Christmas may be over, but there's still one important item left on your list: the gift of being an investment pro in the category of "trailer parks". The Mobile Home Park Investor's Boot Camp is the gold-standard of the industry if you want to know the correct way to identify, evaluate, negotiate, perform due diligence on, renegotiate, finance, turn-around and operate mobile home parks. And the next Boot Camp is coming up on January 9th to 11th.

Years ago, I bought a mobile home park in Dallas that came with something I never wanted to own: a tired old commercial building sitting near the entrance. At the time, it was leased short-term to a small laundry operator, the lease was about to expire, and the structure clearly needed work. During due diligence, it was obvious this building would demand attention, capital, and a learning curve that had nothing to do with running a strong mobile home park. That realization shaped a lesson I still teach today.

RV park guests are remarkably consistent in what they value, regardless of rig size, length of stay, or travel budget. If you are evaluating an RV park to buy, or thinking about improving one you already own, understanding these priorities helps separate durable properties from marginal ones.

In naval warfare, victory was never about elegance. It came down to who could bring more force to the fight, faster, and with fewer misfires. Centuries ago, heavily armed warships dominated the seas not because they were beautiful, but because they carried overwhelming cannon power. When negotiations failed, firepower settled the outcome. The same principle quietly applies when making offers on self-storage facilities today. In competitive markets, the strongest buyer is rarely the one with the highest IQ. It is the one whose offer carries the most certainty.

Economic history is filled with places that appeared promising and never advanced, while others quietly turned into major population and business centers. The difference is rarely chance. Growth leaves evidence long before it shows up in headlines or rent data, and billboard investors who recognize those signals early position themselves for long-term advantage.

"Amenities" are defined as a "desirable or useful feature of a building or place". In the never ending desire of mobile home park owners to provide the highest quality of life for residents, new concepts are constantly being introduced – and many of them are terrible. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the world of bad amenities: features that do not provide a desirable impact on the community.

In the cyclical nature of the American economy, even entire neighborhoods can recycle every so many years. And harnessing these shifts can be very profitable. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the conditions that create gentrification and how to monitor and spot them.

RV Park buyers all have different financial conditions and down-payment restrictions, but the good news is that there are methods to buy RV Parks with very low – or no – capital required. In this RV Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the methods of buying RV Parks with lower amounts of money at your disposal.

There are methods of reducing taxes for self-storage owners, but they come with great risks that are rarely discussed. In this Self-Storage University podcast we’re going to explore the often misunderstood subject of tax deferral methods and their potentially harmful implications.

One of the most important attributes in the billboard industry – and life – is persistence against all odds. In this Billboard Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the importance of “staying the course” and not giving up, as well as some methods to improve your steadfast resilience.

Around a year ago, Dan McDunn bought Trinity Alps RV Park in California as a turnaround project and was nice enough to start sending us videos of his accomplishments there. Now that the year is ending, we wanted to check in with Dan on the progress.

Owning a mobile home park is one of the few real estate models where major capital outlays are the exception, not the norm. Investors often find that the infrastructure is straightforward to maintain, and the risk of sudden, expensive repairs is significantly lower than in other property types such as apartments, retail centers, or office buildings. Understanding why can help new investors and future students in this field evaluate the true operating advantages of this niche.

Any serious buyer should insist on a minimum of three years of operating figures. One year alone cannot represent the true performance of a seasonal property. By taking multi-year averages, you see:

Filling vacant units quickly comes down to smart pricing, strong visibility, and a sales process that converts interest into signed rentals. When many units are sitting empty, coordinated action can shift occupancy in a matter of weeks.

A billboard has only a moment to connect with someone passing by. Great artwork is what turns that brief glance into interest and action. If the design fails, the ad fails — and renewals disappear.

Making 20%+ cash-on-cash returns is easier than you think. You can't make it in stocks – that's why Warren Buffett is sitting on over $300 billion in cash since he knows the market is horribly overvalued. And you can't make it in Treasuries and CDs paying around 4%. To make big yields you have to look to "alternative investments" and mobile home parks definitely rank as the best of these.

A bad mobile home park manager is often like a cancer that can infect other organs, and you have to know where else to look when it turns out that your manager must be replaced. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review what needs to be investigated and fixed upon a manager change over, as well as how to proactively minimize the damage.

The late Sam Zell – the largest owner of RV Parks in the U.S. – often said “when a deal has low-risk and high-reward you should always buy it, when a deal has high-risk and low-reward you should never buy it, and the only deals you need to think about are high-risk/high-reward ones”. In this RV Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore how to properly analyze high-risk/high-reward deals.

When you are looking at a self-storage facility to buy, sometimes comments are made by sellers, or their brokers, that have hidden meanings. In this Self-Storage University podcast we’re going to unlock what the simple expressions that many sellers and brokers use on a regular basis really mean.

There’s an old saying “it takes money to make money” and often times that money comes from a bank loan. In this Billboard Mastery podcast we’re going to explore how to obtain a bank loan to build or buy a billboard, as well as some non-bank alternatives.

The mobile home park industry is notorious for jargon that is either politically incorrect or meaningless. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore commonly used terms and what the correct versions of them should be.