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Mobile Home Park Investors with Jefferson Lilly & Brad Johnson

The Mobile Home Park Investors Podcast is the world’s first podcast dedicated to mobile home park investing. This weekly podcast explains the intricacies of this unique real estate niche and details why an investor would want to own a mobile home park, either directly or through a real estate fund. Current manufactured housing community owners will find this podcast helpful in improving their mobile home park’s operations and profitability. The Podcast is hosted by Jefferson Lilly and Brad Johnson who are the co-founders of Park Street Partners, a private real estate investment firm focused on mobile home parks. The company seeks to deliver its investors superior cash flow returns by acquiring and investing in undervalued mobile home parks. Park Street Partners does this while helping to solve America’s affordable housing crisis by improving communities and increasing the supply of housing in the markets it operates in.
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Feb 21, 2019

Welcome to Episode 120 of the Mobile Home Park Investors podcast, hosted by Jefferson Lilly and Brad Johnson, with the Park Street Partners. Anna and Justin Scribner restore vintage trailers for a living at Flyte Camp. On today’s show, Anna and Justin share how they got into this line of work, some of their favorite restoration projects, and why they no longer work on trailer models that are beyond the 1964 year mark. 

 

Key Takeaways:

[2:20] What did Anna and Justin do prior to fixing up vintage homes? 

[5:45] How do Anna and Justin sell their vintage trailers? 

[12:40] How does Anna and Justin find all the parts to their trailers? 

[14:30] Justin shares his favorite restoration project to date. 

[17:00] How much does a typical renovation cost? 

[20:15] Were Spartans really built differently than other trailers back then?

[23:20] Anna and Justin don’t renovate mobile homes past the 1964 year mark. What changed after that era? 

[27:40] How doe Anna and Justin find and train their employees? 

[33:20] Anna shares some funny client restoration stories. 

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Park Street Partners

Investment Opportunities

Park Street Partners Business Resources

LinkedIn: Mobile Home Park Investors Group

Send deals to Deals@parkstreetpartners.com

Flytecamp.com

Email: Contact@Flytecamp.com

Feb 21, 2019

Welcome to Episode 120 of the Mobile Home Park Investors podcast, hosted by Jefferson Lilly and Brad Johnson, with the Park Street Partners. Anna and Justin Scribner restore vintage trailers for a living at Flyte Camp. On today’s show, Anna and Justin share how they got into this line of work, some of their favorite restoration projects, and why they no longer work on trailer models that are beyond the 1964 year mark. 

 

Key Takeaways:

[2:20] What did Anna and Justin do prior to fixing up vintage homes? 

[5:45] How do Anna and Justin sell their vintage trailers? 

[12:40] How does Anna and Justin find all the parts to their trailers? 

[14:30] Justin shares his favorite restoration project to date. 

[17:00] How much does a typical renovation cost? 

[20:15] Were Spartans really built differently than other trailers back then?

[23:20] Anna and Justin don’t renovate mobile homes past the 1964 year mark. What changed after that era? 

[27:40] How doe Anna and Justin find and train their employees? 

[33:20] Anna shares some funny client restoration stories. 

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Park Street Partners

Investment Opportunities

Park Street Partners Business Resources

LinkedIn: Mobile Home Park Investors Group

Send deals to Deals@parkstreetpartners.com

Flytecamp.com

Email: Contact@Flytecamp.com

Feb 7, 2019

Welcome to Episode 119 of the Mobile Home Park Investors podcast, hosted by Jefferson Lilly and Brad Johnson, with the Park Street Partners. Jefferson is back after a short podcast hiatus with some interesting updates from the latest trade show he attended. Jefferson recommends you attend the NCC trade show to learn about the latest industry news and to network with others. He’s even gotten a deal out of it himself by attending this event!

 

Key Takeaways:

[1:50] Who should go to the NCC trade show?

[2:50] What economic trends have been affecting the housing industry?

[7:50] Around 100,000 long-haul truck drivers will be put out of business in the next five years due to automation.

[11:45] Interest rates are predicted to keep rising and we might see a mini-recession in the second half of the year.

[15:00] A quick legislative and regulatory update.

[21:45] Roughly 12% of all housing in Georgia is manufactured.

[22:25] Nothing in section 107 of the 2155 law impacts rent-to-own agreements.

[24:15] Invite all your local representatives to come to see your park and your community. Talk to them about what you’re doing.

[24:51] The next talk was about how to properly manage your PR during a crisis.

[30:25] Think about your positive tenants. Who are your allies?

[31:35] Set Google Alerts for your name or for your park.

[35:55] What is the state of the market currently?

[39:25] Biggest challenge currently is hiring talented employees.

[42:50] Preliminary data shows that pad rents increase faster than apartment rents do.

[44:45] Have some questions or thoughts? Feel free to email Jefferson.

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Park Street Partners

Investment Opportunities

Park Street Partners Business Resources

LinkedIn: Mobile Home Park Investors Group

Send deals to Deals@parkstreetpartners.com

Meltwater.com

Chatmeter.com

Feb 7, 2019

Welcome to Episode 119 of the Mobile Home Park Investors podcast, hosted by Jefferson Lilly and Brad Johnson, with the Park Street Partners. Jefferson is back after a short podcast hiatus with some interesting updates from the latest trade show he attended. Jefferson recommends you attend the NCC trade show to learn about the latest industry news and to network with others. He’s even gotten a deal out of it himself by attending this event!

 

Key Takeaways:

[1:50] Who should go to the NCC trade show?

[2:50] What economic trends have been affecting the housing industry?

[7:50] Around 100,000 long-haul truck drivers will be put out of business in the next five years due to automation.

[11:45] Interest rates are predicted to keep rising and we might see a mini-recession in the second half of the year.

[15:00] A quick legislative and regulatory update.

[21:45] Roughly 12% of all housing in Georgia is manufactured.

[22:25] Nothing in section 107 of the 2155 law impacts rent-to-own agreements.

[24:15] Invite all your local representatives to come to see your park and your community. Talk to them about what you’re doing.

[24:51] The next talk was about how to properly manage your PR during a crisis.

[30:25] Think about your positive tenants. Who are your allies?

[31:35] Set Google Alerts for your name or for your park.

[35:55] What is the state of the market currently?

[39:25] Biggest challenge currently is hiring talented employees.

[42:50] Preliminary data shows that pad rents increase faster than apartment rents do.

[44:45] Have some questions or thoughts? Feel free to email Jefferson.

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Park Street Partners

Investment Opportunities

Park Street Partners Business Resources

LinkedIn: Mobile Home Park Investors Group

Send deals to Deals@parkstreetpartners.com

Meltwater.com

Chatmeter.com

Jan 10, 2019

Welcome to Episode 118 of the Mobile Home Park Investors podcast, hosted by Jefferson Lilly and Brad Johnson, with the Park Street Partners. Today’s guest is Dennis Smith from Freddie Mac. Freddie Mac is considered a GSE (government-sponsored enterprise) and with that comes the Duty to Serve mandate, which focuses on three underserved markets for those who make under 80% of the median income. On today’s show, Dennis explains what the Duty to Serve initiative means and how that affects both mobile home residents and owners.

 

Key Takeaways:

[2:20] What did Dennis do prior to joining Freddie Mac?

[3:40] Dennis dives into a little bit of the history of Freddie Mac and what GSE (government-sponsored enterprise) is.

[4:15] Where did the ‘Duty to Serve’ mandate/regulation come from?

[6:10] Duty to serve focuses on three underserved markets; Rural housing, affordable housing, and manufactured housing. How is rural housing defined?

[7:40] How is affordable housing defined?

[10:15] What does Duty to Serve mean for the residents of mobile home parks?

[11:25] And, finally, what does Duty to Serve mean for the owners of mobile home parks?

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

Park Street Partners

Investment Opportunities

Park Street Partners Business Resources

LinkedIn: Mobile Home Park Investors Group

Send deals to Deals@parkstreetpartners.com

Freddiemac.com

Freddiemac.com/about/duty-to-serve

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