While some mobile home park communities include affluent income-earners, a significant portion of mobile home park residents falls within the lower third of U.S. household incomes. Many face financial constraints, with limited savings and fewer opportunities for high-paying employment. While these challenges are real, they do not prevent residents from being responsible tenants, engaged homeowners, and valuable members of the community. As a park owner, understanding these realities allows you to structure your operations in a way that promotes stability for both your business and your tenants.

Walls in an RV park are often overlooked, left as plain surfaces with little impact. But with a little effort, those blank spaces can be transformed into eye-catching features that enhance the park’s atmosphere and create memorable experiences for guests. Here are some effective and affordable ways to bring those walls to life.

People on the move often find themselves hauling loads of belongings—furniture, household items, and miscellaneous essentials—on trailers behind their vehicles. Eventually, they’ll need a place to store it all. The question is, how do you ensure they choose your self-storage facility? Here are the key strategies to position your business as the top choice.

Driving along the highway, have you ever noticed the same advertisement appearing on multiple billboards in a row? This strategic approach, known as "bunching," is a powerful marketing technique that increases brand recall and message retention.

Dan talks with his RV Park marketing team regarding the importance of internet marketing.

Scott Turner is the new head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. And he’s bringing a new vision and mission that will impact many aspects of the mobile home park industry going forward – in a very positive way. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore Turner’s new hot button topics.

In this interview, we sit down with Bob Vahsholtz, author of Dueling Curves: The Battle for Housing, to explore the history, challenges, and future of mobile home parks

A conversation with Kean, a medical doctor from California who is also a mobile home park owner!

While the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency is trying to reduce cost on a national level, many of these same principles apply to mobile home parks. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the real-life methods to perform a DOGE study on your property and discuss many of the areas that virtually every mobile home park can do a better job in.

When you go to get a loan for an RV Park you can either do it yourself or use the services of a “loan broker”. In this RV Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the positive attributes to having a real professional obtain your loans and discuss why we use them on all of our deals.

Webster’s Dictionary defines a “trap” as “a situation in which people lie in wait to make a surprise attack”. We’re all familiar with doing this to mice using a spring and a piece of cheese. But some self-storage owners use this same principle when selling their storage property. In this Self-Storage University podcast we’re going to discuss the common traps that some sellers use and how to diffuse them.

Billboards are massive and immovable. As a result, once they’re built, they’re built. Since the cost to move a billboard – even an inch – is thousands of dollars at best, it’s important to understand some simple tricks to make sure you’re not making a mistake in sign placement and construction. And that’s what we’re gong to explore in this Billboard Mastery podcast.

At first glance, Virginia, Missouri, Mississippi, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Idaho, and Arizona might not seem to have much in common. These states span different regions, have varying population densities, and even differ in their sports franchises. But for mobile home park owners, these seven states stand out for a different reason: They have established some of the strongest legal protections for park owners through clear and definitive grandfathering laws.

Americans love options. Whether it’s choosing from a massive fast-food menu or customizing an online order, people enjoy having choices that fit their needs and preferences. The same principle applies to RV parks—if you only offer one type of accommodation, you're limiting your customer base.

Behind every profitable self-storage facility is a great manager. While owners may handle the big-picture strategy, it’s the manager who ensures daily operations run smoothly, customers stay satisfied, and financial performance remains strong. Yet, many facility owners underestimate just how crucial their manager is—or worse, they fail to keep them around.

The advertising industry is always looking for new ways to capture consumer attention, and mobile billboards have often been marketed as an innovative solution. These moving ads, usually mounted on trucks, claim to bring advertisements to high-traffic areas and provide more exposure than traditional, stationary billboards.

Matthew Teifke invested in single-family homes, duplexes and apartments. But when he ran across an RV Park for sale – and reviewed the numbers – he realized that the profitability was greater and that he wanted to get into the RV Park business. In this discussion he describes how he found the RV Park, negotiated seller financing, and his lessons learned so far. Frank Rolfe leads the discussion, so you know that it’s fact-filled and fast-paced.

Every time a mobile home pulls out of a lot in your community, you lose a ton of money. Park owners have been pondering for years the magic of how to keep homes from leaving. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review the methods attempted over the years and explore the only real solutions to keeping occupied lots from becoming vacant.

Dan McDunn is the new owner of Trinity Alps RV Park in California. In this episode, Dan discusses his journey into becoming an RV Park owner as well as his plans to improve the property and related topics. Join Dan on his quest to build a strong additional income stream by taking an old property with a great location and bring it back to life, one step at a time.

Howard Johnson’s was the largest restaurant chain in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s – the exact same era that served as the golden age of mobile home parks.

A mobile home park is like a chess board with many options to place your pieces, not just the ones that come with the owner’s manual. In this Mobile Home Park Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the reasons that you might want to change the positioning of your mobile homes, the typical rules regarding that customization, and where these slight park redesigns may be heading in the future.

Cold calling RV Park owners is a great way to find deals. But it’s very uncomfortable for those who have not done it before. In this RV Park Mastery podcast we’re going to review some great ideas to reduce your fear of “smiling and dialing” and help you make this an important part of your sourcing of potential deals.

Every self-storage facility seller has two basic traits that guide their decision-making: 1) emotional and 2) rational. How you appeal to and guide these factors can be a key ingredient to forging a successful deal. In this Self-Storage University podcast we’re going to drill down on how to use these attributes to your benefit.

America is always expanding, and with that growth comes new opportunities to build billboards. In this Billboard Mastery podcast we’re going to explore the fast-expanding markets known as “exurban” and “supercommuter” and how to spot these hot advertising markets in advance.