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Frank Rolfe is the co-owner of Mobile Home University and the 8th largest mobile home parks business in the United States.

Early Career
Rolfe began working at a local advertising agency in Dallas, Texas during the summer while in high school. He attended Stanford University and graduated with a degree in economics. Planning to gain experience for applying to business school, he went into the billboard business in the Dallas area. He became the largest private owner of billboards in the Dallas/Fort Worth area before selling to Clear Channel in 1996 for $5.8 million.

Mobile Park Business
In 1996, four months after selling his billboard business, Rolfe bought Glenhaven Mobile Home Park in Dallas for $400,000. By 2007, he purchased and sold 24 mobile parks, which he stated earned him about as much as selling the billboard business. In 2006, Rolfe met Dave Reynolds at an industry conference. They became business partners and began buying mobile parks during and after the recession at a rate of about two dozen per year. As of 2015, the partners are ranked collectively as the 8th largest owner of mobile home parks in the United States. Operating as privately-held MHP Funds, they own about 11,000 lots in over 160 mobile parks. In 2013, their mobile parks generated $30 million in revenue, and over half was profit. They have sold more than $150 million in mobile parks.

The Guardian reports that Rolfe and Reynolds raise rents an average of 10% a year in their mobile parks, and they are being sued by residents of an Austin, Texas mobile park for raising rent and issuing eviction notices. The New York Times reports that they typical spend several hundred thousand dollars fixing up the parks that they purchase.

Rolfe co-owns Mobile Home University, a three-day intensive course on the mobile home business that he teaches once a month in locations around the United States.