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North Carolina has Highest Percentage of Manufactured Homes

ConnecticutPost tells MHProNews.com Hawaii ranks at the bottom of the list in terms of manufactured homes as a percentage of all housing with only .02 percent, followed by Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island with .08 percent, according to 2010 U.S. Census figures. The figure for Connecticut fell from .09 percent […]

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Ohio MH Tax Bills due March 1

TimesReporter tells MHProNews.com Tuscawaras County (Ohio) Treasurer Jeff Mamarella says all manufactured home tax bills for the first half of 2012 have been mailed and are due March 1, 2012. It is the responsibility of owners of manufactured homes to pay taxes and penalties even if they do not receive

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Park Girl, Facing Fraud Allegations, Files Bankruptcy

Following up on a story we published Dec. 2, 2011 concerning state felony theft charges against Jo Leigh Ares for allegedly receiving deposits on manufactured homes that were not delivered, MHProNews has learned her Park Girl Sales LLC has filed for bankruptcy. The petition, filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court

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Southern IL City Likely to Limit MH to Communities

MhproNews has learned from the Register-News in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, the Mt Vernon City Council is set to approve a ban on mobile homes outside MHCs. Pre-existing manufactured homes outside designated areas would be grandfathered in, as long as they are not moved, according to city manager Ron Neibert. Zoning

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Alabama Rolls Back Parts of Immigration Law

Following a story we reported here Dec. 13 regarding Alabama’s new immigration law, in light of a Federal judge’s injunction against enforcing certain provisions of the law, the Alabama Department of Revenue has altered its interpretation of HB 56, according to TheWetumpkaHerald. Section 30 prohibits illegal immigrants from conducting any

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MH Development: Nice Piece of Pie for Palm Harbor

MHProNews.com has learned that a cherry orchard in Gilroy, California, just south of the Bay Area, may see 349 manufactured homes sited among the cherry trees. According to the GilroyDispatch, the development will be aimed at active older adults and will help Gilroy meet its state affordable housing goals. CW

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Looking Back: Article Portrays a Different World

An October 30, 1981 article published by Knight-Ridder which came up on a Google search today says boldly that Manufactured Housing may be the only way consumers can afford the American Dream. The reason: sky-high interest rates. The article professes that “if builder’s can lower construction costs by 50 percent,

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Article About Christmas Fire Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

A report from Fort St. John in British Columbia published by Energetic City tells of a Christmas morning fire in what the paper calls a modular home, then later a mobile home. The home was located at the Peace Country Mobile Home Park in Fort St. John. The article says

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Site-Built Homes Replaced with New MH

The JeffersonPost reports from Ashe County, North Carolina, the High Country Council of Governments is once again applying for a grant to help low-income residents make much-needed home repairs, and in some cases, replace unlivable homes with new manufactured homes. Since 2002, every three years all NC counties, except Wake

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MHI Week In Review — December 16, 2011

Congressional Leaders Inch Toward Tax Bill  With partisan tensions easing, congressional negotiators are closer to a year-end deal that would address a range of expiring programs, from the Social Security payroll tax cut that has benefitted approximately 160 million workers, to long-term unemployment benefits, and Medicare payments to physicians. Senators

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Down Under Dealing with MH Siting

Input from manufactured home owners, community operators, and the public at large is sought on the issue of alternative manufactured home placement outside MHCs, according to MySunshineCoast in Australia. Housing Minister Karen Struthers, speaking at the Manufactured Home Owners Consumers Forum, suggests participants weigh in on the recently released discussion

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Rezoning Proposal Creates Conflict of Interest Charges

St. Clair Times reports from Alabama the Argo zoning board will consider a proposed ordinance to allow more manufactured homes into an area that has been home to MHs for many years. In changing the zoning from “high-density residential” to “manufactured home zoning,” the ordinance would disallow manufactured homes over

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Modular Numbers Edge Down

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) states the National Modular Housing Council reports 3,544 new modular homes were shipped in the third quarter of 2011, a loss of two percent from the same quarter 2010. When compared to Q3 2010, state shipment numbers show six states had increased shipments,18 states saw

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Lt. Governor’s task force supervises removal of Irene damaged mobile homes

MHProNews has learned that Vermont’s Lt. Governor Phil Scott and Secretary of Commerce and Community Development Lawrence Miller project for de-commissioning Irene damaged ‘mobile homes’ and replacing them with new manufactured homes has made significant progress. In a press release, the Lt. Governor’s office said “In our work so far,

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Euro Debt Crisis Sailing West? Dow Falls, but UFP, Inc. did the Best

CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped sharply as investors worry that the European debt crisis may yet sail west to U.S. shores, falling 248.85 points to 11547.31, a loss of 2.11 percent. The Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Value followed the path, losing -3.43 percent to close at

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Bill to Allow MH in Neighborhood Returned to Planning Commission

NLRTimes reports the North Little Rock (AR) City Council could not reach agreement on whether to change the zoning laws that would ban manufactured housing from an area called Crystal Hill. Crystal Hill residents have expressed opposition to becoming subject to zoning laws of North Little Rock, while Mayor Patrick

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Arkansas MHA Chooses Board

LogCabinDemocrat reports Kevin Hawks, recently honored for twenty years of membership in the Arkansas Manufactured Housing Association (AMHA), was re-elected to the AMHA’s Board of Directors at the organization’s 40th annual meeting recently. Board leadership positions include: Lloyd Watson of Roy Borden Agency in Little Rock, Chairman; Sherman Price, Price

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