The Palm Beach Post News reports from West Palm Beach that Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) employees, city workers, and volunteers installed energy-saving equipment in 50 Coleman Park modular neighborhood homes. The FPL Makeover Teams visited the first 50 who responded to the mailed solicitation, providing free duct work, …
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Treasure Coast Palm reports from Jensen Beach, Florida, just north of West Palm Beach, the stylish manufactured home of Nancy and Dean Hunter epitomizes upscale down-sizing. Their 1,600 square foot, three bedroom manufactured house in the Pinelake Village community boasts a kitchen big enough to have a breakfast bar, dining …
In following up on a story we published here June 13, The Greeley Tribune in Colorado reports the Evans City Council unanimously voted to change the terms for manufactured homes in the Cave Creek manufactured housing community, for one year. Instead of having to be less than four years old, …
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Delaware Online reports from Georgetown that the Sussex County Council overruled the county planning and zoning commission and voted to put an RV campground in the middle of Rehoboth Shores manufactured home community. The undeveloped space had been designated for 260 home locations, but the council said it will increase …
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From Alabama, the Tuscaloosa News says one of the newest housing developments is a gated, affordable manufactured housing community in a hilly area of the county. Country Ridge offers refurbished homes from the low $20,000s to the high $40,000s, with quaint street lights, underground utilities, security cameras and large lots …
Daily Commercial News says Intelligent Living Corporation (ILVC) (OTCBB: ILVC) of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is working with First Nations communities in Western Canada to help meet their needs for 20,000 modular housing units. In addition, a recent government analysis determined that 50 percent of tribal housing needs major repairs. …
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Mother Nature Network reports that Zero Energy Technology and Architecture (ZETA) of San Francisco is building Tierra del Sol, a net-zero energy community of 22 modular homes in Stockton, California. Each 1,268 square foot home is designed to save the residents $2,000 annually on utility expenses. A project funded jointly …
RealEstateRama of Michigan says Creighton Weber, with 30 years of experience in the manufactured housing industry, has been appointed to the Michigan Manufactured Housing Commission (MMHC). Appointed by Governor Rick Snyder to a three-year term, Weber specializes in manufactured housing communities finance for Wells Fargo Multifamily Capitol Group. He earned …
The Neosho Daily News says ten Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) manufactured homes have arrived at Neosho’s Camp Crowder, south of Joplin, Missouri, where they will be prepared for distribution to several sites in factory-built communities in Jasper and Newton Counties. Fifty more homes are set to arrive this week …
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Following up on a series of stories we published about rent control ending in Oceanside, California communities, the last one being May 26, the San Diego Union reports the battle is heating up again, Southern California style. After the city spent millions to defend rent control, the Oceanside City Council …
WREGNews3 in Memphis, Tennessee, says Shelby County residents of factory-built homes who were flooded out recently will have to seek higher ground if they relocate or replace their homes. An ordinance passed in August 2010 requires the floor of a manufactured home to be one foot above the 100-year flood …
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The Greeley Gazette in Colorado states the Evans City Council has been asked by the Cave Creek land lease community (LLC) to relax their requirement that manufactured homes no older than four years old can site there. Tom Carpenter, representing the owner, Sun Communities, says changing the criteria from age …
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The auction of manufactured homes in Bourbonnais, Illinois drew attendees from states as diverse as PA, TX, LA and MS, as well as from IL, MI and IN. A source at the auction told MHMSM.com that the auction was well organized, and drew sums within 30% of original factory cost. …
Zacks reports that Equity LifeStyle Properties (NYSE:ELS) and UMH (AMEX:UMH) rank first and second, respectively, in return on equity (ROE) among residential real estate investment trusts (REITs). Investors are attracted to firms with high ROEs because it is generally considered to be a sign of efficiency. Equity’s ROE is 18.4 …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) held an “Industry Day” seminar June 8 concerning production and future use of small disaster-relief homes, called Temporary Housing Units (THUs). Over fifty industry representatives attended. The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) says the small housing units, 350 to 550 square feet, …
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The Toledo Blade says Springfield Township officials have established a partnership program with two area schools that will provide shelter to residents of five nearby communities of pre-HUD Code (mobile) homes. Residents of Royal Village would go to Dorr Elementary School, and Woodside Terrace residents would be sheltered at Springfield …
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Alabama’s 13 says Cordova is not the only city in Alabama hit by the April 27 tornado that does not allow manufactured housing outside an existing community of factory-built homes. Fultondale, just outside Birmingham, has a similar ordinance that Mayor Jim Lowrey says will be enforced, while adding the city …
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Benzinga says Keefe, Bruyette, and Woods report Sam Zell’s Equity LifeStyle Properties (NYSE:ELS) sold 6.1 million shares of stock at $59.50 per share grossing $359 million to help fund its acquisition of a chunk of Hometown America LLC. As we reported here June 1, ELS acquired 31,167 home sites from …
Florida Today reports that nearly three years after Tropical Storm Fay turned Lamplighter Village, a manufactured home community in Melbourne, Florida, into a fishbowl up to four feet deep, $3.8 million of storm water improvements have been made. The storm dumped up to 30 inches of water in three days …
Bloomberg reports that a division of Deutsche Bank of Frankfort, Germany, sued dozens of former shareholders and brokers of Chicago’s Tribune Company, alleging Sam Zell’s leveraged buyout (LBO) and subsequent bankrupting of Tribune was fraudulent, and just a way for the shareholders to line their pockets with $8.5 billion. In …
