The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast

In this week’s episode of The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast, we have Victor Alves, a real estate entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Vecno capital. Victor was a former sales district manager for a Fortune 500 company, who won several top performance awards before pursuing his career in real estate investing. He is a licensed contractor in the city of San Antonio, TX, a licensed manufactured home reta...

Joining us for this week’s episode is Adam Sobieski, a real estate investor, professional coach, speaker, and president of Sobieski INC.  Adam set a world-class track record in sales but after the recession, he started to venture into real estate, buying single-family homes for respectable cash flow. Initially, mobile home parks were not on his radar but today his cap rates and cash flow are the h...

In this week’s episode, we have Bryce Robertson, known as “Your Real Estate Mate”, an Aussie-born real estate entrepreneur, adventurer, and founder of PropertyWorkz.  After several trips around the world, Bryce decided to focus on real estate investing to achieve his goal of having a freedom lifestyle. He began acquiring a $570,000 mobile home park with a negative net worth, unseasoned credit, and...

In this week’s episode of The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast, we are joined by a panel of experts on Infills. We have Steven Blank, an experienced Multi-Family Home Community Owner, and Operator who has been involved with the acquisition, infill, value add and sale of more than 200 Manufactured Home Communities; Andrew Keel, CEO of Keel Team, has specialized in bringing in homes to fill vacant lo...

Ferd Niemann talks to his father about what you need to know when you buy or sell a mobile home. Organized into a checklist, father and son huddle to discuss the details and important steps to take in order to land the best deals possible and how to do it the right way. From sales to purchase, to accounting, to deeds, learn from their experience and make their checklist yours to avoid mistakes tha...

In this week’s episode, Ferd shows us how to increase the value of a park to make $1,000,000 in net cash out proceeds just 26 months after the initial purchase. Ferd walks through the persistence it took to earn this deal and the strategy that led to tax-free dollars in his pocket while being in his hometown of low market rents. Ferd and his father accomplished this without needing to buy an apart...

This week on The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast, Ferd dives into a 20 pad home park that turned into a highly profitable investment in a very short amount of time. He uses this case study to emphasize how buying the right property is more important than the amount of volume of property you buy. If you’ve heard the expression less is more but never quite made sense of it — this episode will show y...

On this episode of The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast, we have our special guest Phillip Merrill, owner of Merrill Water who handles all the water needs, not limited to Mobile Home Parks. Phillip grew up in the water well drilling business working directly with his father. After college, he joined the family business and then branched out into operating and managing community water systems. He is...

Welcome back to The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast. In this week’s episode, Ferd enlightens us about the relevance of the Mobile Home Park Star Rating System. Star ratings help identify and categorize Parks based on certain criteria. This system also works as a guide for MHP improvements.   Discover the one to five-star criteria and its overall relevance to mobile home park investing by tuning in...

Ferd shares several factors on how he determines a bad investment from a good one. Ferd points out 25 factors that won't necessarily individually break the deal, but will at least give you some reference points to think through prior to making your mobile home park investment. Tune in to find out what 25 factors you must know, before making your next mobile home park investment.   Highlights of th...

This week we are joined by Ryan Smith, a mobile home park owner —  founder of Elevation Capital Group. Elevation is a respected leader in the alternative real estate investment arena and exclusively focuses on two very niched property types: manufactured housing communities and storage facilities. Through its affiliates, Elevation has acquired over $600 million worth of properties while holding in...

Welcome back to The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast. This week we are joined by MHP Owner, Julio Jaramillo. Julio is an entrepreneur, business owner, RV/MHP owner/operator, and investor. Julio focuses on acquisitions and operations of mobile home parks in the midwest.  Julio Jaramillo is the founder and managing member of Evergreen Communities. In this episode, you will learn how to plan a deal, s...

This week on The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast Ferd shows us the Do's and Don'ts when doing a site visit. Learn every detail that needs to be checked, look for, and consider before doing the investment. Join Ferd Niemann as he shares his strategy for a good Mobile Home Park Investment.   Highlights of the episode: 00:00 - Episode Introduction 00:40 - Start of the topic: Things to Look for in a S...

Welcome back to the Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast. In this episode, Ferd Niemann talks about the post-closing tasks after every property acquisition. Post-closing tasks are a critical part of the acquisition process to ensure that no aspects or details of the property acquisition are overlooked. Consequently, saving time and money.   Highlights of the episode: 00:00 - Episode Introduction 00:32...

On the new episode of the Mobile Home Park, we have our special guest Charlotte Dunford who shifted from a corporate job to a full-time real estate entrepreneur. She started from a single-family home to a duplex and eventually acquired small Mobile Home Parks in 2019. Right now she has 22 parks from different locations and has 4.2 million dollar assets. In this episode, she shares her experiences...

Welcome back to the Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast. This week Ferd Niemann with special guests from the MHP field Larry Abramowitz, Brett Bowman, and Abraham Anderson as they discuss the Growing Pains from the easiest to hardest deals in Mobile Home Parks. In this episode, you will learn what’s easy about operations, what’s hard about operations, and what the state of the labor market is.  Highli...

Welcome back to the MHP Podcast where we meet our guests Rhett Trees who is the Founder and CEO of Seneca Capital Partners, Sam Hales from Saratoga Group, Jeff Cook who is the Founder and CEO of Cook Properties, and Daniel Weisfield with Three Pillars In this episode, you will learn the pros and cons of high-risk investing, how to differentiate and scale investors, and how the accounting departmen...

On the new episode of the Mobile Home Park, we have our special guest Chris Murray who works in the sports marketing industry for 25 years and has been eclectic in the Mobile Home industry.  Chris Murray created a unique business plan and opportunity where he buys homes others don't want to have. Yes, you heard that right! In this episode, you will learn the potential of this unique business model...

On this episode of The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast, our special guest Nick Najjar who is an Entrepreneur, business owner, and real estate investor focusing on acquisitions and operations of mobile home parks in the midwest.  Nick Najjar works with the top Realtors in St Louis to host their events and produce their monthly trade publication, Real Producers. In this episode, you will learn Brand...

On this episode of the Mobile Home Park Lawyer podcast, Ferd explores how to keep a deal going when a seller is defaulting. Ferd goes through what to do when a seller gets cold feet, gets a better offer, or is hiding something sinister about the property. Ferd shares his own experiences with sellers which have saved him hundreds of thousands of dollars.

On this episode of The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast, Ferd discusses re-trades – how to go about it and how to respectfully drop deals. Ferd shares some personal experiences about re-trades and gives his best advice on how to handle re-trading.

On this episode of The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast, Ferd discusses why grandfathered rights might be superior to legal conforming zoning. Ferd shares some personal examples of when being grandfathered in can be better than legal conforming zoning. Ferd talks about how cities can rezone your property and explains why they would want to do that.

On this episode of The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast, Ferd is joined by MHP and RV park Owner Heather Blankenship. Ferd and Heather discuss the advantages owning a RV park over owning a MHP, trends within the RV industry, staffing your RV park and so much more. Heather also shares some of her best advice and urges you to get involved with RV parks now and before they’re institutionalized!

On this episode of the Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast, Ferd is joined by guest MHP owners, operators and entrepreneurs Dylan Stewart and Alex Donnolo. Dylan and Alex are new to the MHP industry but have had rapid success. Dylan and Alex speak about how they got into MHP, tips and advice for investors looking to get into MHP and they also share some horror stories from which they have gained exper...

On this episode of The Mobile Home Park Lawyer Podcast, Ferd is joined by colleague Jonathan Gilmore. Jonathan is a veteran, a real estate lawyer and has experience in land development. Throughout this episode Ferd and Jonathan discuss general ticks and general 1021’s, why you should roll up your tick interest into the GP/LP investor LLC, and tax avoidance.