The Cold, Hard Lessons of Mobile Home
U.
From the New York Times Magazine
By Gary Rivlin
“Don’t get too hung up on appearances,” Frank Rolfe reminded
us as our tour bus made its way to the first of several trailer parks we would
visit on a bright Saturday afternoon in Southern
California . “Remember, you don’t have to live in these homes.”
It was Day 2 of Mobile Home University, an intensive,
three-day course on how to strike it rich in the trailer-park business.
Seventy-five or so students had signed up for the class, which Rolfe offers
every other month in different places around the country. Most of the enrollees
weren’t real estate speculators; they were jittery members of a hard-pressed
middle class.
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