According to a recent left-leaning CNN survey some 86 percent of renters can’t afford a house, and such surveys routinely mean a ‘site built house. Of those 86 percent, 54 percent think they may never be able to buy a house, per CNN. Those facts ought to sound like […]
“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
To understand the confusion and lack of progress in solving the U.S. affordable housing crisis let’s start with an insight from the 1963 classic movie Charade. Author Robert Ringer explained a famous and wise piece of dialogue from that movie (italics added). “When Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) asks Peter Joshua
“So don’t tell me “we can’t solve affordable housing” because the correct statement is “we don’t want to solve affordable housing.” So said “Frank and Dave” in an emailed memo dated 6.7.2024. Give some people enough rope, and wittingly or not, they may hang themselves. In the course of hanging
Antitrust and consumer law researcher Samuel “Sam” Strommen observed: “Pernicious forces are…subsuming an industry [manufactured housing] rife with lack of oversight, and praying upon the vulnerability of [others] in a gross, incestuous symbiosis [bold emphasis added].” Manufactured housing is demonstrably badly underperforming on new home production during an affordable housing
Frank Rolfe and Dave Reynolds have been involved in the Kurt Kelley, J.D., quarterly MHReview since the early days when the quarterly was still a monthly publication. Rolfe, for example, often appears with an article in their pages. Ads by one or more of Rolfe/Reynolds enterprises are not uncommon in
In the wake of the big antitrust Class Action Complaint Case No. 23-cv-6715 – HAJEK vs. DATACOMP APPRAISAL SYSTEMS, INC.; EQUITY LIFESTYLE PROPERTIES, INC.; HOMETOWN AMERICA MANAGEMENT, L.L.C.; LAKESHORE COMMUNITIES, INC.; SUN COMMUNITIES, INC.; RHP PROPERTIES, INC.; YES! COMMUNITIES, INC.; INSPIRE COMMUNITIES, L.L.C.; KINGSLEY MANAGEMENT, CORP.; and CAL-AM PROPERTIES, INC., MHProNews
On Thursday May 25, 2023 Frank Rolfe, Dave Reynolds, specific Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) leaders and MHI linked attorneys were asked to comment on “DATCP and Attorney General Kaul Announce $75,000 Judgement Against Manufactured Home Community Operators for Unfair and Illegal Rental Practices.” Specifically, MHProNews asked this via email: “An
1) Apparently notorious Frank Rolfe with Impact Communities/”Mobile Home U” has argued that there ought to be no new ‘mobile home parks’ developed. What Rolfe calls ‘mobile home parks’ are often more properly known today as manufactured home communities. In fact, more manufactured home communities, both land lease and fee
A rather interesting and curious MHAction “demand” letter was brought to the attention of MHProNews. The MHAction letter was addressed to Impact Communities “Principal Owner” Dave Reynolds, but did not mention Reynolds longtime partner, Frank Rolfe. The letter called on the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and an MHI state affiliate
