In more conservative ‘red state’ areas as well as more ‘blue state’ jurisdictions in various parts of the U.S., there is a growing concern over the ‘black hat’ behavior of investors who purchase manufactured home communities, and then dramatically hike the site fees. It’s a troubling trend MHProNews has tracked …
Republican Senator Wants Study of Manufactured Home Communities, Rent Control Read More
What is happening to VW’s executives is not a precise analogy to what could occur in the U.S.A. with manufactured housing connected publicly traded firms. German law is not U.S. law. That ‘stating the obvious’ disclosure made, there are some sobering parallels that should give pause to investors in publicly …
The message to members and media release from the National Association of Manufactured Housing Community Owners (NAMHCO) that follows further below can be seen as useful, raises several cautions to discerning minds, and highlights problematic issues that face the manufactured housing industry. It is worthwhile for all manufactured housing industry …
Lera Covington’s bio on the Cornell University real estate school website says as follows. “Lera is a second-year dual degree candidate pursing an MPS in Real Estate and Masters of Regional Planning at the Baker Program of Real Estate and the Department of City and Regional Planning.” “Robust …
“The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, based in Concord, N.H., turns investments into loans and education to create opportunity and transform lives. We collaborate with a wide range of donors and investors, and with business, nonprofit and government partners, to provide the financing and support people need to have affordable …
3 Manufactured Home Communities Deal Preserving Some 900 Affordable Homes Read More
On 5.28.2019, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA-D), a rising 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, issued letters to numerous manufactured home communities (MHCs). Among those manufactured home (MH) communities she has named and taken aim at? Apollo Global Management/Inspire Communities, Blackstone, Brookfield Asset Management, Federal Capital Partners/Horizon Land Company, Havenpark Capital, Stockbridge, …
In a release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews today was a Q&A by Stephanie Reid. Reid was “formerly on staff with the Senate Select Committee for Manufactured Homes,” said the GSMOEF – the GSMOEF, or the Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners Education Fund, which is affiliated with the …
The specific piece of legislation that will be the focus of this report is just part of a pattern that is arguably spreading from the coasts into the heartland states. In the wake of the hue and cry from the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver viral “Mobile Homes” …
“New Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust CEO Mark Kenney isn’t wasting any time putting his stamp on the trust, announcing its second major purchase of manufactured homes communities (MHCs) in the past three weeks. The latest acquisition of 23 Canadian communities, comprising 3,469 pads, means the trust will …
Canadian Firm Gobbling Up Dozens of Manufactured Home Communities Read More
Former volume retailer, community owner and Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) award winner Marty Lavin has referred to the HUD Code has a discrimination code. State association executive J.D. Harper has called the bias against manufactured housing and their residents an example of “economic racism.” It will be recalled that …
Legacy Housing Corporation (NASDAQ: LEGH) has announced a new program for manufactured home park and community owners across America. The new Legacy bulk leasing program allows for parks and community owners to lease brand new singlewide and doublewide homes from our Eatonton, Georgia factory at an 8-year lease term. …
NPR’s Anna Casey begins her narrative about manufactured homes and communities with two errors in her first very sentence. She missed the estimated totals and is mostly incorrect about the proper terminology for this type of factory-built housing. “Roughly 20 million Americans live in mobile homes, once billed as …
The writer of the Forbes column cited and linked below is a manufactured home community owner named Brad Johnson. Johnson, not unlike RV Horizon’s Frank Rolfe, misuses the terminology, perhaps for SEO or other reasons. Johnson in Forbes cites Sam Zell’s Equity LifeStyle Properties or ELS. It’s Zell who …
The holiday season hasn’t caused the Manufactured Housing Institute of South Carolina still-new communications person to slow down. Janae Frazier has stepped up to the plate with two new pro-industry videos produced on the MHISC’s YouTube channel in December, 2018. The two videos are entirely different styles, as a …
State Association Steps Up, Promoting Manufactured Home Communities Investing Read More
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Security Mortgage Group, a national award-winning MH Community lending broker, is pleased to have financed $23,603,750 in May & June for several manufactured home communities nationwide. The most recent closings included the following: Managing Director, Gerard D. DiMarco, Jr., secured refinancing for a client’s 183-site mobile home …
Grand Rapids, Michigan – JLT & Associates (JLT), the nation’s #1 market research company for the manufactured housing industry, today announced a 14-year summary report of its manufactured home community rent surveys for 6 Southwest markets. Recognized as the industry standard for manufactured home community market analysis for over 20 …
In a written statement provided to the Daily Business News on MHProNews, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and their prior Executive Committee Chairman, Nathan Smith, slammed the new manufactured home communities association. From the issue shown in the screen capture above, comes the following direct quote: “MHI was …
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats = SWOT. Opportunities can be found at this link here. But this report is focused on the threats. Two new reports need to be carefully digested by the industry’s readers. MH Challenger – 3D Printed Housing ICON Closes Funding, Conventional Housing Giant DR Horton, …
What follows are a series of screen captures of news headlines from across the country. These screen captures are from this morning, 10.22.2018, at the times shown. There are two communities that sold for a total of $165 million dollars. That’s one of the headlines that professionals – …
