Comedian Tom Rhodes describes his lodging at the Shady Dell vintage mobile home hotel in Bisbee, Arizona where guests stay in one of 12 Airstreams or other mobile homes from another era. As much museum as hotel, each unit has a particular theme: There is one camper that stocks vintage …
From the Shoreline Times in New Haven Connecticut, MHProNews.com learns of a brewing battle over rent control at the Green Acres Mobile Home Park. According to the article, residents filed complaints about rising rents with the Fair Rent Commission. The most recent lease was presented to residents for $526 in …
The ChillicotheNews in Chillicothe, Missouri tells MHProNews.com a public hearing will be held by the city council to consider a zoning ordinance amendment so differentiation can be made between manufactured, mobile, and modular housing, and where they may be sited. City Engineer Ron Urton says the current ordinance is outdated …
From California and the San Diego Union-Tribune, MHProNews.com learns that voters there will vote in June on whether to enact vacancy decontrol, which allows current tenants to keep low rents but would allow park owners to charge as they see fit when the homes change hands. According to the report, …
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Drive A Tank in Kasota, Minnesota offers the opportunity to pilot three different military tanks for up to four hours, learn the history of tanks in warfare, fire historic weapons—-and crush a mobile home. Packages range from $500 to $3495 for the opportunity. AutoBlog tells MHProNews.com Drive A Tank’s Tony …
After the Bryan, Texas City Council and inspectors from various departments toured the 37 LLCs in the city in 2010, 117 factory-built homes had their utilities cut for safety reasons and 14 were demolished. 32 of the communities were affected. The ordinance to regulate the communities had been on the …
The 54 homeowners at Big W Mobile Home Park in Derry, New Hampshire, are celebrating ownership of their community. The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund (NHCLF) and ROC -NH (Resident Ownership Capital-New Hampshire) are celebrating their birthing of the 100th MHC in New Hampshire. Not one of the 100 has …
As follow-up to an article we posted Dec. 26, 2011, SantMonicaDispatch tells MHProNews.com the Village Trailer Park in Santa Monica, CA has likely been saved from the wrecking ball by the LA Landmarks Commission. The owners of the 108 home site LLC (land lease community) wanted to develop the property …
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Wellsboro, Pennsylavania, County Assessor Deb Crawford of Tioga County says manufactured home owners need to obtain a trailer release if they sell or move their homes in order to avoid receiving a continuing tax bill. Without the permit “we would not know there is a new owner, “Crawford says,” (and) …
From Massachusetts and Nashoba Publishing, MHProNews.com learns that George Clark, president of Clark’s Retirement Homes Park met with a zoning board there recently to address a discrepancy over the number of homes identified in his application for a Manufactured Housing Community permit. Clark told the committee members the board had …
A mobile home fire in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada is due to a crack in a fire box in a faulty furnace according to a story in DailyHeraldTribune.com. Fire Marshall Mark Whelpton tells reporters the cause has been determined to be a recalled furnace, which caused some $25,000 in damages. …
From North Carolina and BlueRidgeNow.com, MHProNews.com learns that Henderson County residents with abandoned manufactured homes on their property can apply for a grant to help finance the removal of the home. According to the article, the typical cost for a home removal is $1,500, $1,000 of which can be provided …
From Boston.com, MHProNews.com learns that the highest court in Massachusetts has approved the expansion of an MH community in the town of Shirley. The court determined local zoning regulators used concerns about traffic and density as pretexts to squash the project. The town, the court determined, cannot apply zoning bylaws …
Noozhawk tells MHProNews.com the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission in California is considering an ordinance that would require MHC owners to file for a closure permit if they are selling their community, and to pay all residents market value for their homes. Commissioner C. Michael Cooney says the measure is …
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Frontier Communications Corp. of Stamford, Conn. donated $10,000 to the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Ind. according to RVBusiness. A major provider of communications products to northern Indiana consumers, according to Tom McNulty, executive director and president of the museum, the funds will help maintain the financially struggling facility. …
Bill Dahlin of the Hart, King & Coldren law firm in California has notified MHProNews.com of its success in finally achieving a rent increase for Brentwood Mobilehome Park in Chula Vista, CA. The San Diego County Superior Court approved a $78.00 a month permanent rent adjustment which the city’s Rent …
Joe Kelly, executive vice-president of the Manufactured Housing Association of Iowa (MHAI) tells MHProNews.com a bill approved by the Senate Judiciary committee would require a community owner to provide a legitimate reason for terminating a resident or refusing to renew a lease. Introduced by state attorney general Tom Miller, it …
From the Telegraph in Alton, Illinois, MHProNews.com learns that rezoning of a mobile home community there has been denied. According to the report, proponents said rezoning Stone Meadows Mobile Home Park from B-3 (highway business) to R-6 (manufactured home district) would have allowed developer USA Wealth Partners to make improvements …
According to the Chronicle-Express, New York’s Neighborhood and Rural Preservation Program that helps people replace aging mobile homes with energy-efficient manufactured homes may be eliminated. MHProNews.com has learned Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it will save the state $12 million. The Keuka Housing Council (KHC) in Yates County has been helping …
From NorthJersey.com, MHProNews.com learns that residents of Finn’s Mobile Home Park are trying to raise their homes after last year’s floods, but the process is being held up by stop work orders from the township. The township requires surveyor’s reports and architectural drawings that are costing residents hundreds of dollars. …
