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The Mobile Home Park Investing Podcast - Real Estate Investing Niche

Mobile Home Parks are the ultimate Real Estate Investing Vehicle and the opportunity is ripe for those willing to educate themselves in this niche. This podcast will teach you how to successfully invest in and build steady streams of passive income from the highly lucrative niche of Mobile Home Park Investing. Veteran Real Estate Investor, Kevin Bupp, from the Mobile Home Park Academy and Sunrise Capital Investors, will personally share with you the valuable lessons he's learned along his journey as a Mobile Home Park Investor so that you too can learn how to build massive cash flow and earn huge profits from this extremely lucrative niche. Our weekly show will be a mixture of self recorded shows with Kevin as well as industry expert interviews. Each show will be jam packed with high quality content and none of the fluff that you'll find in other shows. Our #1 Goal is to make you a better Mobile Home Park Investor!
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Nov 20, 2018

In this episode of The Mobile Home Park Investing Podcast, Kevin shares the mic with Tim Kelly, Founder of Kelly Investment Group in Pensacola, FL.

Kevin began his investing career by house hacking while still serving full-time as a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy in Pensacola. With a few more multifamily deals under his belt, Kevin “switched teams” so to speak to investing almost exclusively in Mobile Home Communities -- some of which include Mobile & Troy Alabama.

Enjoy this episode as the two dissect the strategies for raising funds for your first deals, and other due diligence principles.

HIGHLIGHTS:

[6:05] What is Tim’s background?
[10:35] Why did Tim switch from Multi-Family to Mobile Home Parks?
[14:24] What was Tim’s first deal like?
[26:03] What is Tim & Kevin’s thoughts on Park-Owned Homes?
[39:31] What’s Tim’s criteria for a “Good” Deal?
[41:29] Tim’s final closing thoughts.

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Nov 6, 2018

In this episode of the Mobile Home Park Investing Podcast, Kevin shares the mic with Michael Renz; An Environmental Geologist and Founder of Renz & Associates, INC.

Michael’s Renz’s boutique firm specializes in the conduction of environmental studies for sites potentially impacted by pollution by hazardous materials, and providing remediation for any potential problems. Examples include cleanup from oil spills, leaking underground storage tanks, ruptured pipelines, dumpsites and the like.

Every investor needs to understand the importance of conducting an environmental survey on their property before a purchase, as it can carry a potentially huge liability. Enjoy this episode as Michael covers what to look for, and various stories from working in the field.

HIGHLIGHTS:

[6:23] Michael’s Background
[15:55] What’s the strangest discovery Michael has made during an examination?
[24:48] What is the average turnaround time and cost of a Phase I environmental study?
[29:08] When is a Phase II environmental study initiated?
[34:08] What kind of questions do buyers need to ask a firm for an environmental assessment?


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Oct 30, 2018

In this episode of the Mobile Home Park Investing Podcast, Kevin shares the mic with Andrew Lanoie; Founder and Principal of Park Place Communities and Four Peaks Partners based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Andrew’s background is markedly different from most investors, originally holding a career in artist management in the entertainment industry of SoCal.

After the 2008 financial meltdown and seeing his parents lose significant wealth however, Andrew began to seek answers to why this happened to better shield himself from future events.

Andrew now manages a portfolio of manufactured home communities across the country, and is passionate about fostering a team around Park Place Communities and Four Peaks.

HIGHLIGHTS:

[7:18] At what point did Andrew get interested specifically in Manufactured Home Communities?
[9:59] What have been the biggest changes Andrew has observed in the MHP market?
[17:05] What was Andrew’s first MHP deal like?
[21:52] What is Andrew’s thoughts on Park Owned Homes?
[32:14] What’s Andrew’s long-term strategy?
[35:31] Andrew’s final closing thoughts.

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Oct 23, 2018

In this episode of the Mobile Home Park Investing Podcast, Kevin shares the mic with Kurt Kelly; Mobile Home Insurance Expert based in Texas.

Often times, insuring your investment property will not come through a large insurance house like State Farm. There are many special cases mobile home park owners will need to account for in order to ensure all bases are covered.

Kurt goes through the list of 10 major pitfalls park owners face when choosing insurance, and how to deal with them.

HIGHLIGHTS
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[7:07] What is Kurt’s background?
[12:29] What is the first biggest mistake park owners make when finding insurance?
[22:34] Is there a point where you can actually overinsure?
[39:20] What is Data Breach and Discrimination coverage?
[51:22] Kurt’s final words of wisdom

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Oct 16, 2018

When purchasing a new mobile home park, You will inevitably face many objections from sellers before reaching a close.

In this episode of the Mobile Home Park Investing Podcast, Kevin and Charles discuss the Top 10 Objections they’ve faced in their years of experience acquiring parks, along with how to handle each one.

HIGHLIGHTS:

[2:09] #1: Capital Gains Taxes
[8:39] #2: Income Loss
[14:49] #3: Property Burden
[18:12] #4: Tainting Reputation
[21:17] #5: Unfinished Business
[26:35] #6: Losing Purpose
[31:25] #7: Skewed Reality
[42:29] #8: Employed Family Members
[45:55] #9: Seller wants you to Pay for Upside
[55:43] #10: Price is too low

Recommended Resources:

  • View Career Opportunities at Sunrise Capital by visiting Careers.SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them Click Here to Grab a copy
  • Get our Free MHP Due Diligence training Video DD.SunriseCapitalInvestors.com

 

Oct 9, 2018

In this episode of The Mobile Home Park Investing Podcast, Kevin shares the mic with DJ Pendleton, Executive Director of the Texas Manufactured Home Association.

The Texas Manufactured Home Association is one of the most active and oldest manufactured home associations in the country, tasked with passing laws favorable to its parties and repelling laws that hurt members of its association.

Aside from serving as the lobbying arm representing mobile home community owners and their manufacturers, DJ also helps to provide resources and conferences beneficial to its members.

HIGHLIGHTS:

[3:03] What is DJ’s background?
[3:47] What is the history of the TMHA?
[7:32] How can community owners stay on top of local laws?
[13:48] How was the North Carolina Association able to get around local ordinances?
[20:01] How did the Texas Association come through for victims of Hurricane Harvey?

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Sep 25, 2018

In this episode of the Mobile Home Park Investing Podcast, Kevin shares the mic with Mike Johnson, Owner of the blog Perpatualsaturday.com, and owner of 3 Mobile Home Parks.

Mike is passionate about helping others retire in 12 months, no matter where they are financially. Impossible? Think again: Mike landed on the asset class of Mobile Home Parks to fund his retirement.

He is now the owner of 3 Mobile Home Parks, which are made 95% passive by hiring the right managers to run them.

HIGHLIGHTS:

[7:22] What is Mike’s background?
[12:50] What did Mike’s first deal look like?
[17:33] Mike shares his story of fixing his first park’s septic issues
[23:03] What did Mike’s 2nd & 3rd MHP deals look like?
[26:20] Mike’s advice on owning rural parks
[28:41] Mike’s biggest mistakes in the MHP business.
[31:20] How to find the right managers to oversee your parks.
[34:12] The importance of Work-Life Balance, and how Mike is able to achieve it

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Sep 18, 2018

In this episode of The Mobile Home Park Investing Podcast, Kevin shares the mic with Damian Bergamaschi, Fund Manager of Damris Capital.

Throughout his lifetime -- from childhood to now -- Damian’s affinity for the markets led him to a career in finance; initially as a quant creating conditional models to predicting financial outcomes over time, to eventually landing on Mobile Home Parks as a desirable asset class to create a fund around.

Through his work at Damris Capital, Damian has combined his knowledge in Real Estate with utilizing big data and quantitative analysis to create a unique approach to Mobile Home Park investing; Continuing to leverage his knowledge for the good of his customers.

HIGHLIGHTS:
[8:57] Damian’s background, and how his experience as a quant carries over to investing.
[12:18] How and why did Damian start exploring the asset class of mobile home parks?
[15:57] Damian’s investment philosophy, and “Hometown Bias” explained.
[19:25] What are other asset classes Damian shys away from?
[22:42] Damian’s first Mobile Home Park Deal
[25:09] Opportunities in the “Tiny Home” trend
[32:12] The key qualities Damian looks for in a Mobile Home Park Operator & Sponsor

Recommended Resources:

  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Get our Free MHP Due Diligence training Video DD.SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them www.MobileHomeParkAcademy.com 

 

Sep 11, 2018

Since starting his investing career in 2012, Brian founded Alabama Cash Deals, Inc., a marketing company that locates property bargains throughout central Alabama. In 2016, he founded a brokerage firm that goes by the name 205 Realty. He is also the founder of the Alabama Real Estate Investor

Association (AlaREIA), which is a popular local real estate education platform.

Click Here to Gain Access to the Newly Revamped Deal Finders Formula

Recommended Resources:

  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Get our Free MHP Due Diligence training Video DD.SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them www.MobileHomeParkAcademy.com 
Sep 4, 2018

Snickfish is a Title Management company focused in Mobile Home Real Estate, Mechanic, and Storage Facility Markets.

If you’ve spent any time around the mobile home park niche then you’ve surely familiar with abandoned mobile homes and the challenges that are sometimes associated with them. And if you currently own a mobile home park, then you might even have a few abandoned mobile homes in your park now and have no clue how to handle them.  Case in point, if you intend to enter into this niche, then you will need to get familiar with the abandoned title process of the state in which your park resides.

Residents abandon mobile homes for a variety of reasons: eviction, loss of job and can’t afford to move, death, skipping town, mobile home is dilapidated and they can’t afford to fix it, and the list goes on and on.

The goal is to obtain the legal ownership of that home so that you can either renovate it and resell or legally remove it from your property. And that is sometimes easier said than done. It’s challenging to stay current with State laws and regulatory mandates governing abandoned property. Mobile Home Park owners and Property Management companies are constantly battling the State, local courts, and the DMV bureaucracy. What works today might not work tomorrow.

Snickfish just might be the service that will help you solve your abandoned home challenges.

Click Here to Gain Access to the Newly Revamped Deal Finders Formula

Recommended Resources:

  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Get our Free MHP Due Diligence training Video DD.SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them MobileHomeParkAcademy.com
Aug 24, 2018

Today we interview mobile home park owner and operator, Andrew Keel.  Andrew is an active MHP investor with 475 lots currently under management. He started out as a Lonnie Dealer, selling individual mobile homes out of several parks throughout central Florida. After graduating to the mobile home park investing scene and buying his first park in June of 2017, he has quickly amassed a 7-park portfolio and plans to grow to 10 total parks before years end. Andrew's strategy involves buying from direct from small Mom and Pop owners and improving management, ultimately increasing NOI.

Click Here to Gain Access to the Newly Revamped Deal Finders Formula

Recommended Resources:

  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Get our Free MHP Due Diligence training Video DD.SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them www.MobileHomeParkAcademy.com
Aug 14, 2018

Welcome to Episode #3 of our special 3-part series where we’ll be providing you the TOP three strategies to start driving high-quality MHP leads into your pipeline.  These three shows will cover the art of mastering these critical methods:

  1. Leveraging Broker relationships to bring a steady stream of off-market leads.
  2. Market selection and analysis to determine the best markets to invest in MHP’s.
  3. Building your MHP Database. This one method alone will separate you from the majority of your competition.

These three shows will share the exact same processes we use in our very own business today, which have allowed us to grow a highly successful MHP Investment Firm in a few short years. More importantly, these three methods allow us to source high-quality off market deals at great prices, even when many others are overpaying due to tight market competition.

Master these three skills and you’ll find yourself in the TOP 1% of all MHP investors.

Click Here to Gain Access to the Newly Revamped Deal Finders Formula

Recommended Resources:

  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Get our Free MHP Due Diligence training Video DD.SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them www.MobileHomeParkAcademy.com  
Aug 7, 2018

Welcome to Episode #2 of our special 3-part series where we’ll be providing you the TOP three strategies to start driving high-quality MHP leads into your pipeline.  These three shows will cover the art of mastering these critical methods:

  1. Leveraging Broker relationships to bring a steady stream of off-market leads.
  2. Market selection and analysis to determine the best markets to invest in MHP’s.
  3. Building your MHP Database. This one method alone will separate you from the majority of your competition.

These three shows will share the exact same processes we use in our very own business today, which have allowed us to grow a highly successful MHP Investment Firm in a few short years. More importantly, these three methods allow us to source high-quality off market deals at great prices, even when many others are overpaying due to tight market competition.

Master these three skills and you’ll find yourself in the TOP 1% of all MHP investors.

Recommended Resources:

  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them www.MobileHomeParkAcademy.com
Jul 31, 2018

Welcome to Episode #1 of our special 3-part series where we’ll be providing you the TOP three strategies to start driving high-quality MHP leads into your pipeline.  These three shows will cover the art of mastering these critical methods:

  1. Leveraging Broker relationships to bring a steady stream of off-market leads.
  2. Market selection and analysis to determine the best markets to invest in MHP’s.
  3. Building your MHP Database. This one method alone will separate you from the majority of your competition.

These three shows will share the exact same processes we use in our very own business today, which have allowed us to grow a highly successful MHP Investment Firm in a few short years. More importantly, these three methods allow us to source high-quality off market deals at great prices, even when many others are overpaying due to tight market competition.

Master these three skills and you’ll find yourself in the TOP 1% of all MHP investors.

Recommended Resources:

  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them com
Jul 25, 2018

In today’s show, we’re going to be speaking with Real Estate Investor and Entrepreneur, Kirk Bausch

Kirk has had a robust professional career spanning all facets of Sales, marketing, operations and financial planning and analysis. His core competencies are in building brands, generating revenue, streamlining automations and forecast planning through data analysis.

Kirk has been actively investing in real estate for 12+ years across the US, primarily in a buy & hold manner and predominately residential single-family properties. Currently, Kirk holds rental properties in 7 different states and is a limited partner in our Sunrise Capital Investors Mobile Home Park fund.

Kirk has researched just about every asset class known to man and after years of debating, he landed on Mobile Home Parks as his asset of choice and hasn’t looked back since.

And so, in today’s show, we’re going to dig deep into Kirks background and uncover answers to the following:

  • Why mobile home parks over multifamily or residential?
  • How Kirks business background has brought value to his real estate endeavors
  • How he’s finding off-market park opportunities even in this very challenging part of the market cycle
  • The decision to invest as a limited partner in our mobile home park fund and how he went about vetting us as a sponsor.
  • Why he feels that Mobile Home Parks offer the best opportunity when compared to the other various RE asset classes
  • Leveraging the value of partnerships and how this has helped his business immensely.
  • Long distance investing and how he manages it.
  • And much more

Recommended Resources:

  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them com
Jul 17, 2018

In today’s show, we will walk you through the basic steps of creating your own core values and mission statement.  In addition, we share in detail our very own core values here at Sunrise Capital Investors (see below).

In its simplest definition, values are the fundamental beliefs of an organization, the guiding principles that dictate how people should behave and act.  A company’s values help people know the difference between right and wrong, and they help companies determine if they are on the right path to fulfilling their overall business goals.

Our BEDROCK Principles reflect what is truly important to us. These values drive all aspects of our performance: from planning, to marketing, to operating, to finance, to serving our team members & our customers. Our principles have remained consistent since Sunrise was founded, and they are frequently cited as a reason why our employees love working here. These principles do not change from time to time, situation to situation, or person to person. These Bedrock principles are foundational values that truly stand the test of time and shape our company culture. 

 Sunrise Core Values:

  1. Be a Sponge
  2. Enjoy the Ride
  3. Do the Right Thing
  4. Don’t be an A-Hole
  5. Be ROCK Solid

 Recommended Resources:

  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them www.MobileHomeParkAcademy.com 
Jul 9, 2018

In today’s show, we do our best to make up for lost time by providing a brief snippet of what we’ve been up to for the last 7 or so months. In addition, Brian Spear, joins us to provide valuable insights on the MHP industry as a whole as well as updates on our latest investment opportunity, MHP Growth & Income Fund II, LLC.

Stayed tuned in for the coming weeks and months as we’ll be bringing you brand new shows and interviews jam packed with valuable content.

Recommended Resources:

  • Check out our company and our partnership opportunities by visiting SunriseCapitalInvestors.com
  • Would you like to partner with us on future MHP deals, call 844-CASH-FLW to learn more or click here to schedule a time on our calendar.
  • Grab a free copy of our book “The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When Purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them MobileHomeParkAcademy.com
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