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There is a persistent myth about manufactured housing. The reality looks like this.The communities we own have paved str...
09/10/2026

There is a persistent myth about manufactured housing. The reality looks like this.

The communities we own have paved streets, clubhouses, and well-kept common areas, and residents who own their homes and take real pride in them. Because owning a manufactured home is far more affordable than a site-built house, these communities give working families a path to ownership that is disappearing almost everywhere else.

Good housing and good returns are not in tension here.

09/08/2026

Some of the best communities we buy have been in the same family for generations. Our latest acquisition is one of them.
We just purchased a portfolio of manufactured housing communities in the Midwest into Fund IV, 382 home sites that had been owned and operated by the same family since 1968. For nearly six decades they built and cared for these communities, and when they were ready to pass them on, they chose us to carry that work forward.

That trust is not won with the largest offer. We sourced the deal off market and built the relationship with the ownership group over three and a half years. The communities came to us roughly 98 percent occupied and institutional quality, with rents about 22 percent below market, which gives us room to add value responsibly over time.

Manufactured housing remains one of the most attainable paths to a home in this country, and communities like these are a big part of why demand for it keeps growing.

From here the plan is straightforward: fill the remaining sites, bring rents responsibly toward market, and operate these communities with the same care the family gave them for fifty-eight years.

09/04/2026

We just closed on a portfolio of manufactured housing communities in the Upper Midwest, 404 home sites across two well-built communities, at about $86,000 per pad.

A few things make this the kind of deal we look for. The communities are institutional quality and ~96% occupied, so the cash flow is already stable. Rents sit about 30% below market, which gives us real room to create value responsibly over time. And we bought them off market, directly from the family that built and operated them, through a relationship we developed over the past four years.

That last point matters most. These were not broadly marketed deals won with the biggest checkbook. They came from years of staying in touch with an owner who wanted to know his communities would be in good hands. That is how we source the large majority of what we buy.

From here the work is familiar: grow occupancy, bring rents responsibly toward market, and improve operations. The same playbook we run in every community we own.

Every month, more American families get priced out of the traditional housing market. The question nobody asks enough is...
09/01/2026

Every month, more American families get priced out of the traditional housing market. The question nobody asks enough is where they go.

Consider the math. To afford the median-priced home in America today, a household needs to earn about $110,000 a year. The typical household earns closer to $88,000. That leaves the average family more than $20,000 short of affording an average home, and the gap has persisted for years.
This is not a blip that a rate cut resolves. It is a structural gap between what people earn and what a home costs.

Families priced out of ownership do not stop needing a place to live. More and more are turning to the most affordable path to homeownership in this country, manufactured housing. A manufactured home, where the average community lot rent is about $772 a month, costs a fraction of a comparable mortgage or apartment.

That is the demand we serve. The most affordable segment of American housing, in a crisis that only deepens it.

In manufactured housing, the story of institutional capital moving in has gotten a lot of attention. The same thing has ...
08/27/2026

In manufactured housing, the story of institutional capital moving in has gotten a lot of attention. The same thing has been happening more quietly in self-storage for years. Large operators and REITs have been consolidating the sector, and they pay premium prices for stabilized, well-run facilities. The question is who does the work to create them.

When we acquired this facility in the Southeast, it was already about 99 percent full. On most screens that looks like a deal with no upside left. Underneath the occupancy, though, it was undermanaged. Rents sat below market, ancillary income was going uncaptured, and the gate system was aging and disconnected from any real management platform.

So we went to work. We upgraded the access system and integrated it with our platform, which made this the only gated facility in its submarket. In a market full of basic, ungated storage, security became the reason residents stay and the reason we can hold our rates. We brought tenant insurance pe*******on to around 93 percent, among the highest in our portfolio, and built ancillary revenue to roughly $50,000 a year.

NOI went from about $150,000 at acquisition to $299,000 today. That is 99 percent growth on the same asset, in under four years, now running 46 percent above our Year 4 underwriting.
Stabilized, well-run assets are what the largest buyers want. This is the work that creates them.

*Past performance is not indicative of future results.

08/25/2026

For most of its history, manufactured housing was too fragmented for institutional capital to bother with. Roughly 44,000 communities across the country, most of them owned by small, private families and operators. That is changing quickly.

Some of the largest investors in the world are now moving in, drawn by the same fundamentals we have always underwritten: essential-use demand, constrained supply, and durable cash flow.

But there is a part of the story that gets missed. The institutions are built to buy scale, stabilized portfolios that are already professionally run. They are not the ones calling a family that has owned a single community for 30 years, building the relationship, and doing the operational work to bring it up to institutional quality.

That is the gap we operate in. We source off-market, improve the asset, and create the kind of stabilized, scaled communities the largest buyers are now competing to own.

Institutionalization does not crowd us out. It gives us a larger, better-capitalized buyer for what we build.

We own exactly two kinds of real estate: manufactured housing and self-storage. Both are essential-use assets with durab...
08/20/2026

We own exactly two kinds of real estate: manufactured housing and self-storage. Both are essential-use assets with durable demand, but the reason goes deeper.

Manufactured housing may be the only kind of real estate where supply is actually shrinking. New communities almost never get built, only about 60 were added nationwide over a recent seven-year span, while demand keeps climbing. Close to three in four U.S. households can no longer afford a median-priced new home, which makes the most affordable form of homeownership more essential every year.

Self-storage has its own quiet stickiness, as long as you are disciplined about where you buy, because it is easy to overbuild.
And both tend to hold up when the economy does not. In 2008, when nearly every real estate sector posted steep losses, self-storage was the only major property type to end the year in positive territory.

It is part of why some of the largest investors in the country, Apollo among them, are now rotating capital into both.

We wrote up the full case for owning just these two, link in the comments.

08/18/2026

We were recently on-site for due diligence at a community we have under contract in the Greater St. Louis area, walking it with Mikey from our deal and operations team.

Mikey leads the work that turns a property into a better one: verifying the infrastructure, checking the roads, and assessing the potential to fill vacant sites and expand. Being on the ground changes what we know. On this asset, seeing the city-maintained roads and city water and sewer told us our repair and maintenance and on-site payroll assumptions were too conservative, so we are revising the underwriting.

Matt puts it plainly: you cannot write a check until you have seen the asset. A deal that looks good on a screen can look very different in person, and sometimes better. That is why we are on every deal, in person, before we commit.

If you want to understand how we evaluate the communities we buy, reach us at [email protected].

A number we are quietly proud of: we have returned more than $180 million to our investors, and we have never frozen a d...
08/14/2026

A number we are quietly proud of: we have returned more than $180 million to our investors, and we have never frozen a distribution.

Over more than a decade, through COVID and the interest rate spike of the last few years, our investors kept getting paid. That consistency comes from owning the right assets and operating them ourselves, so our performance does not depend on the market cooperating. Steady is not flashy, but over time, steady is what compounds.

08/12/2026

When our team is in a market to look at new acquisitions, we also stop in on the communities we already own nearby, usually without notice.

In this clip, Ben, Matt, and Mikey are at one of our communities in the Greater St. Louis area. The visit is straightforward: walk the property, check the condition of the yards and homes, and see how our rehab and infill work is coming along to bring occupancy up.

Real estate at this level is a local business. Owning a community well means being present in it, understanding whether it is running to our expectations, and staying just as close to the assets we are looking to buy.

If you have questions about how we manage the communities in our portfolio, reach us at [email protected].

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