Chris Gavre built a 150-door rental portfolio by 25 without following the crowd — by betting on mobile homes when nobody else wanted to. He breaks down the land home package model doing 50 deals a year through Highcastle Properties.
Most people in real estate are chasing the same thing — flips, apartments, prestige projects. Chris Gavre looked at what everyone was ignoring and built a scalable business around it.
In this episode:
• Why Chris walked away from retail real estate within months and what that decision taught him about following the crowd
• How the land home package model works end to end — from finding raw land to selling a finished product in under two months
• Why manufactured housing is outperforming traditional asset classes at a 20% annualized return versus a 6–7% cap rate on commercial
• The biggest mindset block holding people back from replicating this model — and why it is almost never actually about the money
Chris Gavre started with a pressure washer and a lot of ambition at age 20. Within five years he had built a rental portfolio of nearly 150 doors, moved through wholesaling, flipping, and retail real estate, and landed on the model he and his partner Robert now run at scale: buying land, placing brand new manufactured homes on it, and selling the finished product. Highcastle Properties completes roughly 50 of these land home packages per year. Chris also coaches others on replicating the exact model, holding nothing back.
Connect with Chris Gavre:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisgavre
Website: https://highcastleproperties.com
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