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Following up on a story we published Dec. 22, 2011, the WinnipegFreePress tells MHProNews.com nearly a year after floods forced several thousand First Nation Manitoba, Canada, residents from their homes, 2,255 people continue to live in hotels in Winnipeg or with family and friends. The government pays the evacuees for …
MHProNews.com has learned from NOLA in New Orleans the Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld the 60-year sentence of a former Alabama lawmaker who swindled older victims of Hurricane Katrina out of $250,000. John Colvin, who passed himself off as a licensed contractor but was not licensed in LA, pleaded guilty …
According to a new ordinance passed by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors in California, before a manufactured community owner (MHC) can close a community, it must submit an impact statement, provide relocation assistance for residents, and submit a review of the process to the Planning Commission. The SantaMariaTimes …
MHC Closure Ordinance could Make MHC Owners Bleed Green Read More
CNNMoney tells MHProNews.com the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 16.42 points as falling bank stocks pulled at the strength of tech socks. The Dow gained 0.12 percent to close at 13,194.10. The Nasdaq moved up +0.03 percent to close at 3,040.73, while the S&P fell -0.12 percent to finish …
Rally Fades, Most Housing Stocks Fall, but Dow Remains above 13,000 Read More
StarsandStripes tells MHProNews.comas the Department of Defense prepares to select an air base as the home of a new generation of refeuling air tankers built by Boeing in Everett, Washington, local officials across the state at Airway Heights, right next to Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane would like to …
MHC Residents Like Their ‘Accident Potential Zone 2’ Read More
The Enumclaw Patch reports due to local volunteer firemens’ inability to respond to fires more quickly from their own homes, the King County Fire District bought a modular home for sleeping quarters to better staff the Cumberland Fire Station. Many of the former volunteers have retired or moved from this …
Vol. Fire Dept. has Modular House for Quicker Response Read More
MHProNews.com has learned from RealClearPolitics that Alabama Rep. Spencer Bachus, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee has faced down the toughest opposition of his career, as he begins his 29th year in Congress from the 6th Congressional District in Birmingham. Despite all three Republican primary challengers contending his public …
Triad Financial Services, Inc. informs us that Jim Brand, Houston-based regional manager for the manufactured housing lender, passed away March 9 after a brief battle with cancer. With Triad since 2005, Jim previously worked for Associates Housing Finance as Sales Purchase Office Manager. Blessed with good humor and an infectious …
Stocks moved higher Tuesday after a positive report on retail sales and news from the Fed that the economy is improving. The Yahoo Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Index closed 1.3 percent higher. Several watched stocks added more than seven percent, and one, Patrick Industries, added more than ten percent. Closing …
Stocks Up, One Watched Stock Tops Ten Percent Gain Read More
The Yahoo Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Index got a running start to the week and logged gains topping five percent while most stocks lost and the Dow gained only modestly. Moving up with broader indexes were Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH home-building, lending and other …
A slew of news stories appeared over the weekend over those killed in recent tornadoes. While the majority of those killed were in what the articles call mobile homes, the distinction is not always made between pre- HUD code mobile homes and manufactured homes, or as to whether the homes …
Stocks advanced modestly Friday and the Yahoo Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Value added more than six percent. Some individual stock gains approached ten percent. All but one watched stock advanced. The lone decliner was Nobility Homes, which closed down .28 cents (3.59 percent) to $7.51 a share. Advancing stocks included …
CantonRep tells MHProNews.com the Village Council of Carrollton, Ohio, will hold a special meeting Monday at 6 PM to discuss housing for gas and oil well workers coming to the area. An outside company is interested in real estate in the area, and may want to build a modular village …
MHProNews.com has learned from ThePress-Enterprise in San Jacinto, California, the owners of the 200 site Parkview Estates Manufactured Home Community want to convert it from a land lease community (LLC) to residents having the option to buy the site they occupy. Conversion may allow rental costs to rise to market …
As hope spread among investors that only one hurdle remained to Greece’s restructuring of debt, U.S. stocks picked up a little steam as CNNMoney tells MHProNews.com. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained +.55 percent, 70.61 points, to end the day at 12,907.94.The Nasdaq moved up +1.18 percent to close at …
Patrick Vaults, Louisiana Pacific Rises, Dow Nudges Up Read More
The Manufactured Housing Institute’s (MHI) Monthly Economic Report, states shipments of single-section and multisection homes jumped 42.1 percent Jan. 2012 over Jan. 2011, to 3,945 new homes. Single section homes accounted for 53.9 percent of the increase. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of shipments (SAAR) increased 6.0 percent, to 61,082 …
To follow-up on a story we published Nov. 07, 2011, The T&D tells MHProNews.com a man from Neeses, South Carolina, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to six counts of breach of trust for taking money for manufactured homes never delivered. If rom Colter was arrested …
Just north of eastern Montana and north of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, a modular town of 2,500 residents will emerge to provide workforce housing to build BHP Billiton’s Jansen potash mine, near the Gordon First Nation. MHProNews.com has learned from GlobalRegina that Craig Alloway of Calgary-based Atco, says it will be …
A site plan has been approved by the Waverly Village planning board in northeastern Pennsylvania for six two-family modular apartments, TheDailyReview tells MHProNews.com. When board members raised concerns about fireproofing, developer Tim Steed said the apartments exceed state fireproofing codes and HUD standards. The village mobile home statute, which village …
Stock market indexes headed up again towards the 13,000 mark Wednesday and the Yahoo Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Index added nearly three percent. Most individual stocks also advanced. Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. added $1.70 (1.63 percent) to arrive at $106.13. Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, as well as MH …
