SeekingAlpha.com reports manufactured housing community (MHC) proprietor UMH Properties owns 74 communities comprised of 13,400 developed home sites with an average occupancy rate of 82 percent. Forty-three of the communities, representing 46 percent of the holdings, are in the Utica and Marcellus Shale acreage that is being developed by energy companies that often utilize factory-built housing. The commentator, Brad Thomas, suggests UMH is a good buy because of its enviable position along the Ohio-Pennsylvania border where the drilling is going on, and is buying it himself, even though he does not like the fact that it maintains a REIT (real estate investment trust) portfolio of $23.2 million, which accounts for 30 percent of its assets. The company also sells and finances MH, as MHProNews has learned. In addition, UMH has a $23.2 million loan portfolio comprised of around 760 homes located throughout 48 communities