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Land Lease Community has Steel Tornado Shelter

Mountain View Estates manufactured home community (MHC) in Rossville, Georgia now has an FEMA-compliant above ground tornado shelter that can hold up to 200 people in the event of severe weather, according to wrcbtv. Made of quarter-inch thick steel, it is welded and bolted to a concrete slab and can …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Oct. 11-Oct. 18, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Pets, Vets, Single Parenting, Student Debt and The Manufactured Home Solution! Take the Manufactured Home Quiz! Weathering the Storms: How Manufactured Homes Can Do It Better What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Marin County seeking more affordable housing. UFPI, Skyline post …

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Dee Pizer Relinquishing Role of CEO at Zeman

After 35 years in the manufactured home industry, 30 of them with Zeman Homes, Zeman CEO Dee Pizer will step down from her position as of Dec. 15, 2015. She has held a number of positions with Zeman since joining the company in 1986, and in January, 2007 was chosen …

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Arkansas MHA Names Industry Achievement Recipients

The Arkansas Manufactured Housing Association (AMHA), at its 44th Annual Meeting and Convention held in Little Rock, presented Industry Achievement Awards to association members for their contributions to the manufactured home industry. AMHA Executive Director J. D. Harper tells MHProNews Country Comfort Homes of Hot Springs, AR was named 2015 …

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Modular Home Builder Sponsoring Educational Breakfast Meeting

MHProNews has learned from modularhomecoach that Modular Home Builder is sponsoring the October Builder Breakfast at The Country Cupboard in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Oct. 21 starting at 8:30. The primary speaker will be Steve Kennealy, Massachusetts Director of the Manufactured Buildings Program, Dept. of Public Safety, giving a talk about unqualified …

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Pine Ridge Indian Reservation getting Manufactured Homes

The first two manufactured homes (MH) have arrived at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota as a staging area for these and more MH that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is bringing in from storage in Cumberland, MD and Selma, AL to house flood victims on the Pine Ridge …

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California Home Value Increase Slowing

MHProNews has learned from mapmag, the California Association of Realtors Chief Economist Leslie Appleton-Young stated that house price increases will be at the lowest rate since 2011. She predicts in 2016 the median price of a detached house will rise by 3.2 percent to $491,300, which is less than half …

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Kansas Chooses MH Veteran, VanAsselt, for Board

Following a story MHProNews posted Oct. 6, 2015 regarding Greg Yutzy’s election as treasurer of the Kansas Manufactured Housing Association (KMHA), hutchnews reports Dave VanAsselt has been elected to the KMHA Board of Directors for 2015-2016. VanAsselt has been active in the manufactured housing industry over 30 years, and currently …

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More Patrick Changes Hands

Following a continuing saga of Jeffrey L. Gendell unloading shares of Patrick Industries, Inc., as MHProNews reported Oct. 8, when he sold 19,200 shares earlier in the week, he has sold more, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as reported by dakotafinancialnews. Any transaction involving …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Oct. 4-Oct. 11, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Kim Capen Medville ROC – MH Appreciation and the Senior Community Lifestyle What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News MH Production continues rising. Maryland county shuns sprinklers. Doug Ryan remains oppositional. Clayton adds site-built homes. MHI elects new officers. ELS and Killem …

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Doug Ryan, CFED, HR 650/S 682 and Manufactured Home Lending

Writing in an Industry in Focus report, MHProNews publisher L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach lines up various references and witnesses to call publicly upon CFED’s Doug Ryan to modify its opposition to the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act (HR 650/S 682). Citing Barney Frank, Marty Lavin, research done by Jan …

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Passages: Jeffrey Allen

Jeffrey Allen, 67, of Waterford, Maine passed away following a battle with cancer. He transported manufactured and modular homes for many of the New England producers, eventually starting his own company, Northern Home Transport, which he operated until he retired. He also worked for Cianbro, C. N. Brown and PK …

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MHI Elects New Officers and Presents Annual Awards

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) elected a new slate of officers at the 2015 MHI annual meeting, and awards were presented to those honored for outstanding achievement, according to a report from our MHProNews person in attendance. Tim Williams, of 21st Mortgage Corporation, was elected Chairman of the Board, replacing …

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Yutzy Elected Treasurer of Kansas Manufactured Housing Association

Greg Yutzy of Newton, Kansas has been elected treasurer of the Kansas Manufactured Housing Association (KMHA) board of directors at the association’s 2015 annual meeting in Manhattan, KS. As the kansan informs MHProNews, he has been with Patrick Industries, Inc., a component supplier to the manufactured housing industry for 34 …

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Student Built Modular Home will House Habitat for Humanity Family

A modular home currently under construction at Botetourt Technical Education Center in Roanoke, Virginia may wind up as a Habitat for Humanity home, as Habitat representatives attempt to solidify a partnership with the school, roanoke tells MHPronews. While they have not yet located a lot for the house, this will …

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Planning Board Denies Siting of Modular Home

Maine Modular Manufacturing Homes owner Scott Gove requested a special exemption building permit for a client couple who want to build a modular home on 2.7 acres of family land in Lincoln County, Maine, but the Edgecomb Planning Board denied the building permit application, according to wiscassetnewspaper. After reviewing the …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Sept. 27-Oct. 4, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Weathering the Storms: How Manufactured Homes Can Do It Better A Surprising Solution to America’s Quality Affordable Housing Crisis Whispering Pines Manufactured Home Community – Somerset PA, Inside MH Video What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News FHFA to roll out MH …

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UMH to Present in Philadelphia

MHProNews has learned from prnewswire that manufactured community owner UMH Properties, Inc. will present to the Philadelphia Securities Association on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015 at the Union League of Philadelphia. Samuel A. Landy, President and CEO of UMH will provide an overview of the company with a question and answer …

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Rep. Jeb Hensarling Opens the Semi-annual CFPB Hearing

The House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) tells MHProNews the committee’s chairman, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), delivered an opening statement in advance of the hearing on the semi-annual report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) with CFPB Director Richard Cordray. Noting a recent series of hearings before the HFSC revealed …

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House Financial Services to Consider Bills Regarding CFPB Oversight

MHProNews has learned from acainternational that the House Financial Services Committee will consider two bills relating to oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) at a hearing Wed., Sept 30, 2015 at 10 AM EST. Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) introduced Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection-Inspector General Reform Act of …

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