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Grenade Marketing Offers Reputation Marketing for Manufactured Home Industry Pros

“Nowadays, when someone carries out a search on your company through the Internet, any type of result about your business can show up. Google will not discriminate between positive or negative comments on your company, so you have to do whatever it takes, legally, to manage your reputation online. Reputation …

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Manufactured Home Community Residents say City has it Wrong

In response to an article in the Portsmouth Herald in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, residents of Hillcrest Estates manufactured home community (MHC) complain about the city planner’s suggestion that Hillcrest’s owner create a better sense of neighborhood in the community by building pocket parks. As seacoastonline tells MHProNews, Earl and Carole …

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Canadian City Planning new Manufactured Home Community

The city of Vernon in south central British Columbia, Canada has issued a development permit and subdivision plan approval for a 77 home site manufactured home community, according to what vernonmorningstar tells MHProNews. Noting the need for more local housing, Len Sloan, of the development company, said, “We have no …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 2-Aug. 9, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Paul Simon, Singing Homeward Bound, Doing Good Work and MH The Hybrid Core – A Different Style Factory Home-Building Process What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News HUD Code Production Continues Rising. RV/MH Hall of Fame Inducts Class of 2015. Positive End …

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San Jose, California Seeks to Forestall Conversion of Land Lease Communities

MHProNews has learned from sanjose.granicus that the cityof San Jose, California has 59 land lease communities comprised of 10,836 manufactured and mobile homes housing approximately 35,000 residents. Many of the residents are elderly and some are disabled, sometimes both. San Jose has the highest concentration MH and MH households of …

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Program in Second Year to Replace and/or Repair Manufactured Homes

A $660,800 grant from the New York State Division of Homes & Community Renewal (NYSHCR) will be used to replace dilapidated owner-occupied pre-HUD Code homes with energy-efficient manufactured homes in Otsego County, as reports thedailystar. Karen Sullivan, Otsego County Planning & Solid Waste Director, says over the next two years …

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UMH Releases Q2 2015 Financials

Manufactured home community (MHC) operator UMH Properties, Inc. (NYSE:UMH), in posting its 2nd quarter financial results for 2015, reported $0.12 earnings per share, missing analysts consensus estimate of $0.16 by $0.04, according to prnewswire. Net operating income from community rose 18 percent to $8.8 million for Q2 2015 as compared …

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Aging Population with Insufficient Retirement Funds Leads to Manufactured Home Community

According to what progress tells MHProNews, there are several macro trends in the U. S. that could drive demand for manufactured home community (MHC) living. The aging population, according to the Census Bureau, consisting of 76 million baby boomers, nearly a quarter of the population, many of whom do not …

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Planned Australian Manufactured Home Community Denied

A plan to develop a 302 site seniors manufactured home community (MHC) in Nulkaba, New South Wales, Australia has been derailed by the Cessnock City Council, citing objections from neighbors who complained it would detract from the rural character of the neighborhood, and would increase alcohol abuse, crime and trespassing …

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Sun Communities Corrals Eastern Wild West Show and Campground

As a means of capitalizing on 1950’s TV series like “Gunsmoke,” “Rawhide,” and “Daniel Boone,” Bill Patton and Bill Pacy created Frontier Town in Ocean City, Maryland in 1959, and four years later added the 600-site Fort Whaley Campground. Manufactured home community (MHC) and recreational vehicle (RV) resorts owner Sun …

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Manufactured Home Community Closing, Set to be Sold

News from KWQC TV6 in Davenport, Iowa informs MHProNews that residents of Lake Canyada manufactured home community (MHC) near Davenport were scheduled to vacate the community by 11:59 PM July 1, and while many had already left, Phillip Hicks, a resident of 28 years, and his wife, Linda, were still …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 26-Aug. 2, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Art Linkletter and Manufactured Housing today Maintaining Quality and Strength While Saving Homebuyers Money – Inside MH Video with Mike Stone, part 2 What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Texas city lifts ban on MH after show of strength by industry …

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Tampa OpEd Calling for Fairness and Respect Resonating with Manufactured Home Industry

An OpEd in Tampa’s tbo entitled Fairness and Respect for Florida’s Manufactured Home Owners  has put a local focus on the OpEd in thehill in which MHLivingNews and MHProNews publisher L. A. “Tony” Kovch notes the unintended consequences of the Dodd-Frank Act that make lending on manufactured homes valued at or …

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Capital One Closes $150 Million in Deals in 45 Days

Capital One informs MHProNews that during the past 45 days it has completed 17 transactions for manufactured housing community investors providing over $150 million in funding. Led by Senior Vice Presidents Chad Thomas Hagwood and Damon Reed, the properties were located in Arizona, California, Colorado and Oregon, indicating the wide …

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Sun Posts Positive Returns for Q2, 2015

Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE:SUI) reported earnings of $0.87 per share for the second quarter, besting analysts expectations by $0.04 per share, and besting earnings for the same quarter last year by $0.09 per share, according to dakotafinancialnews. Sun’s revenue was up 40 percent on a year-over-year basis, $165.90 million for …

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Manufactured Housing REITs Yield a Strong Return

Baby boomers, rising rents, retirees and rising home prices are driving demand for affordable housing, which in turn is propelling the manufactured housing real estate investment trust (REIT) sector, pushing it to a year-to-date return of 13.13 percent, far above the -1.07 percent average for the FTSE NAREIT All Equity …

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Manufactured Home Community Owner ELS has Investors’ Attention

With a target price set at $64.00, Zacks has upgraded shares of Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc (NYSE:ELS) from a hold rating to a buy rating, according to lulegacy. Shares of the real estate investment trust (REIT) opened at $56.87 on Monday, and closed Tuesday, July 28 at $57.07, approaching the …

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City Council Rejects Current Plan for Manufactured Home Community Expansion

Following a story MHProNews last posted June 25, 2015 regarding a request for expansion of a manufactured home community (MHC) on what was once part of the Southgate Estates MHC in Bloomington, Illinois, the city council denied the proposal. Although the planning commission had recommended approval, the city council voted …

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City to Demolish Abandoned Manufactured Homes

An order by the Prince George City Council of British Columbia, Canada for the Lombardy Mobile Home Park to clean up unsightly property has only been partially adhered to, so city crews will go in and make sure the remainder of the order is fulfilled. A report indicates abut half …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 19-July 26, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com > A Hunter and Native American Decorator’s Dream! John Howard’s Home, Inside MH Road Show Video > How A Manufactured Modular Home Production Center Achieves Savings and Quality – Inside MH Video with Mike Stone > 4 Easy Ways to Keep Your Home Clean What’s New …

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