PMC Financial

Fannie Mae is probably the largest lender for manufactured home parks in American
today. You might think this is good, since Fannie Mae was created by Congress to facilitate the affordable housing loan market, and, you probably think, foolishly, that as a resident group seeking to refinance your resident owned park, Fannie Mae would be a great source.

Recently I visited with the resident refinancing committee for a park on the central California coast.  The committee is planning for the refinance of the first mortgage debt they used to purchase the park about seven years ago, as a Mutual Benefit Corporation (MBC).  They have about three years before they need to pay off … Read more

I am occasionally asked, “Why can’t my resident group get tax-exempt bond financing to purchase our park?” Resident groups leaders are referring to the fact that commercial funding for resident groups trying to buy their park is hard to come by.  But so-called Non-Profit Corporations (NPC) can get local government sponsored tax-exempt bond money to … Read more

I often get asked by resident groups how much their park is worth, i.e., what are they going to have to pay to buy it. I don’t think there is ‘one’ value for a piece of real estate, such as a mobile home park. Rather there are several values: Value #1 – Owner Value, which … Read more