Property Prophets

Send us Fan Mail A park owner tells you their mobile home park is worth top dollar. Your math says it is not even close. So what do you do next without burning the relationship or wasting a week chasing a fantasy? We walk through two real seller calls that show how we handle high asking prices, find the real reason someone wants out, and use a simple valuation framework to stay disciplined.  We st...

Send us Fan Mail A mobile home deal can look “easy” on paper until you’re standing in a giant park watching a crew pull skirting, disconnect systems, and prep a house to roll. We’re on-site with Travis Wells as he buys a newer manufactured home after spotting a simple “For Sale” sign, then locks it up with no money down using subject-to financing. You’ll hear the real numbers behind the note, why...

Send us Fan Mail A mobile home park in the middle of a big city sounds like a straightforward park underwriting problem, until you look up and realize the entire corridor is turning into retail. I’m under contract on a messy, grandfathered park with utilities in place and commercial activity all around it, and I’m not excited because it’s a “park deal.” I’m excited because it forces the question m...

Send us Fan Mail Everybody loves the post that says “I bought a tiny home” and “we won.” We wanted to talk about what that actually looks like when you’re the one sweating in the Texas heat, hauling cinder blocks, coordinating a mover, and cleaning up someone else’s leftover mess so you don’t damage your reputation with the RV park owner. We walk you through a real tiny home move from start to fin...

Send us Fan Mail A park can be in a downtown, high foot-traffic location and still sit half empty, and the reason often has nothing to do with demand. We break down a real mobile home park consulting visit where the outside looked solid (new fence, strong “for rent” banner, clean signage), yet occupancy stalled at 50%. The key was getting past assumptions and listening for the real objections peop...

Send us Fan Mail Private investigators walked into my workplace and asked a question I will never forget: “Have you been stealing vegetable oil from restaurants?” I was young, finally steady in a career, and determined not to slip back into the trouble I grew up around. I had not stolen anything, but the fear hit anyway, and it pushed me into a decision that still teaches me something years later....

Send us Fan Mail Spending $200,000 to $300,000 just to maybe clear a couple hundred bucks a month feels normal in real estate but it shouldn’t. We dig into a different path: mobile home investing built around simple cash flow math, faster deal timelines, and fewer “surprises” than the average rental house. If you’ve ever looked at a property that “cash flows” on paper and then watched repairs and...

Send us Fan Mail You can spend years chasing “the perfect deal,” or you can learn the few mental models that make mobile home park investing simple, repeatable, and profitable. We’re fresh off the final edits of my new book on how to get your first mobile home park, and I’m pulling back the curtain on the lessons that actually move the needle when you’re trying to buy your first park. We start wit...

Send us Fan Mail Most investors hear “no clear title” and immediately walk away. We did the opposite and I’ll tell you exactly why. After putting a mobile home under contract with a messy ownership situation, I break down how I evaluate title risk in manufactured home investing, when a bill of sale can be acceptable, and when it’s worth doing the extra work to get true clear title so the deal stay...

Send us Fan Mail That “great deal” in the photos can be the fastest way to buy yourself a nightmare. We drove out to a discounted 1996 mobile home that looked clean on paper, only to find the real story in the first five minutes: exterior wood rot, clear signs of water intrusion, and soft spots in the floor that screamed subfloor damage. The price was low, but the risk was high and that’s where mo...

Send us Fan Mail Most people don’t lose money in mobile home park investing because the asset class is broken. They lose money because they buy wrong, believe bad pro formas, and skip the unsexy work that keeps a deal alive after closing. We’re unpacking what that looks like in the real world, from the first conversation with a would-be buyer to the exact reasons parks turn into cash-flow nightmar...

Send us Fan Mail A broker asks why we’re not interested in a mobile home park deal and then gets mad at the answer. That tension turns into a practical mini-masterclass on real estate underwriting, because the fastest way to avoid a bad investment isn’t more confidence, it’s better math. We break down a 12-unit mobile home park listed around $975,000 that only brings in about $5,000 a month and ha...

Send us Fan Mail A “for sale” sign in a mobile home park window can be worth more than a week of online scrolling, and we prove it by doing the work live. I’m driving the rows, calling owners, and making offers in real time, including a deal structure that protects cash and still gets the seller to say yes. If you’ve been trying to figure out how to find motivated sellers, buy mobile homes creativ...

Send us Fan Mail Everybody wants a partner in real estate until the partnership becomes the deal’s biggest problem. We get honest about why most partnerships are a mistake, how investors give away equity too quickly, and what to do instead when you’re feeling unsure about money, experience, or the unknowns that come with buying property.  I share the two rules I use before I ever consider a real e...

Send us Fan Mail Most mobile home park deals that get blasted around social media or shoved into a buyer’s inbox are not deals at all, they are just listings with wishful pricing. We talk about the frustration behind that, but more importantly, we give you a simple way to stop wasting time on parks that will never pencil. If you have ever heard “it makes $10K a month” and felt tempted to chase it...

Send us Fan Mail Divorce can make you think smaller. I went the other way. When I needed a place to live, I didn’t sign a lease or lock myself into a new mortgage. I bought a mobile home park, then bought a better one and moved into the on-site cabin. That decision became my first real taste of “mobile home park hacking,” and it set the direction for everything I do in real estate today.  I walk t...

Send us Fan Mail You can tell who’s serious by what they’re willing to do when nobody’s clapping. Lying backstage between pre-judging and finals at a bodybuilding show, I connect the discipline of competition prep to what actually creates wealth in real estate and business: delayed gratification, long feedback loops, and doing the boring work with precision. We talk about why chasing quick money f...

Send us Fan Mail Wiring money for a tiny home can feel like a gamble if you don’t have a process, and I’ve learned the hard way that “good deals” can still bleed you with moving costs, bad paperwork, or sellers who change their mind. I’m Travis Wells, and I’m walking you through how I just lined up two new tiny homes at steep discounts and how I protect myself so I can keep buying consistently wit...

Send us Fan Mail One text message and one phone call can change the economics of a real estate deal, if you know how to use due diligence and timing. We tell the full story of a small 24-unit mobile home park that sat on the market for over a year, then got locked up on seller financing and turned into a stronger deal after inspections revealed a costly surprise.  We break down the practical side...

Send us Fan Mail A tiny home owner says they want $12,000 and most buyers stop at the price. I don’t. I ask one more question, then another, until the deal stops being a “purchase” and starts becoming a problem-solving plan that creates monthly cash flow. That mindset shift is what turns an ordinary lead into something you can repeat again and again.  I walk you through a real tiny home deal from...

Send us Fan Mail I woke up to something I’ve been trying to engineer for a long time: an RV spot got booked on my website without me touching anything. The guest paid through Stripe, automatically received the park rules, site map, check-in details, and even the laundry codes, and all I saw was the confirmation. That’s the kind of “runs while you sleep” automation RV park owners talk about, and I’...

Send us Fan Mail One small choice can wreck your boundaries as a landlord: sharing your personal cell phone number with tenants. I learned that lesson the loud way, from late-night texts during a brief neighborhood power outage to nonstop calls and vulgar voicemails when an AC repair didn’t go perfectly in Texas heat. When residents can reach you directly, you don’t just get “updates” you become t...

Send us Fan Mail Unused land behind a property can look like “nothing,” right up until it starts producing real monthly income. I walk through a deal I did where I placed two fourplex-style mobile home units on extra acreage behind a park and turned them into clean, simple, bills-paid studio apartments. The concept is untraditional, but the goal is practical: create affordable housing fast while b...

Send us Fan Mail A developer calls and tells me my RV park’s main water line is six feet onto their land. That’s the kind of sentence that can wreck your day fast, especially when they’re building a subdivision road right on the property line and they want you to “just move it.” I walk you through exactly how I handled it: asking for their survey and reference points, pulling my own deed records a...

Send us Fan Mail A holiday weekend is supposed to be quiet, right up until an RV tenant calls saying the power is out, it’s getting dangerously hot, and they’re sitting in the car with their dogs. I’m Travis Wells, and I’m sharing what a real “day in the office” looks like when you own and operate an RV park and you’re self-managing while building a growing park portfolio. The details matter here,...