Fact: there are over 30 communities in the US that sell new homes in their land lease communities for over $300K and none of those are in California where there are manufactured homes selling for over a million in land lease communities.Without a financing mechanism, you will always be at a serious disadvantage.

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Use your savings to buy another place (probably will be out of CA) a year later and grow your empire there.It will take time, but it will be worth it.Josh

It may take some time, but eventually you will accumulate your real estate empire.

Hi @timothy drake@Timothy Drake I would suggest just starting under your own name and then using more advance strategies as your empire grows.

I have selected Empire Industries - they are a full service property management company (owned and operated by Investors) with Realty services.

Keep expanding your empire. 

It seemed my dreams of paying off my house and starting a real estate empire were over.

Unless you're interested in land purchasing I would recommend you search homeowners records that show improvements value it indicates there should be a structure. 

In your case, if you're in Costa Mesa, look to move to the Inland Empire ... or better yet, if you can swing it, move out of SoCal (Phoenix?