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NW economists, how to taper without killing housing, Day Two of Stock Rebound

By / August 23, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Day two of the rebound from stocks saw the Dow close at 15,010.51, +46.77 (+0.31%). CNN-Money tells MHProNews that some investors may have taken hope in a new academic paper from Northwestern University economists Arvind Krishnamurthy and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen presented at the annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, WY, …

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High Demand for Manufactured Homes in Manitoba, but limited spaces in MH Communities

By / August 23, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Demand for Canada’s version of manufactured housing is rising rapidly in Manitoba, at the very time spaces in provincial land lease communities are scarce. With single family home sales in the region averaging $285,000, a new manufactured home in Manitoba for $115,000 looks very reasonable. So it is no surprise …

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City seeks balance on Rent control issue?

By / February 5, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The Lakeport, CA City Council voted to wait for a report from an agency before proceeding on a proposed rent control initiative that has enough petitioners to achieve ballot status. Save our Seniors (SOS) members derided the decision. SOS leader, Nelson Strasser. said: “When the park owners have to bring …

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Green Courte buys another ‘Senior’ Manufactured Home Community

By / August 23, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Green Courte Partners, LLC announced the acquisition of Lamplighter Manufactured Home Community, an age-restricted land-lease community, containing 260 home sites, located in Port Orange, Florida. Green Courte engaged American Land Lease, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of its second fund, Green Courte Real Estate Partners II, LLC, to manage the community. …

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Council votes to house EMS in Manufactured Home

By / August 22, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The Bertram City, TX council voted to house their EMS unit in a manufactured home, rather than spend more time and money building a conventional structure. Bertram, about 45 miles from the state capitol of Austin, decided on August 20th 4 to 1 in favor of the measure, budgeting $35,000 …

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Emergency Quadruple Bypass Surgery for RV/MH Hall of Fame President Darryl Searer

By / August 22, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Darryl Searer, president, RV/MH Hall of Fame is progressing well today after undergoing a successful emergency quadruple bypass surgery yesterday morning at the Memorial Hospital in South Bend, according to Barry Cole, Hall chairman of the board. Cole said, “Over the past weekend Darryl suffered what he considered possibly symptoms …

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Rent Control Victors Get Subdivision OK’d by city

By / August 22, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The battle over rent control in Capitola, CA’s Sand and Surf manufactured home community is one that MHProNews has tracked for industry readers over the years, in Daily Business News articles like the one linked here. HK&C Law has announced that Capitola has now “quietly” approved the long sought subdivision. …

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Trading Halted, Dow’s 6 Day Slide Ends

By / August 22, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

A “technical glitch” caused trading on the NASDAQ to halt for some 3 hours today. Meanwhile, CNN Money tells MHProNews that the Dow’s 6 days slide ended, as the market closed at 14,963.74, up $66.19 (+0.44%). The Yahoo! Financial Manufactured Housing Composite Value: 939.3, +1.63%. Cavco Industries lead gainers, 55.98 +2.86‎ (5.38%‎). …

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Modular Homes becoming a new Jersey Shores thing

By / August 21, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Updating the recent story on Scranton PA based Westrum Development is installing a two story Cape Cod modular home on the post hurricane Sandy Jersey shore the firm built in just 28 days. Cost for Westrum’s three-bedroom modular home, says totalmortgage and the Wall Street Journal, is $179,000. 10 homeowners …

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Pre-HUD Code Mobile Homes Fingered for Construction and Energy Issues

By / August 21, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Mold, uneven floors and energy wasting are among the complaints that Charlotte White, an owner of a pre-HUD Code mobile home expressed, says earthfix. The 64 year old White is retired and lives in a single wide located in Rainbow Rock Village in Curry County, Oregon. Their story underscores the …

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Former CEO of 152 Billion BB&T bank says Dodd-Frank smothers small business lending

By / August 21, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Doug Altner of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights reports Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus and Subway founder Fred Deluca saying they couldn’t have started their businesses in today’s regulatory environment. In an interview with John Allison — president of the Cato Institute and the former CEO of BB&T …

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New Hampshire’s Community Loan Fund converts MHC #106

By / August 21, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Residents of Lamprey River and Railroad Street land lease communities in Newmarket, NH recently purchased their communities. Heron Point Estates Cooperative, New Hampshire’s 106th manufactured-home cooperative forged through the work of the state’s Community Loan Fund, will manage both communities.  Education, technical assistance and funding were arranged by the New …

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IBTS Inc Gets 25 Million Contract from HUD

By / August 21, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced on fbo.gov and its own website that it was awarding the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) Inc. the contract to perform “…assessment inspections, monitoring, and evaluation of the performance of private and state agencies responsible for oversight of design …

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Glowing MH Industry C-Suite Interviews

By / June 21, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The exclusive interviews of manufactured housing industry ‘C-Suite’ leaders, executives and business owners has fueled growing – and glowing – interest in readership here at MHProNews. These in turn yield an improved understanding and respect for the MH Industry at large by investors, professionals or researchers who also find and …

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Improving Manufactured Housing’s Image to Increase Sales

By / June 19, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

With image being a key component to selling more manufactured homes to cash and credit worthy buyers, that may explain the growing daily commentary in favor of the start of the ManufacturedHomeLivingNews.com image campaign. Nancy Geer, Executive Director of the New York Housing Association said: “Manufactured Home Living Website is …

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Williams, Allen and others give Thumbs Up

By / June 16, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Manufactured housing professionals have long known that an image building campaign would benefit the industry in many ways. So it’s no surprise that First State Manufactured Housing Association’s Jennifer Allen, Tim Williams from the Ohio Manufactured Homes Association and a number of other industry executives and professionals have expressed encouragement …

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2013 NCC Fall Leadership Forum Announced

By / April 10, 2013 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

MHI’s National Communities Council (NCC) has announced that it is expanding its current slate of networking and business building opportunities by creating a new flagship leadership and networking event to be held each fall.  The first annual NCC Fall Leadership Forum will be held On October 16-18, 2013 at the …

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