PART I. PLANNING A MOBILE-HOME PARK
Posted:24 September, 2008 by adminCHAPTER 1. EXPLORING THE MOBILE-HOME PARK BUSINESS
Exploring the Mobile-Home Park Business
BE YOUR OWN BOSS
Sit back and relax. Imagine a beautiful, landscaped tract of
land 10, 15, or 20 acres located in a nice resort area away from
the dirt, noise, and tension of the city. Or perhaps in a nice sub-
urban area, out far enough to be beautiful and in close enough
to be convenient.
On this land sets a new way of life the mobile-home com-
munity. You are the head of that community. If it were an
elective office, you’d probably be the mayor. But you’re its head
because you’ve shown the initiative to start one of the many
mobile-home parks needed today.
Now, imagine your community in operation. You see attrac-
tive mobile homes placed on neatly spaced lots with sidewalks,
paved roads, and street lighting. See Plate 1.
You see, too, a new kind of community spirit. People no
longer live in isolated homes socially insulated from one an-
other. They are now part of a self-contained community, where
people can have sociability when they want it or privacy when
they need it.
What does all this mean to you? Just this. If you start a
mobile-home park, you’ll be going into a business that is needed
and which, in most cases, will be highly profitable. Beyond that,
you’ll be starting a new way of life that cannot be duplicated by
other forms of housing.
You can, of course, work for someone else. And this may even
be better than owning your own business or being your own
boss. Any business of your own requires good planning, extra
work, and some worry. You’ve got to plan, save, sacrifice, and
learn from inevitable mistakes. Problems are the rule, not the ex-
ception.
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