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Download or read book Singlewide written by Sonya Salamon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America’s trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public need. Singlewide considers the circumstances of families with school-age children in trailer parks serving whites in Illinois, Hispanics in New Mexico, and African Americans in North Carolina. By looking carefully at the daily lives of families who live side by side in rows of manufactured homes, Salamon and MacTavish draw conclusions about the importance of housing, community, and location in the families’ dreams of opportunities and success as signified by eventually owning land and a conventional home. Working-poor rural families who engage with what Salamon and MacTavish call the "mobile home industrial complex" may become caught in an expensive trap starting with their purchase of a mobile home. A family that must site its trailer in a land-lease trailer park struggles to realize any of the anticipated benefits of homeownership. Seeking to break down stereotypes, Salamon and MacTavish reveal the important place that trailer parks hold within the United States national experience. In so doing, they attempt to integrate and normalize a way of life that many see as outside the mainstream, suggesting that families who live in trailer parks, rather than being "trailer trash," culturally resemble the parks’ neighbors who live in conventional homes.

Download or read book Mobile Home Tycoon written by RJ Salerno and published by Genesis Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAKE A FORTUNE INVESTING IN MOBILE HOMES This is an A to Z; beginners guide into the world of mobile home real estate investing and untapped opportunities unknown to the seasoned real estate investor. There are many valuable tips and examples to put you on your way to begin amassing your own real estate empire. I will walk you through on how to find your very 1st mobile home deal and on how to begin cash flowing immediately on your new investment. Some years ago, I was introduced to the world of real estate investing. Like most that are in the investment world, there are many aspects of real estate investing I had to learn. Most investors that I knew stayed away from mobile homes. Mostly what I was told was of the pitfalls and investment failures when investing in mobile homes. Since then what I have found are a very small margin of real estate investors in this world of mobile home investing and they are making a fortune. What this means to you is a huge opportunity to capitalize on a wide-open market. Most of what I have learned has been by trial and error since there are very few books or courses on the matter. Mobile home parks might not be viewed as such an attractive investment to add to your portfolio at first glance, but when you look into the consistency of tenancies and the income you can generate, they can potentially be an attractive real estate investment.

Download or read book Indiana Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adventures in Mobile Homes written by Rachel Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hernandez, a.k.a. Mobile Home Gurl, shares stories and adventures based on her own experiences in mobile home investingNthe obstacles, the struggles, and eventually the triumphs.

Download or read book Manufactured Insecurity written by Esther Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after mobile home park closures and community-wide evictions in Florida and Texas—the two states with the largest mobile home populations—Manufactured Insecurity forces social scientists and policymakers to respond to a fundamental question: how do the poor access and retain secure housing in the face of widespread poverty, deepening inequality, and scarce legal protection? With important contributions to urban sociology, housing studies, planning, and public policy, the book provides a broader understanding of inequality and social welfare in the United States today.

Download or read book Roskey's Guide to Smart Housing Choices written by Carol B. Roskey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, it has been an axiom that the purchase of a home is the greatest single investment the average person makes. The corollary has always been thatif you take good care of that homeit will inevitably be a good investment, permitting you to sell your home at a profit or allowing you to take out a large loan on the equity youve built up. While the axiom is still true, the corollary is no longer true. Many Americans have lost their homes due to the Great Recession and still more owe more on their homes than the homes are worth. People once made a lot of money on flipping homes; now many wonder if they should buy homes at all. There are unmistakable signs that we are headed into an even worse recession, making any housing decisions more important than ever. An acknowledged expert, Dr. Carol Roskey has spent a lifetime in studying all aspects of the housing field from financing to the best kinds of insulation. With her help, you can make well informed decisions.

Download or read book Breathing Blue written by Kathleen O’Dwyer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life changes everything. When comfort turns to restlessness it can make you itch. Many of us simply scratch but in this personal memoir Kathy ODwyer recognized the itch for what it was, the need for a more fulfilling life. Shocking family and friends she abandons her comfortable Chicago lifestyle trading in her corporate high heels for a pair of steel toe shoes and work gloves to take on management of a small ranch and retreat center in the wilderness of Aravaipa Canyon in southern Arizona. Encounters with rattlesnakes, javelinas, scorpions and coatimundis are nothing compared to the challenge of isolation and loneliness. Following an unconventional path takes courage yet Kathy soon finds it is necessary to bring about intense transformation. She stumbles along the way, strays from the path yet ultimately sheds the skin of her old life and embraces a new beginning. Reconnecting with the Earth allows her to discover her souls purpose and ultimate happiness. This work from the heart is shared through short stories and poetry during Kathys two years living next to the singing waters of Aravaipa Canyon.