From Washington, MHProNews.com has learned that a community there won’t be allowed to expand. According to the Tri-City Herald, the Chinook mobile home park won’t be rezoned to allow expansion. According to the article, the Kennewick City Council rejected a request from the owner to change the zoning from low-density …
A four inch torrential downpour inundated Hebron, Ohio, just south of Newark in near dead center of the state, according to what the NewarkAdvocate tells MHProNews.com. Of the 144 homes affected by the flood, 30-40 were at the Greenbriar Village Mobile Home Park, where the power had to be cut …
Following up on our story we published March 9, 2012, the Carrollton, Ohio City Council heard Dan Coen of Utica Housing Group from Canton describe his plans for two modular housing developments comprising 31 homes. The homes will be leased by energy companies to house their oil and gas employees …
The OrangeCountyRegister informs MHProNews.com State Sen. Lou Correa, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Manufactured Homes and Communities, will hold a conference in Santa Ana Friday, March 16, for MHC residents and owners. A panel of MHC residency law experts and code enforcement officials will discuss health and safety …
According to a new ordinance passed by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors in California, before a manufactured community owner (MHC) can close a community, it must submit an impact statement, provide relocation assistance for residents, and submit a review of the process to the Planning Commission. The SantaMariaTimes …
MHC Closure Ordinance could Make MHC Owners Bleed Green Read More
StarsandStripes tells MHProNews.comas the Department of Defense prepares to select an air base as the home of a new generation of refeuling air tankers built by Boeing in Everett, Washington, local officials across the state at Airway Heights, right next to Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane would like to …
MHC Residents Like Their ‘Accident Potential Zone 2’ Read More
From WLKY.com and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) web site, MHProNews.com learns that FEMA is setting up in storm-ravaged Kentucky and Indiana. Following recent storms, President Barack Obama issued a disaster declaration for several counties in each state on Friday. Homeowners, renters and businesses could qualify for FEMA money …
Atlanta-headquartered ARA, recently announced the sale of Independence Woods Manufactured Home Community located in Clarkston, MI and Oakland Estates Manufactured Home Community located in Auburn Hills, MI. The company says the communitieswere acquired by a large private operator new to the region. Independence Woods and Oakland Estates are both all age …
ARA’s Group Announces Sale of Two Manufactured Housing Communities Read More
A new report indicates that may be just what is happening. According to an upcoming report by Zillow published at CNBC.com, rents were up three percent in January while home prices were down 4.6 percent annually. In normal times when rents rise, people turn to home buying, but that doesn’t …
From Texas and the Brownsville Herald, MHProNews.com learns that the Texas Manufactured Housing Division and the Texas Attorney General’s Office are working to provide relief to customers of the now-defunct mobile-home business Park Girl Sales. The agencies have received complaints of fraud from more than 40 customers. The efforts are …
Texas Seeks Remedy For Would-Be Manufactured Home Owners Read More
MHProNews.com has learned from ThePress-Enterprise in San Jacinto, California, the owners of the 200 site Parkview Estates Manufactured Home Community want to convert it from a land lease community (LLC) to residents having the option to buy the site they occupy. Conversion may allow rental costs to rise to market …
Just north of eastern Montana and north of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, a modular town of 2,500 residents will emerge to provide workforce housing to build BHP Billiton’s Jansen potash mine, near the Gordon First Nation. MHProNews.com has learned from GlobalRegina that Craig Alloway of Calgary-based Atco, says it will be …
From California and the Santa Barbara Independent, MHProNews.com learns that Supervisors there will soon decide on legislation related to mobile home community closures. According to the article, while no parks are slated for closure, next week the county Board of Supervisors could vote on the first ever mobile home park …
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For the past several years MHC residents have sought legislation in the Utah legislature to help deal with community owners who they allege threaten to evict them if they try to organize a homeowners association, sltrib tells MHProNews.com. The Republican dominated House Business and Labor Committee voted along party lines, …
IndyStar reports that Shrum’s Manufactured Housing Center on U.S.40 west of Indianapolis was bought by real estate investment firm Platinum Financial Trust at auction Wednesday. The 12.4 acre site on a major commercial corridor near the Indianapolis International Airport went for $230,000 at the bank-ordered sale. MHProNews.com has learned the …
The Great Southwest Home Show, billed as the World’s Largest Indoor Manufactured Home Show, is packing a wallop of seminars, forums, and workshops in addition to all the vendors and homes from the nation’s foremost manufacturers. March 1 and 2 will be Industry Days with workshops ranging from new financing …
Under a deadline set by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to change the city’s flood ordinance or lose the right for residents to obtain federal flood insurance, the city council of Denham Springs, Louisiana, approved changes to its flood ordinances. New construction and substantial improvements to a property within the …
New Ordinance: Manufactured Homes to be Sited above Flood Level Read More
From the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota, MHProNews.com has learned residents at a local RV community say management is giving them the boot to make room for oil companies with deep pockets. Residents of Heartland Homes Village recently received eviction notices because of what the article refers to as …
From California and the San Diego Union-Tribune, MHProNews.com learns that voters there will vote in June on whether to enact vacancy decontrol, which allows current tenants to keep low rents but would allow park owners to charge as they see fit when the homes change hands. According to the report, …
Groups Raising Funds for Battle Over Vacancy Decontrol Read More
Chicago-based Green Courte Partners, LLC, has confirmed the new managing director of their MHC acquisitions arm, Bill Glascott, is moving over from a similar position he held at Hometown America, LLC, a company Green Courte’s Chairman Randy Rowe helped found. MarketWatch tells MHProNews.com during his twelve years at Hometown Glascott …
