Earlier this month, the House Financial Services Committee approved legislation (H.R. 1751) sponsored by committee chairman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) that would require all new manufactured homes be equipped with NOAA weather radios. For a copy of the legislation click here, for a copy of the committee report, click here . […]
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JetsonGreen reports the completion of another i-House in eco-friendly Green Bridge Farm. The 25 lot subdivision is located in Effingham County, GA. The owner, Charles Davis, doesn’t expect to have an electric bill because the home has a butterfly roof with solar panels. The home is generating enough electricity to
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RealEstateRama reports the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), in consultation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has announced a Request For Information (RFI). The RFI seeks input on new options for selling single-family real estate owned (REO) properties held by Fannie
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KFGO reports that the number of homes that FEMA now has targeted for Minot and Burlington ND has reached 1650. Flooding of the Souris River this summer drove hundreds from their homes in this area. 600 of the FEMA homes, which are built to the HUD Code and are thus
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Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comFoxNews reports the following quotes on Dodd-Frank in this recent interview by Greta van Susteren with Zachary Goldfarb with the Washington Post. SEN. RON JOHNSON, R-WIS.: The thing that would really get our economy going again is if we would repeal the entire Obama agenda
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RealDeal reports on a recent study by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) which looks at the market impact of the nation’s eighty million echo boomers. Echo boomers, are age 18-32 and are also known as Gen Y and millennials. This group has 200 billion in annual buying power. Carol Ruiz,
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PressEnteprise reports that Calimsa’s CA City Council will review the rent control ordinance on August 15th. A full house is expected as residents and community owners plan to attend the hearing. City Manager Randy Anstine stated they will make no decisions but will take input on the topic. A sunset
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WSPA reports that Henderson County deputies removed some 60 snakes and lizards, some of which were considered poisonous, from a western North Carolina ‘mobile home.’ Henderson County Sheriff Rick Davis said they learned about the problem when the reptiles owner was bitten by a venomous snake. Most of the snakes
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JoplinGlobe reports that the first residents are moving into the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) new Officer Jeff Taylor Memorial Park. Amber Flowers and her three daughters are among the first to make the move into the emergency housing FEMA has provided. “They’ve done a really nice thing here,” Flowers
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Zacks reports that UMH Properties and Equity Lifestyle Properties are among the five REITs with relatively low P/E ratios. UMH Properties (AMEX:UMH) has the lowest with a P/E of 17.4x. Equity Lifestyle Properties (NYSE:ELS) is second lowest with a P/E of 37.0x; American Campus Communities (NYSE:ACC) comes in third lowest
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Zacks reported today on five home building companies with the lowest Price to Earnings (P/E) ratios. Standard Pacific (NYSE:SPF) has the lowest with a P/E of 16.1x. Lennar (NYSE:LEN) is second with a P/E of 20.8x. NVR Inc (NYSE:NVR) followed with a P/E of 22.0x. Cavco Industries (NASDAQ:CVCO) came in
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Manufactured home shipments for June 2011 were 5,024 new homes, down 7.5 percent from June 2010. Trends by housing type were mixed with multi-section homes shipments down compared with the same month last year, while the single section homes shipments showed an increase. In comparison with the first half of
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In response to a request by the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC), the NFPA issued an update to its 2005 report on manufactured home fires. The updated report says that post standards homes had a 54 percent lower rate of civilian death and 22 percent lower rate of injuries than
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Benzinga reports that in these difficult times, manufactured housing is among the top-performing-industries in August. As of 10:15 AM EDT, the Manufactured Housing Composite Index was up by 2.24%. This rise was lead by Cavco Industries, up by 7.1%. Cavco will be reporting its FQ1 earnings after the closing bell
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MinotDailyNews reports that K.C. and Cayttie Heister of Kopper Creek Building opened a facility near the North Central Research Extension Center. Kopper Creek is a factory systems builder, with locations in Montrose, CO and Nebraska. “We build anything from residential housing up to hotels, motels, restaurants,” Cayttie said. “Any type
Expanding Systems Builder had Tom Cruise as client? Yup. Read More
The Dickinson Press reports that Centennial Homes, a large regional manufactured home retailer, has opened a new location in Dickinson, ND. “We have every price point you can think of to cover everybody’s wants and needs,” said Randy Rempher, regional manager. The Aberdeen SD based company has some 20 display
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PRNewswire states that global tax services provider Ryan reports Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker signed the Assembly 40 budget bill that will change certain tax laws. Included is a provision that specifically exempts manufactured and modular housing from sales tax when it is sold in Wisconsin but used beyond state borders.
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The New Haven Independent in Connecticut asserts that Garden Homes Management Corporation has plans to develop two manufactured home communities in Oxford. The filing with the Planning and Zoning Commission for the first proposal, called Oxford Commons, would have 99 multi-section manufactured homes on 32 acres. The second project, Donovan
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Federal Criminal Defense Lawyers reports that Philip R. Lochmiller, Sr., has been convicted by a jury in Denver, Colorado’s Federal Court on charges of defrauding 400 people out of $30 million. Convicted of conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, money laundering and mail fraud, Lochmiller engineered a Ponzi scheme using manufactured housing
Jury Finds Philip Lochmiller, Sr., Guilty as Charged Read More
From California, SignOnSanDiego.com reports that residents of the 76-acre De Anza Cove Mobile-Home Park (a mixed community including manufactured homes) have reached a $3.6 million settlement with the city of San Diego for the poor treatment they received from a property management company hired by the city. The property-management company
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