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Manufactured Homes could Provide Housing for Seasonal Workers

Some of the vacant lots in manufactured housing communities (MHCs) could meet the needs of truck drivers for the Southern Minnesota Sugar Beet Cooperative and its members as the season’s work begins Friday, Sept. 5 in Renville County. Jill Bruns, public health director, told the Renville County Board of Commissioners …

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Capital Square Realty Acquires three MHCs

MHProNews has been informed by virtual-strategy.com an affiliate of Capital Square Realty Advisors, LLC has acquired three manufactured housing communities consisting of 1,141 home sites in Indiana and Ohio. The largest community is Timberbrook in Bristol, Indiana with 567 homesites set on 103 acres. Woodlake-Summerdale, located in Yoder, IN is …

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Modular Multifamily to Rise in Michigan

The Lansing (Mich.) City Council has approved plans for developer Harry Hepler to build 200 modular apartments on the city’s northside, as lansingstatejournal.com informs MHProNews. Summit Street Development LLC has received a conditional use permit to build housing on the property that is zoned heavy industrial. Mr. Hepler says Metro …

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Modular Workforce Housing Planned in Mississippi

The possibility of up to seven billion barrels of oil in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale formation in southwest Mississippi and central Louisiana has led the McComb (Miss.) Board of Selectmen to vote in favor of annexing 40 acres for the construction of a 535-unit modular workforce community. Shale Lodge will …

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100 Tiny Homes Set for Portland, Oregon

Tiny houses may soon fill four micro communities to house the homeless and low-income residents in Portland, Oregon, according to oregonlive.com. The 192 square-foot products of TECHDWELL, which are made partly of recycled materials and cost around $12,000 to build, would be sited on public land in pods of 25 …

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New 55 & Older MHC Opening in Michigan

A new manufactured housing community (MHC) is being developed in Courtland Township in western Michigan on the site of a former MHC, and the 55 and older community may eventually include up to 700 two and three-bedroom homes. The Oaks of Rockford will begin with 150 homesites at $375 a …

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Prospective Manufactured Home Buyer Seeks Lender

A post on mortgagegrapevine.com reports someone attempting to buy a manufactured home in a community in Southern California is seeking a lender. The borrower is asking for $269,500, has full documentation, a FICO score of 569, and the loan-to-value ratio is 70 percent. MHProNews offers excerpts from two of the …

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Sam Zell: Going Head-to-Head with Former Partner?

Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS)/Equity Residential Chairman Sam Zell is seeking to raise $600 million for investments in emerging markets in India, China and Latin America, and may be competing with his former partner at Equity Residential, Gary Garrabrant, who left Equity suddenly in 2012, according to therealdeal.com. Garrabrant, who founded …

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New Manufactured Housing Community Proposed in Michigan

The Rochester Hills (Michigan) Planning Commission has been asked to rezone just under 80 acres for a 500 homesite manufactured housing community, according to theoaklandpress.com. Six Star Investments of Bloomfield Hills MI and DNL Property Holding of Novi, MI have filed documents for the proposal that will be presented at …

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Tony Hilton Head SC may see an MHC

If a local businessman has his way, upscale Hilton Head, South Carolina will see a 14-home site manufactured housing community (MHC). Enrique Lopez has applied to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control for Coastal Zone Consistency Determination, and intends to sell lots for $70,000 each. Noting a …

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Three of Sun’s new MHCs are in Michigan

Following up on a story MHProNews published July 31, 2014 regarding the acquisition by Sun Communities, Inc. of 59 manufactured home communities (MHC) comprising more than 19,000 homesites in eleven states from Green Courte Partners, LLC for $1.32 billion, we have learned from crainsdetroit.com that three of the properties are …

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State Loans to Acquire an MHC must Insure Health, Safety and Affordability

The Manufactured Housing Institute’s (MHI’s) legislative report for August 12, 2014 says legislation in the California Senate Appropriations Committee would allow loans to be made from the Mobile Home Park Rehabilitation and Purchase Fund to a non-profit entity to purchase a manufactured home community as long as 30 percent or …

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Residents of MHC to Hold Second Meeting

Updating a story that MHProNews last posted Aug. 1, 2014 concerning resident allegations that management of Blackhawk Estates manufactured home community (MHC) in Des Plaines, Illinois was removing property belonging to the residents and levying fines for children playing in the street, a second meeting to discuss concerns is set …

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City Approves New Manufactured Home Community

According to rgj.com in Nevada, the Yerington City Council approved development of the Pony Express Village manufactured home community (MHC) with 23 homesites. MHProNews understands the project was first unveiled in October 2009 but was shelved because of the state of the economy. The city stipulates that no homes can …

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Troubled Section of Land Lease Community to Close

One third of the Glasgow Court land lease community in New Castle County, Delaware will close as of July, 2015, displacing residents of 167 homes, to make way for an apartment building, according to delawareonline.com. Kelli DiSabatino, chief operating officer of community owner GCE LLC, noting that part of the …

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UMH Sponsors Lunch Program for Children in MHC

D & R Village manufactured home community (MHC) in Halfmoon, New York has partnered with CAPTAIN Youth and Family Services to provide a free, nutritious lunch to children of the community ages one to 18 every weekday at noon. Consisting of a sandwich, a vegetable, a piece of fresh fruit …

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Statute Eases Removal of Abandoned Manufactured Homes

The Village of Shiloh (southwestern Illinois) Board of Trustees has approved an agreement to authorize Village Administrator John Marquart to carry out the statutory requirements of the Abandoned Mobile Home Act, and assist the Valley View Estates manufactured home community in disposing of abandoned pre HUD Code homes, according to …

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Three Manufactured Home Communities Become Co-ops

According to realestaterama.com, three manufactured housing communities in Moses Lake, Washington all become resident-owned communities, each governed by its own democratically-elected representatives. The 113 homesites comprising Lakeview Terrace, Ponderosa and Cascade Village were part of a portfolio owned by Cascade Communities, Ltd., with $3.3 million financing for the co-ops provided …

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Master Water Meter Targets Waste in Sun’s MHCs

The Holly Village Council in Michigan has voted unanimously to install a master water meter to service Holly Village and Hawaiian Gardens manufactured home communities (MHCs), both owned and operated by Sun Communities, Inc., as MHProNews has been informed. Sun is responsible for distribution to the individual homesites, each with …

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Community Managers Accused of taking Residents’ Property

Chicago-based Zeman Homes acquired the former Touhy Mobile Home Park in Des Plaines, Ill. and renamed it Blackhawk Estates, as MHProNews reported Jan 15, 2013. Following a story we posted July 23, 2014 regarding allegations that Zeman Homes managers are fining residents for leaving items outside, at a meeting with …

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