To comply with the 2010 FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) guidelines declaring Magnolia Village MHC in Yuma, Arizona is in a flood plain, replacement homes for the over-55 residents will have to be elevated four feet. To satisfy the National Flood Insurance Program, homes that will cost more than 50 …
FEMA: “Canal Could Flood MHC”—Water Co. Employee: “No Way” Read More
Regarding another story we covered April 16, 2012 from Mt. Vernon, Illinois concerning a proposed conditional use for siting MH in the town, the city council voted to prohibit manufactured housing from RM2 residential areas. The new ordinance endorses a conditional use provision that allows factory-built homes to be sited …
Following another story from Sept 23, 2011, residents of problem-besotted Edgeway Mobile Home Park in Middleboro, Massachusetts seek to replace the Town Selectmen with a rent control board to govern the operations of MHCs, according to SouthCoastToday. The license for Edgeway owner Cory Farcas was revoked in 2004 for health …
SeaCoastonline in New Hampshire reports town officials in North Hampton, NH near the Atlantic Ocean coast say the state Department of Revenue Administration has completed its review of the property assessment determination process and discovered the manufactured homes in the area are undervalued. Most town property, MHProNews.com has learned, is …
The Register-News in Mt. Vernon, Illinois reports the Mt. Vernon City Council will hold a second reading on a proposed ordinance governing conditional use siting of manufactured housing in the city. The ordinance would require written permission from the owner of adjacent stick-built homes to allow a manufactured home to …
NewsandTribune tells MHProNews.com Kevin Carroll filed a $5 million lawsuit against Clayton Homes of Maryville, Tennessee, alleging he lost his business to Clayton after they loaned him $150,000 to buy out his partners, and two weeks later promptly closed a plant in Hodgenville, Kentucky that supplied him with manufactured homes …
The OnlineSentinel reports from Madison, Maine a ruling that would restrict manufactured housing at Hidden Acres Mobile Home Park to newer models only was dropped, allowing post HUD Code (after 1976) homes to be sited, resolving a years-long disagreement between the town and the community’s owner, Tim Ames. The town …
The FayObserver tells MHProNews.com minimum housing standards are set to be tightened by the Cumberland County Commission in the south central area of North Carolina. In light of neighborhood complaints about the condition of some factory-built housing, the new measure would require all manufactured housing to have skirting around the …
KRMGRadio says the first modular units for the Red Clay Casino have arrived in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, just southeast of Tulsa. Being developed by the 450 member Kialagee Tribal Town from Wetumpka, OK, the project has become a lightning rod for opponents of the casino, including a state lawsuit to …
A legal debate is brewing in a Mississippi court regarding the distinction between a modular home and a manufactured home as it pertains to a restrictive covenant in a subdivision. In a case going back to 2006, developers Hudson Holliday and Darrin Harris filed a complaint to have home owners …
The AtikokanProgress reports to MHProNews.com from just north of Duluth, Minnesota, in Canada, the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) dismissed a homeowner’s appeal of a bylaw that would have restricted placement of modular homes. The town had approved the amendment requested by owners of a former MHC who want to build …
The Eloy City Council in Arizona, just south of Phoenix, has eased the zoning restrictions on replacing manufactured homes. The previous ordinance required homes be replaced with units no more than three years old, which many people who lived in homes that needed to be replaced could not afford. The …
MHProNews.com has learned from NOLA in New Orleans the Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld the 60-year sentence of a former Alabama lawmaker who swindled older victims of Hurricane Katrina out of $250,000. John Colvin, who passed himself off as a licensed contractor but was not licensed in LA, pleaded guilty …
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
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 …
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 …
HousingWire tells MHProNews.com the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will raise the mortgage insurance from one percent to 1.75 percent to make up for the drop in the Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) Fund below the Congressionally mandated two percent, to 0.2 percent. The FHA said the increase will add $1 billion …
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
The ChillicotheNews in Chillicothe, Missouri tells MHProNews.com a public hearing will be held by the city council to consider a zoning ordinance amendment so differentiation can be made between manufactured, mobile, and modular housing, and where they may be sited. City Engineer Ron Urton says the current ordinance is outdated …
