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3 June 2015 | 29 replies
Every year the city mobilizes "Angel's Night," with tens of thousands of volunteers patrolling areas at high risk.[40][41]Problems[edit]Population decline[edit]As Detroit's abandoned houses have been demolished, gaps in the previously urban environment have emerged, which is sometimes called urban prairie.Further information: Demographic history of DetroitLong a major population center, Detroit has been going through a major reduction in population; the city has lost over 60% of its population since 1950.[42] A Michigan web site compares Youngstown, Ohio to Detroit on a much smaller scale due to its own economic problems.[43]Detroit reached its population peak in the 1950 census at over 1.8 million people, and decreased in population with each subsequent census; as of the 2010 census, the city has just over 700,000 residents, adding up to a total loss of 61% of the population.[44][45]A major change in the racial composition of the city also occurred over that same period; from 1950 to 2010 the black/white percentage of population went from 16.2%/83.6% to 82.7%/10.6%.[46] Due to the prevalence of the one-drop rule in assigning African-American race in the 20th-century United States, arguably a better comparison figure from 2010 is 84.3% marking African-American even if they marked some other race, and the 7.8% non-Hispanic white population of Detroit in 2010 might be a better figure to use for comparison figured.[47] Approximately 1,400,000 of the 1,600,000 white people in Detroit after World War II have left the city, with many going to the suburbs.[48]Unemployment[edit]According to the U.S.
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1 January 2015 | 5 replies
Anybody have any knowledge on how to value a mobile home park?
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8 January 2015 | 7 replies
My husband and I are fairly new to the mobile home realm, but bought six trailers in the last half of 2014.
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8 January 2015 | 8 replies
Is mobile home investment a wise choice for an initial real estate investment?
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3 October 2015 | 25 replies
I flipped a ton of mobile homes in parks (not even real estate) to generate cash to buy rentals.
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2 January 2015 | 1 reply
I'm new to BP and am in the process of purchasing a used / refurbished mobile home to put on land that I own.
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6 January 2015 | 22 replies
I have owned SFHs, douplex-4 plexes, and 32 homes and a mobile home park.
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11 January 2015 | 21 replies
Thanks @Kim Giannola and @ben I'm traveling and on mobile so posting is not easy.
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10 January 2015 | 4 replies
Hey Guys I currently have a mobile home park under contract for roughly a 12 cap.
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7 January 2015 | 0 replies
They have recently purchase the 12 lot mobile home park and I've met with them to discuss purchasing those mobile homes and they are on board.