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Sunday Morning Weekly Recap – Manufactured Housing News – for 12-28, 2014 to 1-3, 2015

By / January 3, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

New year, 2015 is here! The Louisville Manufactured Home Show is 2 weeks and 3 days away! Manufactured, modular and broader news that touches your professional world is all around. From Flashy Fancy Dutch PreFabs, to how much better manufactured homes preform against fires than conventional houses or mobile homes, …

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Dutch Firm Designs Flashy Prefab Homes for Young Professionals

By / January 5, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

  Americans don’t have a monopoly on the design of prefab housing. Sometimes it’s interesting to take a look at what’s happening in other countries. American and international builders can – and no doubt do – pick up some ideas from each other. MHProNews checks out global pre-fab news, just …

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Louisville Manufactured Housing Show Countdown Updates

By / January 2, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The 2015 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show is now less than 3 weeks away. The Louisville Show has been the MH industry’s largest trade event for the last two years. Registrations are up by 49 professionals over the same period last year, and will accelerate from this point forward. Updates for …

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MHCV, S&P and NASDAQ slide, Dow begins 2015 with little change

By / January 2, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Manufactured home community connected stocks did well today, while the MHCV dipped as did most other MH tracked companies. Reuters  tells MHProNews  that the broader U.S. stocks closed with little change on the first trading session of 2015, finishing well off session highs as economic data short-circuited early gains. In …

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Manufactured Housing Industry Supplier Announces Leadership Changes

By / January 5, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

A prime supplier and manufacturer of products specific to the manufactured housing industry has announced some leadership changes, effective January 1. Style Crest Enterprises, Inc., Fremont,Ohio, announced that Tom Kern, founder and past CEO of Style Crest will assume an active management role as Chairman of the Board of Directors …

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Consumer Access to Credit Reports Getting Easier?

By / January 1, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Manufactured housing “street” or “community” retailers know how important credit scores can be for getting financing for would be customers. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), related federal or state licensing and regulatory standards have been making it tougher for sellers to communicate with consumers. Regs can also make it challenging …

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Stanford University develops Earthquake resistant design for Homes

By / January 1, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The term “sliders” is no longer limited to those small 3” sandwiches offered at various restaurants. A team of engineers at Stanford University has developed a method of constructing earthquake-resistant homes using 4.5” steel and plastic “sliders.” Jetson Green  tells MHProNews  that Stanford’s method involves placing a home on “seismic isolators.” …

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Manufactured Homes – Safer in Fires than “Sticks and Bricks” Houses

By / January 1, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Two so-called ‘mobile home’ fires that hit local news illustrate the fact that modern manufactured homes (MH) offer better protection by design. Modern MH is safer against fires than traditionally constructed housing. MH is safer than pre-HUD Code mobile homes too. Who says? The NFPA – the National Fire Protection …

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Faulty Water and Sewer create problems for some MHC Residents and community owners

By / January 1, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Aging and improperly maintained infrastructure can lead to drinking and waste water problems in any kind of neighborhood, manufactured home communities (MHC) included. Besides the hassles for residents, media accounts of health violations in MHCs tend to fuel the ‘troubled mobile home park’ image. A recent example of this took …

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New Year’s eve – MHCV slides again, as does oil and broader market – but 2014 overall good for investors

By / December 31, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The Manufactured Housing Composite Value and most tracked MH stocks lost ground today. Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, hovered around a new low of $56 a barrel, heading for its largest annual decline since 2008. Oil inventories declined more than expected last week.  CNN Money  points out that …

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Will Jeb Bush advance family dynasty, seeking 2016 Republican Presidential candidacy 2016?

By / February 5, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The race for the presidency began months ago for Hillary Clinton and others who have been testing the waters. What will the business community and manufactured housing professionals be looking for as the 2016 campaign unfolds? Who will emerge as the standard bearers for the two major parties? Undoubtedly, Bill …

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Wisdom Homes Celebrates new East Texas Retail Center with 11 pending sales

By / December 30, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Wisdom Homes Of America, Inc., has a lot to be happy about. The company opened its fourth and largest retail center located in Mount Pleasant, Texas, in December with a total of 11 pending transactions. “We began receiving home purchase applications immediately after the bulk of our inventory started arriving …

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MHCV and Dow slips – NASDAQ and S&P dips

By / December 30, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The MHCV slid over 5% today. Marketwatch  tells MHProNews  that “cheaper gasoline, faster job creation and previously rising stock prices cheered up Americans during the holiday season. Consumer confidence rebounded in December to the third-highest level since the end of the recession more than five years ago.” So what happened? …

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Older Americans Provide Strong Support to U.S. Housing Market

By / December 31, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Studies show that older Americans in the 65 to 74 age group have the highest percentage of home ownership. This has provided valuable support to the American housing market in the last several years and is important for factory-built housing sellers too. If studies like the one done by Foremost …

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Negative Factors Affecting conventional housing could benefit Manufactured Home Market

By / December 31, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Several articles published recently in Marketwatch  tell a forlorn tale about the sad state of the average American’s personal and family finances. However, there may be a silver lining to the middle class dilemma that can benefit manufactured housing. According to a recent report from the Pew Research Center in …

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RV/MH Heritage Foundation Announces Manufactured Housing Class of 2015 Hall of Fame Inductees

By / December 29, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The RV/MH Heritage Foundation in Elkhart, Indiana, has informed MHProNews of the names of those who will be inducted into the RV/MH Hall of Fame in August as the Class of 2015. Foundation President Darryl Searer congratulated the honorees, saying “All of them have had or are having outstanding careers …

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Manufactured Home Industry accomplishments in Virginia include those good for home buyers and industry professionals

By / December 29, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Tyler Craddock, Executive Eirector of the Virginia Manufactured and Modular Housing Association (VAMMHA), provided a snapshot of good news accomplished via that organization’s collective efforts. In reviewing what VAMMA achieved during the past year, Craddock tells MHProNews  that the most significant success was an important legislative victory that benefits home …

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Skyline Leaps, Suppliers Sleeps, Dow breaks 7 day streaks

By / December 29, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The MH Composite Value rose today, as most producers did too. Manufactured Home Communities (MHC) were generally up, while suppliers were mixed. The Dow broke its winning streak by dropping a fraction. MarketWatch  tells MHProNews that King Oil, which MH pros know can help factory home builders, is off by …

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Manufactured Home Community closure creates concerns for Human and Feral Cat Residents

By / December 28, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

As residents of the Evergreen Village Mobile Home Park near Sycamore, Illinois, move out, a local non-profit, Fixin’ Feral Felines, is trying to save the approximately 150 feral cats who have been living on the premises. Finding homes for the cats and the displaced residents is causing some concerns. Evergreen …

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