No, Frank Rolfe has not lost it. At least, not yet, not as far as I know. Frank is the Elon Musk of the manufactured housing industry. An entity in which he owns a big stake is one of the largest mobile home park owners in the United States. His educational company, Mobile Home University, …
I had planned on posting this morning, but the Supremes have stolen my thunder by coming out in favor of school shootings and back-alley abortions. I will wait until the news cycle calms down to post about crazy get-rich-quick gurus and lazy, dishonest maintenance personnel. Watch this space.
My mother once said of a woman whom she knew, “Everything she touches turns to shit”. Benjamin Franklin said, “The harder I work, the luckier I get”. Mr. Franklin’s statement is the same as my mother’s, in reverse and couched in family-friendly language. He could afford to be more sanguine because his life was easy. …
The Hindi-language series Panchayat is available for streaming on Amazon Prime, and it is hilarious. I would say that it is a re-hash of Northern Exposure translated into twenty-first century India, but I have never watched Northern Exposure – and the fish-out-of-water trope pre-dates 1990. I think that a good premise for a sitcom …
The best thing about owning mobile home parks is that it gets me out of my echo chamber. The worst thing about owning mobile home parks? It gets me out of my echo chamber. Plenty of Trump voters are extraordinarily decent people. A few of their policy positions at the state level make a lot …
Allan Konigsberg said that showing up is ninety percent of life. I call this the Konigsberg Theorem. Konigsberg has been cancelled, but he is a genius. If we excise the art because of the artist’s flaws, that will be a loss. (Along with Frank Rolfe, Elon Musk, Kurt Gödel, John Nash, Vincent Van Gogh, Vaslav …
I have been writing covered calls and cash-collateralized puts lately. You don’t get rich quickly by doing that, but if you stick to it, you can consistently grind out singles and doubles and the occasional triple. Do it in a tax-deferred account, because everything is short-term cap gain. Stick to ETFs instead of individual stocks, …
Mobile home park infrastructure is like an iceberg; what you see is only the tip. Most of it is hidden underground. For example – as you walk through a mobile home park, every fifty yards or so you will see capped four-inch white PVC pipes extending vertically about a foot above ground. Those are clean-outs. …
When I went to the doctor the other day, the assistant asked me a bunch of questions while I was waiting for the big guy to make his entrance. “Over the past seven days, did you feel unhappy – never, a little, sometimes, most of the time, all of the time?” Last week, we evicted …
I recently discovered a musician named Bobby Rush, who sings a combination Chicago Sound-Motown-Southern Blues. Along with Buddy Guy he is one of the last surviving old-school bluesmen. He was born in the south, moved to Chicago, and learned to play the guitar along the way. As younger Black people migrate to hip-hop, guys like …