Mostly positive corporate earnings reports were tempered by weak job growth data to keep investors wary, as CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged down -0.08 percent, losing -11.12 points, to end the day at 13,268.20 The Nasdaq managed a +0.31 percent gain to close at 3,059.85, while the […]
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As follow-up to an article we published Feb. 17, 2012, The New York Times reports the first MEDCottage will be delivered this month to a family in Alexandria, Virginia. As an alternative to placing aging family members in a nursing home, this 12-by-24 bedroom-bathroom-kitchenette modular unit, designed to fit in
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded $1.8 million in grants to improve housing and stimulate economic development among three Native American tribes in Nevada. KTVN-TV tells MHProNews.com each of the tribes will receive $605,000 under the Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) Program. The Ely Shoshone
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In the wake of the deadly tornadoes that ripped through Alabama last year, WSFA-TV in Montgomery, AL, like many in the media and in the National Weather Service (NWS), does not distinguish between pre-HUD Code homes and those built after 1976. However, Tommy Colley, who trains MH installers for the
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NationalMortgageNews reports the Texas Association of Realtors says the volume of home sales increased the first quarter by 12 percent, including 45,502 single-family homes. The median price of the houses sold rose 2.7 percent over the same period last year, to $147,100. The inventory of houses on the market dropped
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The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) reports the Pew Research Center says over 20 percent of adults 25-34 live in a multigenerational setting, the highest level since the 1950s. The so-called Boomerang Generation are moving in with relatives due to economic necessity. The Washington Post says the recession cut
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Reports of improvement in U.S. manufacturing sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its highest point in four years, gaining half a percentage point, +65.69 points, to close at 13,279.32. CNNMoney tells MHProNews.com the Nasdaq moved up 0.13 percent to close at 3050.44, while the S&P also moved up, +0.57
Deer Valley Leaps Up, Skyline Skids, Housing Composite Bests Dow Read More
The “House and Home” exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. tells the history of housing in the United States through photographs, film, drawings, texts, and models, beginning with Native Americans, through tenements, suburbia, urban living, even to the modular Tumbleweed Tiny House that has just 100 square
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The Commerce Department says construction spending grew +0.1% from Feb. to $808.1 billion in March, six percent higher than the $762.6 billion of March 2011, and notes the suggestion of improvement in the housing industry. Meanwhile, the LATimes says, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reports in their index the
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MHProNews.com has learned the Bullhead City Council has approved an agreement between the city and the Arizona Department of Fire, Building, and Life Safety (DFBLS), Office of Manufactured Housing, for Mojave County to issue permits and inspections for manufactured housing and factory-built buildings. The DFBLS does not have an inspector
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Perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 jobs and the home values of some 4 million pre-HUD Code mobile and post-HUD Code manufactured homes hangs in the balance of the passage of HR 3849. Can it get done? Experts tell MHProNews that it will require a strong grass roots effort by industry professionals
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TheSacramentoBee tells MHProNews.com Arts Way Scientific, Inc. of Armstrong, Iowa is supplying a research and teaching institution with 24 modular buildings that will comprise a 21,350 square foot research facility. With an anticipated installation date before the year’s end, the contract is valued at $8.7 million. Art’s Way Scientific, a
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CBRE Group, Inc., a far-reaching global player in the full-service real estate services industry, reports its first quarter 2012 revenues increased 14 percent over the same period 2011, $1.35 billion versus $1.2 billion. Net income was $45.9 million, $0.14 per diluted share for Q1 2012 compared to $40.6 million, or
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Stocks end the month on a down note pulled by weak domestic economic news and Spain’s declaration it’s in a recession. CNNMoney tells MHProNews the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged down -0.11 percent, -14.68 points, to end the day at 13,213.63 The Nasdaq lost even more, -0.74 percent, to close
Deer Valley Stumbles, UMH Alone Edges Up Read More
In her segment about the tornadic dangers to MH residents, Iowa’s KWWL-TV reporter Kera Mashek does not distinguish between pre-HUD Code homes and manufactured housing in her report. It is all “mobile homes” to her. Unfortunately, the U.S. Commerce Dept.’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) statistics on fatalities resulting
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Following a story we posted April 25, Indiana’s Gov. Mitch Daniels met with RV industry leaders in Elkhart, Indiana to commend them on their industry turn around and discuss the future of the industry. He says 83 percent of all RVs are made in Indiana, an increase from the 60th
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A bill up for second consideration today (April 30) by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, according to the Newtown-Pa.Patch, would require the Department of Community and Economic Development to establish regulations for relocating manufactured homes. SB 1141 (Sen. Charles Mcllhinney, R-Bucks/Montgomery) also defines “manufactured housing.” MHProNews has leaned the third
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From Georgia MHProNews.com learns ChronicleAugusta reports a pre-HUD Code mobile home that caught fire in the middle of the night in 2006 and took the lives of a young couple spawned several lawsuits brought by the families. The city of Augusta claims protection under the legal principle of sovereign immunity
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Two Illinois men have been charged with defrauding investors out of $800,000 in a modular home building scam, the DailyHerald tells MHProNews.com. Richard Osty of Waukegan and Ronald Moore of Wheaton allegedly told investors $1,500 (sometimes more) would get them a loan for a green modular home, a one dollar
Pair Accused of Paring Investors in Modular Scam Read More
MarketWatch reports net sales for T.J.T., Inc. fell 24 percent for the second quarter ending March 31, 2012, resulting in a net loss of $286,000 for the quarter compared to a net loss of $296,000 for the same quarter a year ago. Net loss for the six months ending March
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