We just came back from the closing of our first mobile home park. We were supposed to have closed the deal on August 3rd, but we had a bunch of challenges with banking and the money didn’t arrive when it was supposed to. That is all past us and we have achieved what we set out to do. We are now the proud new parents of a cute little mobile home park.

Did you ever notice when you buy a new car, you start to see the same car everywhere you go? Well, when you buy something as unique as a mobile home park, you get the same reaction. Everywhere we go, our eyes are drawn to parks on the side of the road and they draw us in to look at them. Sometimes to see what features they have that we should consider and other times to see if they would be a park that we would consider buying. Either, they start to pop out of the woodwork.

That is the think about being down in the southern states. A significant percentage of the population lives in mobile homes. On Saturday, we drove to Milledgeville, GA and on the drive into the city we notice tons of single homes that were actually mobile homes. Mind you, these were good looking homes with finely trimmed lawns and trees. This is not quite like the typical mobile home park that is ill-kept and not the prettiest place you could visit.

In the future, that will not be our parks. We plan to turn our parks (yes, “parks.” we plan on buying more) into respectable communities where the residents are proud to live there. Why should it be any other way? We’re not talking about Ritz Carlton or Augusta National, just a nice place to live. That is our vision.