Trailer park millionaires: meet the people getting rich on housing for the poor
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- Опубликовано: 21 май 2024
- Some of the richest people in the US, including billionaires Warren Buffett and Sam Zell, have made millions from trailer parks at the expense of the country's poorest people.
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Seeing their success, ordinary people from across the country are now trying to follow in their footsteps and become trailer park millionaires. The Guardian went to Orlando to learn the tricks of the trade from Frank Rolfe, the self-appointed dean of Mobile Home University, as he led would-be investors around a trailer park for sex offenders.
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Okay, I thought this was about millionaires living in trailers
ramon that's what I thought too
Me too 😂
Yes!!! Me too!! I wanted to know more about why these millionaires were living at trailer park!!
ramon so did I haha
Same here.. i was expecting an inspiring video, but all we got was this video on exploiting people...
I thought this was about people living in trailers who saved so much money, they became millionaires.. Instead I get to see the devils in action.
CEEPMDEE that's what I thought too! This is sick and heartbreaking!
There ARE millionaires who do live in Moble Home parks... often they are "snow birds", BUT ... they don't look like that!
CEEPMDEE
Same here
Bad
When I retire, I might buy a trailer park and just keep the rent low, make enough profit to live, and just let the people live low rent in peace, and save up some cash. The richest feeling, is picking someone up when they are down.
❤ this.
Incredible idea. We need more people like you
Please do.
If you can do that, that's great. There are a million millionaires in the U.S. That's what I read. Some millionaires may live in trailer parks. They may live modest lifestyles. If you do wind up owning a park, be careful. I don't think you'd be happy with a "party park." You'd need to have standards. Units need to be maintained. Animals shouldn't be running all over the place. I'd stay away from parks with dirt or gravel roads.
@@wadebarnett2542 Yeah, I would have to screen potential residents. I'm thinking more along the lines of retired vets, seniors, single parents, etc. Just a low-rent, quiet, respectful community.
He warns that it's possibly filled with sex offenders and the men laugh. Belly laughs. This ol sicko twisted planet.
I almost puked at the end. "Say trailer park."
Don't be a party pooper. You gotta find the humor in bad things, lest you let the bad things control you.
@@Jebusmike3 There is no humor in violating someone sexually. Only a psychopath would think otherwise.
@@autumncolors1673 I'm pretty sure the people laughing were more laughing at the prospect of going into an environment like that as if to say 'better not get too close to these guys' and laughing it off in an uncomfortable awkward way, not laughing that they violated people...
These folks in suits are parading through the damn trailer park like it's a damn zoo. 🤦 They have no shame in basically admitting they are taking advantage of the poor.
Monopoly
So you know why they become rich
Very well said
wyatt hackney what’s taking advantage even mean? Everything you do or buy has a profit built into it for someone. A group of investors pool their money that they worked and saved, buy a park, charge rent. Sounds fair.
next year is 2020 and coming fast 2020=perfect vision our eyes will be opened with our brain. finally
Am I the only who thought it was supposed to be about cheap-skate millionaires living in trailers
Me, but turned out even better.
So did I. Didn't need to see more rich, wealthy millionaires, exploiting the poor. Shameful indeed!
Nope..Just the title...
I thought it was terminology akin to hobo-rich.
definitely thought it was how to be a cheap skate millionaire in a trailer
as an investor, this is incredibly insensitive and tasteless.
Investing was never tasteful honestly
@@royjaber571 that’s not true, investing can be anything you do to make your money work for you; there’s nothing insensitive about it but these people are doing is out of order.
Like it or not this is capitalism
I know. Isn't it wonderful??
yea, that describes these people who are so heartless
This was disgusting. I dont know if the owners were worse or the nasty people walking through thristy for greed.
It’s a tie 🤬🤬
I agree - I couldn’t even watch the whole video... 😡
Totally its so sick
Jesus. So we're pitting a bus full of vulture-esque scumbags against a trailer park full of sex offenders. Who exactly am I supposed to be rooting against? I feel horrible watching this.
Mark Heggeland the ppl on the bus are investors lookn to buy trailer parks . The poor and the offenders need somewhere to go . The rent is cheap . Where else would they go . Welfare ? So our tax dollars can pay for them ? At least they're not homeless . As for being poor . Some can't help it ( mental and or physical disabilities ) but there's no reason others can't work two jobs .
The answer is Napalm, Mark. Lots and lots of Napalm.
They're vultures. I've lived in these parks. Listen to what these scumbags are saying. "It's easy because they don't have cars." "They have no place to go." They're talking about washing down a shitty trailer with bleach to pretend it shouldn't be condemned. They make pure profit and don't do shit for the people living in these homes. And if you think they only do this to sex offenders, you haven't payed attention. Monsters. If you're going to buy the trailer park, fucking do your job as a landlord and actually renovate and maintain. But they won't. And no one will make them. Because they have an attitude like yours. You are scum too, with your attitude. You make me sick. Talking shit about poor people. High and mighty and don't know your ass from a hole in the ground. You have no idea what it's like, or how quickly it can happen to anyone.. Don't go taking advantage of the poor. It's hard enough to feed yourself when you're poor. You don't need fucking Scrooge buying up your home. Oh, and btw, some of us DID work two or even three jobs. No reason but maybe THERE ARE NO DECENT JOBS. A lot of these parks are in very economically depressed areas. I am incredibly grateful I no longer live in the one I had to live in. And I'm glad our park wasn't just jacking the rent up to make a quick profit. But my neighbors and my mom were not so lucky. Think! Stop judging the poor and start judging the ones that actually have options, and choose greed!
Sounds like someone needs some counseling for their anger issues . I wasn't speaking about you personally . So sorry you felt it necessary to think so . I do speak from experience. Not yours of course . You take care . Not everyone has had the shitty life you seemed to have had . Sorry for that . Notice how I spoke of this particular trailer park? About these specific ppl at this specific trailer park? Not the whole world of trailer parks? Why do ppl always somehow make a comment or statement about themselves? I was not speaking in general . Lighten up
Hahaaaaaaaaaaaahaahaaasaaaa!!!!! Seems to me like you a need pill !! Thanks for the entertainment!!😂
"Pay me a small fee and I will show you how to take advantage of America's most vulnerable citizens!" And the people line up and take notes. Sick.
Why gun control is bad...heres your sign.
Vulnerable or poor by choice because of sheer laziness and lack of motivation to get out of poverty simply by getting a better paying job?
@@ben6351 its way more complex than that, but this fallacy that keeps spreading so we can shut off our humanity and go on with our lives. Not everything is justified for the sake of becoming richer.
That's the AMERICAN way😂
Money is money
You are the worst type of people raising rent on people with fixed incomes. Now you know why there are homeless.
Homeless or not can't live the área.
There’s something super unethical about taking advantage of people who are trying to rebuild their lives.
ya, the people renting a bedroom should only have to pay $200-$250.
The market sets the rate. Not these park owners. If there was a cheaper option they would be taking it.
Not really. Unless you can clearly demonstrate that the extra $200-$500 a month extra they're paying in rent who dramatically alter their lives, your claim is baseless.
And it's not a charity, it's a real estate investment. If they're not allowed to operate at a profit, then the parks don't exist and there is less low cost housing, meaning more homeless
No there isn't. Stop trying to be morally superior.
@@carmenvance5303 The utilities are included in the price. So after electricity & water & gas & wear & tear on the property they have to make profit or what’s the point of investing into it?
Basically the title of this should be : " You too can be a sociopath who takes advantage of felons - the elderly and the poor to get rich".
And I intend to.
all trump friends.... rename it... the trump tour
@@stoneshorty nothing wrong with a person getting theirs.
That depends on what their getting..... karma is real but... whatever
@@stoneshorty karma is real. Real gay! HA!!!
everything about this is disgusting..
Trudy P Absolutely.. they shouldn't rent to sex offenders.
I don't feel sorry for sex offenders
Trudy P I'm Mexican and I see this as an awesome way to take advantage of poor whites. I can't wait!
King Koop 1 poor whites? Improve your thinking..
King Koop 1 Judging by your train of thought, you yourself couldn't get a job at a gas station. White, back, Hispanic.. it doesn't matter. improve your thinking.
Just when I thought humans couldn’t get any lower.
"Low" goes forever, there is no bottom.
I'm amazed to see an entire bus load of such people.
"Jack up the rent" after slapping on some paint. SMH
The headline isnt necessary misleading, but I was thinking it was millionaires who lived in trailer parks.
There are some of those parks around the country, not many but some.
Jeffery Eastman yeah me too
dude me too!!!
Xczar why do you need to be so mean dude
Same lol
If this is what it takes to be rich, I don't want to be rich.
Got to do the work no one else would do.
I soooo wanted to be rich, but yeah after watching this..no thanks.
I would
If you were rich you would feel differently.
Jackster Jackster, how much money you have has nothing to do with your character. Plenty of awful poor people, and plenty of awful rich people, and all levels between the two.
As poor as I am, as desperate as I am, as much as life has kicked me in the teeth and never stopped the fact that when I was offered to be a partner in a venture like this I was able to say no without having to think about it is one of the few moments I can be proud of myself.
guess that means poverty is a choice
@@GasLightAlwaysOn Well who do you thinks buys from you RICH OR POOR? To avoid poverty by selling stuff to others for you own profit is totally selfish but I get it being selfish mean your more likely to survive!
And you have every reason to be because you have kept your humanity and decency while excuses for humanity such as those shown here are willing to sell theirs for very little, I hope that things turn around for you soon.
@@GasLightAlwaysOn No, it's not, but sometimes things go wrong, and it does not take much for most of us to end up the same way, something you might like to remember as well as getting a little more compassion.
@@GasLightAlwaysOn
So a person who gets laid-off, can't find work and can't afford to move when a factory goes overseas is 'poor by choice' if they chose not to walk into your house and take everything you have?
"No, I wouldn't live here." Well Buddy, what happens if you lost all you have, you were on a fixed income? Your not exiled from recessions, failures, etc.
This guy is the kind of person who would put pay meters on the disabled parking spots at a hospital.
Yeah, and then he'd say: it's just what the disabled parking Market dictates..!
You mean like the hospitals already do when they make you pay to park in their parking deck?
Good Idea, seeing as over 43% are Fake Handicappers in those Parking Spaces!
@@dennisthemenance5433 You are exactly the sort of person who deserves the profound misfortune of being poor and homeless. Do you think anyone wants to be unemployed and broke? More to the point, are you capable of rational, logical thought? Probably not.
This is like that episode from “King of the Hill” where khan buys a car wash, then jacks up the price while being a condescending jerk to his own customers. Furthermore: KING OF THE HILL IS BETTER THAN THE SIMPSONS!!
The millionaires walking around the tailor parks look like spectators at a zoo!
Yes it's terrible.
Unknown it’s kinda funny
Unknown oh don’t worry they do that in the hood errday home
I felt the same way whenever the investors at my old job would take tours and watch us work, but hey, their money is paying for it. Kinda like when working at Motiva all several thousand employees would have to leave when the prince of Saudi Arabia would come look at his refinery. We weren't allowed to see or be anywhere near the prince.
and the laughs "Ack! Ack Ack!" suit wearing scumbags
Thought this was going to be about millionaires living in trailer parks.... Instead I got to learn one more new way people can be terrible to others.
Same thought it’d be an inside look into people that save money and renovate their mobile home to be nice. I was wrong.
Fr!
People like you and this gentleman is why we have so many homeless people it's called greed
"Taking advantage of sex offenders."
how tables turn.
only thing I agreed with the whole video
“Oh how the turn tables..”
@@clintgolub1751 haha
Thats not true,they buy all parks
@@clintgolub1751 Ha! I needed that laugh! Thanks!
So screw the poor by raising their rent, no thanks I enjoy sleeping peacefully at night.
clearly didnt watch the video. Market increases, they have to increase the rent or the park gets shut down. Welcome to America!
lxlucylu88 bruh it was multiple parks, all kinds of people end up in trailer parks not just sex offenders. It’s just mainly unfortunate people economically or they have a disability. It’s not okay if it’s just the sex offenders living there.
The rent gets raised when the property taxes and the insurance gets raised .
These predatory real estate practices need to be stopped .
our government corruption prevents anything from being done, politicians don't care about the people - they're in it for the money and the power now. this is disturbing
I've never been so disgusted! These "millionaires" are lower than low and I don't know how they sleep at night!
On their Gucci bedsheets
Knowing that their family is taken care of and that their retirement is secure. Money can't fix everything, but it sure helps fix alot of things
Probably pretty well
This makes me a little uneasy. These people are walking around these trailer parks laughing and just having a good old time while the actual tenants are struggling and don't even know if they will have a home a year later. what a sham
So in your stupid words if one person is suffering then everyone should be suffering of what they're suffering... Then how come you are here with the luxury to type this? I'm sure they don't. Some people just don't know how think first like you.
DarthSailorMoon I believe she saying it’s a bit rude because these are poor-ish people that a group of students are observing and getting a lesson on how to become a millionaire and they even say make rent more high if that’s not a bit unsettling to you that’s sad
@Pun Jab I That was ONE park. I don't have sympathy for them either, but the others were elderly, and families, with extremely limited income. These people are a bunch of greedy, lowlife, vultures!
Pun Jab I they didn’t Say pedophiles they said sex offender. Take a pee out in the woods and you too can carry that label.
Slum tourism of upper classes ogling the poor is a tradition going back at least to 1870s Victorian England. It inspired a huge amount of charity work, because for the first time the rich actually saw the real living conditions.
This was hard to watch. Totally legal. Just morally sucky.
I don’t see any difference between this, other businesses and charities. They are all greedy. Here they are delivering a product that people want. If there is enough product the price will go down.
@@777jones Charities like ymca house people for free in uk
“Jack up the rent” - I can understand increase to bring up to current values. However, you are taking advantage of those that are poor. Shame on you!
Ashley Janit I’m a landlord of a small apartment building in a small city. 550 can get you not great, but nice one bedroom downtown. Trailer park clearly doesn’t worth the much. These owners are clearly taking advantage of the fact those tenants have no where to go. It’s only market rent for ex-convicts.
Florida has high rent period. Cuz everyone wants to be a landlord real estate is one of our biggest industries
This makes me wanna buy a trailer park just to make it a better place to live for the people who already live there. The way they were laughing at those homes is really disgusting. They should all be ashamed.
Have you done this yet?
@@robertm5969 I have not.
Title should have been "Slum-lord millionaire"
I don't normally wish for a bus to crash but...
🤣
@@ashleyjanit5052 Thats fine you're welcome to blame the poor people. I just take issue with the blatant exploitation by this group of "investors"
Ashley Janit you really have no understanding of what it is to be poor and vulnerable do you?
@@ashleyjanit5052 only takes a couple of seconds for someone to go from stable to poor so I hope that happens to you - just long enough for you to learn something
HA! Yes!!
Im glad to see the dislike ratio on this video it makes me have the slightest bit of expectations that real humans still exist
RUclips removed the dislike button so without comments like yours we would never know.
This is a training video for "How to become a Slum lord."
cinmnspice hell yes.slum lords
Uw0rmU if you have morals you should care
Yea this is a way out of americas prison system if u got no where to go. I know in canada they dont just let u walk out if u got nowhere to go because the risk of reoffending goes way up
how to be a pedo lord
The world is a slum
Make sure you own the land you park your trailer on. Owning a trailer 101.
Not that simple
You could buy the land first.
so basically never live in a trailer park?
Ms D pretty easy if you ask me I bought a brand new Double wide With 2000 square feet tape and texture walls all the bells and whistle’s and my land to park it on is only 550 a month for 12 years can’t beat it not a bad deal if you really look around at what available
Lee Dillow I bought my trailer first then the land at 550 a month for a 1/2 Acre is not bad
I lived in a trailer many years ago. I owned the home and paid $30.00 a month rent for the lot. Guess that was a bargain!
Hello, how long after you pay off your mobile home can you move it out of the park and onto your own land ?
@@kiramonay9331 99% of these people don't own their own land, if they did they would buy a new trailer and park it on their land.
Nearly every place I look into purchasing some land ban mobile homes entirely.
Disgusting. Taking advantage of the poor and struggling. "Jack up the rent"
There needs to be legislation to protect people who live in these places from predatory investors.
Not while Trump is President, he will build a hotel on that trailer park.
No, that would be dreaded "SOCIALISM". Republicans think any legislation to give everyone a chance at life is socialism.
Florida has gone after trailer park property. Nothing to do with the President. Why didn’t Obama do more for this issue. He had eight years
@@kenheisner288 6 out of Obama’s 8 years the Republicans had control over 1 or more houses of Congress, he was pretty much powerless on any controversial issue
What precisely do you propose? Rent controls are a disaster. They'll lead to either a deterioration of common areas as owners try to cut corners or owners will just close the park down and sell the land.
This "tour" makes a spectacle of these people and more or less dehumanizes them as some kind of roadside attraction
Exactly
I could never take advantage of people like that, no wonder many are millionaires cause they have psychopathic tendencies.
I would buy a trailer park and add amenities for the community instead of simply painting and jacking up the rent.
How to profit off people with few options. Sleep well.
How to squeeze the life out of the poor......this is America, folks!
Guy Merritt oh so you worship sex offenders over somebody who's trying to make a living good for you your real upstanding citizen
@@truthinspector6390 The problem of Sex offenders is a serious and poorly managed issue in this country.
We know enough medically now to understand that this particular issue is NOT one that responds effectively to Rehabilitation. Because of this .. these particular people should NEVER be re-integrated into society. They should not be living in ANY trailer park .
That being said... A) two wrongs do not make a right.... and B) there are PLENTY of people who find themselves in these slum lord moble home traps who's ONLY "crime" is being poor, has lost everything because of poor health, divorce, etc.
So many people who find themselves victimised by these greedy landlords need protection.
Our country has far too many homeless.. people with no record, people who actually have jobs... but because housing is SO overpriced ... they find themselves with few options. It is a real tragedy.
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When it comes to housing our population ... we have failed as a nation. The rich get richer, get GIVEN so many perks... while the poor and middle class struggle and fall behind more and more.
Capitalism has some good points BUT it ALSO has a dark side... it all depends on the quality and compassion of those within the system.
These " Slum Investers" are nothing but bottom feeders... an excellent example of the dark underside of Capitalism.
What they SHOULD be doing is changing the system.. and removing sex offenders from the general population... but of course then slum lords could not exploit those "bad boys" .. BUT .. they would still have poor old grammy, or someone suffering from cancer to exploit ... and I have no doubt many of these 'investors' would.
I am NOT a "religious" person but I do GET THIS... *What we do to the least among us... we ultimately do to ourselves.*
A very sobering realization.
So you want people to have zero choices to live instead of something like this? Clearly you have no struggle in your life.
@@Nels1600 do you ever stop crying? Get over it.
Its the world actually
Screwing over poor people.
It's what the rich do best.
Burt Hulbert That's how they get rich
John Peazy indeed. I'm rich and I just don't have the stomach for screwing poor people. I remember very well what it was like.
Burt Hulbert i wont argue you on that not having money is the worst and you can make a great living without ripping off a single person its called work hard and focus on your goals
John Peazy no kidding John. These people doing this are absolutely shameless. Awful.
Bet those sex offenders didn't think much when screwing over those poor kids!!
It’s wrong on so many levels when millionaires raise rates.
Helping the needy has made me as rich as I ever need to be.
I thought this was gonna be about people with a lot of money that stay humble and live in trailer parks. I was sadly mistaken.
jlox K ...Me too!
me too but who new reality would show up
That happened to me - got inheritance - got screwed on a real estate deal her in the South and ended up back in the trailer. I am currently a bus driver and an aspiring writer and am fixing this damn trailer to sell it.
After working with a number of small business men ( and women ) over the years, it became clear, that to make a lot of money isn't dependent on hard work or being intelligent. All you needed was a desire for money and a low set of morals.
The more money one gets the less morals get in the way, I've found.
Well said.
I feel like he did this to humiliate these people
Me too. Can't figure out if I should cry or be angry.
Lorenz Müller I know. Wish I seen this man 🤬
both.
"Sell to the masses, Stick with the classes"
American Capitalism explained.
disgusting.. how can they go to bed at night knowing they exploit and get rich off the poor. There are plenty of ways to make money without hurting others.
I agree
+non yourbuisness They are not hurting them, they are providing the with a valuable service. People in this income bracket are high financial risk, most have proven to be irresponsible. Who put these people in the situation they are in????? They made bad choices in life so there they are.
+66343 Solaray you are an idiot, until you lose everything you'll never understand.
+Morgan Reed Get a life, you loser.
Randy Westfall
I hope Randy your offspring that you're leaving you finances to . pisses it all away so all your fucking work was for nothing. Randy why is it. you defend this 1% crooked Landlord shit. this video gave me the deepest insight to the mindset of my landlord. why do you seen to get so defensive about my 1st comment and reply. what these landlords are doing to the pore is terrible shame. and should be Illegal on not only a state level but the Federal Level.
OMG I thought this was going to be about millionaires who live in trailer parks.
Me 2..Just by the title..Wow!!!
Me three
The billionaire said he would not live there. They should make him live there for a while maybe he would have some empathy for the people living there. Probable not though.
And the Rich get Richer, and the Poor have hardly anywhere they can afford to live, and than people complain about homeless.
The age old practice of
"How can I screw over someone else before I get screwed 😠" so disgusting.
This time, the felons aren't the criminals!
This is hard to watch. Those who prey on the poor are no different then the sex offenders, by taking advantage of the defenseless.
Agreed!
I agree with you but on the flip side -if they didnt buy the trailer parks then what happens ? They build another bank -pharmacy -walmart ? People gotta live somewhere -this is the same thing as putting em in cheap motels -Lest in trailer parks there is more of a sense of being in ur own place
I mean.. Yeah i want money.. But... I dont think i can do that
And this people are rude
People that say things like that obviously have no understanding of the basic rules of economics.
I am in a trailer park and there’s truth to being hostage to lot rent prices. Once your rent equals municipal lot taxes you pretty well have to give the mobile home away in order to get out. If you put money into modernizing the home you need permission. Try putting up a garage or car port. You need permission and your lot rent goes up. The roads are usually full of potholes and you normally go days before the road is plowed after a snowfall. The snow banks don’t get removed they are further onto your lot. The one you pay rent on so you can have the privilege of enjoying it. Make sure your lot is kept clean or you will get a notice reminding you that the rule says so. Think twice about buying a mobile home on a landlord’s property. You might get it cheap but there’s a reason.
Better yet get one that includes your own land like a detached house
This should be against the law wow
sickening
This man doesn't see people, just dollar signs. Preying on those who have next to nothing. I'm disgusted by him and all of his "students".
K BH sorry that’s how the world works
Welcome to the rental business. I worked in low income apartments once, it's all the same story, and really a great investment long term for the owners. Some of the richest people I have ever met are slumlords who built their portfolios over decades. Check cashing, by here/pay here car sales, title loans, and payday loans are also incredibly profitable.
I liked it
Tammy Slade lmao dont be mad that you arent getting money
Well it's business get over it It's better than them living under bridges.
I take great pride in everything I have, and from never taking advantage of anyone along the way. These fools are just making the income gap even worse. Couldn’t imagine trying to sleep at night.
“I don’t dictate the market” 😂
sociopathic /psychopathic answer.
@@beverleycovert22 Don't be absurd, you just don't understand what he means.
@@FerventReminder I understand perfectly what he means.
This boys and girls is a perfect example of what your parents are talking about when they say the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Welcome to Douchebaggerry Workshop!!!
I just read an article about this happening in a trailer park in my state. I searched for the park and this article came up saying that last year this was done. The lot rent from $205 (I believe) to $500. I know it said that it went up by 69% which is a lot. There are fixed income people living there that might lose their homes. I think this is ridiculous!! The buyer said that the park is surrounded by stores and it is a growing city. He said that if he didn't buy someone else would and turn it into more stores, which makes sense. But I think the rent could go up gradually not all at once. Or if he cared about the people, not at all.
Do the math on a trailer park and see if one can run on $200 a month. There's a reason it was sold, and most likely at $200/month, the previous owner was completely neglecting it. I doubt that even covered the property tax.
I agree. I have a property in Texas whose property taxes has gone from 1400/yr to 7000/yr. I pay more than a car payment for property taxes on that 1 unit, and the tax increase happened in a fairly short time frame. It was awful having to raise rent even on yr 1, but now...7 years later, the normal rental rates in that area are horrendous to me. Normal for all the people who have moved there from out of state. The worst part of the whole thing was seeing people who lived there their whole lives with paid off homes, experience gentrification, and couldn't afford property taxes. Then losing their homes to the city, for back taxes. It's heartbreaking. Everyone is moving to Texas for the low cost of housing, but the cost comes through tax payers who have to pay for these subsidized companies
i would rather pay a bit to subsidize our own than sending BILLIONS to fight others wars that we are paying for. How do these vultures sleep at nite?@@nm3547
The pursuit of money is truly the only purpose so many people have. Not to say it's not a worth while pursuit but the lack of ethics at the end of day is soul crushing.
I live in a trailer and while not "ideal" it is about 50% of the cost of a similarly sized apartment, and still cheaper than renting a house.
$550 a room is what we charge in suburban Philly. The landlords know exactly what the market will bear.
It's been a year now, have these guys found your park yet?
14 years ago I was unemployed and living unemployment check to unemployment check. I did own a 24 year old 24 foot travel trailer that I lived in. I told all my friends that I would someday like to own my own property so that I couldn't be kicked out because the land lord wanted their daughter to have the property (it's how I ended up in just a travel trailer). One of my friends told me he knew a guy that was selling bare property that had just been clear cutted logged off. I talked to the man and he wanted just $500.00 down and $500 a month for payments on a $40,000 dollar 5 acre property (with mountain views!) So I scrapped up (borrowed from my Mom) the $500 dollars and now I was a property owner. I got a job and started investing a bit into fixing up the property by putting in a driveway. Free rock, a friend with a Cat and the driveway was in. I ran power to the property and a phone line. 6 months after I bought it a man offered me $84,000 dollars for it! I had literately just $6500 dollars and a few cases of beer to my friend with the Cat into the property. I took the offer as the property wasn't in the state I wanted to live in. I took $30,000 of my profit to Montana and bid on a HUD house and won it for $47,000. Ten years later my house was fixed up and paid for and it sits on 12 beautiful acres in the Southern Bitterroot mountains of Montana! Some luck and a whole lot of networking with friends got me where I am. I am now drawing my pension and Social Security and living quite well. 15 years ago I was homeless without a job and no prospects for an older man. What a change.
Wow! Amazing story. Inspirational, even.
Great story
stuff a lot different 14 years ago. you can't find property for that cheap anymore.
@@Nels1600 sorry to hear that. Keep your head up.
@@Nels1600 no such thing as bad luck. Just bad decisions and weakness.
These ppl are the reason ppl go homeless. When money takes over your heart uve lost all morals .
Yup, this is pure greed! SMDH
Here we are Sep/2022
You should see what this guy and others have done to the Trailer Park Community. Greed and more Greed has infected this Country
Nothing wrong with making money but making money on people that are down on their luck even if due to their bad choices just doesn't' seem right.
Yes you are right. It does seem right because you have a conscience and they don't.
Buy here pay here car lot same thing
not always bad choices , get off that. what about illness and a fixed income.. people are just cruel.
say you own a house , or do you? what if the govt raised your property taxes so high that you could no longer afford your own home.. bad choices?
@@deankor government does it all the time
Ironic when the felons are the ones being victimized. Also, this guy charges $2,000 for a two-day lecture about being able to rip-off/take advantage of a certain demographic to make money? I should charge $4,000 for a two-day lecture about how to become a scammer who charges $2k per person to teach about scamming. =)
DixieRekt26 Sounds like an awesome pyramid scheme!
With a name like Jonah that doesn't surprise me at all
exactly Jonah... except double that ...
It's called "mining the miners."
Jonah S Genius! Lol
They pay 2,000 a week and I just watched it in RUclips
“Say trailer park”? Lol. Oh geez, no shame. That’s condescending and they’re standing right on the property. 🤦♀️
This is sick to look at!. Taking advantage of the poor...
The rent is only roughly 125 a week. At least it isn't higher like 200 or 300 a week.
I live in a trailer park and it's 650 a month
@@thevampire6065 I live in a very nice trailer park. Big lot and very private back yard next to the woods. Water, trash pickup and lawn service are included in the rent. I pay $225 a month.
@@thevampire6065 is 650 lot rent?
@@deathbycake7637 yes
JACK UP THE RENT... thanks a lot. These real estate scammers, the rent goes up and the trailer depreciates. the elderly fixed income folks are screwed.
TOTAL GREED .......That comment " There are a lot more poor people now " Sums This whole scam up , The Super Rich shall be reborn in The HELL REALMS LOL...........
Cliff DaRiff the cure for this: Buy the property, Clean it up , make it pet free! , drop the Rent! Repeat! Slum lords put out of business! Buy up their parks: repeat!
You have money for this scheme? It sounds nice, but the people who care don't have the cash. That's the problem, in a nutshell.
Cliff DaRiff I agree
I don't know about that market they're in, but here land prices are going up 10-20% a year and we pay property taxes to the local/state government based on that value. So if the value is going up, rent would have to too in order to make the same amount of profit.
They had us in the first half ngl. Wasn’t expecting this from the title
This happened in my country too, with houses in general. The prices are extremely high, and wages are the same and sometimes even lower, plus there's inflation. It's terrible.
Wow. Exploitation of the poor doesn't know any boundaries, does it?
I'm trying to do the same.
Damn. This really demonstrates the exploitation of the vulnerable population in America, and even when asked whether the situation is fair, they can't advocate for themselves. Displacement of the poor and the vulnerable is a widespread issue throughout the US.
I’d want to be a owner too! who wouldn’t lol?
I'm glad they put the title like they did...... This has opened my eyes.
They do the same thing to college students with no record...charging $500/month or so per room. That’s not taking advantage....that’s normal
Did anyone else feel like they had to take a shower after watching this?
Steve Cherches absolutely......
Nope but i did feel inspired
I feel like i had to take a shower in hydrogen peroxide after watching this
@@fobbitguy or some other type of disinfectant
Exactly
Rich keep getting richer making people going homeless,so sad
Saja Jandz like Cali ?
You guys should talk to Incredible homes guy, Randy. Who is providing affordable homes and not looking down on ppl but creating community.
I was a victim of of such a scam years ago. I now live with my parents. But I know a lot less fortunate people who did not have any friends or relatives who are in the streets or dead. Cruel world we live in.
@Hello manny- moya-bklyn, How are you doing?
This is absolute cruelty....
What shocks me about this is that they're fine with it. Shows how capitalism is so ingrained into our minds.
Gareth Wareth For a non-American, it's insane to see how copitalism is so ingrained into your minds.
Martin Skevla I'm British...
Gareth Wareth I think it is more they have no choice and understand it is business i.e. we have been brought up to expect to pay for what we need .. albeit the price is a rip off. Think it is scandalous the way people prey on the most vulnerable and helpless .. this is not how humans should behave. We are supposed to care and nurture each other instead it is all about the money.. But then again this probably goes back to that primal instinct "survival of the fittest" except it is now "survival of the richest". I think here in the UK at least there is some dignity for some of our disabled, sick & poor in getting decent homes with affordable rents (well at least near where I live) .. not sure how long that will last though. What I can't fathom is how people can live with themselves knowingly ripping other people off.
Midge ACE In the UK in upper classes they don't care but in the lower classes, although there is racism, sexism, homophobia there is love. It's a shame some British people are so dumb but near where I live most people have some kind of love for people. It's just a shame many of them are politically dumb and vote Tories who actually go against most of their personal ideologies.
Gareth Wareth I know what you mean it is either that or they just switch off and hope for the best.
If people in California build places like this there will be no Homelessness ♥️
This was the most disturbing video I’ve ever watched on RUclips. I was thinking I was going to see millionaires who live in trailer parks.
Like a lot of things, it’s really expensive to be broke.
It's insanely disgusting how proud these people are about the way they conduct business and treat the less fortunate.
Something's wrong about this, all seems criminal both ways
From my research, no its not criminal. I was going to buy a trailer to live in and then talked with the owner about their plan to raise rent. How lucky I was that I was getting the place now. Their plan to raise the lot rent from 450 to 800 is ridiculous. I'll be poor, thank you. Better quality people.
@@rynrandall9761 If you think being poor makes you morally superior I don't know what to say...
I feel like I need to take a shower after this.
Take a good look. The guy giving the course is the face of unmitigated greed. The billionaire that said that "people should not envy the 1%, but should try to emulate them", Right, got it! Make money your god, don't worry about the afflicted, just make sure you can suck out as much money from the disadvantaged, as you can. Greedy, psychopathic people, thrive on the misery of others. I'm grateful that the the rest of the world that makes up the 99% are people who are good and kind and caring.
Yes you are correct Galatians 5:19-21 speaks about emulation as a sin of the flesh to copy someone in order to rise above them the greed of the potential investors is so sad what would it profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his soul ,this is a battle for eternal life.
@PUZZY WAGON you are correct on a secular level but biblically speaking this was never God's plan for man kind greed depression of human souls is fueled by the greed of men also by sheer ignorance on the behalf of people rejecting what they know to do (work) and humble themselves instead choosing to debase themselves where others capitalize off of their misfortune it is so sad to see and harder to try to get people to understand the purpose of why we are here so that God can restore man kind to His image pure loving without spot or wrinkle thank you for giving me the very reasonable explication their are many who thru no direct fault of their own are paying the price am not speaking about those poor souls I pray we would all turn to God for His love and wisdom
"I'm grateful that the the rest of the world that makes up the 99% are people who are good and kind and caring." If that were the case - these people wouldnt be struggling ?
myfamilymatters socialism will destroy America if we let it run rampant
Crack Dealers do exactly that, but they're scorned!
it's People like THESE that creates the home less people! by their GREED!
I live in a trailer park and it's 700 a month we can barely afford it
thevampire get a job, numbnuts.
TheCorn OfMyFloor ikr
@@thecornofmyfloor1528 they're paying £8.4k a year!! That is basically the salary for one low wage job. And for what? A tiny cubicle.
I'm a student but £500 a month will get me a great flat in a great location
Paying £700 for that is disgustingly taking advantage
@@thecornofmyfloor1528 get a heart numb-brain.
“Trailer park rent is %200 under value compared to current inflation”.
The rent is dirt cheap. Cheaper than anything else. Don’t get mad you aren’t the one profiting off of it.
Can’t get out of poverty with a poverty mindset
There are good rich people and there are bad rich people. And here we have a prime example of the sociopathic side of rich people. The side of rich people who have no morals and get off on exploiting the poor.
Please give us an example of a good rich person.I have worked for and with many of them.Have not met a good one yet.
If i was rich i wouldn't help you out. Why let you get rich off of men. It was my idea not yours. You can have a piece but not the whole pies.
so true
Me. I'm a good wealthy person. But I'm sure you know all of us so....
Kevin Davenport My closest friend comes from a very wealthy family. He was bullied, used, and taken advantage of by so-called “friends” because of his wealth. Because of this, he’s battled anxiety and depression for a long time. I became friends with him on a gaming forum, and eventually we went to college together. Before I even knew about his background, we had already become best friends. Eventually he told me, even though he was afraid to, and quite frankly, I didn’t care. I mean, the guy would just eat 5 dollar sandwiches and a soda everyday.
To this day, he’s the truest friend I’ve ever had. He’s one of the kindest people I know, and it’s sad to see how much of his life was controlled by the biases people hold towards the rich. It’s probably the same reason people who win the lottery end up miserable or commit suicide. That being said, I’ll admit that his family does seem to be the stereotypically rich type, so your words do have merit.