Down Under, again: From a two-room self-contained Quickshack for a home office, teenage space, or a grandparent home to single and multistory modular housing for students, hospitals and hotels, Quicksmart (QSH) designs and engineers all products in house. The company makes a range of pods, modules, and hybrids as well …
Updating a story we posted July 5, 2013 regarding a manufactured housing community (MHC) owner’s plans to rehab his property being stymied by the city council, a recent vote by the council will encourage owners to make improvements within the guidelines of a new ordinance. In 1999, the council eliminated …
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Adding to a story MHProNews posted August 2, 2013 about June’s production of manufactured homes increasing 5.1 percent year-over-year, and production for the year having risen the same percent over last year, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) reports production of single and multi-section homes both increased. Additionally, total floors shipped …
Following a story we posted Aug. 13 regarding mortgage fraud charges being brought against four managers of the manufactured housing retailer Phoenix Housing Group of Greensboro, North Carolina, one of the accused is now considered a fugitive. The four are charged with conspiring to defraud buyers of manufactured and modular …
In an attempt to recover taxes on manufactured homes that have not been paid in three years, the municipality of Parkland County in central Alberta, Canada holds an auction on the properties. The jurisdiction makes every attempt to notify the owners of the levy, but people sometimes are not aware …
The first half of 2013 manufactured home taxes for Crow Wing County, Minnesota are due Aug. 31, but because that is a Saturday, and the following Monday, Sept. 2 is Labor Day, the due date has been extended to Tue., Sept 3. As MHProNews has learned from brainerdddispatch.com in central …
The owner of a manufactured housing community (MHC) in Mansura, Louisiana may be charged with violating ordinances governing communities. At a meeting of the Mansura Town Council, the city inspector said the violations include the lack of skirting and porches on the homes, and the absence of a fence around …
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The National Community Council’s Fall Leadership Forum will be held Oct. 16-18, 2013 at the W. Chicago City Center Hotel. Titled “Building a Vision for the Future,” Sam Zell, Chairman of Equity Group Investments and Equity International, which own Equity LifeStyle Properties, will be the featured speaker at the conference. …
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According to Jim Gaines from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, the population of Texas is anticipated to increase to 30 million by 2050, a gain of nearly 120 percent, which will require 10.5 million additional housing units. The Dallas-Fort Worth area is expected to grow 163 percent …
Updating a story MHProNews posted Tue., Aug 13, concerning the state house’s passage of a rent control measure for the four manufactured housing communities in Acushnet, Massachusetts, Rep. Robert M. Koczera (D-New Bedford) says, “I have every reason to believe it will become law.” It now goes to the Senate …
Seven new members have been elected to the RV/MH Hall of Fame Board of Directors at their recent board meeting, according to Board Chairman Barry Cole. The new members are: Dick Jennison, Manufactured Housing Institute; Joe Stegmayer, Cavco Industries; Mark Wasson, Bluelinx Corp.; Mick Ferkey, Greenway RV; Dana Nelson, RV …
Residents of the Pan and Fork manufactured housing community in Basalt, Colorado, just northwest of Aspen will be compensated for relocating due to a redevelopment project slated for their community. The town, which co-owns the property with the non-profit Roaring Fork Community Development Corporation, needs to do flood mitigation and …
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Top managers of Greensboro, North Carolina-based Phoenix Housing Group (PHG), a manufactured and modular housing retailer in North and South Carolina, have been charged with selling more than 1,100 homes in North Carolina financed with fraudulently-secured government backed loans, resulting in millions of dollars in losses to federal loan programs. …
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Residents at Brookside Mobile Home Park complaining about rising rents in their community has led to a state bill authorizing rent and eviction control rules in Acushnet, Massachusetts. Town Meeting members approved a home rule petition in June, 2012 that established a rent control board to oversee the town’s four …
Three months since Barry Swegle allegedly drove his bulldozer through a manufactured housing community east of Port Angeles, Washington, damaging or destroying four homes and other property, he remains in jail in lieu of a $1 million bond, while those impacted by his actions continue to rebuild their lives. A …
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In its continuing attempts to amend rules that inhibit lending to the manufactured housing market, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) says the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released additional rules that exempt loans on existing manufactured homes (excluding real estate) from Dodd-Frank appraisal requirements. There is already an existing rule …
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Manufactured Housing Community Lake Erie MHP, LLC in Fredonia, New York is donating $250 to the United Way of Northern Chautauqua County for each home sold in its community, and presented the organization with a check for $1,000. The former McClenathan’s Mobile Home Park in Fredonia, in far western NY …
A one-time theme park in Queensland, Australia will be demolished and replaced with a 115-site manufactured housing community (MHC). Nostalgia Town at Pacific Paradise has been acquired for $1.6 million by Peter Puljich, director of Living Gems, developer of MHCs in Australia. The affordable living community will include a social …
The Esto Town Council in the panhandle of Florida nearly straddling the Alabama state line approved the first reading of the newly proposed manufactured home ordinance which defines requirements before being sited in town. The homes “Must be structurally sound, clean, sanitary, well maintained and approved by council.” Any home …
Killam Properties, Inc., headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada reports for the second quarter 2013 property income rose 2.5 percent from $33,679,000 to $34,506,000 as compared to Q2 2012, yielding a net rental income loss of -0.5% year-over-year–$20,331,000 in 2012 versus $20,225,000 in the same period of 2013. Net income …
