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.

Volatility has Hit Patrick Industries, Inc Stock

Following MHProNews‘ story yesterday (Sept. 9. 2015) about the sale of $6.38 million worth of Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:PATK) stock on Sept. 4, 2015 by Tontine Capital Partners LP, the company continues to hold 12.78 percent of Patrick’s market cap, equivalent to two million shares. The significance of this unloading …

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MHRE Arranges Sale of Three Manufactured Home Community Package

MHProNews has learned Michigan-based MHRE, which specializes in the marketing of manufactured home and recreational vehicle communities across the country, has orchestrated the sale of a three property, all age manufactured home community portfolio comprised of 921 home sites, all in Michigan. The sale includes community owned manufactured homes and …

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Rezoning Request Denied for Manufactured Home Retailer

The Ford County Commission in Dodge City, Kansas denied Rosario N. Acosta-Aponte’s request to rezone residential land on Highway 50 to commercial for selling manufactured homes. He wanted to display five homes built in 2000 or later and would not take trade-ins, as dodgeglobe tells MHProNews. Zoning Administrator Mark Shriwise …

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Most MH Related Stocks Fall; Dow Continues See Saw, Drops Sharply

In the news from CNNMoney: America has 5.8 million job openings, some are unfilled because of skill shortage. Japan’s Nikkei rises eight percent as global markets rebound. Puerto Rico still behind on its debt. Inmates in Philadelphia making walnut chair for the Pope. Sony RX100 is best pocket-sized camera. Meanwhile, …

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Modular Apartment Building will House Med Students

Calling it the tallest modular wood structure in the country, Professional Building Systems, Inc. two weeks ago began stacking the 42 apartments that will serve as affordable housing for students of New York Medical College in Paterson, New Jersey. Standing 60 feet and six inches tall, the building will provide …

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Major Shareholder Unloads $6.3 million of Patrick Industries Stock

Updating a story MHProNews posted Sept. 3, 2015 regarding the sale of Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:PATK) stock by two major shareholders, one of them, Tontine Capital Partners LP, unloaded another 143,950 shares of Patrick on Sept. 4, 2015. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to dakotafinancialnews, …

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Alaska Program offers Subsidized Manufactured Homes to Low-Income Renters

MHProNews has learned from ktuu-tv that the housing market in Anchorage, Alaska is very tight, with 40 percent of all renters in the Mat Su Valley earning $40,000 a year or less. In response, Weidner Property Management has sited over 200 new manufactured homes in a rental complex. The Alaska …

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Solar Decathlon Modular Home Aimed at Farmworkers

While many of the collegiate entries in the U. S. Department of Energy’s Biennial Solar Decathlon are cost-effective, energy efficient and attractive homes targeted to baby boomers and growing middle-class families, the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) team is targeting migrant farm workers, as mnn tells MHProNews, with a …

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HUD Code Home Production Continues its Upward Trajectory

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) tells MHProNews that statistics released by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reveal that HUD Code production in July rose to 6,085 homes, 7.2 percent over the 5,675 HUD Code homes manufactured in July, 2014. Total HUD Code …

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The U. S. Unemployment Rate Revisited–with a Vengeance

Following the news that 173,000 more Americans found work in August, and the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.1 percent, the lowest rate since 2007, do take note here of MHProNews Publisher L. A. “Tony” Kovach’ Shocking Labor Day Facts and Statistics. The Federal Reserve admitted the unemployment rate has …

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Most MH Related Stocks Advance; Dow Moves Up Sharply

In the news from CNNMoney: The U. S. may lift its 40-year ban on exporting oil. China has spent $236 billion on its stock market bailout. U. S. economy adds high-paying jobs. Milk is cheaper than water in Europe. The typical driver in the U. S. is saving $50 a …

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Sun Communities Declares Stockholder Dividends for Third Quarter

MHProNews has learned from marketwatch that real estate investment trust (REIT) Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE:SUI), owner and operator of manufactured home and recreational vehicle communities, has declared a quarterly distribution of $0.65 per share of common stock for Q3 2015, payable Oct. 16, 2015 to shareholders of record as of …

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Residents of Land Lease Community may Seek Co-operative Ownership

If Bill Stetson and other residents at Green Meadows Mobile Home Park in Concord, New Hampshire so choose, they may become the 114th co-operative owners of their own manufactured home community (MHC) in the state. A resident of Green Meadows for 31 years, he said, “This is an opportunity that …

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Manufactured Home Community Residents Get Help from City, Fellow Citizens

Following a story MHProNews last published June 4, 2015 regarding the impending closing and planned relocation of residents of Wheel Inn Ranch RV and Mobile Home Park in Scottsdale, Arizona, the city’s Human Services Department will help residents, many of whom are elderly and/or disabled, in their transition. While MHP …

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Documents Reveal Major Problems at Large NYC Modular Project

Following a story MHProNews last published April 10, 2015 regarding the continuing hit-and-miss saga of Forest City Ratner’s 34-story modular tower at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, B2, curbed.ny reports a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request reveals there was considerable water damage in April and July, 2014. However, problems …

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Manufactured Home Retailer began in 1955

Twin Town Homes was incorporated in Maine 60 years ago and Bob Huatori has been there for 50 of those years, starting as a lot boy when he was 20, becoming president 25 years ago, and inheriting the business in 2006 when the son of the founder, Hayward Luck, passed …

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Clayton Homes Opens Campus to Public Disc Golf Course

A public-private collaboration between the Maryville-Alcoa-Blount County Parks and Recreation Commission and Clayton Homes has resulted in a first class 18-hole disc golf course being developed on the 240-acre campus of the nation’s largest builder of manufactured and modular homes. The facility, called The Claytons, covers 120 acres, and has …

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Manufactured Home Communities Wiped Out Forever by Raging River

Of the forty-three manufactured homes in the Foothills and Riverbend Mobile Home Parks that were devastated in Lyons, Colorado by eight days of torrential rain and subsequent flooding, none have been replaced, dailycamera tells MHProNews. In fact, there is nothing to indicate that the disaster did not happen last week …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 30-Sept. 6, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Impact of CFPB Loan Regulations on the lowest cost Manufactured and Mobile Home Owners Beauty + Strength! Donald Holland, Sunshine Homes Red Bay AL – Inside Manufactured Homes Video What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Modular homes withstand hurricanes. CFPB criticized …

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