TheDailyReview of Towanda, Pennsylvania reports the Waverly Village Trustees in Tioga County, just across the border in New York, updated their definition of manufactured and modular homes. The previous legal definition written in 1988 for “mobile home” was a portable structure on wheels, but intended for long-term living. The new …
NationalMortgageNews reports RealtyTrac says foreclosure filings fell to their lowest level since July 2007, dropping five percent from March 2012 and 14% from a year ago. The 188,780 notices of default also include scheduled auctions and bank repossessions. Following three months of increases, foreclosure filings were down four percent April …
From South Dakota’s KOTARadio comes news that the Rapid City, South Dakota City Council is reluctant to permit modular homes to be sited in MHCs. Council members expressed concern that modular homes might spring up in other neighborhoods. Noting that this is an opportunity to replace what is now in …
Yahoo!Finance says MH builder Nobility Homes has won approval from NASDAQ to continue being listed on the exchange through Sept. 14, 2012. Nobility did not file 10-Q reports for the periods ending Aug. 4, 2011 and Feb. 4, 2012, and for Form 10-K for the year ending Nov. 5, 2011 …
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 …
A May 7 email from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) recounts a letter sent April 26, 2012 from the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) concerning an increase in design values for Southern Yellow Pine to take effect June 1, 2012. MHARR’s response to HUD says HUD needs …
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 …
NationalMortgageNews says new data shows the number of loans in foreclosure plus loans delinquent 90 or more days increased June 2011 to Dec. 2011 from 9.2 percent to 9.7 percent, following six consecutive quarters of decline. Foreclosure-Response.org notes, for the 100 largest metropolitan areas, the foreclosure rate has risen to …
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) asked Congress to amend the Lacey Act that holds unknowing purchasers responsible for buying illegal wood products from overseas. Under current law the U.S. government can seize any imported wood product—cabinet knobs, wood trim, lumber—made from plant material sold in violation of foreign …
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 …
Following the $25 billion settlement reached in March with mortgage servicers, Ohio’s attorney general Mike DeWine has begun granting $75 million of Ohio’s $335 million to local governments for demolishing abandoned homes. According to what HousingWire tells MHproNews.com, Ohio’s 10,000 dilapidated homes are pulling down home prices and turning away …
In a letter to MPNnow, a resident of Gypsum Mills Estates in Victor, New York just south of Rochester states the 520 senior homeowners in the MHC are being unduly taxed by the town assessor. Stephen G. Poyzer says property assessments have increased an average of 24 percent. Noting that …
MHProNews.com has learned from MyrtleBeachonline two South Carolina men were each sentenced to three years in federal prison for falsifying loan applications to banks to obtain mortgages on manufactured homes that were never delivered. Conway, SC MH dealer Glenn Vaught and mortgage broker Michael Fortenberry provided false documentation to obtain …
MHProNews.com has learned the Bullhead City Council has approved an agreement between the city and the Arizona Department of Fire, Building, and Life Safety (DFBLS), Office of Manufactured Housing, for Mojave County to issue permits and inspections for manufactured housing and factory-built buildings. The DFBLS does not have an inspector …
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 …
As follow-up to a story we wrote April 18 regarding changes to the MHC code by the San Antonio Quality of Life Committee, which has policy oversight of manufactured homes, Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) Executive Director J.D. Pendleton led a group of residents and community owners in a meeting …
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The largest mass settlement to date of claims over the FEMA travel trailers supplied to victims of Hurricane Katrina was agreed to by nearly a dozen manufacturers including Thor Industries, Recreation by Design, Play-Mor Trailers, Cruiser RV and Skyline. According to TheNewsStar, the $14.8 million was based on occupants sickened …
As follow-up to a story we have reported on nearly a dozen times since last May (the last time was March 29, 2012), KPBS radio tells us the Oceanside City Council passed an ordinance last year to eliminate rent control on the seventeen MHCs in Oceanside, once the current home …
