Santa Ana, California’s Hart King law firm will present their annual briefing on operating manufactured housing communities (MHCs) Thurs., March 27, 2014 at the DoubleTree Club by Hilton in Santa Ana beginning at 9 AM. The panel of attorneys versed in MHC affairs will discuss the American Disabilities Act (ADA) …
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Following a story MHProNews.com first posted March 3, 2014 regarding the condemning and shuttering of Life O’Riley Mobile Home Park in Lansing, Michigan by the Ingham County Health Department, State Rep. Andy Schor (D-Lansing) plans to introduce legislation to give local authorities more control over manufactured home communities (MHCs). Currently, …
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A request for special permission to site a recreational vehicle (RV) on private property in San Angelo, Texas for one year was approved by the town’s city council. Jesus Tellez says he wants to live in the RV while he builds a house on the same property, according to sanangelolive.com. …
The Reseda Mobile Estates in California has been acquired by Anaheim, CA-based Reseda mhp Associates LP for $13.1 million. According to Briana Barbier of Marcus & Millichap, who represented the seller, the 108-site manufactured home community “is a stable, well-maintained community that provides affordable housing in the expensive, high-demand San …
Fort Collins, Colorado has seen five manufactured home communities (MHCs) close in the last 20 years, displacing 461 families, and of the 14 remaining communities that represent 1,336 homesites, eight are set for redevelopment. MHProNews.com has learned 73 percent are owner-occupied. A study from 2012 to determine the place in …
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MHProNews.com has learned residents at Hickory Hill manufactured housing community (MHC) in Klecknersville, Pennsylvania, just north of Allentown, are forming a homeowners association and considering taking the owner to court for allegedly overcharging them on their utilities. They also claim the owner, Albert Jinks, requires them to buy upgrades—decks, garages …
Marking a new chapter in resilient architecture in high water zones for vulnerable coastal cities, Nigerian architect Kunle Adeyemi, in conjunction with his Lagos and New Amsterdam-based firm NLE, has designed modular floating homes linked into neighborhoods, and perhaps even entire floating cities. Currently many people in the Makoko neighborhood …
MHProNews.com has learned that UMH Properties, Inc. of Freehold, New Jersey has acquired eight Ohio manufactured home communities (MHCs) comprised of 1,018 homesites with an average 70 percent occupancy rate, for $24,950,000. A public real estate investment trust (REIT), marketwatch.com reports the company owns and operates eighty-two manufactured home communities …
Following an article MHProNews.com published Feb. 27, 2014 regarding surplus modular homes from the U. S. military being sited on the Apache Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico, officials from the tribal nation offered a public thank you to the military and the General Services Administration at a ceremony March 7. …
Following a decision by state regulators, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) will begin a three-year pilot program in Northern and Central California to replace master meters in manufactured housing communities (MHCs) with metes measuring gas and electric service going directly to individual homesites. Many communities have aging infrastructures, says wsj.com, …
Manufactured Home Residents to Receive Utilities Direct Read More
According to tickerreport.com, manufactured housing community owner Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (ELS) has announced it will pay shareholders of record on Friday, March 28, 2014 a dividend of $0.325 per share on Friday, April 11, 2014, representing an annualized dividend of $1.30 and a dividend yield of 3.17 percent. The …
In order to better zone and regulate the temporary housing facilities that many oilfield workers live in, the Williams County (North Dakota) commissioners voted to update the definition of crew housing, and will charge companies $400 per person for each one living in modular workforce housing zoned for non-residential use. …
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A 24-unit assisted living facility owned and operated by Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services (NCPHS), part of The Woods, a 55-plus manufactured home community in Mendocino, CA, is set to close sometime in May. According to mendocinobeacon.com, NCPHS submitted a closure plan to the state Department of Social Services …
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The Village Board in Poplar Grove, Illinois just north of Rockford denied a request to develop 72 acres into two manufactured home communities (MHCs), as a packed boardroom meeting erupted into applause. Flora Meadows applied for two permits for Hawthorn Meadows South and Hawthorn Meadows North, but Board Chairman John …
A petitioner in Asheville, North Carolina requested the Buncombe County Commissioners rezone a small riverfront manufactured housing community (MHC) from R1 to R-3 to allow him to site three park model homes for vacationers, according to thetribunepapers.com. One of the commissioners, who has been in the MH industry, said the …
A Cheektowaga, New York senior housing community is being acquired by Northstar Realty Finance Company, a New York City-based real estate investment trust (REIT) and owner of a portfolio of manufactured housing communities. Syracuse-based Peregrine Senior Living is selling Peregrine’s Landing LLC for $12.5 million, buffalonews.com reports. As MHProNews.com posted …
City officials in North Platte, Nebraska are reaching out to owners of manufactured home communities (MHCs) in developing minimum standards for manufactured homes, realizing that some people are bringing substandard homes into the city and then abandoning them instead of fixing them up. Zoning administrator Judy Clark says a Health …
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The owners of Hendrickson Estates and Hendrickson Heritage Park manufactured home communities in Sequim, Washington, just northwest of Seattle, say city fees for installing new homes have risen, adding insult to injury in the face of a housing industry battered by the recession. Jeanne Murray and Mel Hendrickson, co-owners of …
Assorted Fees a Deterrent to Siting Manufactured Homes Read More
A manufactured housing community has been condemned and ordered shuttered and the residents given ten days to evacuate after the Ingham County Health Department in Lansing, Michigan discovered raw sewage on the grounds and solid waste strewn about. Hundreds of people living in 85 homes at the Life O’Riley Mobile …
License to Operate Suspended at Land Lease Community Read More
The Plantation on the Lake manufactured home community (MHC) in Calimesa, California intends to exercise its option to build the remaining seven percent of the home sites to which it is entitled, bringing the total number of sites to 562, according to newsmirror.net. Forty-seven new homesites were approved by the …
