Per the State of Washington’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s (D) is the press release, posted below in Part I. It announced, “approximately $400,000 in restitution is on its way to current and former residents of an Ilwaco mobile home park.” While a state specific action, it may have national implications. In Part II, MHProNews will provide several pull quotes from Socialist-Marxist youth Jeane Kirkpatrick, who spent years in the Democratic Party and became an ambassador for the U.S. to the United Nations (see photo in lower right featured image, above). Part III will explore implications of these items for our profession and the nation more broadly. Part IV is our Daily Business News on MHProNews market report.

Note that parody Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) logo above over their photo of a manufactured home community is from an MHI document linked here.

Part I – State of Washington’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson “$400K restitution in the mail to Ilwaco mobile home park residents as a result of successful AG lawsuit” to MHProNews

$400K restitution in the mail to Ilwaco mobile home park residents as a result of successful AG lawsuit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Sep 23 2024

Owners issued unlawful eviction and utility shut-off notices to residents

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that approximately $400,000 in restitution is on its way to current and former residents of an Ilwaco mobile home park. The owners, Michael and Denise Werner and their companies, including Deer Point Meadows Investments, are paying nearly $1.1 million as part of a legally binding resolution to Ferguson’s consumer protection lawsuit over the Werners’ unlawful eviction and utility shutoff notices.

In 2022, the Werners and their agents distributed eviction and utility shutoff notices to residents of the Beacon RV mobile home park, signed by “Management,” despite not yet owning the park. While distributing the notices, two of the agents were visibly armed with firearms.

In written communication, Denise Werner described the Beacon RV residents as “filth.” Michael Werner stated he was not concerned about the Beacon residents’ rights and that he did not believe the law applied to him.

A judge in Pacific County Superior Court previously ruled the notices were unlawful. The legally binding resolution requires the Werners to pay back their current and former tenants, plus interest, as well as covering the costs of the Attorney General’s investigation and enforcement.

The approximately 40 current and former tenants will receive a letter from the Attorney General’s Office explaining the resolution. Each tenant will receive a check for $10,000. This is in addition to $57,000 in administrative fines from the Attorney General’s prior enforcement for violations of Washington’s Manufactured/Mobile Housing Landlord Tenant Act, and a court order to provide $2,000 or actual relocation costs to tenants, whichever is greater.

“This resolution gives significant relief to tenants — many of whom are elderly, disabled, low-income or veterans — and provides accountability for the park owners’ illegal conduct,” Ferguson said. “Washington law is clear: Mobile home landlords must deal fairly with their tenants. My office will continue to be a watchdog for Washingtonians.”

Ferguson filed a lawsuit in Pacific County Superior Court asserting the Werners violated the Consumer Protection Act and Manufactured/Mobile Housing Landlord-Tenant Act during their purchase and operation of Beacon Charters and RV Park.

The Werners are based in Vancouver, Wash., and own and operate dozens of mobile home and RV parks across the state. Approximately 4,000 people live in those parks.

On April 11, 2022, the Werners purchased Beacon, intending to convert the park to short-term rentals. Prior to completing the sale, the Werners began issuing eviction notices to Beacon’s 45 long-term residents on Feb. 25, 2022. The notices were signed by “Management.”

On April 6, 2022 – still prior to owning the park – the Werners issued a utility shut-off notice, also signed by “Management.” The former CEO of Deer Point testified that this was “standard practice” for the Werners. The Werners attempted to shut off the power, but the local utility provider refused.

Judge Katherine Svoboda, a Grays Harbor judge who presided over the case in Pacific County court, ruled that the notices were unfair and deceptive, in violation of the Consumer Protection Act. When issuing the notices, and subsequent notices around the park, two of the Werners’ employees were visibly armed with firearms, at the direction of Michael Werner. In addition, the Werners had refused to keep the park clean and safe, as required by law, allowing a rat infestation, piles of garbage and feces-smeared bathroom facilities.

One resident said people at the park were “shocked and scared.”

An 81-year-old resident who has lived at the park for eight years said she “worried we might get kicked out onto our butts in the street. … How on Earth can [the Werners] do that legally?”

A 78-year-old resident undergoing cancer treatment said she saw “rats running all over the place. … I had to borrow money for a lot of things” in order to move.

In response to the Werner’s notices, a majority of the Beacon residents were forced to leave the property. Some Beacon residents feared for their safety, believing the Werners would kick them out on the streets or tow away their homes.

One Beacon resident feared having an eviction on her record, which could prevent her from securing low-income housing.

Another Beacon resident was prevented from seeing his young child because of the Werner’s threats of utility shut-off and safety concerns stemming from the Werner employees openly carrying firearms. Some Beacon residents experienced physical harm from the stress and physical exertion required to move their homes, requiring hospitalization and ongoing care.

Other tenants had difficulty finding parks with availability to accept their mobile homes.

Manufactured Housing Dispute Resolution program helps tenants and landlords

The Attorney General’s Manufactured Housing Dispute Resolution Program received 13 complaints from 10 tenants at Beacon.

The Legislature created the program in 2007 to help enforce Washington’s Manufactured/Mobile Housing Landlord-Tenant Act (MHTLA) and help resolve disputes between landlords and manufactured home owners. The act applies to situations where the tenant owns their manufactured or mobile home, but rents the space the home sits on.

Both landlords and tenants can file complaints with the program. The program serves as a neutral party, not an advocate for either side.

The law directs the program to attempt to bring parties into compliance with the law prior to taking enforcement actions. Enforcement can include administrative measures and litigation.

Tenants and landlords can file complaints with the program online here: https://fortress.wa.gov/atg/formhandler/ago/MHLTComplaintForm.aspx

Assistant Attorney General Sebastian Miller, investigator Scott Henderson, paralegal Emin Aliiasov and legal assistant Chris Kiefer handled the case. Former Assistant Attorney General Shidon Aflatooni also worked on the case.

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Part II – Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes, per BrainyQuotes, Unless Otherwise Noted

1) Jeane Kirkpatrick was a Democrat for much of her adult life. Per left-leaning Wikipedia: “Kirkpatrick was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, on November 19, 1926, the daughter of an oilfield wildcatter, Welcher F. Jordan, and his wife, Leona (née Kile).”

 In 1948, she graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University after receiving her associate degree from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, which was then only a two-year institution.

In 1968, Kirkpatrick earned a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.^[4]

She spent a year of postgraduate study at Sciences Po at the University of Paris, which helped her learn French. She was fluent in Spanish.^[5]

…as a college freshman in 1945 she joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party of America, influenced by her grandfather who was a founder of the Populist and Socialist parties in Oklahoma. At Columbia University, her principal adviser was Franz Leopold Neumann, a revisionist Marxist.^[6]” Wikipedia notes that she ultimately became a conservative, but spent years involved in Democratic politics and leftist (Marxist-Socialist-Communist) policies and politics.

Per Wikipedia: “as a Democrat in the 1970s, and was involved in the later campaigns of former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey.”

With that brief intro, and more to follow, let’s consider these Kirkpatrick quotes per BrainyQuotes, unless otherwise noted.

2)

“I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“The Press in this country is no longer on the side of the governed, it has become a partisan of the governing class,” said Jeane Kirkpatrick, per MRC.org.

“We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick.

“Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“I was a woman in a man’s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Democrats can’t get elected unless things get worse – and things won’t get worse unless they get elected.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn’t manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“What takes place in the [United Nations] Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“I think that it’s always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“In the years just before… during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and the letter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“There is no pure free-market economy.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Look, I don’t even agree with myself at times.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don’t at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God that which is God’s.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn’t be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

“I’m a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.” – Jeane Kirkpatrick

ScholarWorks published a doctoral dissertation entitled: “Jeane Kirkpatrick and Neoconservatism: The Intellectual Evolution of a Liberal.”

From that Abstract: “Dr. Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a leading voice in the neoconservative movement, is best known for her articulation of the Kirkpatrick Doctrine, distinctions between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes that served as the foundation for the Reagan Administration’s Latin American policies. Her prominence within the neoconservative movement, her impact on foreign affairs, and her political accomplishments in a masculine environment make her an important historical figure in recent American domestic and diplomatic history. This work explores her transition from liberal democrat to neoconservative by examining her early life and educational background, her publications and critiques of American diplomacy in the 1970s, along with her membership in neoconservative organizations.”

The following is according to Wikipedia.

Kirkpatrick published articles in political science journals reflecting her disillusionment with the Democratic Party with specific criticism of the foreign policy of Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Her most well known essay, “Dictatorships and Double Standards“, was published in Commentary magazine in November 1979.^[11] In the essay, Kirkpatrick mentioned what she saw as a difference between authoritarian regimes and the totalitarian regimes such as the Soviet Union; sometimes, it was necessary to work with authoritarian regimes if it suited American purposes:^[4] “No idea holds greater sway in the mind of educated Americans than the belief that it is possible to democratize governments, anytime and anywhere, under any circumstances … Decades, if not centuries, are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse … The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American policymakers.”^[1]

The Economist writes that until then [i.e.: serving Ronald Reagan as a foreign policy adviser during the 1980 campaign], “she had never spent time with a Republican before.”^[1]

Part III – Additional Information with More Analysis and Commentary

1) Briefly about Part I. There are X number of land lease manufactured home communities that ought to be concerned about their own policies with respect to the action by Washington state’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson. Per left-leaning Wikipedia: “Robert Watson Ferguson is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 18th attorney general of Washington. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected in 2012 and re-elected in 2016 and 2020. Prior to being attorney general, Ferguson was a member of the King County Council.”

2) Pivoting toward Part II. Some in or beyond MHVille may at times misunderstand, misconstrue, or twist the words or intent of this writer and the management of MHProNews. We are political independents and have been for over a decade. There were times this writer was registered with a political party, but that was for the purposes of voting in a party’s primary in a closed primary state. For years before and since, it was and remains our position that the Democratic and Republican Party duopoly can be harmful to the interests of most Americans, and that ballot access should be easier for so-called third-party candidates. We believe in presenting information accurately, citing sources accurately, and showing political bias accurately. By doing so, readers can better understand and navigate their industry and world.  There are good things, bad, and meh said or done by people of all backgrounds and persuasions. The truth can be uttered at times by someone who may be seen by some as having a problematic history. Just because someone disagrees with some or much of what a person has said or done doesn’t mean that certain things they said or did is useful, insightful, or true. Some examples follow.

3) Democrat Jeane Kirkpatrick’s Famous Remarks “Blame America First” and “The Press in this country is no longer on the side of the governed, it has become a partisan of the governing class.” Kirkpatrick was well educated. She spent years involved in leftist, Marxist, and Socialist politics. For those who need some clarification, Marxism, Socialism, and Communism are interlinked, per that movement’s own leaders. Karl Marx, the co-founder of what became the start of socialist and communist movements and where the name “Marxist” comes from, said the following.

4) As was noted above, Kirkpatrick spent years in the political left. Yet per the left-leaning Economist and Wikipedia, Kirkpatrick never spent much time with a Republican until the Reagan campaign in 1980, when she acted as his adviser of foreign policy. One must keep in mind that Reagan himself was a Democrat who turned Republican. As the doctor dissertation linked here stated, the highly educated Kirkpatrick ‘evolved’ in her thinking on politics, economics, etc. So too have millions of others.

5) It isn’t new that socialism, Marxism, and communism is seen as fashionable and by sizable parts of our population as ‘superior’ to capitalism. But there is a case to be made that that is a false choice.  Capitalism is not necessarily the same thing as free markets. There can be crony capitalism and an array of types of capitalists that range from benign to vulture capitalists.

6) Kirkpatrick left her Marxist-Socialist-Communist ties behind during her “evolution.” Her quote above, for example, on the importance of the Solidarity movement in Poland during the Cold War era is quite insightful (see Part II), as are other insights.  Those who come to the U.S. after having lived under socialism or Communism are routinely anti-socialist and anti-communist. While some do a good job of educating youth in these topics, there is evidence that tens of millions of young people who have been improperly informed on the history of ‘modern’ era (20th and 21st century) authoritarian regimes.

7) We currently have 2 candidates running as Democrats to be the next president and vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris (D) and Governor Tim Walz (MN-D), who have clear ties to Marxist, Socialist, and Communist ideologies.  Walz brags about his numerous trips to communist China. He is on video oddly saying that one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness. Meaning, he is painting a picture of a benign socialism that is at stark variance with the authoritarian realities of several socialist-communist societies in the last 100 years. It must be recalled that Nazis were socialists who were fascists, as was Italy’s Benito Mussolini.

8) Kamala Harris was literally raised by a father who taught Marxism. She was rated the most-leftist U.S. Senator, supposedly even more to the left than self-described Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, who has run for president as a Democrat. Communists and socialists made the decision decades ago to infiltrate the Democratic Party which they felt was more open to their thinking.

9) MHProNews doesn’t need to be an expert on the life of Democratic candidates Harris or Walz in order to access the research of others into Harris or Walz. It will be recalled that in 2020, MHProNews provided the research of Trevor Loudon, a New Zealander who came to the U.S. precisely to be on the front lines of what he saw as the threat of a sly Marxist-socialist-communist effort to take over the U.S. from within that used the Democratic Party as its main vehicle of choice.  Loudon didn’t just make allegations. He interviewed those who had documents, facts, experience, and evidence. Note that Loudon said that former Senator Joe Biden (DE-D) was far more to the left than the moderate he was being painted as being by many in the media. The fact that self-described Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders embraced and supported Biden speaks volumes. The fact Democratic Socialist says that Kamala Harris hasn’t change her (leftist) values, she is apparently posturing, he implied, in order to win a campaign.

This video needs to be everywhere

Bernie Sanders is confirming that Kamala is doing whatever it takes to win the election

Then she’ll enact Marxist policies

They’re openly telling us their plans

pic.twitter.com/C2SfpD2yBZ

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) September 8, 2024

This is NOT ‘Country’ over ‘Politics’ you dipshidiots, thus is 💯 ‘Communism’ over ‘Country’!

In this video clip, Bernie Sanders tells the unvarnished truth that Kamala Harris is saying and doing whatever she has to, in order to get elected. Afterwards, he assures radical… pic.twitter.com/vsPoyyR044

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) September 29, 2024

 

13) The progressive income tax was a Marxist-Socialist (road to communism) idea, as the quotes shown above illustrated.

 

 

BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors claims her $3.2 million real estate splurge was an “investment into black people”, specifically her family members so she’s not betraying her principles 🤡pic.twitter.com/u0gohubFcB

— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminjlee) April 16, 2021

The Press in this country is no longer on the side of the governed, it has become a partisan of the governing class.”

– Jeane Kirkpatrick, per MRC.org.

23) No one connects the dots on issues in MHVille trade media like MHProNews. No one. Who says? Check some of them out. Register to vote if you haven’t already.

https://vote.gov

The polls have been moving the Trump-Vance ticket’s way. But whatever the polls say you and your circle have to vote wisely. If you are a leftist and just can’t bring yourself to vote for Trump, there are often other leftists on the ballot. But a vote for Harris-Walz is a vote against your own interests, unless you are an insider that loves the corrupt and rigged system.

J.D. Vance said it well. You already lived through a Trump presidency and times were better for the majority of the poor, working, and middle class.

The markets report is up next in Part IV. ##

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Is it Bad Enough Yet for Manufactured Housing and in the USA? July 2024 Manufactured Housing Production-Shipments Data for 50 U.S. States and D.C., plus Sunday Weekly MHVille Headlines Review

Part IV

Our Daily Business News on MHProNews stock market recap which features our business-daily at-a-glance update of over 2 dozen manufactured housing industry stocks.

NOTICE: following the TPG deal with CAPREIT, TPG has been added to our tracked stocks list below.

This segment of the Daily Business News on MHProNews is the recap of yesterday evening’s market report at the closing bell, so that investors can see-at-glance the type of topics may have influenced other investors. Our format includes our signature left (CNN Business) and right (Newsmax) ‘market moving’ headlines for a more balanced report.

The macro market moves graphics below provide context and comparisons for those invested in or tracking manufactured housing connected equities. Meaning, you can see ‘at a glance’ how manufactured housing connected firms do compared to other segments of the broader equities market.

• In minutes a day, readers can get a good sense of significant or major events while keeping up with the trends that may be impacting manufactured housing connected investing.

Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – 10.2.2024

• Federal appeals court allows prediction market Kalshi to offer US election betting
• A Bank of America branch stands in Manhattan on March 15, 2023 in New York City.
• Bank of America is down: Customers report widespread outage
• Certain college grads can now be air traffic controllers immediately
• Uber is enforcing its terms of service.
• Couple in a severe Uber crash can’t sue because of an Uber Eats order
• Aftermath of Hurricane Helene seen near Spruce Pine, North Carolina, which supplies much of the world’s high-purity quartz for semiconductor manufacturing.
• Devastation from Hurricane Helene could bring semiconductor chipmaking to a halt
• Tesla posts first sales gain of the year but shares fall as competition heats up
• Dockworkers strike at the Bayport Container Terminal in Seabrook, Texas.
• People are panic-buying toilet paper because of the port strike. There is no need for that
• Wendy’s is celebrating SpongeBob’s 25th anniversary with a Krabby Patty meal
• JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks during a vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News, with Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday in New York.
• CBS cut mics and fact-checked JD Vance in a more civil VP debate, drawing the ire of Trump and his allies
• Even if Social Security benefits alone are not sufficient to provide a comfortable retirement for many people, they are still an essential income source for most Americans.
• How to factor in Social Security benefits when saving for retirement
• Dockworkers are waging a battle against automation. The rest of us may want to take notes
• Elon Musk’s X is worth nearly 80% less than when he bought it, Fidelity estimates
• Olivia Nuzzi accuses ex-fiance of orchestrating blackmail campaign amid RFK relationship
• Trump backs out of ‘60 Minutes’ primetime interview, CBS says
• Massive port strike begins across America’s East Coast, threatening shortages and rising prices
• CNN launches a digital paywall, charging some users to read articles for the first time
• ‘Comfortable, fun, familiar’: Why Microsoft is trying to turn its AI chatbot into a digital friend
• The stock market is off to its best start to a year since 1997 under Bill Clinton
• A sign of strength in the labor market: Job openings increased in August
• Press freedom group warns a Trump victory could embolden attacks on journalists
• CVS Health to lay off nearly 3,000 workers in cost-cutting drive
• A winner has been crowned between Wawa and Sheetz for convenience store superiority
• Heating your home will cost more again this winter

 

Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax – 10.2.2024

• • Former Amb. Bolton to Newsmax: Time for Regime Change in Iran
  • “I don’t think there’s going to be peace and security in the Middle East, or in the effects that the Middle East has in the wider world, until there’s a new regime in Tehran,” Bolton said during an appearance on “American Agenda.” [Full Story]
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  • Fears of Wider War Grow as Israel, Iran Trade Threats
  • Fmr Israeli Prime Minister: Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program
  • Joel Rubin: May Now Find Out If Iran Has Nukes
  • Blaine Holt: Election No Factor in Israel’s Iran Response
  • Pete Ricketts: Biden Iran Policy Is ‘Appeasement First’
  • US Seeks to Align Positions With Israel on Response to Iran
  • Hamas’ Armed Wing Claims Responsibility for Attack in Tel Aviv
  • Brent Sadler: Target Oil Refineries to Isolate Iran
  • John Bolton: Israel Now Justified to Hit Iran Nukes
  • UN Secretary-General Banned From Entering Israel

   

  • More Israel at War With Iran
  • Election ’24: Race for White House

   

  • CISA Chief: No Chance of Election Meddling
  • Trump Camp: Walz Won’t Clarify ‘Friends’ With Shooters?
  • Walz on Embellishments: I’m a ‘Knucklehead’
  • John Gizzi: Experts Agree, It Was Vance’s Big Night
  • CBS Cuts Vance’s Mic as Moderator Debates Him
  • Vice Presidential Debate Brings Us Back to Policy
  • Walz Tries to Blame Trump for Middle East Wars
  • Walz Makes Debate Referendum on Trump, Not Harris
  • ‘Tiananmen Tim’ Website Trolls Walz Amid Debate
  • Trump Outlines His Plan to Bring Back American Dream

   

  • More Election ’24: Race for White House
  • Newsmax TV

   

  • Malcolm Hoenlein: Biden Erred in Revealing Plans to Iran
  • Karoline Leavitt: Vance Exceeded Expectations in Debate
  • Blaine Holt: Election No Factor in Israel’s Iran Response
  • Joel Rubin: May Now Find Out If Iran Has Nukes
  • Pete Ricketts: Biden Iran Policy Is ‘Appeasement First’
  • Marsha Blackburn: Vance Proves He’s Better ‘No. 2’
  • Ofir Akunis: ‘Head of Snake’ Is Iran, Retribution Coming
  • Robert Wilkie: IDF Will Turn to Iran After Hezbollah
  • Fmr Sen. Santorum: Vance’s Debate a ‘Tour de Force’

   

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APO = Apolo Global Management – bought Inspire Communities

BAM = Brookfield Asset Management – owns and invests in manufactured home communities (MHCs).

BLK = BlackRock – conglomerate has investments in firms and operations involved in manufactured housing.

BRK-A = Berkshire Hathaway – includes outright ownership of Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage Corp, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, other manufactured home industry linked firms (MHC brokerage, suppliers, etc.).

BX = Blackstone – Blackstone Group LP has made its first big bet on manufactured housing by buying a portfolio of communities sold by Tricon Capital Group Inc.

CDPYF = Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust – also has manufactured home communities (MHCs).

CIGI = Colliers International Group Inc. – The Manufactured Housing and RV Group “We Assist Owners and Investors with Disposition, Acquisition, and Financing for Manufactured Housing Communities and RV Parks.”

CG = The Carlyle Group – has manufactured home communities investments.

CSGP = CoStar Group – is commercial real estate’s leading provider of information, analytics and online marketplaces. They acquired listing service Homes.com.

CVCO = Cavco Industries – manufactured home and other factory-built housing production, retail, finance, insurance.

ECNCF = ECN Capital Group – includes manufactured home lender Triad Financial Services.

ELS = Equity LifeStyle Properties – includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs), but also RV and marine slips holdings. Also has captive manufactured home retail operations, and parent to Datacomp/MHVillage.

FGF = FG Financial Group – FG Communities “Owns and Operates Growing Portfolio of Manufactured Housing Communities.” KEY = KeyCorp – manufactured home community financing and manufactured home single-family mortgage financing.

KMMPF = Killam Apartment REITs- (includes manufactured home communities (MHCs).

LCII = LCI Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (RVs, housing, etc.).

LEGH = Legacy Housing – produces manufactured homes, tiny houses, retail, and captive finance operations.

LPX = Louisiana Pacific Corporation – components for the manufactured home industry and others (housing, etc.).

MHC-UN.TO = Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).

MHPC = Manufactured Housing Properties – land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs).

MMI = Marcus and Millichap – commercial real estate brokerage services that include land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs).

NOBH = Nobility Homes – produces and offers captive retail, financing, and insurance services for HUD Code manufactured homes and modular homes.

PATK = Patrick Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (RVs, housing, etc.).

SKY = Skyline Champion – produces and offers captive retail, financing, and insurance for HUD Code manufactured homes and modular homes.

SUI = Sun Communities – includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs), but also RV and marine slips holdings. Also has captive manufactured home retail operations.

TPG = TPG includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs) among a broader basket of investments.

UMH = UMH Properties – includes land lease manufactured home communities and captive manufactured home retail, leasing, and financing operations.

UFPI = UFP Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (housing, etc.).

• • • NOTE 1: Chart above of manufactured housing connected equities includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry finance lender.
    • NOTE 2: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
    • NOTE 3: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm.  Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.
    • Note 4: some recent or related reports to the REITs, stocks, and other equities named above follow in the reports linked below.
    • Note 5: Gifts of Sight and Insights, What’s in Store for 2024? Including 2023 Year End Reflections, manufactured homes, manufactured housing, mobile homes, MHVille, USA Snapshots, Manufactured housing industry year in review 2023.

 

2023 …Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21^st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory-built housing industry suppliers.
· LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI, and LP each are suppliers to the manufactured housing industry, among others.
· AMG, CG, and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses. For insights from third-parties and clients about our publisher, click here.

 

 

2022 was a tough year for many stocks. Unfortunately, that pattern held true for manufactured home industry (MHVille) connected stocks too. See the facts, linked above.

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• Note 1: MHVille means manufactured housing industry, MHVille also means artificially smaller manufactured housing (MH) industry,
• Note 2: Manufactured housing, building, factories, retail, dealers, manufactured home, communities, passive mobile home park investing, suppliers, brokers, finance, financial services, macro-markets, manufactured housing stocks, Manufactured Home Communities Real Estate Investment Trusts, MHC REITs.
• Note 3:
  

  APO, Apollo Global Management, BAM, Brookfield Asset Management, BLK, BlackRock, BRK-A, Berkshire Hathaway, BX, Blackstone, CDPYF, Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, CIGI, Colliers International Group Inc, CG, The Carlyle Group, CSGP, CoStar Group, CVCO, Cavco Industries, ECNCF, ECN Capital Group, ELS, Equity LifeStyle Properties, FGF, FG Financial Group, FG Communities,  KEY, KeyCorp, KMMPF, Killam Apartment REITs, LCII, LCI Industries, LEGH, Legacy Housing, LPX, Louisiana Pacific Corporation, MHC-UN.TO, Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), MHPC, Manufactured Housing Properties, MMI, Marcus and Millichap, NOBH, Nobility Homes, PATK, Patrick Industries, SKY, Skyline Champion, SUI, Sun Communities, UMH, UMH Properties, UFPI, UFP Industries.

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