What Business Would You Choose

[Rocco]

Maybe in 2000 it was stated 11.6 but this is 5 years later and figures I read here released said that one in three owners are mobiles. Prices for houses were much more realistic just five years ago anyway.

Well I don't see it anymore expensive a venture than paying $250,000 for a small pool cleaning company!

In actual fact you can go to certain areas, Haines City is one where you can buy many plots of land side by side where there is already hook up for water and electricity PLUS being zoned for mobile homes. So why not buy up say 20 lots of these parcels of land and away you go.

[esprit]

There has been a huge rise in numbers of manufactured and mobile home dwellers because the $250,000 average price of home now is way beyond the means of ordinary Floridians who are on about $10 an hour. The way the prices have pushed up has priced them out of the market. Many young Floridians now cannot afford a proper home, I have to say we have exported the British disease to Florida.

So many people have sold their mobile park land for building on (evicting the tenants) in recent times though that it must be apparent that if you acquired a suitable piece of land, building on it may be the way to go rather than putting mobile homes on it. The difference from the $250,000 pool co is that that it will be established, have accounts, contracts and employees and may be quite a lot easier to get through the visa application than a start up.....

[Rocco]

I agree Julie with your last statement. However the way I see it is that on paper it looks good. But that's all it is, is on paper. Because who in their right mind would sell a business which would generate say $80,000 a year income for around $200k? The problem with maintenance is that you have to assume you will keep the business of your clients and the problem is once again you are up against the big boys as it were, with the huge property management.

I think it's a venture looking in to. I could be completely wrong, but if property management of houses work, I cannot see why this venture would not be acceptable.

[sundowner]

Well, you have all given us some good food for thought here. We were starting to get a bit stale on ideas etc.

Don't really fancy buying land and renting it out, think we would need some experience in that area, although, for someone in the know it would be a great investment.

I know exactly what you mean about the cost of business for E2 is way above the norm, but they have a market for it and they are going to exploit it if they can, we just have to accept that.

Thanks for all the feed back and will give you any updates as and when we decide.

[chrizzy100]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by esprit
There has been a huge rise in numbers of manufactured and mobile home dwellers because the $250,000 average price of home now is way beyond the means of ordinary Floridians who are on about $10 an hour. The way the prices have pushed up has priced them out of the market. Many young Floridians now cannot afford a proper home, I have to say we have exported the British disease to Florida.

So many people have sold their mobile park land for building on (evicting the tenants) in recent times though that it must be apparent that if you acquired a suitable piece of land, building on it may be the way to go rather than putting mobile homes on it. The difference from the $250,000 pool co is that that it will be established, have accounts, contracts and employees and may be quite a lot easier to get through the visa application than a start up.....
[/quote]

I would say a lot are on under $10 an hour.....it so odd here that people do everything so late......stay at school till 25....marry in late 20s..have kids mid 30s...buy their first home mid 40s.....to own a home is something too many Americans think is way out their reach because they are spending years paying off school fees and just living day to day....my dentist is mid 40s and it still paying off his school fees...he got his first house a few years ago....and his kids are so young......

[esprit]

Disney seems to pay around $8, its a laugh, but you do get an annual pass!! Sundowner run any business idea past www.investorvisausa.com. If she says it will run, it will run, if not, be careful. She knows what the embassy like better than most. At the moment, I am not sure they like anything that much!!! I think it is a better idea than baked spuds though.

[chrizzy100]

Starting pay on the Cape is now $8 at a lot of places because no-one would take the shop jobs......it was $6.25 before that......taking into account that to rent a house is around $2k a month in winter...and $2k a week in summer..its a joke.....most people live in hotels here full time......

Once the kids reach 18 here they just leave......nowhere for them to live.......unless they stay at home...and in most cases parents just kick their kids out at that age.......very few kids from here go on to college because they have no money and their parents have no money.......thats why the Tech school is the place to go...you can start work on a good wage when you finish......

[Rocco]

Well how about this as a slight alternative. See if you can buy some land, and actually put your mobiles on there and rent them out. Mobiles actually get almost just as good rents as houses here. They're pretty comparable. Whether its vacation or residential it's still pretty much square. You can pick up some great resale/repossessed ones for pretty cheap. You could then run your own park have have some lots for rent too. You may not like the idea but like you I'm throwing you out some thoughts. I don't know much about this at all, but I do admit that nearly every English person I've met here has bought something to do with property management and I just don't know how they are going to sustain things which relate to the vacation industry longterm because you just don't know what's around the corner with regard to this market.