oaoa reports the Odessa, Texas City Council approved plans for a 100 acre, 1,000 plus homesite manufactured housing community to ease the shortage of housing in the city. Odessa Mayor Larry Melton says, with rental rates going through the ceiling, “It’s a temporary solution to an existing problem,” adding the …
Joe Kelly, executive vice-president of the Iowa Manufactured Housing Association (IAMHA), informs MHProNews that the Iowa Department of Revenue has notified local governments that land lease communities are not structured to qualify as co-ops under Iowa Code 499A. As a residential classification, co-ops pay only about half the taxes of …
YAHOO! Finance says Eugene W. Landy, Chairman of the Board, and Samuel A. Landy, President of UMH Properties, Inc. (NYSE:UMH) of Freehold, New Jersey, will present an overview of the company to the Philadelphia Securities Association at the Union League in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wed. Oct. 10, 2012. The luncheon meeting, …
Benzinga reports that Sun Communities, Inc. (SUI:NYSE) has begun an underwritten offering of 3,000,000 million shares of common stock, with a 30-day option for the underwriters to purchase an additional 450,000 shares. Sun intends to use the proceeds to pay down debt, fund possible future acquisitions, and for general corporate …
As follow-up to an article we published Aug, 24, 2012 on the Delaware race for state representative in District 37 between incumbent Republican Briggs King and Democrat Beth McGinn, Ms. King clarifies her stance on MHCs in a Cape Gazette VillageSoup article. While Ms. McGinn criticized King for abstaining from …
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The vagazette informs MHProNews compassion led the Planning Commission in James City, Virginia to take a step beyond the legal border of the Public Service Area (PSA) and recommend extending sewer service to residents of the Greensprings Mobile Home Park. The two-and-a-half hour meeting saw several of the 80 residents …
sgvtribune reports from El Monte, California in the San Gabriel Valley an initiative on the November ballot will repeal a voter-approved measure that provides a ten percent discount to qualifying seniors who live in some of the MHCs in El Monte. The measure also gives the city council authority to …
The Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) celebrated their 60thAnniversary at the Four Seasons Hotel in Houston, Texas Aug. 19-21 with a variety of representatives from retailers, community owners and lenders, to brokers, manufacturers, managers, informational and motivational speakers, and marketing pros. Kurt Kelley of Mobile Insurance says the classes and …
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The Chisago County Press in Lindstrom, Minnesota tells MHProNews the Stonegate MHC is only the fifth community in the state to become owned by the residents. Stonegate Residential Corporation recently closed on the financing to make the 50 home site a co-op with the assistance of NorthCountry Foundation (NCF), which …
Killam Properties, Inc., in its expansion efforts outside Atlantic Canada, announces it has acquired a four building, 244-unit apartment portfolio in Ottawa, Ontario, bringing its overall total to 11,638 apartment units. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, MHProNews has learned Killam owns and operates over 50 manufactured housing communities comprising …
journal-topics tells MHProNews even as an auctioneer rolled through Glenview, Illinois’ Sunset Village MHC in a sound truck auctioning off manufactured homes, residents remain hopeful they can buy the community out of foreclosure. Frustrated by neglect and issues with water quality, threatened with eviction in some cases, residents made rent-to-own …
For the second time in two months, residents of a manufactured home community in the State College, Pennsylvania area have been notified they need to find a new place to live. This time, according to centredailytimes, Hilltop Mobile Home Park sent letters to those who own their homes this past …
Roger Bull’s Sunday Notebook in jacksonville reports the sale of two manufactured housing communities in Jacksonville, Florida to Rufus & Roxy LLC of Bainbridge Island, Washington. An extensive Google search led to the owner, Scott Fallows, who bought Sunny Oaks North Mobile Home Park and Briarwood Mobile Home Estates, which …
The Republic reports the Associated Press says the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation) of New Town, North Dakota developed a new manufactured housing community after the 45 site Prairie Winds Trailer Court was sold to oil development company United Prairie Cooperative for employee housing. The tribe invested …
The ChronicleHerald of Canada tells MHProNews 300 families in the Mountain View Estates manufactured housing community at Lake Echo in Nova Scotia have been without potable water since last December. MHC owner Killam Properties, Inc. of Halifax, Nova Scotia has issued monthly updates saying the boil-water order remains in effect …
SacBee reports from the unincorporated town of Thermal in California’s Eastern Coachella Valley, residents of the Sunbird Mobile Home Park filed a complaint with the California Public Utilities Commission claiming excessive water bills and arsenic-contaminated water, which resulted in a bill passed by the state legislature allowing residents in such …
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) announces Jenny Hodge has been selected Vice President, National Communities Council, with the responsibility for creating, managing, and developing programs to advance the interests of manufactured home land-lease community owners, managers, developers, lenders, brokers, and service/suppliers. Formerly Vice President of Marketing for the American Integrity …
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Indiancountrytodaymedianewtwork reports the first large housing project in 40 years on the San Felipe Pueblo tribal land in Sandoval County, New Mexico has just witnessed 28 families move in to the 28 new modular homes, part of a planned 150 unit project which includes multi-family housing for elderly members of …
times-standard reports from the northern coast of California Sandpiper Mobile Home Park is in its final stages of rebuilding after being purchased in 2006 by nonprofit Resident Owned Parks (ROP), which will offer homes for low income people to buy in Arcata, CA with the eventual goal of residents owning …
Two of three residential real estate investment trusts (REITs) recommended as having a good yield by Marc Gerstein at seekingalpha are MHC owners. Noting the tight lending standards for potential homebuyers, the accompanying unpredictable job market, and the rise in the rental market, Gerstein says UMH Properties appeals to people …
