Storytime CRE

About Storytime CRE

Treeside Capital invests in RV and mobile home parks across the Midwest and Southeast. We share real stories of buying, improving, and operating parks — from financing and management to investor strategy — helping you learn how to build lasting wealth through outdoor hospitality and affordable housing. At Treeside Capital, we buy, improve, and operate RV and mobile home parks across the Midwest and Southeast. Our mission is to create clean, affordable, and community-focused places for people to live and travel. Each episode explores the business behind outdoor hospitality and affordable housing — from deal structure and financing to operations, management, and investor strategy. Whether you're an investor, park owner, or just curious about the industry, Treeside Capital pulls back the curtain on how to find value, solve problems, and build long-term wealth in the RV and mobile-home park space.

Publisher

Miles Noland

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jan 2023

Latest episode

9 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

180 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Nov 2026

   Building the Ops Team: How Many People You Actually Need

   Adding people is the fastest way to add cost, and the slowest to undo. In this episode, we talk about how to build an operations team for a mobile home or RV park, starting from the work that has to get done rather than an org chart, and how to decide how many people that work really requires. We cover: Start with the work: Listing every recurring task, from rent collection and lease administration to lot maintenance, utilities, and vendor management, before deciding on any roles. The core roles: Who handles on-site management, maintenance and repairs, leasing and resident relations, collections, and bookkeeping, and which of these can be combined early on. Doing it yourself versus hiring: What an owner should keep personally in the first year, what to outsource to a third-party manager or vendor, and what needs an employee who is always on site. Sizing the team: Using pad count, number of occupied homes, and the amount of maintenance and turnover as the drivers of headcount, rather than a fixed ratio copied from another park. Cost and timing: Adding roles as revenue and workload justify them, and keeping payroll in line with the park's net operating income so a slow month doesn't put the park in the red. Who is involved in a deal and who runs the park: Separating the people who buy and finance the property from the people who operate it, and making sure both groups know who owns which decisions. Keeping the team small and accountable: Clear written duties, simple reporting, and checking results against the rent roll and the P&L every month. This episode is for general education and is not legal, tax, employment, or financial advice. Check employment and wage rules in your state and work with your own attorney, accountant, and advisors when hiring. Visit treesidecapital.com to learn more.

2. 

   26 Oct 2026

   From Signed LOI to Signed Contract: Why Time Kills Deal

   A signed LOI feels like a win, but it is really just permission to keep negotiating. A lot of deals fall apart between the LOI and the signed purchase contract: sellers get cold feet, attorneys rewrite terms, and weeks go by while nobody returns a call. In this episode, we walk through how we get from a handshake on paper to a signed purchase agreement, and how we keep the deal alive in between. We cover: Do you even need an LOI? When it is worth the step and when it just adds weeks. Sometimes, especially with mom-and-pop sellers who just want to know what you will pay and when you will close, it makes sense to skip it and go straight to a purchase agreement. What belongs in the LOI: Price, terms, due diligence period, closing timeline, earnest money, and seller financing structure. Leave the rest for the contract so you are not negotiating everything twice. What to push back on: Length of due diligence, when earnest money goes hard, access to rent rolls, P&Ls and utility bills, seller-finance terms, and reps and warranties on infrastructure like water, sewer, and septic. What you can give on: Closing date flexibility, a larger deposit, letting the seller stay involved through a transition, and small price moves that buy you better terms. Know which concessions cost you little but mean a lot to the seller. Calls vs. emails: Pick up the phone for anything that matters. Use email to confirm what you already agreed to on a call, not to negotiate. Tone gets lost in text, and small issues turn into standoffs. The in-person visit: Walking the park with the owner builds trust that no document can. It is often where the real story comes out: deferred maintenance, why they are selling, and what they care about most. Managing the attorneys: Settle the business points between the principals before the lawyers see the draft, so a simple deal does not turn into a 40-page fight. Time kills deals: Set deadlines, follow up on a schedule, get the draft contract out within days instead of weeks, and keep things moving when the seller goes quiet. If you have ever had a done deal disappear before the contract was signed, this one is for you. This episode is for general education and is not legal or financial advice. Work with your own attorney and advisors on any specific transaction. Visit treesidecapital.com for more information.

3. 

   19 Oct 2026

   How Claude Code & Claude Desktop Transform Deal Work: Real MHP Underwriting, Due Diligence & Offers

   Running a mobile home park acquisition pipeline means drowning in emails, spreadsheets, and fragmented deal information. In this episode, I walk through exactly how I've moved beyond basic AI chatbot use to building Claude into a real deal automation engine using Claude Desktop and custom skills. From sourcing to close, we cover: Teaching Claude to underwrite — building a reusable skill that reads LOIs, calculates cap rates, and flags red flags Marketing at scale — how Claude posts customized deal summaries to investor Facebook groups and responds to serious inquiries Automatic deal tracking — a weekly-updated tracker that pulls buyer/seller info directly from your email, no manual entry Due diligence automation — comparing what sellers told you verbally against what their docs actually show, spotting discrepancies instantly Land valuation — scraping comps from sites, running valuations on land adjacent to parks, structuring fair offers Gap analysis — identifying missing documents and pushing back on incomplete submissions This isn't theoretical. You'll hear about real deals (including our Lawrenceburg Storage sale) and the exact workflows that cut deal-analysis time from days to hours. If you're running an active MHP acquisition pipeline or coaching other operators, this is where AI actually saves you money and closes deals faster. Visit treesidecapital.com for more info.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

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Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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