Spencer Roane

Spencer Roane, president of Pentagon Properties, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., owns and manages four land lease communities in Georgia and Texas. His firm has sold over 450 new and previously-owned manufactured homes in his communities over the past 30 years via Lease-Option contracts. Over the past 10 years they sold and seller-financed over 100 new manufactured homes with exceptionally low default rates. Since passage of the S.A.F.E. & Dodd-Frank Acts he has written about and spoken often to advocate use of Lease-Option contracts to sell new and pre-owned manufactured homes in communities in most states. He is a member of the Georgia Manufactured Housing Association where he served as an officer and member of the board of directors. He served on the National Communities Council (NCC) and the Disaster Housing Task Force of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). He is one of the organizers of the Southeast Community Owners (SECO) conference which attracts upwards of 400 small and mid-size community owners annually. He was honored to be inducted into the RV/MH Hall of Fame. Spencer holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, a M.S. degree in Industrial Management, and both Mortgage Loan Originator and Mortgage Broker S.A.F.E. Act licenses. Contact him at (678) 428-0212. Pentagon Properties, Inc. website. LinkedIn profile.

David Roden

David Roden is co-owner of Mountain View Estates in Rossville GA. along with his wife Judy. Mountain View Estates broke ground on 46 acres in 1988 and built this community from woods and hay fields to one of the nicest communities in the south east. He and his family live onsite and have one of the only Tornado Shelters in the area that can hold every resident of the community. Rated for 250 MPH and FEMA approved, it is one of the most satisfying accomplishments in their companies history. With his wife as partner and his dad as manager for the past 25 years, it is truly a family run operation of which he is very proud of.

Tom Lackey

Tom Lackey first started in the industry in1988 when he was the General Manager of a Manufactured Home Dealership in Michigan. Tom’s experience has been diverse in the industry from managing multiple Communities, Owing and operating Communities in several states, Owing and managing multiple dealer sales locations, operation of manufactured home insurance brokerage, and ownership of a national mobile home rental corporation. Tom is a member of the Georgia Manufactured Housing Association (GMHA), and the Michigan Manufactured Housing Association -having served on PAC Committee for the MMHA.

Maryuri Barberan

Maryuri Barberan is controller and executive vice president of Pentagon Properties, Inc. Pentagon Properties owns and manages four communities comprising about 500 lots in Georgia and Texas, and has sold over 450 new and previously owned manufactured homes via Lease-Option contracts over the past 29 years. Exceptionally low default rates are achieved with new Community Series Homes (CSH) and very thorough underwriting of L-O “buyers”. She is one of the organizers of the Southeast Community Owners (SECO) conference which attracts upwards of 400 small and mid-size community owners annually.  Maryuri holds a B.S. degree in real estate and finance from Georgia State University.

Maiara Spinetta

Maiara Spinetta is a native of Brazil, where she obtained her law degree in 2010. Her career has involved various areas of real estate, including development with one of the largest firms in Brazil – MRV Engineering. There she handled contract administration, interaction with various public and governmental agencies, and financing of large projects. She also worked in the real estate risk division of the Federal Bank CE in Brazil where she handled compliance issues, insurance, and various bank services, including new client acquisition. In the US, her career with Atlanta’s Pentagon Properties has involved all forms of property management, including resident relations, property management software, manufactured home floorplans, features, and options, home sales, and all forms of social media promotion at the four communities comprising almost 500 sites owned and managed by PPI. Maiara is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. She has been a HUGE help to SECO, handling all forms of promotion, conference management, and administration.

Maria Horton

Maria Horton serves as both Director of Marketing and Regional Manager for Newport Pacific Capital Company, Inc. 

Newport Pacific is a full-service property management company located in Irvine, CA, specializing in manufactured home communities, apartment complexes, condo associations and RV resorts.  Newport Pacific has been a leader in the property management industry since 1980 and oversees properties throughout the United States.

Maria has an exceptional business acumen in the manufactured housing industry.  She also has extensive experience in property management, home sales, leasing, marketing, budget preparation, vendor contract negotiations and development of on-site personnel.

She holds her MCM, MHM, CCRM, CAM, CMCA and AMS designations and also is a licensed manufactured housing salesperson.

In 2009, Maria was appointed by the Mayor and City Council of Carson to sit as a member of the Mobilehome Rental Review Board. She currently remains an active member of this board.  The City of Carson is known throughout the state of California for its strict rent control ordinances. In 2019, she was also appointed to the City of Costa Mesa’s Mobile Home Park Advisory Board.

In March of 2019, Maria was awarded the Chairman’s Award by Joe Stegmayer at the CMHI annual meeting for her contributions to the industry.

Maria shares her passion through her dedication to continue to improve her knowledge in our industry with exemplary service.  She is a frequent speaker and attendee at industry conferences throughout the United States where she proudly represents her company and its accomplishments.

Ryan Narus

I am a double graduate of Wake Forest University with an undergrad in Psychology & Statistics and an MBA. I’m a self made real estate entrepreneur who owns and operates 14 Mobile Home Parks spanning ~1,408 units. But here’s the thing: I started with nothing. No money. No experience. No network. I was a 20 something with way more student loan debt than actual capital to invest in deals. I’m just a normal dude. The only thing that makes me different is that I refused to quit. And I was willing to sacrifice, and take bold action. I found creative ways to make money while I scaled my business up. I was stuck in Corporate America. I escaped. And I want to help others too.

Dave Jackson

Dave Jackson is a Commercial Realtor and Broker with NAI/G2 Commercial Real Estate Services in Columbus, Georgia specializing in the sale of manufactured home communities, multifamily and self storage properties. He is a business owner and has been associated with the manufactured housing industry for 50+ years as a owner, operator, supplier, property manager and seller of communities in the southeastern US. Dave is a graduate of the University of Central Florida and the US Army Sergeants Major Academy.

Ekaterina Stepanova

Ekaterina Stepanova was born and raised in Moscow, Russia and has immigrated to United States 13 years ago and has lived in New York since. Today she is a partner at M2K Partners who owns several mobile home park communities throughout the country. Ekaterina is a co-founder of Equity Tree, software platform dedicated to helping commercial real estate investors manage their deals and Investor relations for an affordable price and with educational support throughout the entire investment process. She is also a host of a virtual meet up for Mobile Home Park investors called MHP Tribe.

Daniel Smithson

Daniel Smithson is a relative newcomer to the industry, having purchased his first 48 lot park in August of 2018. The park itself is a large infill and turn around project – definitely the most immersive first experience of the industry you could hope to have. Not to worry, he thinks getting his hands dirty is half the fun and can often be found working on projects throughout the park. Daniel and his wife, Amber, have two kids, Jonah (9) and Hannah (6), who are the “why” that gets him up each morning.

John Gelzer

John Gelzer is CEO and principal of Equity Management Company. John oversees a diverse commercial estate portfolio including multi-family, manufactured housing, hotel, office, industrial, land, and retail assets. As an attorney, he also works as in-house counsel

Paul Martens

Paul Martens is currently an active principal in the acquisition, development, and management of manufactured housing within the continental United States since acquiring his first community in 2006. Paul previously worked both as a Project Manager in residential home construction after transitioning from a Program Manager in global manufacturing of plastics, molds and production metal machining that spanned more than twenty (20) years. Paul’s responsibilities included customer/supplier relations, consulting on product design, tooling design, materials selection, supplier selection, quality control implementation as well as develop and manage program/project budgets, schedules and coordinate logistics. Project revenues ranged from $50k to $100M+ for industries including medical, consumer electronics, automotive and food packaging, and Paul traveled extensively throughout the United States, Asia, Mexico and Canada working with a network of global manufacturing suppliers. Paul’s experiences throughout his career significantly helped him navigate the challenges and rewards as an owner/operator, developer and manager in the manufactured housing industry.

Judy Roden

Judy Roden is co-owner of Mountain View Estates along with her husband David. Mountain View Estates is located in Rossville, Ga on the Chattanooga, TN line. They broke ground on 46 acres in 1988 and built the community from woods and hay fields to one of the nicest communities in the southeast. Building a tornado shelter for residents of the community, which is rated for 250 MPH and FEMA approved, is one of the most satisfying accomplishments in their companies history. MVE is continually bringing in brand new homes to keep the community looking its best. With her husband as partner they are celebrating 30 years in business this year.

Mark Dollan is Vice President of Marketing at MHVillage/Datacomp and a veteran marketing consultant with over 25 years of experience. Throughout his career, he has helped companies all over the United States develop successful corporate identities, brands, and marketing campaigns that generate sales. His work has helped both local companies and national corporations realize their brand’s full potential by carefully examining, discovering, developing, and implementing solutions that fit each brand’s specific needs.