Why mobile home rentals? Get past the prejudice and look at the numbers. In our town, for example, a two bedroom house costs $130,000 and rents for $800/month. A $50,000 mobile home on real estate gets $500/month. Cash-on-cash return on investment is obviously higher with mobile homes.
Don’t let the half-truth that mobiles depreciate in value keep you from investing in them. They lose value in a park, on a rented lot, but not on real estate. My first home was a mobile, bought for $19,000 and sold for $45,000 fourteen years later.
House rentals here usually have negative cash flow, while mobile home rentals have some cash flow. Still, investors prefer houses, believing they’ll build equity faster, but is that true? Only during times of fast appreciation.
Equity Building With Mobile Home Rentals
Buy a house for $120,00 with $20,000 down, and take out a $100,000, 6%, 30-year mortgage. You’ll have a payment of $599.60. Of the first payment, $500 will go to interest, and $99.60 to principal. You only built equity of $99.60. This ignores appreciation, but only for the moment.
Second scenario: Find a mobile home for sale on...