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Southway Villa is listed as a Legacy Communities owned property in Brooksville, Florida where Stephen Fucheck’s and his manufactured home’s front screen room gives him a pleasant view of a lake. “I’ve got plenty of nature here. I love the house and I’m going to stay here until the day …
“Our young people can’t afford to buy a home anymore.” “We’re going from an ownership society to a renters’ society. When we do that, we go from being free citizens to mere subjects, entirely at the mercy of the powerful. We’re on track to be subjected to these giant corporations …
According to Bob Ivry with RealClearInvestigations: “Paul Fishbein’s conviction on rent fraud charges in New York City last year was a feast for the tabloids,” linking his conviction to the Department of Justice (DOJ) website. Ivry’s report states: “both human and technological, and says the earliest it can start properly …
The economy is what it is and for years polls and surveys reveal that the public is widely unhappy with rising costs for housing, food, fuel, utilities, financing, incomes that don’t keep up and more. Debts, public and personal, are at record levels. About 2/3rds of the country think the …
Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (“CAPREIT”) (TSX:CAR.UN) announced an agreement on “with an entity controlled by TPG Real Estate to sell its manufactured home community (“MHC”) portfolio for a gross purchase price of $740.0 million (excluding transaction costs)” on 7.15.2024. Yahoo said C$740.0 million (Canadian dollars) “is about …
“Former TV personality Carlos Watson was convicted Tuesday in a federal financial conspiracy case about Ozy Media, an ambitious startup that collapsed after another executive impersonated a YouTube executive to hype the company’s success,” said left-leaning Yahoo News and the Associated Press (AP). “Brooklyn federal prosecutors announced on the social platform …
“Oligarchs Overriding the Will of Democratic Voters,” stated the opening words of an emailed news update by longtime leftist attorney-turned award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald. The Teamsters union represents some 1.3 million members who are traditionally Democratic in stance, but as left-leaning CBS News said (see Part V below) reported, Teamster’s …
Per the Gibbs Law Group press release provided further below “federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] are investigating Arbor Realty’s “lending practices and the company’s claims about the performance of their loan book.” According to Ningi Research: “Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. (“ABR”, “Arbor”, “Arbor Realty Trust”, or …
Just before 5 PM ET (July 13, 2024 @ 16:56:08) on Saturday evening the headline for this report had no mention of the attempted assassination of deposed President Donald J. Trump (R). The headline in draft mode at that time read as follows: “City Plunged into Housing Crisis as Migrants …
“This long-needed reversal should stem the vast tide of federal agencies’ overreach,” said U.S. House Oversight Chair James Comer (KY-R) in recent remarks provided below in a report provided by The Center Square to MHProNews. In a letter provided below in Part II addressed to Isabella Casillas Guzman, Administrator of …
To be “clinical” in analysis is defined by Oxford Languages as “efficient and unemotional; coldly detached.” The term “clinical” is used in medicine and science, which sheds light on this alternative definition: “relating to the observation and treatment of actual patients [i.e.: subjects] rather than theoretical or laboratory studies.” A …
When Edwin Bartok and his wife Rose retired from the U.S. Air Force they sold their single-family house and decided to spend their retirement in a manufactured home community owned by Hometown America, said Marketplace.org. “We’re very, very happy,” Ed Bartok said. “We love the little house. It’s perfect.” But: …
“Montanans in every corner of our state have told me they are being impacted by rising housing costs and a shortage of supply, which is why it’s more important than ever that we use all the tools at our disposable to ensure we maintain our existing affordable housing stock,” said …
Manufactured housing production increased in May 2024 over April 2024, according to the July report issued yesterday (7.8.2024) by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). But a closer look at the data and related events reveals cracks, weaknesses, and apparent flaws in manufactured housing industry performance among …
“I love my home!” says Carrie Keuter in a testimonial posted on the TableMoundMHP website on 7.8.2024. “Stay away/ this place is run by liars and thieves!!” asserted a Google review posted by Ken Mills about that same community. Then “Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer called for an investigation into Impact Communities’ business operations. Finkenauer …
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” is credited to Pericles [ancient Greek thinker and “statesmen” circa 495 BC-429 BC] by BrainyQuotes. The lack of affordable housing is a top election issue, perhaps particularly so with young singles and households. So, the 2024 election campaign …
Mainstream news headlines are often focused on the drama swirling around Joe Biden, his cognitive/health woes, or his possible replacement as the 2024 Democratic Presidential candidate, but that topic is sucking up oxygen from kitchen table inflationary and other financial pressures impacting mobile and manufactured homeowners living in corporate land …
On July 1, 2024 the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) published a report both emailed and on their website that is provided by them to MHProNews below with the headline: “Supreme Court Ruling Changes Regulatory Landscape for Manufactured Housing Industry.” As of July 5, 2024 the Manufactured Housing …
“People living in manufactured home parks are soon to join the next wave of homelessness,” said Judy Annin to Oregon Live. Annin is the founder of “Manufactured Homeowners for Change, Oregon.” An editor for Oregon Live provided Annin’s letter shown in Part I of this report with analysis. In an …
Sarah Wheeler, “Editor in Chief at HousingWire” has known since about Wednesday Oct 6, 2021, that there are concerns about Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) CEO Lesli Gooch, Ph.D. But let’s hold that for a few minutes. It is Wednesday once more. Chris Plante routinely explains that Wednesday is Hump Day …
