Archive of John Fedro's Articles
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 56 article(s) for the BiggerPockets Blog.
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | October 29, 2010One of the top questions I receive about mobile home investing is what if your tenants or payment buyers stop paying you, trash your property, then leave. This article is to help alleviate these preventable worries. Every time I hear this question, it comes from someone who is role-playing in their mind the worst case [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | October 22, 2010 
In most areas of the country annual property taxes are due for nearly all residential property, vacant land, and most private businesses alike, excluding nonprofit organizations, government buildings and other specific organizations. State and local governments have done a respectable job in most areas to make available exemptions to reduce the cost to many in [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | October 21, 2010 
There are many reasons why a mobile home owner would choose to legally join their mobile home with a plot of land. Think of a mobile home Title and the Deed to a plot of land two separate things? They are! A mobile home that sits on land may still be separate in the eyes [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | October 8, 2010In 2005, against my strong demand that he not buy 2 investment mobile homes, my friend Brian purchased 2 of the ugliest rundown P.O.S. mobile homes I have ever seen. “How can I lose?!” he explained to me. Brian was a newbie real estate investor at the time that did not seem to need or [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | October 2, 2010 
If you just picked up your next investment mobile home and intend to rent it out for passive cash each month, there are a number of simple improvements that can help ensure you the least amount of hassles down the road. Below is a list of 4 upgrades that may help in reducing immediate inconveniences, [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | September 25, 2010Most people that have never bought or owned a mobile home are surprised that there is such a thing as mobile home insurance. Mobile home insurance does the same job as any other form of property insurance; to ‘insure’ the homeowner is protected from financial loss in case of property damaged. Mobile home insurance can [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | September 12, 2010Over the past 50 years the mobile home industry has received an undeserved bad-rap. Similar to listening to the latest Hollywood gossip tabloids, not all mobile home gossip is 100% accurate 100% of the time. It is important to verify all facts before making unsubstantiated judgments that may write off an entire niche of real estate investing, [...]
Landlord Tenant by John Fedro | September 4, 2010Ultimately whoever occupies your investment home is your decision. The choice of who will move-in, maintain and occupy your investment property should be carefully screened and cherry picked until you have the “perfect” tenant or tenant-buyer. Let’s get real, “In many areas of the country some landlords are fighting over the scarcity of renters in [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | August 28, 2010Today we are going to cover three very effective methods to help convince our prospective sellers to sell their properties to you for a great price or great sale terms. Let us first assume that the sellers you are talking to have equity in their homes; equity that you are trying to capture and profit [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | August 22, 2010As an active real estate investor who has been investing in mobile homes for the past decade, I have come to the realization that the one of the single greatest advantages of investing in mobile homes for long-term profit is the ‘Lack’ of affordable bank financing for qualified buyers. Let’s start from the beginning. A [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | August 12, 2010As real estate investors one of our goals is to be able to attract sellers before or at the exact moment they need to sell. If you talk to 100 different investors you may get 100 different techniques to find sellers and their properties. Below are 5 great techniques that are actually working in today’s [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | August 6, 2010Investors that do not learn from their past mistakes are doomed to repeat them. I recently helped a newer investor (Tim) close on a slam-dunk mobile home deal inside of a preexisting family mobile home park in his town. The negotiation and acquisition went as smoothly as planned. It was not until after the closing [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | July 30, 2010Over the past decade investing in real estate I have responded to sellers’ phone calls on the heels of other investors in my local area. That is to say that I was not the first investor to look through the property in the past few days. Oftentimes sellers will go right down the yellow pages [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | July 23, 2010 A common question I am asked is what steps are needed to complete an accurate closing on a mobile home on rented land inside a mobile home park. The answer is surprisingly simple by real estate standards. Mobile homes within parks may offer the single easiest form of real estate acquisition for cash-flow seekers. Concerning [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | July 17, 2010 
After spending years collecting payments from tenants I have come to a great generalization; once a tenant or tenant-buyer asks for a repayment plan, more times than less there is a finite time before the tenant will stop paying completely and be forced to move away. Said another way, “Oftentimes a precursor to a tenant [...]
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