
22 May 2017 | 14 replies
@Curt Smith and @John Arendsen I agree with both of you that some of the education related to mobile home and park investing can be overly optimistic, out dated and potentially risky for a new investor.I have several parks and have been very fortunate that all of them have done very well.

15 April 2016 | 16 replies
Further, we have a buyer with a very low cash investment in the property and a buyer who could not qualify for conventional financing, also not good.So without knowing other important information, I am going to say that a market value (what someone will pay for this note), is, very optimistically $80,000 (VERY optimistically!).

17 August 2014 | 29 replies
Being the optimist, I decided to find it.

14 March 2018 | 19 replies
People seem to be optimistic on neighborhood forums that it is headed in the right direction, but every time I drive through there, I'll admit it's hard to envision.

22 December 2017 | 2 replies
It will take you at least 30 days to get the lay of the land, optimistically at least 90 days to learn their system and see how some deals progress, which leaves maybe 3 months for you to add *some* kind of value before you leave.

13 September 2008 | 13 replies
It will, in fact, take you in the wrong direction, even with some fairly optimistic assumptions about expenses.

2 October 2017 | 10 replies
Your plan is very optimistic and your two biggest risks in my opinion are a market crash and vacancy/non paying tenants, specially if you plan to take out mortgages for all these properties and hold them long term.

14 October 2018 | 5 replies
You and the two posters above reminded me of this quote from Winston Churchill “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity while an optimistic sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

10 September 2008 | 10 replies
If you assume an optimistic ratio of 40% for expenses (because you're managing it yourself and you have no "vacancy" on the unit with the lady), that's $900/month.