8 Generations of Real Estate Wisdom in One Conversation!

In this episode, Ali — a manufactured housing veteran with eight generations of real estate behind him, tracing all the way back to land banking in India — opens up about what a lifetime in this industry actually looks like. He bought his first mobile home park at age 10 in 1981, right in the middle of the Iran oil crisis when mortgage rates hit 20 percent, and he has never looked back. Ali shares what surviving multiple economic cycles has truly taught him, why he remains exclusively committed to California while the market has pushed others out, the creative deal structures his team is deploying right now, and a pioneering co-op ownership model he is currently testing — one that could fundamentally change how communities are acquired and transferred. This is decades of hard-earned wisdom in one conversation.