{"id":549,"date":"2025-04-14T00:10:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2025-04-14T00:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:13:49","slug":"private-equity-buying-mobile-home-parks-captive-audience-and-forever-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/private-equity-buying-mobile-home-parks-captive-audience-and-forever-income\/","title":{"rendered":"PRIVATE EQUITY BUYING MOBILE HOME PARKS&#8230;CAPTIVE AUDIENCE AND FOREVER INCOME!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"jeg_post_title\">Why Is Private Equity Targeting Manufactured Home Parks?<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p>Real estate has always been a safe investment, 2009 economic crisis notwithstanding. But it has generally been the middle class, upper class, and commercial real estate that has appealed the most to private equity firms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-694-1024x614.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-694-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-694-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-694-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-694-624x374.png 624w, https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-694.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, things have changed. Affordable and low-end housing, especially the manufactured home park markets, have been increasingly targeted by institutional investors and private equity firms. They\u2019re buying them like crazy at a time when the industry itself is expanding.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Absolutely insane. Wall Street private equity firms are now buying up American mobile home parks and skyrocketing rents up to 60% on people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese communities have become the target of a new kind of landlord, private equity. Private equity firms are increasingly getting involved. Some of the biggest investors in America have moved into this industry. People living at a local mobile home park outraged over the sharp increase in lot rents. Rents were raised by nearly 60%.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Resident: \u201cI worked for 45 years. There is no American dream anymore. All it is survival.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHomes of America has gone on a buying spree spending nearly $300 million to acquire 138 parks across 17 states. They\u2019ve raised rents and aggressively evicted residents.\u201d and that\u2019s just ONE FIRM buying, there are many more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Resident says \u201cI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m gonna do. Hope that I don\u2019t wake up tomorrow. Death crossed my mind.\u201d She can only afford one more month of rent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How much more will the American People continue to take?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s the captive-audience-nature that appeals the most. The investment may require a long time to turn a major profit, but time is on the side of the investors who want to continue making profits for years or even decades.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ameri-1043567408\" class=\"ameri-0000\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Is Private Equity Targeting Manufactured Home Parks? Real estate has always been a safe investment, 2009 economic crisis notwithstanding. But it has generally been the middle class, upper class, and commercial real estate that has appealed the most to private equity firms. Today, things have changed. Affordable and low-end housing, especially the manufactured home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}