LenConnect in Adrian, Michigan informs MHProNews.com Mid Star Home Builders of Cement City, MI has taken on a new owner. Shelly Saunders is joining her husband, Scott, in operating their Ritz Craft licensed modular home business, which also has a location in Coldwater in southern MI. Scott started the business …
WisconsinRapidsTribune says Ferkey Builders in Saratoga, WI just needs approval from the Saratoga Town Board to build an over-50 modular housing community of 40 homes clustered around seven cul-de-sacs. In order for this and another project to go forward, ordinances dealing with lot sizes had to be amended, which the …
TheChronicleHerald in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada says P.J.C. Land Developments Ltd., headed by Paul R. Norwood, has proposed a retirement village of 350 modular homes just northeast of Halifax in Lake Echo. Sited in 50 clusters of seven homes each, Maple Leaf Homes of Fredericton will manufacture the homes, which …
According to LegalNewsLine, a Ventnor, New Jersey couple charged with a fraudulent modular investment opportunity agreed to pay $35,000 in restitution and civil penalties by Aug. 31 as a settlement. As announced by NJ Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa, if the defendants, Dennis and Maria Bracall, miss the deadline they and …
The SeattleMedium tells MHProNews.com the Puget Sound Skills Center (PSSC) in the Seattle, Washington area offers a Construction Technology course where students build a modular home that is then sold by the school system. Teacher Ken Pierson says the course is great for students who like to use their hands …
ReinforcedPlastics says MSP Property Management & Development Company, a real estate developer and manager in the Caribbean, has agreed to buy modular homes for a housing project in Antigua from Innovative Composites International (ICI). As we last reported April 6, 2012, at MHProNews.com, ICI’s new Ecoscape plant in Orangeburg, SC …
Factory Homes, Ltd (FHL) in Hull, England has received the Q-Mark Certification by BM Trada, one of the toughest standards for construction products, and will begin producing modular homes with a low-carbon footprint to meet the need for affordable housing. Based on automobile manufacturing, the cutting-edge technology focuses on high …
Following up on a story concerning the flooding in Minot, North Dakota last spring, KFYR-TV reports the Minot City Council is relaxing zoning requirements to allow manufactured homes to be sited in areas not previously zoned for them, sometimes to the chagrin of neighbors. Working on a case by case …
The Rapid City Journal in South Dakota reports the Box Elder Planning and Zoning Commission wants developer Bob Akers to rethink his plans to replace the 125-site Wagon Wheel Village MHC with 166 modular homes spaced ten feet apart. Located just east of Rapid City, the local government has no …
BusinessReviewUSA informs us Moosic, PA-based Signature Building Systems, LLC is marking two milestones: Building its 4,000th custom modular home, and its 20th anniversary. CEO Victor DePhillips says, “The last four years have been difficult and we are thrilled to say we have made it through the storm and are currently …
As follow-up to an article we published Feb. 17, 2012, The New York Times reports the first MEDCottage will be delivered this month to a family in Alexandria, Virginia. As an alternative to placing aging family members in a nursing home, this 12-by-24 bedroom-bathroom-kitchenette modular unit, designed to fit in …
In the wake of the deadly tornadoes that ripped through Alabama last year, WSFA-TV in Montgomery, AL, like many in the media and in the National Weather Service (NWS), does not distinguish between pre-HUD Code homes and those built after 1976. However, Tommy Colley, who trains MH installers for the …
The “House and Home” exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. tells the history of housing in the United States through photographs, film, drawings, texts, and models, beginning with Native Americans, through tenements, suburbia, urban living, even to the modular Tumbleweed Tiny House that has just 100 square …
In her segment about the tornadic dangers to MH residents, Iowa’s KWWL-TV reporter Kera Mashek does not distinguish between pre-HUD Code homes and manufactured housing in her report. It is all “mobile homes” to her. Unfortunately, the U.S. Commerce Dept.’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) statistics on fatalities resulting …
From Georgia MHProNews.com learns ChronicleAugusta reports a pre-HUD Code mobile home that caught fire in the middle of the night in 2006 and took the lives of a young couple spawned several lawsuits brought by the families. The city of Augusta claims protection under the legal principle of sovereign immunity …
Two Illinois men have been charged with defrauding investors out of $800,000 in a modular home building scam, the DailyHerald tells MHProNews.com. Richard Osty of Waukegan and Ronald Moore of Wheaton allegedly told investors $1,500 (sometimes more) would get them a loan for a green modular home, a one dollar …
WOOD-TV reports from Edmore, Michigan the owner of scrapped Erdmore Estates Mobile Home Park is in jail, and cannot respond to any violations. Corey Davy bought the community in 2008 in a bankruptcy sale after the state had revoked the previous owner’s license. Davy went to jail for two years …
SBWire reports ModularHomesNetwork (MHN) says the modular housing industry is stabilizing after losing a number of manufacturers in 2011. With more starts this year than last, and growth in the multi-family market, MHN notes Q1 modular housing growth in the New England area, New Jersey, and upper Midwest as well …
As the energy and mining industries continue to expand in Canada, creating instant cities that last for 20-25 years and then disband, companies need to quickly get the project up and running while controlling costs, and government wants the economic impact/revenue without environmental upheaval. Instead of the old metal shelters, …
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The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports a joint letter dated April 17, 2012 from the chairmen of the House Financial Services Committee and the Housing, Insurance, and Community Development Subcommittee to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan seeks follow-up from HUD regarding its implementation of the Manufactured Housing Improvement …
