Manufactured and Modular Housing News Archives

Aug 17 2015

Bill would Give a Voice to Smaller Lenders within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

By Matthew Silver / August 17, 2015 August 17, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

A measure introduced in the Senate by U. S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Angus King (I-ME) would give community banks, credit unions and small businesses a say in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) rulemaking process, according to what dsnews tells MHProNews. Known as the Bureau of Consumer Financial …

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Aug 17 2015August 16, 2015

Manufactured Home Community Owners, Residents at Odds over Infrastructure Repairs

By Matthew Silver / August 17, 2015 August 16, 2015 / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

With only five months before a 20 year-old agreement stabilizing manufactured home community (MHC) rents expires in Vista, California, talks between residents and community owners have reached a stalemate. During talks that began in April, owners insisted residents pay for updating infrastructure in the aging communities, according to sandiegouniontribune. Most …

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Aug 16 2015August 15, 2015

Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 9-Aug. 16, 2015

By Matthew Silver / August 16, 2015 August 15, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, RV, Stocks

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Nubble Lighthouse and Sohier Park. York, Maine – US Destination What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News GSEs set to offer secondary market for manufactured home loans. Two MHCs change hands, new MHC planned in Canada. CFPB not protecting consumers OR employees. …

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Aug 15 2015August 15, 2015

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is Rife with Discrimination

By Matthew Silver / August 15, 2015 August 15, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Economy, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, regulation

Writing in townhall, Ken Blackwell says the four-year old Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) discriminates against the people it has vowed to protect, inside and outside the agency, and is riddled with waste, inefficiency and mismanagement. Noting Director Richard Cordray would be out of a job if the agency was …

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Aug 15 2015August 14, 2015

246 Site Manufactured Home Community Sold in Michigan

By Matthew Silver / August 15, 2015 August 14, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Coachman’s Cove manufactured home community (MHC) in Munith, Michigan was sold at auction July 24 by Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions, according to rejournals. Consisting of 213 single section home sites and 33 sites for multi-section, Coachman is located 30 minutes from Ann Arbor on Big Portage Lake next to …

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Aug 14 2015September 12, 2019

Bowersox Takes Vice President Position with Manufactured Housing Institute

By Matthew Silver / August 14, 2015 September 12, 2019 / Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, RV

MHProNews has learned from the Indiana Manufactured Housing Association-Recreation Vehicle Indiana Council (IMHA-RVIC) that Executive Director Mark Bowersox has resigned his position as of Sept. 5, 2015. With IMHA-RVIC for 12 years, he began as the association’s RV director, added the title of marketing director before being promoted to Executive …

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Aug 14 2015

MHCV Outperforms Dow. LPX Gains 3.55%

By Matthew Silver / August 14, 2015 August 14, 2015 / Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Stocks

In the news from CNNMoney: Tyson closing beef plant in Iowa because of a cattle shortage, costing 400 jobs. U. S. tax revenues are at an all time high. Flamethrowers, which the military quit using after Vietnam, are now available to the public. U. S. Navy triples paid maternity leave …

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Aug 14 2015

Shigeru Ban develops Modular Shelter for Quake Survivors in Nepal

By Matthew Silver / August 14, 2015 August 14, 2015 / Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, People

Following the April and May 2015 earthquakes that caused 9,000 deaths and injured 25,000 in Nepal, the worst earthquake to hit the country in more than 80 years, prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has developed a modular shelter home for the survivors made in part from the rubble resulting from …

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Aug 14 2015

Kingsley Management Corp. Acquires Florida Manufactured Home Community

By Matthew Silver / August 14, 2015 August 14, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home

MHProNews has learned from businessobserverfl that Southwind Mobile Home Park in Palm Harbor, Florida has been sold by Belle Vista Properties LLC for $18.2 million to Kingsley Management Corp. of Provo, Utah. The 213 home site, age-restricted manufactured home community (MHC), which previously sold for $7 million in 1999, is …

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Aug 14 2015August 13, 2015

Modular Homes will Result from Land Bank Transfer

By Matthew Silver / August 14, 2015 August 13, 2015 / Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

Updating a story MHProNews published July 10, 2015 about non-profit Interfaith Housing Services in Hutchinson, Kansas set to receive property from the Hutchinson Land Bank for two modular homes, land bank chairman Mark Eaton said, “We are very excited to transfer our first property. And we have three other properties …

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Aug 13 2015August 14, 2015

Secondary Market for Manufactured Home Loans Directive Due Soon

By Matthew Silver / August 13, 2015 August 14, 2015 / Advocacy, Communities, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

While the “duty to serve” mandate requiring loans be made available for manufactured home purchases has been on the books since 2008 but never enforced, it may soon see the light of day. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is set to require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase …

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Aug 13 2015August 13, 2015

San Jose wants a Six Month Moratorium on Re-purposing of Manufactured Home Communities

By Matthew Silver / August 13, 2015 August 13, 2015 / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Following a story MHProNews posted Aug. 8, 2015 regarding San Jose, California’s attempt to forestall the re-purposing of the city’s 59 land lease communities, mercurynews reports the San Jose City Council directed staff to develop an ordinance within two weeks that would prevent the city from processing any paperwork to …

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Aug 13 2015

Council Strengthens Language Regarding Relocating Residents

By Matthew Silver / August 13, 2015 August 13, 2015 / Business, Canada, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

While manufactured home community (MHC) owners in Langley Township, British Columbia, Canada cannot be compelled to pay relocation costs to displaced residents when redeveloping their communities, municipalities can negotiate relocation costs with the owner when application is made for rezoning, according to langleytimes. The Seniors Advisory Committee had asked the …

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Aug 13 2015

Patrick Gains the Most of MH Stocks; MHCV Slips

By Matthew Silver / August 13, 2015 August 13, 2015 / Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Stocks

In the news from CNNMoney: Iran is hiding more oil at sea then we knew about. Women with MBAs are choosing Google over Goldman Sachs. Oil falls to a six-year low, hitting $41.92 a barrel, well below the $100 a barrel one year ago—Texas and North Dakota feel the pinch. …

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Aug 13 2015

Land Bank Authority Funds Modular Housing Project

By Matthew Silver / August 13, 2015 August 13, 2015 / Business, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

In the second project of Dauphin County’s Land Bank Authority, four dilapidated townhouses will be demolished and replaced with five modular homes in Susquehanna Township, a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, according to what pennlive tells MHProNews. Three health officers have been working on the four buildings over the years, citing …

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Aug 13 2015August 12, 2015

Manufactured Home Community Founder Supports Non-profit in New Jersey

By Matthew Silver / August 13, 2015 August 12, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

MHProNews has learned from sboanj that Eugene Landy and his wife will serve as Grand Marshals for the Fourth Annual Open Space Pace on Saturday, September 19, 2015, an event of the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey (sboanj). Festivities begin with a parade of horses from Freehold …

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Aug 12 2015

Citizens Paring Down Policies of Manufactured Home Owners

By Matthew Silver / August 12, 2015 August 12, 2015 / Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Updating a story MHProNews last posted April 26, 2013 regarding Florida’s state-run insurer of manufactured homes, Citizens Property Insurance Co., and its reduction of coverage on MH, orlandosentinel reports seven private insurers have been approved to pick up half of Citizens’ remaining policies, amounting to 280,857 policies, according to the …

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Aug 12 2015

California Takes Prize for Most Expensive Homes

By Matthew Silver / August 12, 2015 August 12, 2015 / Business, Economy, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) informs MHProNews that the median existing single-family home price increased in 93% of 176 metropolitan areas during Q2 2015, up from 85 percent of metro areas in the first quarter. Compared to the second quarter of 2014, home prices rose 8.2 percent. According to …

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Aug 12 2015

Fleetwood Poised to take Advantage of Opportunities Down Under

By Matthew Silver / August 12, 2015 August 12, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, RV

Fleetwood Corporation Ltd. (ASX:FWD) of Australia produces manufactured and modular homes and buildings for residential, educational and commercial applications, and has a recreational vehicle division as well, according to dailyreckoning.au. Although the report at the end of 2014 showed revenue had fallen 18 percent due to a weakness in the …

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Aug 12 2015

China Devaluation Leaves Stocks Flat; Deer Valley Falls Following Prior Big Gain

By Matthew Silver / August 12, 2015 August 12, 2015 / Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Stocks

In the news from CNNMoney: Global stock markets plummet over devaluing of Chinese currency. Kraft Heinz gives pink slips to 2,500, over 5% of workforce. Businesses tell Sen. Marco Rubio to change his stance on Cuba. WI Gov. Scott Walker OKs $250 million in taxpayer dollars for sports arena. Meanwhile, …

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