According to pegasusmarkets, East Dallas (TX) entrepreneur Jeremy Turner is transforming a 1955 Spartan trailer into a mobile art gallery to provide emerging artists with an outlet to display and sell their work. Called CART, the interior will be gutted and outfitted with white walls, gallery lighting, and air conditioning. …
Canada.com informs MHProNews MHC owner Larry Gaudreau, noting that communities built in the 1940’s and 1950’s have deteriorating infrastructures that cannot be replaced without moving residents out, says the government needs more affordable housing for these people, as well as to meet future needs. “More than 50 per cent of …
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As MHProNews reported here earlier today (Mon. April 8), the closing of Hilltop Mobile Home Park in State College, Penn. that led to a musical benefit to help residents, has also led to charges being filed against the owners by the state attorney general’s Bureau of Consumer Protection for allegedly …
According to thenewstribune, Tumwater City Council member Betsy Spath will resign her position effective April 30, 2013 because she is leaving her position as a geriatric care manager for a law office and moving out of state. In addition to protecting manufactured housing communities in the city while on the …
The Memphis-Shelby County Office of Planning and Development (OPD) has recommended approval of the former Memphis Mobile City that flooded in 2010 and 2011 becoming an RV resort with over 100 sites, as memphisdailynews tells MHProNews. The adjoining 33 acres not in a floodplain would be a 101-site manufactured home …
The columbiamissourian tells MHProNews the High Hill Circle Mobile Home Park in Columbia, MO will expand by 16 homesites if the Doris Overton Trust, the owner of the MHC, has its way. The proposal would rezone the 26.4 acres from moderate density residential to residential manufactured home. The major infrastructure …
As MHProNews has reported in the Daily Business News for several years now, the oil boom in western North Dakota’s Bakken Region has brought an influx of factory-built housing to the area, including modular man camps, manufactured and modular homes, even some Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers to house employees …
As modularhomecoach tells MHProNews, in blasting the lack of positive PR for the modular housing industry, the blog says neither the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) nor the Modular Building Systems Association (MBSA) cares if Baby is left in the corner, but like Johnny says in Dirty Dancing, “nobody …
The elkodaily reports from the northeastern part of Nevada, some years ago about 1,100 homes were given the wrong addresses, 75% of those in manufactured housing communities. Either the numbers are out of sequence or they are on the wrong side of the street in Elko, defying digital map-based software …
Following-up on a story from this morning regarding housing statistics distinction between manufactured homes and mobile homes in Morgan County Colo., apparently an MHC closed and special dispensation was given to the residents who owned pre-HUD Code homes to relocate elsewhere in the county. fortmorgantimes news editor Dan Barker tells …
The fortmorgantimes in northeast Colorado tells MHProNews building permits for single-family homes rose 50 percent to 18 from 2011 to 2012 in Morgan County, with an average price of $244,890 each. The county also issued eight permits for manufactured homes and eight for mobile homes in 2012, up from five …
StaceyPageOnline says the petition to the Board of Zoning Appeals for a variance by Forest Manor Mobile Home Community in Warsaw, Ind. has been approved. The MHC intends to add 29 homesites. MHProNews has learned there were no objections from neighbors. (Photo credit: gfhomesandland)
As follow-up to a story MHProNews last published Dec. 7, 2012, centredaily reports from College Township, Penn., since residents at the Hilltop Mobile Home Park received notices the community will close this Feb., city officials are considering whether to adopt an ordinance requiring developers to include a percentage of affordable …
DesertDispatch reports from Barstow, Calif. in San Bernardino County a factory-built home sold to a family at the Hacienda Mobile Home Park was alleged to have black mold, running sewage, an open electrical panel and a leaking water heater. Deemed uninhabitable by the Dept. of Housing and Community Development, Hacienda …
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services reports the company has sold Forest Green Mobile Home Park in Hudson, Fla., an all age land lease community just north of Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla. Originally developed in 1984, Forest Green has 49 single-section and 32 double-section homes, a community pool, recreation area …
NuWireInvestor tells MHProNews the image most Americans have of manufactured housing communities comes from TV shows like “COPS” or from comedians like Jeff Foxworthy which not only portrays MHCs as undesireable but by association negates the investment opportunities that may be gained by investing in a community. While many of …
A group of ten residents of Westview Village Mobile Home Park in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, frustrated that management was not enforcing maintenance rules on some of the properties, attempted to form a neighborhood association. Kelownacapnews informs MHProNews a group calling itself Westview Village Concerned Homeowners sent a letter to …
According to coloradoan, the closing of two manufactured homes slated for development in Fort Collins, Colo. that displaced nearly 50 low-income struggling families, and closed some of the most affordable housing in the area, will be discussed by the city as a means to plan for the future. The city …
The BarrowCountyNews from Winder, Georgia reports two MHCs finally have their water back on after the owner, Affordable Housing Communities (AHC), paid thousands in back utility bills. Residents of Russell Village and Winder Village Mobile Home Parks had running water off and on Thursday and Friday of last week, but …
Sherman Price and his brother, the late Leon Price, Sr., were honored for outstanding service and dedication to the state’s factory built housing industry, and inducted into the Arkansas Manufactured Housing Association (AMHA)’s “Hall of Fame.”Sherman Price was surprised by the recognition, the association’s highest honor, given at the AMHA …
