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On this episode of House Flip Masters Holly is joined by guest Tim King. Tim is the \\u201cKing of Mobile Home Investing\\u201d and he got his start in mortgages before he got his start in mobile homes.\\xa0

In the early 2000\\u2019s Tim started in the business of mortgage originations and was introduced to a family friend who had a mobile home dealership. Because of this relationship Tim found a niche because not many people were doing mortgage origination for manufactured homes. While admittedly these deals didn\\u2019t pay as much Tim found that he didn\\u2019t have a ton of competition so he kept at it.

In 2007 when the mortgage crisis hit single family lending slowed down slowly but manufactured housing Tim says literally disappeared in 30 days. Being a serial entrepreneur Tim saw that this was a problem and if he could find a solution to this problem he knew that there was potential for some serious profit. Tim started researching and learned about creative finance and also found a book called \\u201cDeals on Wheels\\u201d by Lonnie Scruggs. Tim had the education when it came to financing but it took this book to really show him how to use his education and his solution to this problem to make a profit. Since there wasn\\u2019t competition in this area Tim got lucky and this area of real estate investing really took off for him. All of the real estate education that he learned from real estate investing gurus about single family financing he was able to apply to mobile home financing.\\xa0

After years of doing this for a few years Tim got frustrated with dealing with park owners because a park owner has to approve a buyer before Tim could sell the home - so Tim decided to start buying the parks as well so that he could control the full operation.\\xa0

Holly asks Tim to share what location he is doing business. Tim is currently doing business in Southern California, in the South Bay Area. Tim is always being told that he can\\u2019t make this business work in California because it is too expensive but he finds that he is doing just fine and doesn\\u2019t want anyone else crowding his market if they are too scared of how expensive the market is.\\xa0

Tim shares with us his first two deals, which he says were very crucial deals in helping him learn all about the mobile home business and also about the park owners which he refers to as the gatekeepers of the park. He admits that during his first deals he now realizes that he really didn\\u2019t know what he was doing because he had no idea the fees and expenses that went into buying a mobile home when you are preparing to sell it. Tim says that a park with a high space rent is something to keep in mind because that can definitely take away from the overall profit from the deal.

Holly asks Tim if he still dabbles in buying and selling of the mobile homes or if he is only interested in buying the land that the homes are on. Tim says that he isn\\u2019t as motivated anymore to buy and sell homes as he once was 12 years ago but he still buys and sells on occasion and does Lonnie Deals from time to time as well.\\xa0

Tim shares that he gets a lot of his deals from direct marketing and he works with a handful of parks where he is friends with the management. He finds that sometimes management is the reason why he stays out of a lot of parks that are local to him. Tim unfortunately hasn\\u2019t been able to get buyers approved in parks that he previously did business in because the management does not understand seller financing. He also shares with Holly that one park he was doing business in previously had 3 real estate agents that live there that would go around and bad mouth him and his business and tell buyers that Tim was doing something illegal and because of this Tim has not been able to do business in that park because of those realtors that don\\u2019t like or understand what he is doing with his business.\\xa0

Holly asks Tim to share how he transitioned from doing deals on individual homes to doing deals with the whole'