Mobile home
Real Estate by John Fedro | January 29, 2011Severe 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 [...]
Real Estate by John Fedro | January 15, 2011Repair 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 [...]
Real Estate by John Fedro | January 1, 2011At first glance manufactured homes, modular homes, and mobile homes may all look the same, but be aware there are many subtle and obvious differences both inside and outside between the three kinds of homes. Whether you are looking to move into a new home of your own or are ready to invest in your [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | December 25, 2010 
Once you have closed a few deals you will find it not necessary most of the time to hire inspectors or contractors to inspect your mobile home properties before you purchase them. With their simple shapes and what you see is what you get construction, these homes allow for anyone knowing what to look for, [...]
Read the full article → Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | December 18, 2010If you are thinking about perusing an investing career in the wonderful arena of mobile home investing you are going to need to familiarize yourself with your local parks. It is important to step back and maintain an ‘investors’ opinion. (Notice I didn’t say unbiased opinion) Below is a list mental notes to take when [...]
Real Estate by John Fedro | December 13, 2010As the baby-boomer generation begins to retire, the need for affordable senior housing may be on the rise. This coming potential wave of senior housing demand can translate into a fortune for anyone ready to see ahead of the coming market. Chance favors the prepared mind. How might you benefit? Now is the time to [...]
Real Estate Investing by John Fedro | December 4, 2010 
As real estate investors it can often times seem that the hardest part of investing is locating where our next deal will come from. In the early part of my investing career I struggled with how much energy and time to invest into each seller before I would give up on a deal.. Scenario 1: [...]
Read the full article → 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 | 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 | June 25, 2010Real estate investors can naturally get tunnel vision when in the middle of their current real estate transaction. An investor’s “current” deal can easily become the center their attention. Focus then gets pulled away from: finding leads, management, other obligations, family, friends, etc. Below are a few tips that can help keep your buying funnel [...]
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