Exploring the Mobile-Home Park Business
Posted:25 November, 2008 by adminThe point is clear! Mobile-home parks are an underdeveloped part of our economic structure. Of the more than twelve thousand parks in the country, only about four thousand are approved by the Mobile Homes Manufacturers Association. And, in the face of an increasing demand for new mobile homes and better parks, more and more parks are getting obsolete every day.
Keep in mind, too, the differences between mobile-home parks and motels or efficiency apartments. A mobile-home park has a large part of its facilities underground in the form of sewer lines, electrical connections, water connections, and so on. Deprecia- tion and maintenance are low, since you don’t have to keep up a large number of buildings or continually replenish furnishings. Moreover, when a mobile home is permanently located in your park, the occupant usually cares for his own space and takes pride in doing so. In this way, your customers take over some of the burdens of your business. And, if you’re a congenial man- ager, they’ll volunteer to help on other things.
So, when you start a modern mobile-home park, you’ll have many things in your favor. You can depend on the long-term growth of the mobile-home industry, on a large retired popula- tion that will take to mobile living, and on the fact that many older parks are not designed to meet the needs of today’s mobile-home owners.
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