Nov 29, 2010
Real estate as as investment class, in general, comes with certain tax benefits that are found nowhere else, but some would say that mobile home investing is the best of the best when it comes to tax favored status with the IRS. The not-so-secret word we are concerned...
Nov 26, 2010
Are you flying your apartment investing “business” by the seat of your pants, with no real plan other than not to fail miserably? If so, you’re not alone. A healthy majority of commercial property owners are going it on a wing and a prayer. One of life’s...
Nov 17, 2010
Granted, there are perhaps many more than three characteristics the majority of Americans are thankful they do not share with The Donald: hair style, chipmunk cheeks, and spousal plastic surgery bills being some of the more obvious. But there are three solid personal...
Nov 12, 2010
What exactly does a single wide mobile home have to do with reaching millionaire status? There are a couple of ways we could go about addressing this issue. The obvious would be to extoll the virtues of mobile home park investing, complete with facts and figures to...
Nov 8, 2010
Our Mobile Home Park Listings website MHPListings.com recently underwent a renovation to make all our resources even easier to access for anyone interested in investing in apartment complexes, self storage facilities, or mobile home parks. For years, these three...
Nov 5, 2010
Self storage owners and wannabes sharpen up your pencils and elbows as you get ready to head for Las Vegas, Nevada, 2011 home of the grandest self storage event of them all. Why pencils? You’re going to take notes, aren’t you? After all, the...
Nov 4, 2010
At MHP Listings we preach the idea of real estate diversification. As a general idea, it’s a good idea to be diversified no matter what your asset of choice is: stocks, bonds, mutual funds (provide a modicum of built in diversification), gold, or currency. Most...
Nov 3, 2010
Assuming you would reap the same rewards either way, would you prefer to invest your own money or someone else’s? We sincerely hope that you chose the latter option. The high profit investment strategy behind this seemingly ludicrous idea goes to the heart of...
Nov 2, 2010
Some self storage business owners find it difficult to resist the allure of a nice, shiny billboard trumpeting their name to the masses. As with any branding scenario, the question to ask is whether you’re going to get a return on your investment. In other...
Oct 28, 2010
Somehow it seems easier for a real estate tycoon like Donald Trump to invest a few million dollars in a 200 unit apartment complex or 500 unit high rise office building and make a fortune than for the average investor to purchase an eight unit apartment building for a...