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$60 Million Property: Mobile Homes or Luxury Mansions? #shorts

7 Jun 2026 · 2 min

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In this short, three participants (A, B, and C) evaluate a potential $60 million acquisition of a 19‑acre site and debate two redevelopment paths: converting it into a modern mobile‑home park or building a small community of high‑end homes. Speaker A drives a back‑of‑the‑envelope financial model, asking how many existing units existed, what lot rent would be required to recoup a $60 million land purchase plus 25 % of costs allocated to homes and infrastructure within five years. Using the assumed $75 million total cost (including upgrades), A calculates a per‑former‑space cost of roughly $433 000 and derives a required monthly lot rent of about $7 200. Speaker B suggests the “best route” could be a boutique luxury‑home community, noting that the full 19 acres is not entirely buildable, which would limit the number of homes (approximately four). Speaker C adds market context, citing Santa Monica beach lot rents of $3 500–$4 000 per month and vintage mobile homes selling for $2–$3 million, illustrating the premium of coastal locations. The discussion highlights the trade‑off between higher density, lower‑cost mobile‑home rentals and low‑density, high‑value luxury homes, while emphasizing the importance of buildable acreage, cost per unit, and projected lot rents in determining the viable development strategy.

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Are you in the deal room? Understand they want to get $60 million for this property. So let's do some— let's do some quick computation on that based on what was there previously. Are we able to see how many units were there previously? And then if we know how many units were there, can we split that up and figure out what it would be if we wanted? What would the lot rent be per mobile home if we actually paid $60 million for the dirt? And then, and then just say we spent 25% on, on homes and, and infrastructure and, and everything else to be upgraded to become a brand new mobile home park, what would we need to charge to recoup our expenses and costs within the 5-year time period? And that's going to tell you how much lot rent would be there.
Land Shark also said the best route for this would be like a small community of multi-million dollar homes, but still like $60 million.
Okay, but it's, it's a 19-acre property, right?
Yeah, 19.
That's 4— that's 4 luxury homes. And it's not all buildable. Like, the full 19 acres is not buildable. Yeah, but again, like, that's not a full 19 acres. So I'm curious as to what's buildable. So all in, $75 million, right? That would be approximately per former space, $433,000. So your, your per month lot rent is gonna be $7,200 a month for lot rent.
They're luxury mobile homes. It was by the beach. I know there's some out in like Santa Monica that are like $3,500, $4,000 because they're by the beach. For a lot, right? A lot, yeah. A lot of celebrities have homes there and they're like $2, $3 million for a mobile home that's 1970.
Are you serious? Maybe we're not too far off down here.