Speakers

Manufactured Community Owner Operator

Ben Braband is a veteran in the affordable housing industry, Ben has assessed (underwritten and or conducted on site work) in more than 1,000 individual Manufactured Home Communities Nationwide (30+ States), doing so as a principal, manager, consultant, educator, and expert witness related to the MH Industry. In the past 18 years, he has owned, operated, or consulted on more than 200 Communities.

Manufactured Community Owner Operator

Steve Case has been an active investor in manufactured housing communities for 24 years.  Over that span of time, he has been involved in all areas of the industry including education, serving on the board of the Georgia Manufactured Housing Association, consulting on the construction of the Community Series manufactured home, founding member of the Southeast Community Owners (SECO) and advising financial institutions on the creation of chattel community owner finance programs.

Economist and Futurist

Kiernan “KC” Conway, CCIM, CRE, MAI is the mind trust behind Red Shoe Economics, LLC, an independent economic forecasting and consulting firm furthering KC’s mission as The Red Shoe Economist by providing organic research initiatives, reporting and insights on the impact of Economics within the commercial real estate industry.  

CFP®, CRPC®
Partner – President of Financial Planning

Brett R. Danko, CFP®, CRPC® has worked in the financial services industry for over 25 years and is a featured nationwide lecturer on matters of personal finance. He is regularly called upon by the financial services industry to provide financial planning training to top-tier financial advisors and to consult on complex planning issues affecting their clients.

Manufactured Community Owner and Operator, Due Diligence Specialist

From his successful multifamily investing endeavors, Steve Edel started two new thriving businesses - Due Diligence and Park Lead Sourcing and Closing. He sourced and acquired roughly 50 manufactured housing communities and collaborated with the second-largest private MHC operator in the US on some of these ventures.

Managing Partner at MHC Due Diligence Partners, LLC

Justin Gonzales, a problem solver by nature, finds all the enjoyment in the world by looking at a thing and seeing how to make it 100% better every day. Justin is a jack of all trades whose background in entrepreneurship has realized experiences and success across many industries such as real estate investing, finance, commercial aviation, marketing, and manufacturing.

Bestselling Author | Echo in Ramadi (Regnery, 2018)

Scott A. Huesing is a proven combat leader. He is a retired United States Marine Corps Infantry Major with 24 years of honorable service, both enlisted and as a commissioned officer. His career spanned 10 deployments to over 60 countries worldwide. Throughout his numerous deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa, he planned, led, and conducted hundreds of combat missions under some of the most austere and challenging conditions.

Manufactured Community Owner and Operator

Jefferson Lilly is a mobile home park investment expert and educator. He is the founder of Park Avenue Partners, a private equity real estate fund that acquires and operates mobile home parks nationwide. His investment funds are returning 10% - 15% IRRs to Limited Partners. Both personally and through his partnerships, Jefferson has acquired 43 MHPs in 15 states since 2007 totaling over $81mm in value.

Manufactured Community Owner, Best Selling Author / Operation Pineapple Express (2022)

LTC (Retired) Scott Mann is a real estate entrepreneur, public speaker, best-selling author, military analyst, and advocate for veterans and veteran’s families. Scott appears frequently on CNN, Bloomberg, Fox and Friends, Fox Business News, News Max, and dozens of syndicated radio shows including National Public Radio, Wall Street Journal Radio, Fox News Radio, and the Jim Bohannon Show. 

Manufactured Community Owner and Operator

Frank Murphy’s passion for real estate began in 1998 in the single family residential space. Since that time, he has bought, sold, built, and renovated well over 200 homes. In 2009, he partnered with his wife to grow his residential investments into what is now Blue Ripple Properties, and together they manage their own portfolio which consists of single and multi-family, a mobile home community, and the latest addition, an RV Park, which has expanded their business to multiple states in the Southeast.

Manufactured Community Owner and Operator

Manufactured Community Owner Operator, Retail Sales Center Owner, RV Park Owner, Site Development and Installation Consultant.

Cole Phillips has been involved in all aspects of the manufactured housing industry since he was a kid growing up on his family’s retail sales center.  He started purchasing communities in 2005 and in 2015 started a large regional service company providing REITs and large portfolios with their new home installation and used home rehab projects.