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Lease-Option Workshop: Fast Track Edition

Thursday, October 88:30 AM – 11:30 AMMain Ballroom, The Hotel at Avalon

Eight hours condensed into a 3-hour power course on ordering new manufactured homes, acquisition financing, structuring lease-option transactions, legal basis, marketing, qualifying prospective buyers, planning for defaults, and AI portfolio analysis.

Speakers

Hannah McClure

Owner, Top Shelf Properties

Hannah has a tenured background in software and user experience design, research, and process implementation. She has spent the past decade years researching, analyzing deals, and networking within the mobile home community industry. Since Top Shelf’s first mobile home community acquisition in 2020, she has developed highly effective processes and strategies for successful remote mobile home community operations.

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Bryce McMurry

Owner, Kaliber Management

Bryce McMurry is the Principal Owner of Kaliber Management, where he oversees a portfolio of more than 1,000 rental units across mobile home parks, RV parks, and apartments. He leads acquisitions and development, provides strategic direction, and manages a 50-person real estate, construction, and operations team. A licensed home builder, Bryce has purchased, designed, built, and sold more than $50 million in commercial and residential real estate across 100+ properties. He also serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurial Studies from the University of New Mexico.

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Spencer Roane

President, Pentagon Properties, Inc.

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 40 years via Lease-Option contracts. Over the past 8+ years, they sold and seller-financed over 70 new manufactured homes with only 3 defaults. Since the passage of the S.A.F.E. & Dodd-Frank Acts he has written about and spoken often to advocate the 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 (GMHA) 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. Spencer holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, an M.S. degree in Industrial Management, and both Mortgage Loan Originator and Mortgage Broker S.A.F.E. Act licenses.

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Angela Vera

Property Manager, Pentagon Properties Inc

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Kara Mathis

Marketing & Digital Communications, SECO, Pentagon Properties

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Tom Lackey

Community Owner & Operator, Able Housing

Tom Lackey first started in the industry in 1988 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, owning and operating Communities in several states, owning 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.

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Maryuri Barberan

Executive Vice President, Pentagon Properties, Inc.

Maryuri Barberan is comptroller 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 550 new and previously owned manufactured homes via Lease-Option contracts over the past 32 years. Exceptionally low default rates are achieved with new Community Series Homes (CSH) and very thorough underwriting of L-O "buyers". She is a member of the Executive Committee for SECO which attracts upwards of 500 small and mid-size community owners annually. She is also a member of the Veterans Assistance Program Committee and is a founding member of Women Advancing Manufactured Housing (WAMH). Maryuri holds a B.S. degree in real estate and finance from Georgia State University.

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