The Triplex Singlewide: An Ideal Mobile Home Park Format
- robert carpenter
- May 19, 2025
- 2 min read
šØ The Triplex Singlewide: A Modular Micro-Empire in 80 Feet šØ
Hereās the vision: a singlewide home, split into 3 smart suites ā one 1-king-bed/2-twin duplex unit, flanked by two cozy king-bed quads ā built to match the U.S. rental market, where ~45% of apartments are 1-bedrooms and ~45% are 2-bedrooms. Coincidence? Nah. This is precision housing strategy.
Now imagine a micro-entrepreneur finances this beauty, sets it up in a mobile home park, lives in one unit, and rents out the other two.
ā The result?
⢠The home pays for itself
⢠The owner cash flows positive
⢠The park operator boosts pad rents with higher yield per lot
⢠Everyone wins: alignment between resident & operator = community, not churn
š„ Each unit gets:
⢠Its own supplemental storage ($200 value)
⢠A private courtyard garden ($200 value)
⢠Two tandem parking spaces, classed up by lush hedges and trees ā curb appeal and car appeal
This is NextGen housing for NextGen landlords AND NextGen mobile home park owners. Efficient. Elegant. Empowering.
As mentioned, the one duplex is 3 bed 1 bath while each of the two quadplexes are 1 bed 1 bath. In a metro area the duplex might rent for up to $2,000, the deluxe (extra supplemental space) quadplex $1,500 and the regular quadplex $1,000. Also the all in cost of Triplex plus builtins, supplemental storage and courtyard might run $200,000. But these are just guesstimates. A triplex financial calculator allows prospective entrepreneurs to test out different scenarios - to check which if any of the units he chooses to live in - and how that affects cash flow and cash on cash return.


























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