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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 9-Aug. 16, 2015

By / August 15, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, RV, Stocks

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Nubble Lighthouse and Sohier Park. York, Maine – US Destination What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News GSEs set to offer secondary market for manufactured home loans. Two MHCs change hands, new MHC planned in Canada. CFPB not protecting consumers OR employees. …

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246 Site Manufactured Home Community Sold in Michigan

By / August 14, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Coachman’s Cove manufactured home community (MHC) in Munith, Michigan was sold at auction July 24 by Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions, according to rejournals. Consisting of 213 single section home sites and 33 sites for multi-section, Coachman is located 30 minutes from Ann Arbor on Big Portage Lake next to …

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Bowersox Takes Vice President Position with Manufactured Housing Institute

By / September 12, 2019 / Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, RV

MHProNews has learned from the Indiana Manufactured Housing Association-Recreation Vehicle Indiana Council (IMHA-RVIC) that Executive Director Mark Bowersox has resigned his position as of Sept. 5, 2015. With IMHA-RVIC for 12 years, he began as the association’s RV director, added the title of marketing director before being promoted to Executive …

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Kingsley Management Corp. Acquires Florida Manufactured Home Community

By / August 14, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home

MHProNews has learned from businessobserverfl that Southwind Mobile Home Park in Palm Harbor, Florida has been sold by Belle Vista Properties LLC for $18.2 million to Kingsley Management Corp. of Provo, Utah. The 213 home site, age-restricted manufactured home community (MHC), which previously sold for $7 million in 1999, is …

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Secondary Market for Manufactured Home Loans Directive Due Soon

By / August 14, 2015 / Advocacy, Communities, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

While the “duty to serve” mandate requiring loans be made available for manufactured home purchases has been on the books since 2008 but never enforced, it may soon see the light of day. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is set to require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase …

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San Jose wants a Six Month Moratorium on Re-purposing of Manufactured Home Communities

By / August 13, 2015 / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Following a story MHProNews posted Aug. 8, 2015 regarding San Jose, California’s attempt to forestall the re-purposing of the city’s 59 land lease communities, mercurynews reports the San Jose City Council directed staff to develop an ordinance within two weeks that would prevent the city from processing any paperwork to …

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Council Strengthens Language Regarding Relocating Residents

By / August 13, 2015 / Business, Canada, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

While manufactured home community (MHC) owners in Langley Township, British Columbia, Canada cannot be compelled to pay relocation costs to displaced residents when redeveloping their communities, municipalities can negotiate relocation costs with the owner when application is made for rezoning, according to langleytimes. The Seniors Advisory Committee had asked the …

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Manufactured Home Community Founder Supports Non-profit in New Jersey

By / August 12, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

MHProNews has learned from sboanj that Eugene Landy and his wife will serve as Grand Marshals for the Fourth Annual Open Space Pace on Saturday, September 19, 2015, an event of the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey (sboanj). Festivities begin with a parade of horses from Freehold …

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Citizens Paring Down Policies of Manufactured Home Owners

By / August 12, 2015 / Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Updating a story MHProNews last posted April 26, 2013 regarding Florida’s state-run insurer of manufactured homes, Citizens Property Insurance Co., and its reduction of coverage on MH, orlandosentinel reports seven private insurers have been approved to pick up half of Citizens’ remaining policies, amounting to 280,857 policies, according to the …

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California Takes Prize for Most Expensive Homes

By / August 12, 2015 / Business, Economy, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) informs MHProNews that the median existing single-family home price increased in 93% of 176 metropolitan areas during Q2 2015, up from 85 percent of metro areas in the first quarter. Compared to the second quarter of 2014, home prices rose 8.2 percent. According to …

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Fleetwood Poised to take Advantage of Opportunities Down Under

By / August 12, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, RV

Fleetwood Corporation Ltd. (ASX:FWD) of Australia produces manufactured and modular homes and buildings for residential, educational and commercial applications, and has a recreational vehicle division as well, according to dailyreckoning.au. Although the report at the end of 2014 showed revenue had fallen 18 percent due to a weakness in the …

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MHARR Questions HUD’s Proposed New SAA Funding

By / August 11, 2015 / Advocacy, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Following a story MHProNews posted July 27, 2015 regarding the possibility that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) may increase payments to State Administrative Agencies (SAAs), the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) states that HUD’s proposed overall funding to the SAAs would diminish because part of …

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Lenders Fined, Lose FHA Approval Status for Manufactured Home Lending Fraud

By / August 11, 2015 / Business, Company News, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Two Texas mortgage lenders who were “engaged in a scheme to charge bogus fees to consumers, which improperly inflated mortgages for borrowers purchasing newly constructed manufactured housing,” agreed to settlements with the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Mortgagee Review Board (MRB), according to themreport. For violations of the …

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Drew goes Fishing, Finds Furniture for Fresh Water Float

By / August 10, 2015 / Business, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, RV

Elkhart, Indiana-based Drew Industries, Inc. (NYSE:DW) reports its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lippert Components, Inc. (LCI®) has acquired Roehm Marine, LLC, aka Signature Seating for $16 million. Headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Signature manufactures furniture for use in fresh water boats, specifically pontoon boats, as prnewswire informs MHProNews. Drew’s President Scott Mereness …

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Grenade Marketing Offers Reputation Marketing for Manufactured Home Industry Pros

By / August 10, 2015 / Advocacy, Communities, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

“Nowadays, when someone carries out a search on your company through the Internet, any type of result about your business can show up. Google will not discriminate between positive or negative comments on your company, so you have to do whatever it takes, legally, to manage your reputation online. Reputation …

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Passages: Norman Schweiss

By / August 10, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, People

Norman Schweiss, 87, founder of Norm’s Mobile Home Sales, passed away in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. In 1953, at 25 years of age, Norm started his business, which eventually grew into seven locations throughout Wisconsin and Illinois, and in the 1970s, he expanded into developing and managing land lease communities, according …

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Manufactured Home Community Residents say City has it Wrong

By / August 10, 2015 / Communities, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

In response to an article in the Portsmouth Herald in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, residents of Hillcrest Estates manufactured home community (MHC) complain about the city planner’s suggestion that Hillcrest’s owner create a better sense of neighborhood in the community by building pocket parks. As seacoastonline tells MHProNews, Earl and Carole …

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Canadian City Planning new Manufactured Home Community

By / August 9, 2015 / Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

The city of Vernon in south central British Columbia, Canada has issued a development permit and subdivision plan approval for a 77 home site manufactured home community, according to what vernonmorningstar tells MHProNews. Noting the need for more local housing, Len Sloan, of the development company, said, “We have no …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 2-Aug. 9, 2015

By / August 8, 2015 / Awards, Business, Communities, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, Trends, Zoning

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Paul Simon, Singing Homeward Bound, Doing Good Work and MH The Hybrid Core – A Different Style Factory Home-Building Process What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News HUD Code Production Continues Rising. RV/MH Hall of Fame Inducts Class of 2015. Positive End …

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San Jose, California Seeks to Forestall Conversion of Land Lease Communities

By / August 7, 2015 / Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, People, regulation

MHProNews has learned from sanjose.granicus that the cityof San Jose, California has 59 land lease communities comprised of 10,836 manufactured and mobile homes housing approximately 35,000 residents. Many of the residents are elderly and some are disabled, sometimes both. San Jose has the highest concentration MH and MH households of …

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