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Manufactured Home Community Installing Individual Water Meters

A decision by the owners of Burt Estates manufactured home subdivision in Diamond, Illinois to install water meters on each property has angered some of the residents of this 187-home site community, according to morrisherald-news, to the extent they intend to form a homeowners association. Residents also mentioned old electrical …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 16-Aug. 23, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Stan Dye talks Manufactured Home Lending and MH Site Preparation Do-It-Yourself Heat Tape Video! Prevent Winter Freeze Ups for Manufactured Homes and Houses over Crawl Spaces What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News PBS Story on MH Finance Due. Sun, UMH, Adding …

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Two Age-Restricted Manufactured Home Communities sold to Kingsley

Kingsley Management Corp. of Provo, Utah has acquired two Manatee County, Florida 55+ manufactured home communities (MHC) for $27.8 million. The 244-home site Palm Bay was sold for $13.1 million, while the adjacent 235 home site Colonial Mobile Manor went for $14.7 million. Both communities, according to businessobserverfl, are in …

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PBS Segment on Manufactured Home Lending; MH Pros Need to Work Together

MHProNews has learned PBS News will soon be doing video interviews focusing on manufactured home lending. Sources tell us the interviewer will do a balanced report with views from both sides of the issue. Dr. Lesli Gooch from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) writes how Dodd-Frank is harming the very …

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Insider Trading Noted at UMH Properties, Inc.

MHProNews has learned from insidertradingreport  Eugene W. Landy, Chairman of the Board of UMH Properties, Inc. (NYSE:UMH) purchased 5,479 shares of company stock on Aug. 17. 2015, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The shares were acquired at $9.12 each for a net value of $50,000. …

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246 Site Manufactured Home Community Sold in Michigan

Coachman’s Cove manufactured home community (MHC) in Munith, Michigan was sold at auction July 24 by Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions, according to rejournals. Consisting of 213 single section home sites and 33 sites for multi-section, Coachman is located 30 minutes from Ann Arbor on Big Portage Lake next to …

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Bowersox Takes Vice President Position with Manufactured Housing Institute

MHProNews has learned from the Indiana Manufactured Housing Association-Recreation Vehicle Indiana Council (IMHA-RVIC) that Executive Director Mark Bowersox has resigned his position as of Sept. 5, 2015. With IMHA-RVIC for 12 years, he began as the association’s RV director, added the title of marketing director before being promoted to Executive …

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Shigeru Ban develops Modular Shelter for Quake Survivors in Nepal

Following the April and May 2015 earthquakes that caused 9,000 deaths and injured 25,000 in Nepal, the worst earthquake to hit the country in more than 80 years, prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has developed a modular shelter home for the survivors made in part from the rubble resulting from …

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Manufactured Home Community Founder Supports Non-profit in New Jersey

MHProNews has learned from sboanj that Eugene Landy and his wife will serve as Grand Marshals for the Fourth Annual Open Space Pace on Saturday, September 19, 2015, an event of the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey (sboanj). Festivities begin with a parade of horses from Freehold …

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European Modular Housing Builder Overwhelmed by Demand

As sltrib informs MHProNews, the influx of some 200,000 migrants into Europe this year has benefited the modular housing division of Paris-based Touax Group in Supikovice, Czech Republic, which is trying to keep up with the demand from Germany to house those fleeing war and poverty in their native lands. …

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55+ Housing Market Index Remains Steady

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports its 55+ Housing Market Index (HMI) slipped one point to 57 in the second quarter of 2015, but maintains the fifth consecutive quarter with a reading over 50. Any number over 50 indicates builders think conditions are good rather than poor, according …

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Passages: Norman Schweiss

Norman Schweiss, 87, founder of Norm’s Mobile Home Sales, passed away in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. In 1953, at 25 years of age, Norm started his business, which eventually grew into seven locations throughout Wisconsin and Illinois, and in the 1970s, he expanded into developing and managing land lease communities, according …

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Manufactured Home Community Residents say City has it Wrong

In response to an article in the Portsmouth Herald in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, residents of Hillcrest Estates manufactured home community (MHC) complain about the city planner’s suggestion that Hillcrest’s owner create a better sense of neighborhood in the community by building pocket parks. As seacoastonline tells MHProNews, Earl and Carole …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 2-Aug. 9, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Paul Simon, Singing Homeward Bound, Doing Good Work and MH The Hybrid Core – A Different Style Factory Home-Building Process What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News HUD Code Production Continues Rising. RV/MH Hall of Fame Inducts Class of 2015. Positive End …

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San Jose, California Seeks to Forestall Conversion of Land Lease Communities

MHProNews has learned from sanjose.granicus that the cityof San Jose, California has 59 land lease communities comprised of 10,836 manufactured and mobile homes housing approximately 35,000 residents. Many of the residents are elderly and some are disabled, sometimes both. San Jose has the highest concentration MH and MH households of …

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Former Head of Manufactured Housing at HUD Urges Passage of S. 682

William Matchneer, who once served as head of the Manufactured Housing Program at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and from 2011 to 2014 with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), recounts how implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act directives for High-Cost Mortgages under the Home Ownership and Equity …

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RV/MH Hall of Fame Honors Class of 2015

The Class of 2015 includes: (back row l-r) Paul E. Hanser, HWH Corporation; Bert V. Alanko, MBA Insurance; Joe Kelly, Iowa Mfg Housing Association; (front row l-r)Jerry W. James, Franklin Homes, Inc.; Bill Thomas, Bill Thomas Camper Sales; Marlene A. Sine, Marlene Sine & Associates, Inc.; Richard A. Mendlen, Manufactured …

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Manufactured Home Community Closing, Set to be Sold

News from KWQC TV6 in Davenport, Iowa informs MHProNews that residents of Lake Canyada manufactured home community (MHC) near Davenport were scheduled to vacate the community by 11:59 PM July 1, and while many had already left, Phillip Hicks, a resident of 28 years, and his wife, Linda, were still …

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Florida Realtor expects Baby Boomers will Drive Manufactured Home Sales

Port Orange, Florida’s Triangle Realty has managed to survive nearly 30 years of the economy’s up and downs by diversification. Owner Bob Marandino deals in manufactured homes (MH), residential sales and condos and property management, according to news-journalonline. “When one area is down another is up. We’ve been successful and …

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House Measure would Replace older Manufactured Homes with New Ones

Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) introduced H. R. 3275 on July 29, 2015 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to issue funding to owners of manufactured homes for the replacement of those homes with Energy Star-rated manufactured or modular homes, as MHProNews has learned from popvox. According …

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