011: Mobile Home Parks - The New Multifamily Investment with Paul Moore

Real Estate Runway

Jul 7 2021 • 25 mins

You may be overpaying on competition-rich multifamily assets. How do you go against the grain! Listen in and find out! Paul Moore is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital. Paul entered the management development track at Ford Motor Company in Detroit and after five years, he departed to start a staffing company with a partner. They scaled and sold the company to a publicly traded firm five years later. He began investing in real estate in 2000 to protect and grow his own wealth. Paul completed over 85 real estate investments and exits, appeared on HGTV’s House Hunters, rehabbed and managed dozens of rental properties, and developed a subdivision. He is also the host of the podcast, How to Lose Money, and author of the book, The Perfect Investment.

Let’s dive in and get to know Paul and his secrets to finding the perfect investment.

Getting to know Paul Moore - [00:01 – 04:23]

  • I introduce Paul Moore
    • Bio
  • How Paul navigated through investments
    • Discovering multifamily investing
    • The problem of overpaying
    • Expanding into mobile homes

How to Find the Perfect Investment - [04:24 – 22:14]

  • Paul talks about the ‘why’ behind mobile park investing
    • An asset with multiple families, just like multifamily
    • MHP investing keep the hassle on the owner
    • Sticky tenants - example of 6% increase
  • The economics behind MHP
    • The opportunities involved
  • What a great operator does with MHP
    • Not adding but extracting value
  • Example through a current investment of mine
    • Buying intrinsic value, paying extrinsic value
  • How the operations look

Final Questions- [22:15 - 25:34]

  • How Paul is adding to the world
    • Fighting human trafficking
    • Links below
  • Free book and course from Paul
    • Links below
  • Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“The perfect investment is not perfect if you have to overpay to get it.” - Paul Moore

“This is how you get wealthy, you don’t go with the herd, you break the stream and go against the stream.” - Chad Sutton

“This is what a great operator does with Mobile Home Park investing… They’re not necessarily adding value, they’re extracting the inherent value.” - Paul Moore

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Want to connect with Paul? You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn. Check out https://www.wellingscapital.com/ and protect and grow your wealth.

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