From Hoops to Homes, How Aaron got started flipping mobile homes.

We gonna pause on that. Y' all heard that in six months he did 12 deals. Those 12 deals made him a six figure earning in mobile home investing. Let's let that marinate. Mobile home. Mommy, Mommy. What's up everybody? It's your girl, Nicole Briscoe, also known as the mobile home mommy. And I'm here with Mr. Aaron Haynes. He's from California with Su in the building. I know y' all hear me talk about him a lot, but I figured it was time for him to actually come on and tell his story. So without further ado, Aaron, tell the people a little bit about yourself.

What up? What up? Like she said, this is Aaron coming from Fresno, aka FreshNow. So I played basketball. In case you guys can tell, I'm a lot taller than my short coach right here. But anyway, so I played basketball. I played college basketball at Boise State. I eventually had a professional career that lasted 17 years. I retired last year and my last season, which was 2020, my last season, yeah, I retired and I found Mobile Home Elite investors. I was just watching a podcast one night while I was in season. Hold on.

But you ain't gonna speed past your professional career. Tell us about your career. Was you trash or was you an army?

I mean, I played 17 years. I mean, that should speak for itself.

Was you bench riding? Cause you was tall for 17 years.

I mean, okay, so. Yeah, okay, So I played 17 years professionally, I had a pretty good career. Three time MVP, three time champion. That's right.

That's what I'm talking about.

Running stats.

Running stats.

All time leading scorer in the of Korea for Americans, number two, all time, including Koreans. And they play their whole career there. Yeah. So I did a whole lot over there. They want me to come back and coach. But I found Mobile Home Elite last season. I was like, nah, I'm not trying to coach. So I found Mobile Home Elite. On eyl. I had a conversation with Byron. We was going back and forth while I was in season my last year and when I got home, he told me to hit him up. So I hit him up. And so needless to say, I was a part of the first program, the best program in June and I had the best coach. Your favorite coach. Favorite coach, Mobile home mommy, AKA my sis, AKA my homie, AKA the pain in his ass. That's what he wanted me. Oh my God, for real. But yeah, so, yeah, she was my coach. Love her to death, like family member. And we just, yeah, we've been rocking. So I started out up to date. I done 12 deals. 12. I was. I was the first six figure earner student. I did it in six months. December, whatever the deal, whatever day I close on in December made my.

Oh, we gonna pause on that. Y' all heard it. In six months, he did 12 deals. Those 12 deals made him a six figure earner in mobile home investing. Let's let that marinate. You are crazy. Mobile home investment is where it's at. All right, go ahead.

Go ahead. Yeah. So long story short, like I said, I love Nicole to death. Made six figures in December. So I've been doing wholesale and fix and flip rent to own. And I recently picked up on unlicensed group homes. I like to say transitional living. So that's why we're out here in Tennessee today. I have four homes out here that I'm having done. One is complete. We're decorating and getting it all up to par. So we're getting ready to rent the rooms out here.

So hold on. Before you tell the people about what you were doing there and how many deals you've done and stuff, tell the people about how you felt about the program. Cause y' all behind camera. He even shared with me, like, it was a little sketchy for him. He wasn't sure, maybe. He said, maybe I should do single family homes. Tell the people the real.

All right. Yeah, yeah. So they were just telling me about when the program possibly was gonna start. So when I got off the phone, I think I spoke with maybe Joel. And I was just like, damn, is this real? Like, or is this a scam? So in my mind thinking, like, maybe this could be a scam. And then I heard the price. Price wasn't bad. I'm like, okay. And I thought about. I'm like, I done went to Vegas and other places and. And turned up for that same price. And I got nothing out of it but a good time. So I'm like, why wouldn't I invest in myself? You know what I mean? And it's been the best thing I've ever done. Not only the price wasn't that bad, but I made double, like, what I paid for the course. I made double that my first deal. So I was in profit right away. So, yeah, it's. For me, it's a no brainer. I'm glad I took that. I took that gamble. I guess it wasn't a gamble, actually. I'm glad. I'm glad. I'm glad I stepped out on the limb.

Cool. Cool. Okay, y'. All. He say the price like it was a million dollars. Tell Them how much you paid. Tell them how much you paid.

That's why I said, I blew that in Vegas before.

So exactly.

The price. The price. The price was 5,000. And I was just like, you know, you want to make sure you're gonna get your money back and some when you. When you invest.

But can we pause? How is it as people, it's easy to blow money. He said it was easy for him to blow five grand in Vegas, but when it came to actually investing in himself, he had to pause and think about it. That's something we got to stop doing as society as a whole. As a whole.

Anyway, anyway, I'm just glad I did it. And I'm. I'm really, really looking forward to my new part of my mobile home investing in transitional living.

So before you get into that transitional living, you were doing wholesale fix and flips and seller finance deals. Now, explain how those deals work, because you're in California, I'm in North Carolina. Most people are like, oh, you can't do this up north. It's very expensive. You can't do this in California. It's very expensive. So, like, give us an example of a whole wholesale deal. Give us an example of a fix and flip and give us a. Yeah, you can give us numbers and also give. Give a worst case, like something that happened to you that was crazy.

Oh, I've been able to buy homes for super cheap. Like, I know in North Carolina, where we. Tennessee, Georgia, a lot of people get homes for 1500, 2000, $3,000. My first fix and flip in California, I paid 5,600 for it. I got two months free lot rent. I put in 10,000 DOL with my handyman and supplies. So a total of $15,600. And I sold it for $45,500. That's a great profit, right? I got cussed out for selling it for that price. That's a whole nother subject. But then I also done.

No, you didn't say it. So tell me what happened.

So mobile home mommy, AKA Coach, she teaches us, if you make an offer, you'd be like, oh, you. If someone. If you make offer to someone and they accept the first one, basically you already like, it was a bad. A bad offer.

It wasn't bad. It was just. They was like, oh, that's a good offer.

Yeah. So basically I knew.

I.

And as soon as the lady said, okay, okay, I'll do that, I was like, damn, she's not gonna do this. I knew I had messed up, and I'm like damn. So I instantly, after I, we agreed upon the numbers, I called Nicole and she cussed me. I said I know you're gonna cuss me out, go ahead. So she did cuss me out, but it still was a good property.

So I had listed, it was a good problem.

Yeah, really good. I had listed the home for 52, trying to stay in like the 47, 46 to 48 ish. And I ended up selling for 45, 5. But I was only in total, everything included 15,600.

So that's 30. That's a thirty thousand dollar profit.

Yeah, I made like a crazy profit on there, but I still got cussed out for that. But I knew why and I knew I was going to get it. So that's why when I called her, I called her right after and I said, go on and give it to me. And then one of my wholesale deals I did, I've done quite a bit of wholesale deals. I had guy had a home on private land, he needed it, he only wanted 6,000 for it. I would have listed the home for like 23,000. A buyer came and he was like, oh, you think he could do 20? I'm like ah, he probably will, but let me talk to him. I think I could get him down. I knew I could. So.

Because he only wanted six.

He only wanted six. Yeah. So I went home and you know, gave the guy a couple hours away and then I hit him down like, you know, I got him down to 20. I'm like, so let's close. It's on like a Tuesday or Wednesday. I said let's get it closed on Sunday. He had gave me that same day that showed it to me. I gave me like a down deposit of like 350. And then he gave me the 350, 350, like a down deposit.

Okay.

And I did, I wrote it up, I just wrote it up on the back of a bill of sale. Yeah. So we closed the deal, he brought the 13. 13 or not 13, 16, 1650 or whatever to make 20. So basically 6. The, the owner, the owner wanted 6,000. So I ended up making $14,000 profit on that. Yeah. Then I had another fix and flip that. I got it for $3,000, put in 8,000. So I was in a total for 11. And then I sold it for 32,000. And that was in 19 days I think it was. I got the numbers in my phone, but it's like 19 or 18 days. So yeah, I've had some pretty good, pretty good.

Now the numbers sound amazing, right? So now I tell him, look, you ever need some money, I'll send it to you in California so I can get in on some of these higher markets. Like, so far, your highest profit has been that $30,000 deal.

No, the 45,000. The one that you cussed me out on.

Right. You made 30,000?

Yeah, 30. Instant change.

My highest profit so far has been 14. $14,000 on a wholesale deal. Now, all that sounds good, right? But now let's tell them some stories. Tell them about the handyman. You want to tell them the handyman story about how you had to fire him and you didn't want to? Oh, he doesn't get emotional, y'.

All. Bruh, I don't even want to talk about this because she goes and she gonna try to bust me out on line talking about. You was crying. I wasn't crying.

He was.

I wasn't.

So he called me weeping. I was like, damn, what's wrong?

That's not true. So the home that I just told you guys about, that I made like a 32, 30 something thousand profit. My handyman done the work on that home, and he did a really good job. And so he went and found a guy that was a squatter in the park. And the squatter for you guys that don't know is someone who don't live there. They're homeless. They just go find an empty home and they just sit there and they won't leave. Because in California, squatters or homeless people, however you want to word it.

Yeah.

Have rules and rights. The park manager. I'm friends with the park manager. She texts me, hey, I ain't gonna say his name. Such and such. Gotta go. I'm like, why? What happened? Like, he's a real laid back guy, into church and all this stuff. She was like, he had one of the squatters over there working at your house, cutting your grass. Da, da, da, da, da. I'm like, what? So I'm like, not knowing what's going on. So I called him. And long story short, I felt really bad about this, but I had to let him go. And I had to hire another crew to come in and finish up what he had done. And, yeah, I wasn't emotional crying, but I was literally emotional because I had, like, a personal bond with him. So I hate you, y'. All.

No, for real. Aaron had compassion. So when he said he fired him, he let him go from that job because they didn't want him in the park anymore because they were upset because who he Got for help. But a little bit more the backstory is the reason the guy sought that guy out, because he used to be in the same situation. Homeless, out here, addicted to certain things. And he was like, man, somebody helped me. Let me help him. So what Aaron did is he didn't fire him. He just put him on another job site at another part and had to get the other guy that was working on that home back in. In that part. So he had to switch them. But it really bothered Aaron because it was closer to the man's home. It was more convenient for him. So, yeah, that's what the situation was.

And I didn't cry.

Okay, so, Aaron, tell the people what you got going on now.

Okay, so I've been comfortable with the wholesale and fixing and flipping and the rent to own. I noticed with the fishing and flipping, it's a big check, which is very nice, but as soon as you finish that fix and flip and get that big check, you back at zero. So you got to go start out and find more homes and prospect more homes and get started and do it all over again. So I had heard my coach, mobile home mommy, talking about renting these rooms out, and da, da, da, da. I'm like, what the hell she talking about? So I hit her up. I'm like, nicole, what are you talking about renting these rooms? And she was telling me it's an unlicensed group home. I'm like, what? I'm like, can you teach me it? So here we are now in Tennessee. So I have four properties here. One just got completed. I'm in the process of getting ready to rent it out. So I call it transitional living. She call it unlicensed group homes. Other call it co living. Just depend on what you want to call it.

Depending on what you call it, you can call it whatever you like.

You can have whatever you like. Turn me up. But, yeah, so I'm in the process of finishing up one. I have three homes in this park and one in another park 10 minutes.

Away and outside of his state, y', all, we're in Tennessee. He lives in California. You can do virtual deals. Okay. And then I'll let you finish, but go ahead, Go ahead.

Yeah, so I'm really. I'm really looking forward to this because, like I said, I've been used to the fix and flips and all the other stuff, but the fix and flips are just like a big check, and then that's it. You got to start back over the whole process with this. I'm going to be renting out rooms. And I'm going to constantly just keep receiving checks. So most of my homes here are three twos. I have. One of them is a two one. So you do the math. I'm going to be getting 11 checks per month Once I get all my homes up and running. That's a no brainer right there for me.

So talk about, like, how you gonna rent the rooms out?

Reach out to charitable organizations looking to get people moved in. Probably even go on Facebook marketplace and find people that's looking to rent rooms. I've been doing some research here and following some groups in Tennessee as well. I've seen people looking to rent rooms. So I'll do that, reach out to them and get the homes filled. Like I said, a three two. I'll be getting three checks versus renting it out to one family. The three twos, the master is a lot bigger than the other two. So I'll be renting it for 750. And then the other two, I'll be renting for 650. So you do the numbers on that at 650, 1212, 1300. That's 20. So that's. That'd be 2050. And then the lot rent is 400. So 400 minus 2000. I'd be 16, 1650.

1650, 1650. Okay.

I'm pretty good with numbers.

I'm not.

That'd be 16.50amonth. But then I'm gonna pay for, like, the lights. The. The lights, the Internet, like the water, stuff like that. So you. Minus that, I'll be 1650 for one home. And again, I have four homes. Three are three twos and one is a two one. So I think, if I'm not mistaken, the number should be anywhere from 5,400amonth to 6,000 or something like that. I have four homes today, but I'm looking on the long end. By December, I want to have at least 15 to 20 something. I want to have a lot of homes because they don't all have to be finished by then, But I want to have those so I can just keep going one by one, brick by brick, step by step.

Listen, y', all, you got to build a relationship. You got to build a relationship. You can't just be like, oh, I'm gonna rent the room out. All of this is from relationship building talking, Getting to know the park managers and owners and making sure that they're okay with what we're doing. We don't want to ever impose. We want to make sure that they're in agreeance with the plans that we have for their part. How about give them a tip before you. Before you dip out?

Tip. A tip. Well, you already said it, but it's really key to create relationships. So I have a JV partner here, and she's helping me boots on the ground. But I have a personal relationship with the park manager. Really good relationship. We. We speak even outside of mobile home investing. Like, we talk about personal matters, and it's just, like. It's just natural, you know? So my biggest thing would be create relationships with whoever. Like, rather it be like, me and Nicole have a good relationship. Me and my JV partner here in Tennessee have a great relationship. So my thing will be create relationship with the owners, the park managers, whoever have you. But, like, let it be organic. So that'll be my create relationship.

That was intentional.

Hey, get up out of here. Hey, turn me up.

That's called. That's called. That's why.

It'S been real. Appreciate y' all rocking with us. Love my coach. Appreciate y' all supporting us. And yeah, we out of here. Peace.

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