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Town Needs to Define Modular

The DailyStatesman says the Bernie, Missouri Board of Aldermen turned down the recommendation of the city’s zoning committee to allow modular homes in all R-2 areas of the city. Five modular homes have been discovered in areas zoned only for single-family homes and duplexes. Alderman Tim Gage said the aldermen …

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Morning After

Bloomberg tells MHProNews the Dollar Index, which tracks American currency against that of six of our trading partners, rose 0.3 percent to a seven-week high on the news of President Obama’s re-election, a sign of a weakened dollar. The index hit 80.83 after touching 80.92. Investors are concerned the president …

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Peer Challenge will Benefit RV/MH Museum

Jay Hesse of Blue Ox has donated $5,000 to the RV/MH Hall of Fame Museum in Elkhart, Ind., and has set up a “peer challenge” program to encourage other RV/MH industry donations to pay off the bank note by April 30, 2013. Anyone donating $1,000 or more would challenge three …

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AMHA Inducts Hall-of-Famers

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 …

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MHC Looms Large in House Race, II

Manufactured housing has become an important issue in a second house of representatives district in Delaware. The first pits challenger Beth McGinn against incumbent Briggs King for Seat 37 is south Delaware, as we last reported Oct. 17,2012. DelawareNewsZap tells MHProNews Democrat Theodore Yacucci is running to represent District 34 …

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Home Sales Rise in Mass.

According to data from the Warren Group, NationalMortgageNews reports the sale of single-family homes increased eight percent in Sept. over Sept 2011 in Massachusetts, equaling 3,791 homes last month. Although median prices slipped to $277,000 for the state, 13,861 properties were sold during the third quarter, 2,000 more than the …

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Book: NoBama; Film: GoBama, with Protest

Tens of thousands of factory built housing industry professionals are tracking the elections closely. Movie makers are in the fray in the campaign’s closing days.  Filmmaker Oliver Stone supported Barack Obama for president in 2008, but in his new book due out Oct. 30, slams Obama for breaking campaign promises …

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News from MassMHA

MHProNews has learned Jeffrey W. Hallahan II of Garden Homes Estates has been elected president of the Massachusetts Manufactured Housing Association (MMHA), replacing Dave Piper, Jr., who served as president for many years and will continue as an associate member. George Peterson, Jr., assistant minority leader in the Massachusetts House …

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Industry Experts Forecast Modest Housing Growth

According to Chip Case, professor emeritus of economics at Wellesley College and senior fellow at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, the mortgage interest deduction will be on the table after the election as well as other tax reform issues. As WindowFilmMag informs MHProNews, after 44 months housing starts finally …

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Business Leaders Overwhelmingly Support Romney

In its survey of 284 chief executives in Oct. 2012 regarding the presidential election, ChiefExecutive reports 83.2 percent of CEOs intend to vote for Mitt Romney, nearly identical results to a survey of 334 separate CEOs in Sept. 2012. Additionally, if Romney is elected, CEOs say they are more likely …

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Warren Buffett Opines

NASDAQ reports in a TV interview this morning, Oct. 24, on CNBC, Warren Buffett says the housing market has turned a corner and home construction is improving, and he expects Berkshire businesses tied to that industry to pick up. Despite the global economy slowdown, the Oracle of Omaha says the …

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New MBA Chair: Repair Lenders Image

NationalMortgageNews says the new Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) Chairwoman Debra Still says the mortgage industry has to repair its image from top to bottom toward rebuilding the housing and residential finance sectors. Noting lenders have to be committed to do a better job, she says, “Nowhere do we have more …

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Foreclosure Recidivism

According to Mark Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute, data collected by Lender Processing Service (LPS) reveals that for the first time, more than half of the borrowers in foreclosure have been in foreclosure previously. Writing in FinanceTownhall, Calabria says while first-time foreclosures have been falling …

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Two Surveys Show Romney in Lead

According to realclearpolitics, based on voting patterns since 1972 and polls by an extensive list of news and survey organizations going back to 2009, of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the U.S. presidency, 201 votes are likely for Obama/Biden, while 206 votes are likely in the Romney/Ryan camp. …

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Louisville Show Launches Own Website

Dennis Hill and Show Ways Unlimited, Inc. are proud to announce the launching of the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show 2013 website. The website provides a robust display of specific seminars, exhibiting manufacturers, service and supply vendors that will be at the show, in addition to some of the movers and …

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Clayton Exec in Race

The Citizen-Times in Asheville, North Carolina reports Clayton Homes Regional Manager Joe Belcher is running for a seat on the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. A Republican and strong proponent of bringing more business into the area as well as reducing government debt, Belcher is equally as strong in support …

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ELS Moves Up Personnel

MarketWatch reports Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. (ELS) announces the company’s CEO, Thomas Heneghan, will become CEO of Equity International effective Feb. 2013. The company’s current president and CFO, Marguerite Nader, will fill the position of ELS’ president and CEO as of Feb. 1, 2013. As MHProNews reported Sept. 13, Heneghan …

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Congressional Report Punches Holes in Dodd-Frank

House Financial Services Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) released a report in rebuttal to Dodd-Frank supporters who claim the new law ends bailouts. Entitled, “The Dodd-Frank Act, the Persistence of ‘Too Big to Fail,’ and the Institutionalization of Government Bailouts,” the analysis asserts Section 204 of Dodd-Frank allows the FDIC to …

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Manufactured Housing Looms Large in House Race

Following a story we last published Sept. 24, 2012, concerning a race between two women for House District Seat 37 in southeastern Delaware, Cape Gazette Village Soup has posed questions to the candidates. Republican Briggs King is the incumbent and vice president of the county realtors association. Democratic challenger Beth …

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Housing Recovery, Not

CNNMoney tells MHProNews while Citigroup reported a net profit of $468 million for the third quarter, including several significant losses, their mortgage originations, unlike other large lenders, fell 15 percent from a year earlier to $14.5 billion. Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach, admitting his company did not increase staff quickly …

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