According to the Sacramento Bee in California, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) reports that UMH Properties Inc. (a real estate investment trust, REIT, in New Jersey) has agreed to pay an estimated $13.3 million for a trio of manufactured home communities in Tennessee with an average occupancy rate of about …
America On Line (AOL) tells of a $2.5 million factory built home in tony Malibu, California, set on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Bay. The two-bedroom, two bath, 2,300-square-foot home occupies a homesite that rents for $2,000 a month. According to realtor David Carter, several …
Airdrie City View of Alberta, Canada, reports a proposed 2,000 homesite, adult manufactured home community nearly ten years in the planning has been voted down by the Rocky View County councilors after almost five hours of debate. Initially approved by the councilors in 2002, the development was to include a …
From Virginia, the Daily News-Register says the Page County Board of Supervisors has rejected an application from Century Luray LC to develop a 232-homesite manufactured housing community in Luray, VA. County attorney George Shanks said that the county code of 1989 did allow for manufactured housing communities in town, but …
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Scribd reports that the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in support of petitioners who are appealing a decision in federal court that denied their claim challenging a rent control ordinance in Goleta, California. Petitioners bought a factory-built community in Goleta and had …
The Weekly Calistogan in Calistoga, California, tells of a battle going on between manufactured housing community owners and residents over rent control, and the city is in the middle. The owners are raising rental fees beyond what local law allows, and the residents are getting financial help from the city …
The Durant Daily Democrat reports from Calera, Oklahoma, that David Strickland has purchased 25 acres in town and wants to develop a manufactured home community. He brought his preliminary plans to a Calera Council meeting in this southeastern Oklahoma town and addressed concerns of citizens about how it would look. …
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Four Seasons manufactured home community in Belvidere, Illinois, has not been the same since Beverly and Richard Roeschel moved there 11 years ago. After retiring from their jobs a few years ago, they turned their attention to the community, which has a number of …
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that when residents of Parkhill Mobile Estates community discovered their landlord had sold the land to a developer to build condos, they banded together, and eventually became the Parkhill Homeowners Cooperative Association (PHCA). The Salt Lake County Housing Authority (SLCHA) actually bought the land from …
The Contra Costa Times reports the 2008 Sayre Fire that tore through the foothills around Los Angeles destroyed 600 residences at the Oakridge Mobile Home Park. Coming on the heels of the housing crisis, only 20 percent of the residents have returned. As an incentive to bring people back, the …
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The Santa Cruz Sentinel says a large water pipe that ruptured underneath a factory-built housing community, followed by drenching rains, damaged several homes and drove all 26 residents from the flooded community in Capitola, California. The March 24 drenching forced an elderly man to climb a hill behind his …
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From Vermont, the Bennington Banner reports Barber’s Pond Mobile Home Park is being sold to settle two estates, and residents have 45 days to either buy it or find a non-profit to buy it. Come May 7, the owners must try to sell the Pownal, VT, property for no less …
Fridley Patch reports Resident Owned Communities (ROC) USA partnered with the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency (MHFA) and Northcountry Cooperative Foundation (NCF) to help Park Plaza Cooperative become the fifth cooperative manufactured home community in the state. Located just north of Minneapolis in Fridley, the community’s previous owner said he is …
SourceMedia Group News reports from Iowa that Senate bill 252 has been defeated 23-25. This bill was designed to protect manufactured homeowners from predatory lenders, and give residents rights equivalent to those of apartment dwellers. But according to Joe Kelly, Exec. VP of the Iowa Manufactured Housing Association (IMHA), it …
The Star-Telegram reports that in Grapevine, Texas, an amended ordinance will impose restrictions on fences around factory-built home communities. City officials had discovered businesses operating illegally behind fences, and grass six feet tall that can harbor insects and rodents. The new ruling will allow four-feet tall fencing that is 50 …
