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She was found dead Saturday afternoon in her trailer in South Haven Mobile Home Park in South Haven Township. The trailer park is on the eastern edge of the city, just off Blue Star Highway, and between Phoenix Road to the north and 6th …

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Don’t go into the mobile-home park business if you expect to get by without work, heartaches, and major problems. Nothing worth while is that easy.

The mobile-home park has unlimited opportunities, but its success depends more on the owner than on any other factor. If you talk over your plans with others, have a good mobile-home park design, have a good location in mind, develop the necessary qualifications, and meet your clientele halfway, your chances for success will indeed be excellent.

You’ll be going into a business where long-term growth is assured. You’ll be engaged in a genuinely satisfying activity and along with economic independence will come a new way of life and many friends.

A mobile-home park is challenging. It is tough to start. But it’s usually successful. And always worth while.

THE NEED FOR MOBILE-HOME PARKS

From time to time we’re going to refer to “mobile-home parks” and “trailer parks.” You may wonder why different terms are used. Are they just different words to describe the same thing? Or do they reflect some real differences in the parks we’re going to talk about? We think you’ll agree that a “mobile- home park” represents a basic change in mobile living. Here’s why.

The trailer-coach industry was just getting started in the 1930’s. Even as late as 1940 the industry had turned out only 10,000 trailers. Most of these trailers were small and were used by sportsmen for vacations and by construction workers located temporarily in out-of-the-way places. Trailers didn’t have bath- rooms, nor were their kitchens equipped with the ultramodern conveniences new mobile homes contain.

Today, the production of mobile homes exceeds 65,000 units a year. Modern mobile homes are much larger and more luxurious than those of fifteen years ago. They may be 35, 40, 45 even 50 feet in length. Some come in two sections. Most of them are equipped with complete bathroom facilities, plush living rooms, up-to-date kitchens, and full-size bedrooms.

People, therefore, are now finding mobile homes a practical and economical form of permanent housing. It is estimated that more than two million people are now living in them. And our retired folks millions each year are finding the mobile-home park an ideal retirement community.

The only similarities between the trailers of 1940 and the mobile homes of today are wheels and mobility. Everything else is different including electrical installations, brakes, heating arrangement, interiors, and frame and body construction. Yes, the change is as great as from the horse and buggy to the automobile. What has all this done to trailer parks? Briefly, the parks built to accommodate small, non-modern trailers are obsolete. Their spaces are too small. Roads are not wide enough. Electrical wiring is not heavy enough to handle the loads required by modern kitchens, hot-water heaters, and increased lighting.  Such parks generally do not have sewage-disposal systems or individual coach connections. And, since they were not properly planned, they do not present the attractive community appear- ance mobile-home owners are looking for.

You may want to know how much money you need to start a mobile-home park. An exact figure is not possible at this point, because the capital needed will vary with the size of park, the location, the cost of land, the park design, and the types and sizes of buildings. Moreover, mobile-home parks are quickly expandable so it is possible to start out small and to grow as quickly as the business requires.

Naturally, a park of 40 mobile-home spaces will cost much less than a park of 70 spaces. The cost per space of a 70-unit park, however, will be lower, because the buildings, roads, sewers, and land can be spread out over more units. On the other hand, the net income from a park of 70 mobile-home spaces will be much greater than from one of 40.

Let’s assume that a park of 50 spaces, with adequate land for expansion, represents a good beginning for most prospective park operators. On that basis the original investment will vary from $45,000 to $60,000, depending on the location of the park, the number of buildings in the original design, and the amount of construction work the prospective owner does himself.

These numbers were drawn up in 1955 so you should adjust for all economic factors including inflation.