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PODCAST

Mobile Home Park Mastery

Welcome to the Mobile Home Park Mastery Podcast where you will learn how to identify, evaluate, negotiate, perform due diligence on, finance, turn-around and operate mobile home parks! Your host is Frank Rolfe, the 5th largest mobile home park owner in the United State with his partner Dave Reynolds. Together, they also own and operate Mobile Home University, the leading educational website for both new and experienced mobile home park investors!

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All Episodes

10:53

Understanding Jeff Bezos' "Regret Minimization Model"

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2025/11/03

Besides founding the retail powerhouse Amazon, Jeff Bezos has recently been reflecting on some of his fundamental principles for success, of which the "Regret Minimization Model" is the most interesting. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review what this theory entails and apply that to the purchase of a mobile home park.

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9:30

Helpful Information For Your Residents

Mobile Home Park Mastery ·

2025/10/27

Many park owners are also their resident’s news source – at least for a couple minutes a day. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review how to provide timely tips and content to your community on a recurring basis.

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11:46

The $10 Billion Mobile Home Park Deal Explained

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2025/10/20

Discussions abound regarding the rumored $10 billion sale of YES communities to Brookfield, a Canadian REIT. While we don’t really know all the facts at this point, there are some certainties that this deal represents, and we’re going to explore what those items are in depth.

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9:29

What's A "Stack" Deal?

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2025/10/13

There’s a new type of deal construction out there called the “stack”. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore this type of structure and identify its strengths and weaknesses. With “creative dealmaking” the key to buying some communities, this might be an option for your next acquisition.

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11:04

How To Fix Common Survey Issues

Mobile Home Park Mastery ·

2025/10/06

With every mobile home park acquisition comes a survey. And with those surveys there are often issues to address. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the most common survey problems and what the typical methods are to fix them.

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9:49

Why Parks Fail

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2025/09/15

Mobile home parks have the lowest default rate of any real estate sector, but when they do fail it always seems to be due to the same factors. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the reasons why parks are sometimes unsuccessful and how to mitigate those risks.

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8:45

The Role Of Luck

Mobile Home Park Mastery ·

2025/09/08

Do you have good luck or bad luck? Regardless of your answer, you’re probably wrong. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review how buyers put way too much emphasis on “luck” without truly understanding its role in making money with mobile home parks.

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11:01

The Science Behind Successfully Buying High-Vacancy...

Mobile Home Park Mastery ·

2025/09/01

There are many styles of turn-arounds, but one of the riskiest and most complex is buying a property that has extremely low occupancy. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the key elements to the successful purchase and turn-around of mobile home parks with high levels of vacancy.

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10:10

Things To Double-Check Before Buying

Mobile Home Park Mastery ·

2025/08/25

If you’re buying a mobile home to fill a vacant lot – new or used – there are a few things you have to double-check because if you make the wrong decision the damage can be in the tens of thousands of dollars. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review those items and explore how to get them right.

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10:20

The Dangers Of Favors For Managers

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2025/08/18

Most mobile home park owners are good-natured people who like to be helpful. But most park manager requests for “favors” need to be avoided at all costs. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the typical manager requests, why they rarely work out well, and how to fend them off.

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11:41

Why You Should Be Cheering On The Fannie-Freddie IPO

Mobile Home Park Mastery ·

2025/08/12

The Trump administration is proposing to take Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac public, as well as to merge them into one entity in the process. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review why this would be a good thing for commercial real estate in general, and the mobile home park industry in particular.

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10:14

A Primer On Buying Mobile Homes At Tax Sales

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2025/08/04

If you are looking to fill vacant lots in your mobile home park with used homes, one option that is rarely mentioned is “tax sales” stemming from unpaid property tax. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore how this process works in the real world and things to watch out for.

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11:09

Private Property Considerations

Mobile Home Park Mastery ·

2025/07/28

Most Americans are only familiar with owning property with a single-family home on it. But mobile home parks are much larger and complex. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the unique nature of mobile home parks to bend the rigid rules of traditional private property law.

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17:47

Our 400th Anniversary Special

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2025/07/21

This podcast marks the 400th installment of the #1 Mobile Home Park discussion in the U.S. With 399 episodes under our belt we’ve covered a wide range of topics over the years, but this week we’re going to revisit our fist ten titles and explore how they may have changed over the nearly eight years since they were first reviewed.

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11:04

The Power Of Weeknight And Weekend Office Hours

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2025/07/14

Most mobile home park office hours tend to be Monday through Friday from 9AM to 5 PM – which just happens to be about the worst schedule if you’re trying to sell homes. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review how your office days and hours need to reflect the job at hand.

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12:50

Avoiding Park Side-Hustles That Make No Money

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2025/07/07

The successful mobile home park business model has always been simply to rent land. But sometimes the simple path is not enough for some owners, who venture out with additional ideas to boost net income. Sadly, most of these ideas fail to be profitable. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the many different side-hustles that park owners have tried that have failed to actually make money.

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12:31

A Game Of Chess

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2025/07/01

How you fill your lots is somewhat like a game of chess, with certain pieces more important than others, and every move filled with the potential for benefit or damage. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the strategic considerations required to maximize your park’s value.

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11:01

Where Have All The Lonnie’s Gone?

Mobile Home Park Mastery ·

2025/06/23

“Lonnie Dealers” are investors who buy and sell or buy and rent mobile homes inside mobile home parks, labeled after an early advocate of this concept named Lonnie Scruggs. And although this investment program had a lot of interest in the 1990s, the number of individuals engaged in this sector has been continually dwindling. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the “Lonnie Deal”, its waning popularity, and the resulting impact on the mobile home park industry.

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10:39

What I’d Do If I Had Five Vacant Lots

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2025/06/16

Some mobile home park deals are built around filling a huge number of vacant lots, while others are built on raising rents and cutting costs and increasing occupancy is a tiny part of the turn-around program. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the plan of attack if you have only a handful of vacancies to fill.

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11:05

Stretching Exercises

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2025/06/02

Any time that you pay more for a mobile home park than it is currently worth, based on existing net income, you are engaged in “stretching” to rationalize paying the higher amount. But the types of “stretching” required to bridge the gap typically vary from acceptable to too risky. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the fundamentals of “stretching” and determine their quotient of risk.

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