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Mobile Home Investing Articles

1. Do Things Really Change?

   over 4 years ago by Lonnie Scruggs

   In 1986, I started buying used mobile homes for $2,000-$3,000, and selling them for $5,000-$6,000 with payments of $200-$300 per month. Some 19 years later, I’m still buying and selling mobile ho...

2. How To Create A Money Machine

   over 4 years ago by Lonnie Scruggs

   If you understand how to buy a product for wholesale, then sell that product retail and finance it, you will get rich much faster and easier. I've been doing this very thing with mobile homes for 1...

3. An Old Mobile Home Or Money In Disguise?

   over 4 years ago by Lonnie Scruggs

   Fred was like most investors and entrepreneurs and had no idea that mobile homes could be a good investment and a great moneymaker. What he didn’t realize was that he was looking at money disgui...

4. Find The Need, Fill The Need, FINANCE The Need

   over 4 years ago by Lonnie Scruggs

   It finally hit me that no one was offering to finance the sale of the used mobile homes, only the new homes. Bingo—the light bulb came on and I found the answer...used mobile homes.

5. A Perpetual Money Machine

   over 4 years ago by Lonnie Scruggs

   Just how much money can you make on one old mobile home? I don't know, but I've got one that won't go away.... it's like a perpetual money machine. Every time I think the loan will be paid off, som...

6. How Good Can it Get?

   over 4 years ago by Lonnie Scruggs

   After twelve years in the mobile homes business and many killer deals, I keep thinking it can't get any better. But it seems like there's always somebody that comes along and proves me wrong. I hav...

7. Prescription for Burned-Out Landlords

   over 4 years ago by Lonnie Scruggs

   Are you a burned out landlord like I am? Someone who is just plain sick and tired of dealing with tenants and rental properties? If so, let me share with you how we've been able to eliminate tenant...

8. Mobile Home Park Manager Duties (Part 2)

   almost 2 years ago by Dale Osborn

   Besides the collection and accounting of rents there are other administrative duties required for managers. Here's a look at some of those.

9. Trailer Cash

   over 3 years ago by Stu Silver

   How would you like to earn returns, with little risk, of 18 – 72% on your IRA or your savings, to supplement your retirement years, or your regular monthly budget?... In order to take advantage o...

10. Investing in Mobile Homes

    about 3 years ago by Dale Osborn

    Once you overcome your nausea at the smell of a junker mobile home, you will soon learn that the stench is really the "smell of money" to be made in a private market.