John Fedro, Author at The BiggerPockets Blog

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John Fedro began his journey with traditional single-family homes. After several months of SFR failure John accidentally found his niche in the fun and profitable world of Mobile Home Investing. Follow his antics on his blog at http://www.MobileHomeInvesting.net

John has written 63 articles for The BiggerPockets Blog.

Mobile Homes

5 Questions To Consider Before Diving Into Mobile Home Investing

by John Fedro December 17, 2012

Like everyone else that read Brandon Turner’s recent article titled Top 100 Ways To Make Money In Real Estate I was floored to see such an expansive list of techniques, niches, and strategies with respect to good-ole real estate. It is no doubt that a person starting from scratch in today’s real estate investing market [...]

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Real Estate Marketing

6 Tips to Improve Your Local Real Estate Investment Company’s Branding

by John Fedro October 9, 2012

One of my favorite ways to find leads and motivated sellers is for other folks to find the deals for me. If you would like to position yourself as the “#1 ________ Investor in the area” or the “Authority in __________ field” then please read the following article below. Branding (as I see it) is [...]

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Starting Out

Choosing from the Real Estate Smorgasbord

by John Fedro September 13, 2012

Real estate is like a smorgasbord! You can pick and choose the foods you’ll eat, keep returning for more helpings, and learn what areas you like and which areas you love. Like food, once this information is digested by your brain you will then make an educated business decision to continue practicing this method or [...]

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Mobile Homes

3 Types of Mobile Home Parks & How Each Tends to Work with Investors

by John Fedro July 10, 2012

Mobile home parks are a business. They are owned by a person, trust, corporation, or other entity for the purpose of generating revenue and profits for all investors and owners. In my last article Mobile Home Parks Know They Hold All The Cards we discuss that if you intend to purchase and resell a mobile [...]

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Mobile Homes

Mobile Home Parks Know They Hold Most The Cards [Part 1 of 2]

by John Fedro July 1, 2012

This is a Public Service Announcement for anyone considering investing in a lucrative mobile home deal located inside a mobile home park. If you haven’t already heard that mobile homes are cash-cows then consider this your wake-up call. Mobile homes are categorized in two distinct ways: Those within pre-existing mobile home parks Those located on [...]

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Real Estate News & Commentary

First Real Estate Deal Emotions: Part 2 of 2

by John Fedro June 12, 2012

Over the past 6 weeks I have been helping a new investor who has recently jumped head first into real estate investing and purchased her first property without testing her local resale market. Soon after purchasing this home, our story’s newbie investor “Karen” admits she might have bit off more than she could chew and [...]

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Real Estate Investing

First Real Estate Deal Emotions: Part 1 of 2

by John Fedro May 30, 2012

After I had successfully purchased my first mobile home inside a mobile home park I went back to my house, sat down with my girlfriend, and began balling-my-eyes-out crying. I did not know it at the time but the reason for my UNHAPPY mood was a completely necessary part of investing since I planned to [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Common Ways to Heat and Cool a Mobile Home

by John Fedro May 17, 2012

Mobile homes and manufactured homes utilizes many of the same features and mechanical systems when it comes to heating and cooling a home’s interior. Below is a list of the most popular heating and cooling systems used in many mobile homes today. Split-Unit Central Air Conditioning: Around the time I was ten years old, my [...]

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Real Estate Investing

The 3 Types of Mobile Home Sellers (Inside Parks)

by John Fedro May 4, 2012

My real estate investing business changed forever when I began to see my sellers for what they really are; fragile, scared, vulnerable, friendly, and selfish human beings. As young children we rarely look to our parents with the attitude that these people are just as screwed up as ourselves. Perhaps a better way to phrase [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Reduce Your Mobile Home Vacancy Rate

by John Fedro April 19, 2012

Having a vacancy in your investment mobile home is an inevitable part of the mobile home investing business if you will be renting or selling (via payments) a mobile home inside a park or attached to private land. Although this vacancy process can be thought of as an unpleasant experience, with just a few attitude [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Buying Real Estate with Notes: 2 Examples

by John Fedro February 12, 2011

Ideally, I have a number of goals, whenever I enter into a real estate transaction which I intend to buy and hold for passive profits. Two very important goals of any deal are to allow the home I purchase to pay for itself, and to allow the home to pay me cash-flow every single month. [...]

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Real Estate

Manufactured Home High Wind Inspection Checklist

by John Fedro January 29, 2011

Severe wind storms can be a manufactured home owner’s worst nightmare. Thankfully since 1976 there have been new safety standards created and modified to help regulate and protect the nearly 22 million manufactured home owners during natural disasters. Below is a visual inspection checklist to help keep your manufactured home safe in the event of [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Joint Ventures with Manufactured Home Communities for Profits

by John Fedro January 22, 2011

A unique quality to factory built housing is that these homes can simply be swapped out for newer models whenever the owner gets bored of his or her interior surroundings. This “trading up” to an updated model manufactured home leaves many owners with an extremely undervalued extra home for sale. Many times these unwanted manufactured [...]

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Real Estate

Homeowners Repair Grants and Loans

by John Fedro January 15, 2011

Repair grants make it helpful for many Americans to make safety renovations and code compliance improvements to their homesteads. The federal government along with many local state and county agencies all have operating loan and grant programs available for home owners in need of making some cosmetic or structural repairs to their dwellings. Like all [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Demand More From Your Properties

by John Fedro January 8, 2011

Over the past 30 months, really from the beginning of July 2008 in my case I noticed a clear change in the demographic while I am reselling my used manufactured homes. A big part of my real estate strategy while selling homes is selling them with a required down payment and set monthly payments thereafter [...]

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