notice to pay or vacate. This should spur some action and after a few times of having to pay court costs, the residents will get the picture that they have to pay. The rent bill should go to the top of the list. The longer you let the resident go without paying the less likely they will be to get caught up. If they don't have the rent money in May, then they probably won't have the May and June rent in June and so on.

Collecting on delinquencies is probably the least enjoyable part of managing a mobile home park but ranks up there with the most important parts. When you find the strategy that works best you should follow it every month like clockwork. You want the residents to pay their rent before they pay on their cell phone bill and other un-necessities.

To view more articles on Mobile Home Park Investing click here.

Recommend : Family Insurance

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Is Owning a Mobile Home Park a Good Thing?

It all depends on how you look at mobile home parks; they're just like anything else. Due diligence must always take place. Where does your experience lie? Do you want to invest in some education about mobile housing? Are you going to live on sight and manage the park or hire a manager to live on site or close by? These questions must be thought about and addressed before hand and many others if you wish to keep your risk to a minimum. A well kept park can be just as favorable as an apartment building.

I believe there's a big plus in owning mobile home parks as opposed to less say an apartment building. Both are considered to be commercial properties. The actual individual mobile units up keep will be each tenants cost. In addition to their own payments of their own movable house itself. They are the owners of the home. However, at times you will purchase a mobile home park and a few mobiles on there will be owned by the park. This is good those because you can rent them out.

Each lot renter will pay for their own electrical bill. As well as many of the parks now a days are switching to individual water meters as well. Let's look at tenants moving out. After all these are mobile homes that can be moved. Years ago this was a problem because a mobile home could be moved for as little as $300 dollars. Not anymore! Your lot renters are looking at a whopping $3,000 up to move their trailer. Time has actually healed that problem. Far less move outs occur these days.

We have some more factors to consider. With the internet so much can be done now before ever going and seeing a park. This means a big savings to you. This saves much in travel expenses that as much as ninety of checking parks out that you would even consider. To me the mobile home parks look to be a safer investment than an apartment building. You won't be getting any calls in the middle of the night of leaking toilets or leaking roofs from your lot renters.

In the commercial arena of finding a good park as a real estate investment of choice can be evaluated to see how much of a value by pulling information off the internet is all at your finger tips now. However, one thing is for sure we each will face; as more investors come into the game of investing more competition will come into the picture. You do have a way to over come this or at least have a better chance and that's to educate yourself in these markets. I myself find I'm spending thousands more each year to stay abreast of everything. A mobile home park can be a good investment choice.

Thanks To : ">House Sale 2 Family Insurance