WoodworkingNetwork informs MHProNews.com Universal Forest Products, Inc. (UFPI) has instituted a software system to document usage of 300 production tools. The new system, called Intooligence, and developed by an Elkhart, IN company of the same name, maintains a database of serial numbers of cutterheads, links to knife sets, keeps track …
As follow-up to a story we published Feb. 10, 2012, Joe Kelly, executive vice-president of the Manufactured Housing Association of Iowa (MHAI), tells MHProNews.com Iowa’s legislative bill HF 2013 will establish a fund for consumers to borrow money to purchase a manufactured home through the Iowa Finance Authority. The bill …
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 …
TradersHuddle tells MHProNews.com long-time executive in the MH and Mod transportation industry Shawn CJ Kling has been elected to the board of directors of T.J.T., Inc. to fill an unexpired Class III Director term. The company provides recycled tires and axles to the manufactured housing industry in ten western states …
In a letter published in today’s USA Today, Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) president and CEO Richard Jennison responded to a March 11 article in the paper that only people in manufactured housing are at risk during a tornado. Noting that 175 mph winds can ravage any housing, he quotes from …
The RV/MH Hall of Fame and Museum in Elkhart, Indiana has re-structured millions of dollars of debt to give it more time to pay the $4 million it owes to 1st Source Bank and the family of the late Robert “Boots” Ingram, according to The Elkhart Truth. WSBT tells MHProNews.com …
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 …
REJournals tells us Real Estate Investment Services’ Marcus & Millichap sold Mt. Morris Estates, a 170 homesite manufactured home community in Mount Morris, Illinois for $3.6 million. The seller was listed only as a partnership. The community in Northwest Illinois is part of the Rockford, IL metropolitan statistical area (MSA), …
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Drew Industries, Inc. subsidiaries Kinro, Inc. and Lippert Components, Inc. announce their employee base has grown to 4,541 nationwide, a 15 percent jump since Aug. 2011. Most of the new 750 jobs were in their home base Elkhart County in northern Indiana, according to RVBusiness. Last month alone they added …
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 …
From Washington, D.C. the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) tells MHProNews.com the Stabenow amendment to the Senate’s surface transportation reauthorization legislation (S.1813), which would have extended the energy efficient tax credits for MH and Mod, did not get the required 60 votes needed for passage. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) led the …
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 …
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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 …
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Triad Financial Services, Inc. informs us that Jim Brand, Houston-based regional manager for the manufactured housing lender, passed away March 9 after a brief battle with cancer. With Triad since 2005, Jim previously worked for Associates Housing Finance as Sales Purchase Office Manager. Blessed with good humor and an infectious …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
The Manufactured Housing Institute’s (MHI) Monthly Economic Report, states shipments of single-section and multisection homes jumped 42.1 percent Jan. 2012 over Jan. 2011, to 3,945 new homes. Single section homes accounted for 53.9 percent of the increase. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of shipments (SAAR) increased 6.0 percent, to 61,082 …
To follow-up on a story we published Nov. 07, 2011, The T&D tells MHProNews.com a man from Neeses, South Carolina, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to six counts of breach of trust for taking money for manufactured homes never delivered. If rom Colter was arrested …
A site plan has been approved by the Waverly Village planning board in northeastern Pennsylvania for six two-family modular apartments, TheDailyReview tells MHProNews.com. When board members raised concerns about fireproofing, developer Tim Steed said the apartments exceed state fireproofing codes and HUD standards. The village mobile home statute, which village …
