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Manufactured homes offer value and quality at a reasonable price

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla Coming up, Insurer Study on Manufactured Homeowners Provides Insights But first…this story: Manufactured homes offer value and quality at a reasonable price By Cullen Lea Charleston Post and Courier For Equity Homes, affordability and value is the name

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Insurer Study on Manufactured Homeowners Provides Insights

Industry in Focus Report by Eric Miller, MHMSM.com journalist Grand Rapids, MI –The Insurance Marketing Communications Association recently honored Foremost Insurance with its Showcase Award of Excellence for its Manufactured Homes: The Market Facts 2008 Report. Foremost has been a major player in the mobile-home turned manufactured-home insurance market since

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Foremost Receives Marketing Award of Excellence

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla Coming up, NAHB Applauds EPA’S Decision to Delay Lead [led] Paint Certification Enforcement But first…these stories: Foremost Receives Marketing Award of Excellence The Insurance Marketing Communications Association (IMCA) has honored Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Foremost Insurance Co. with a

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NAHB Announces Call for Entries for the 2011 National Sales & Marketing Awards

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla Coming up, Contact FHFA and Congress Immediately to Request Modification of the Enterprise Duty to Serve Underserved Markets Proposed Rule,detrimental to the Manufactured Home Industry. YOU are called to respond! But first…this story: NAHB Announces Call for Entries

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As seasonal hurricane risks rise, studies prove modern manufactured homes are a safer bet prehudmobilehome

As seasonal Hurricane risks rise, Studies prove Modern Manufactured Homes are a safer bet

CHICAGO IL, JULY 1, 2010 – Hurricane season is upon us and analysts are predicting a particularly active season. Hurricanes and tornadoes spawn not only damaging winds, but also a rash of sensational reports damaging to the image of manufactured housing. These reports often create fears among consumers. But is

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New Orleans Slowly Embracing Sustainable Building Practices

MHMSM.com presents News at Noon with Erin Patla Coming up, HUD PROPOSES NEW RULE TO ALLOW ON-SITE COMPLETION OF FACTORY-BUILT MANUFACTURED HOMES But first…this story. New Orleans Slowly Embracing Sustainable Building Practices By Jennifer Goodman for EcoHomeMagazine.com Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, home builders are still working

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Modular Homes join the Green Technology Movement

MHMSM.com presents News at Noon with Erin Patla Coming up, Modular Homes join the Green Technology Movement But first…this story. BOONE — Winston-Salem JOURNAL STAFF reports that The North Carolina Energy Office is introducing a $3.7 million program to improve energy efficiency in homes, designating Appalachian State University’s Energy Center

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Maryland family to win free new house – on TV

MHMSM.com presents News at Noon with Erin Patla Coming up, Virginia Tech’s Prefab Lumenhaus Wins Solar Decathlon Europe But first…these stories. Deer Valley Corporation Increases Production Rates to Stabilize Growing Backlog TAMPA, FL–(Marketwire – 06/28/10) – Deer Valley Corporation  today is informing shareholders that the Company’s average production rates for

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MH Industry Finance Perspective: Competing Agendas in Washington

Industry in Focus Report</br /> by Eric Miller, MHMSM.com journalist Homeownership has long-been a staple component of American society. Making homeownership affordable has been a goal of several recent administrations. Most recently, President Obama enacted the Making Home Affordable Program, designed to help those already in homes modify or refinance

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Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan

MHMSM.com presents News at Noon with Erin Patla Coming up, Excel Homes and Maryland Community Builders Foundation Join ABC’s ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ But first…these stories. The National Modular Building Council Reports shipments rise in the first quarter of 2010. The National Modular Building Council, or NMHC’s Quarterly Modular Housing

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Experts Say While Important, Title 1 Only Part of Financing Puzzle

Industry in Focus Report  by Eric Miller, MHMSM.com journalist ELKHART, IN June 17, 2010 – It’s a well-known fact, the manufactured housing industry is suffering from a lack of financing. To many in the know, the key to restoring its availability is 1) the full implementation of the Title I

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Clayton-owned development under way near Royal Oaks Golfing Community

Coming up, American Homestar Corporation Celebrates 40th Anniversary But first…these stories. American Integrity Insurance Offers Premium Discounts for Newer Manufactured Homes from MarketWatch AMPA, Fla., Jun 22, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — American Integrity Insurance Company announced today that it is reducing its rates by an average of 10 percent statewide

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Tornado Caused More Destruction to Conventional Construction than to Mobile or Manufactured Homes

Industry in Focus Report  by Eric Miller, MHMSM.com journalist On June 5, 2010, a tornado that tore through the Illinois town of Dwight, IL and nearby Streator left a destructive path that destroyed mobile, manufactured and conventional construction alike. The 2nd home in this photo is a pre-HUD Code mobile

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Student architects design eco-friendly homes

This podcast of News at Noon is sponsored in part by MHMSM.com/solutions more information on MHMSM.com/solutions will follow this podcast. Coming up, Student architects design eco-friendly homes But first…these stories. Blu Homes, manufacturer of environmentally efficient modular homes, officially opens East Longmeadow factory From MassLive.com by Jim Kinney of the

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