Ep #14: Part 7 of The Biggest Mistake Investors Make When Buying Their First Park and How to Avoid Them
The Mobile Home Park Investing Podcast - Real Estate Investing Niche
Kevin Bupp
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Mobile Home Park Academy podcast. In this episode, Charles and I will discuss mistake number 7 from our popular eBook, "The 21 Biggest Mistakes Investors Make When purchasing their First Mobile Home Park…and how to avoid them." In this episode we will discuss what specific criteria we use to evaluate a local marketplace and how you can use our process to avoid buying a park in a depressed or declining market. Get this step wrong an you're setting yourself up for a potential financial disaster.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast that will teach you how to successfully invest in and build steady |
| 0:09.8 | streams of passive income from the highly lucrative niche of mobile home park investing. |
| 0:15.0 | Veteran real estate investors Kevin Bupp and Charles D. Hart from Mobile Home Park Academy |
| 0:20.0 | will personally share with you the valuable lessons they've learned along their journey as mobile home park investors |
| 0:25.8 | so that you too can learn how to build massive cash flow and huge profits from this extremely lucrative niche. |
| 0:33.6 | So without further ado, let's welcome your hosts for today's show, |
| 0:37.8 | Kevin Bupp and Charles D. Hart. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome guys and gals to the Mobile Home Park Academy's special series on the 21 biggest mistakes |
| 0:46.1 | that new investors make when purchasing their first mobile home park and how you can avoid them. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm your host Kevin Bupp along with my co-host and business partner |
| 0:54.6 | Charles D. Hart. Charles tell our listeners about the big mistake we're going to be |
| 0:58.3 | covering today. Thanks Kevin. Big mistake number seven is buying a park |
| 1:02.3 | without knowing the market you are investing in. |
| 1:05.0 | And this is an important topic because you're not just buying a park, you're also investing money inside of a market that you believe in. |
| 1:12.0 | Okay, and what does that really mean? |
| 1:14.0 | So if I see a park that comes on the Loop Net and it looks like it's a 10 or 11 cap park which is a very attractive cap rate, |
| 1:22.0 | are you saying that I really need to dig a little bit deeper into the market itself |
| 1:25.8 | before I can determine whether or not that's even a good deal? |
| 1:28.6 | Yes, and we run across this very often where we see this 10, 11, 12 cap park and it doesn't take much research to find |
| 1:37.6 | out why that that park is given that cap rate. |
| 1:41.5 | The most recent one we came across was in Maine and that market had a 15% |
| 1:46.0 | unemployment rate which is not a place that I want to put my money into necessarily. |
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