Matthew Silver

Following a 25-year career operating a custom hardwood furnishing business and occasional writing, Matthew Silver has been writing professionally for over a dozen years, six of those for the factory-built housing industry. Otherwise, he may be found performing folk music in the Indianapolis area.

Skyline Corp. Ends Fall; MHCV closes at 1140.1

In the news from CNNMoney:  Saudi Arabia hurting from cheap oil, as prices have fallen 11% this month. Puerto Rico is on the edge of default. Trump says wages are too low. Comics Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen donate $1 million to help Syrian war victims. “Star Wars: The …

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Sun Leaves Diseased Tree, Declares Quarterly Dividend

Following a story MHProNews posted Dec. 17, 2015 regarding a diseased tree that Sun Communities (SUI) was ordered to remove from Water Oak manufactured home community in Lady Lake, FL, villages-news reports as of Sunday, the tree was still there. Special Magistrate Valerie Fuchs ordered Sun to remedy the tree …

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Capital One Provides $11M+ Loan for Starlight in Southern CA

Formulating a seven-year adjustable-rate loan with a two-year interest only period, Capital One has arranged a Freddie Mac $11.719 million refinance for Starlight Mobile Home Park senior-only manufactured home community (MHC) in El Cajon, CA. Senior Vice President Chad Thomas Hagwood, of the Birmingham, AL multi family office, originated the …

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Arizona Manufactured Home Community to open Soon

MHProNews has learned from yumasun that manufactured home community (MHC) Rancho El Mirage is nearing completion in Wellton, Arizona. The 55-and-older restricted, gated community, built around select holes of the Coyote Wash Golf Course, has 202 home sites, and offers extensive amenities, including fishing and boating, a pool and spa, …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Dec. 20-Dec. 27, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Saving the American Dream for a Soldier, new Wife and Family What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News MHARR slams FHFA for excluding chattel loans. Ordinance prevents more MH in the community. Assessments on MH sites maddens owners. Block grants to replace …

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Modular Housing Spreads in Ireland for the Homeless

While MHProNews has been following the stop and go development of modular homes to replace emergency accommodations for the homeless in Dublin, Ireland, as we last reported Dec. 18, 2015, Fingal County Council CEO Paul Reid is defending plans for 40 modular housing units for the homeless in Balbriggan, just …

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Judge Orders Owner to Remove Modular Homes

The owner of two unfinished sections of a modular home in the Village of East Aurora, New York has been ordered to remove the units from his property within 30 days for not bringing them up to code. When John Apgar purchased the homes from a BOCES school in 2013 …

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New Leadership at NeighborWorks Montana

Maureen Rude, the former director of the Montana Fannie Mae Partnership office and executive director of the Montana Board of Housing, will become the new Executive Director of NeighborWorks Montana in Jan., 2016, according to greatfallstribune. Rude has served as director of lending and operations for eight years. The previous …

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Gendell Continues to Unload Patrick Stock

In a continuing sell-off of Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:PATK) stock, Jeffrey L. Et Al Gendell sold 59,659 shares of company stock, according to a disclosure filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dated Dec. 23, 2015. The shares were sold at an average price of $41.41 for a total …

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City Ordinance Prevents Siting of more MH in Community

Kaj and Carla Sorensen would like to add three more manufactured homes to their Sorensen Rentals manufactured home community (MHC) in Milton, Fla., but the city’s Code of Land Ordinances is not zoned to allow any more non-conforming structures, according to what srpressgazette tells MHProNews. City Planner Randy Jorgenson said, …

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Stocks Relatively Quiet in an Abbreviated Trading Session

In the news from CNNMoney: North America’s best oil shale patch is Grande Prairie in Canada’s northwest Alberta community, with 449 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Baltimore, New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, Nashville, San Francisco and Los Angeles ae welcoming immigrants. Gun maker to forge $1M pistols from meteorite. …

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Tontine Discloses Ownership of 1.43M Shares of Patrick

According to a required filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Tontine Capital Partners LP disclosed that it has a 9.3 percent stake in the common stock of Elkhart, IN-based Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:PATK). Tontine currently owns 1,439,778 shares of stock valued at $60,225,914, as reported by dakotfinancialnews. Other …

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New Home Sales Weaker than Expected

MHProNews has learned from bloomberg that new home sales rose in Nov. 4.3 percent to an annualized pace of 490,000, slower than the 505,000 median estimate of economists surveyed by bloomberg. Previous estimates ranged from 400,000 to 550,000. The rate in Oct. was 470,000. Home sales have been choppy throughout …

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Modular Container Home Scores Big in Micronesia

Following the devastation caused by Typhoon Soudelor, which slammed into the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) on Aug. 2, 2015, the GreenStay two-bedroom modular house made of old shipping containers at the Garapan Fishing Base has received well over a thousand visitors since opening to the public last …

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Pleasant Valley Moves into the RV Market

MHProNews has learned that Pleasant Valley Homes, Inc., of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania has acquired Fork Creek Park Model Recreational Vehicles, an Amish-built maker of vacation and recreation homes, which will now be built in the company’s state-of-the-art facility in Schuylkill County, PA. Pleasant Valley currently produces Pine Grove HUD Code …

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MHARR Criticizes FHFA for Continuing to exclude Chattel Loans

 The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) tells MHProNews the so-called “new” duty to serve (DTS) rule issued by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Dec. 18, 2015, much like the original 2010 implementation, continues the exclusion of manufactured home (MH) chattel loans, which make up some 70 percent …

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Louisiana Pacific tops Gains, Nobility Homes Falls the Most

In the news from CNNMoney: Curbside shopping helps eliminate stress. OPEC slams electric, alternative energy autos. Budweiser buying up craft beers, owns 8, bought three more this week. Craig Jelinek of Costco chosen best CEO of the year. Millennials savings rate is a negative two percent, the only age group …

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Special Assessments on MHC Sites draws Ire of Owners

Manufactured home community owners in Bismarck, South Dakota are complaining that special assessments imposed by the city council on manufactured home sites are double those of lots for single-family homes, adding it puts an unfair burden on those who can least afford it. Residents pay taxes on their homes and …

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