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Manufactured Home Ordinance Redefines MH Registration in South Carolina

By / July 15, 2016 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Darlington County, South Carolina is losing $7,800 each year to manufactured home (MH) residents not registering their homes, according to legistarweb-production, prompting the county to amend an ordinance that will re-define exceptions for registration of mobile and manufactured homes. Currently, temporary registration may be obtained for manufactured homes stored because …

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Large Manufactured Home Community Planned for Southwestern Louisiana

By / July 14, 2016 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

While the Calcasieu Parish police jurors in southwestern Louisiana approved a new 336-site manufactured home community (MHC) by a vote of 13 to 1, as MHProNews reported June 25, 2016, kplctv reports another proposal for a 987-homesite, also in Calcasieu Parish, is running into stiff opposition from a neighborhood organized …

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Drew Industries Included in Top 50 U. S. Manufacturers

By / July 14, 2016 / Announcements, Awards, Business, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, RV

Two Elkhart, Indiana-based companies involved in the production of recreational vehicles (RV) have been named to the list of the nation’s best 50 manufacturers. IndustryWeek, a national trade publication, annually ranks manufacturers on factors that include total revenue, growth and inventory turnover. RV manufacturer Thor Industries was named fifth in …

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Gas Furnaces in some New Mexico MH Pose Risk

By / July 14, 2016 / Announcements, Business, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

MHProNews has learned from cnjonline that residents in eastern New Mexico are being warned about improperly installed gas furnaces in manufactured homes that can emit carbon monoxide and possibly lead to an explosion. The Construction Industries and Manufactured Housing Division (CID/MHD) of the Regulation and Licensing Department of New Mexico …

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MHARR Issues a Call to Arms to Defeat the Enactment of DOE’s New Proposal

By / July 14, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Noting the Department of Energy’s new proposal is critical to the manufactured home industry because “it is genuinely draconian and will have a drastically negative impact,” the Manufactured Housing for Regulatory Reform’s (MHARR) Mark Weiss, says its final adoption can be stopped with enough pushback. Commenting on a meeting at …

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RV and Mfg. Home Hall of Fame Museum on Indiana Must Visit List

By / July 14, 2016 / Announcements, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, RV

Having achieved statehood in 1816, in celebration of Indiana’s Bicentennial, greenfieldreporter has assembled a group of notable sites around the state worth a visit, such as female author Gene Stratton Porter’s house just outside Rome City that she helped build; and in Shelbyville, one of the last drive-in movie theatres …

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HUD Funding Local Housing Authorities to House Homeless Vets

By / July 13, 2016 / Announcements, Awards, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded over $5 million to 42 local public housing authorities (PHAs) who are actively working to end homelessness among veterans. The additional funds will help these PHAs administer a joint program with HUD and Veterans Affairs to provide permanent …

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Hedge Funds Trading in Shares of Sun Communities

By / July 13, 2016 / Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, Trends

MHProNews has learned from fidaily that GW&K Investment Management LLC purchased 15,805 shares of common stock of manufactured home community owner, Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE:SUI) for the quarter ending June 30, 2016, increasing its stake to 2.3 percent.  According to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), GW&K’s investment is now …

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Newby Management considered for Fort Meade’s MH Community

By / July 12, 2016 / Announcements, Business, Communities, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Mayor Jim Watts of Fort Meade, Florida was surprised when only one management firm responded to a request to operate the city’s manufactured home community, theLedger tells MHProNews.  Newby Management was the only respondent.    While the city has managed the 250-home site MHC over the years, city commissioners thought …

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Retailer Offering Free Seminar on New MH and Modular Construction

By / July 10, 2016 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular

Named Retailer of the Year by the Manufactured Housing Institute for the Northeast/ Mid-Atlantic region in 2003 and 2013, Plattsburgh Housing Outlet in Plattsburgh, New York, in the northeast corner of the state, is hosting a home building seminar July 21. Topics at the seminar will include lending requirements, manufactured …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 3-July 10, 2016

By / July 9, 2016 / Advocacy, Announcements, Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, RV, Stocks, Trends

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Lawrence County Targets Delinquent Manufactured Home Taxes

By / July 8, 2016 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Lawrence County, Ohio on the Ohio River bordering Kentucky is collecting the second half of the year’s property taxes, according to what irontontribune tells MHProNews. Noting that collections are on track to match last year’s second half collections, Lawrence County Treasurer Stephen Burcham said there is a mortgage company to …

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American National Standards Institute Approves MH Fenestration Program

By / July 8, 2016 / Announcements, Awards, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

MHProNews has learned the American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) announces that its Manufactured Housing Fenestration Certification Program has been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), an accreditation which confirms the AAMA certification program licensees produce the highest quality products the industry has to offer. According to Rob Luter …

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House Reaffirms Support for MH by Defeating two Potentially Crippling Amendments

By / July 8, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and the Indiana MH Association informs MHProNews that in the U. S. House of Representatives, two amendments to the Fiscal Year 2017 Financial Services Appropriations bill were defeated that would have stripped language from the bill that make necessary changes to the Dodd-Frank Act in …

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Opinion: Non-profits to Buy Vulnerable MH Communities to Preserve Affordable Housing

By / July 8, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

The city of Portland, Oregon has over 400 vacant homes on its eastside, “zombie homes”as portlandtribune calls them, some of which are nuisance-creating, others are just nuisances. Mayor Charlie Hales just returned from the conference of mayors in Indianapolis, and commentator John Schrag suggests the mayor take a page from …

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FEMA Moving Quickly to Assist W VA Flood Survivors

By / July 7, 2016 / Events, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People

Updating a story MHProNews last posted regarding the use of factory-built homes for the survivors of the flooding in West Virginia, Hoppy Kercheval writes in wvmetronews that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been very responsive to the survivors. They have inspected about two-thirds of the properties where people …

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Patrick Completes Acquisition of Plastics Firm LS Mfg.

By / July 6, 2016 / Business, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Stocks

MHProNews has learned from finance.yahoo that manufactured home and recreational vehicle component supplier Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:PATK) has completed the acquisition of Vacuplast, LLC, d/b/a LS Manufacturing, Inc., producer of thermoformed plastic components, primarily for the recreational vehicle industry. Founded in 2003, the company’s 12-months trailing revenue through May 2016 …

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Manufactured Home Repair Program to Assist Low Income Residents

By / July 6, 2016 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Residents of manufactured homes in Newberg and Yamhill County in northwestern Oregon, just south of Portland, will be eligible for repairs to manufactured homes if $400,000 is approved through a housing rehabilitation program. Community Development Director Doug Rux said the program would benefit about 120 people, all of whom fit …

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Manufactured Home Production Continues Double-digit Growth

By / July 6, 2016 / Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Trends

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) informs MHProNews that based on statistics released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the manufactured housing industry produced 6,780 homes in May, 2016, a 16.9 percent increase over the 5,798 homes produced in May, 2015. Total HUD Code production …

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Scott Parkhurst Re-joins Skyline Corp. as National Sales Mgr.

By / July 6, 2016 / Announcements, Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, RV

Skyline Corp. (NYSE:SKY) of Elkhart, Indiana announced today, according to what yahoo.finance reports, that Scott Parkhurst has been chosen to lead the company’s National Sales Manager division. Now responsible for marketing initiatives and growth for Skyline’s ten operating divisions, he previously worked for the company as a division sales manager, …

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