(Not the most captivating page-turner I assure you.

Properly purchased and managed, land-lease communities return double the profits one might expect from apartment buildings.For operators large enough, owning communities also offers access to prospective borrowers for a captive finance company that can, despite all the new regulations on lenders, add an even larger profit stream than the communities.Both offer interesting tax advantages as well.All of the above pre supposes that the operator knows what they are doing and is willing to work hard to make it happen.

all large firms have a contract to sign where they want you to be "captive" and do what they wantI like KW tho 

They can be an independent or a “captive” agent.

They have access to Title I and Title II and that is as deep as anyone will go when buying loans, other than the captive finance companies that generally will not finance homes sited outside manufactured housing land lease communities owned by a related company.

I don't know why this fascinates me so much (and I recently pitched a reality tv producer about it - with a charity bent to it) but the idea of turning a certain sum into a much larger sum in a time frame captivates me in an unhealthy way.

Rights of offset apply to deposits, best thing there is use more than one bank, never be a captive borrower.

You get a captive audience that discount all apartments that don't have them. 

These are the people that are riding the chair lifts every day and have a captive audience with whom ever they happen to sit next to. 

I have gotten a few business cards and contact info (not REI related), however, if I felt like I was being solicited, in a captive environment nonetheless, I think I may complain to Uber/Lyft about said driver.