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Aug 2 2015August 1, 2015

Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 26-Aug. 2, 2015

By Matthew Silver / August 2, 2015 August 1, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, RV, Stocks

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Art Linkletter and Manufactured Housing today Maintaining Quality and Strength While Saving Homebuyers Money – Inside MH Video with Mike Stone, part 2 What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Texas city lifts ban on MH after show of strength by industry …

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Jul 31 2015July 31, 2015

Tampa OpEd Calling for Fairness and Respect Resonating with Manufactured Home Industry

By Matthew Silver / July 31, 2015 July 31, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Economy, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, regulation

An OpEd in Tampa’s tbo entitled Fairness and Respect for Florida’s Manufactured Home Owners has put a local focus on the OpEd in thehill in which MHLivingNews and MHProNews publisher L. A. “Tony” Kovch notes the unintended consequences of the Dodd-Frank Act that make lending on manufactured homes valued at or …

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Jul 28 2015July 27, 2015

State MH Associations: New Face in Wis., New Address in Ohio

By Matthew Silver / July 28, 2015 July 27, 2015 / Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

MHProNews has been informed by Ross Kinzler, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Housing Alliance (WHA) that his Assistant Executive Director, Amy Bliss, has hired Laurie Mercurio as their new communications director. An AMS certified meteorologist, she has been an on-air weather and news reporter at WKOW-TV in Madison, WI. A …

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Jul 27 2015

Modular Homes Still Rising in Wake of Hurricane Sandy

By Matthew Silver / July 27, 2015 July 27, 2015 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, People

Many people have likely forgotten Superstorm Sandy, as the third anniversary of that devastating storm that ripped up the Eastern Seaboard approaches, but in Connecticut, Westchester Modular Homes of Fairfield County has opened an office in Bethel, CT to continue dealing with the victims of that storm. As courant informs …

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Jul 26 2015July 27, 2015

Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 19-July 26, 2015

By Matthew Silver / July 26, 2015 July 27, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, RV, Stocks, Trends

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com > A Hunter and Native American Decorator’s Dream! John Howard’s Home, Inside MH Road Show Video > How A Manufactured Modular Home Production Center Achieves Savings and Quality – Inside MH Video with Mike Stone > 4 Easy Ways to Keep Your Home Clean What’s New …

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Jul 24 2015

Help Ensure Passage of The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act

By Matthew Silver / July 24, 2015 July 24, 2015 / Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, regulation

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) informs MHProNews on Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed its Fiscal Year 2016 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, which includes the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act (S. 682/H.R. 650) per Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby’s (R-AL) request. While passage of the …

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Jul 24 2015July 23, 2015

Capital One Arranges $14 Million Fannie Mae Loan

By Matthew Silver / July 24, 2015 July 23, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

MHProNews has learned from Capital One that the company has arranged a $14 million Fannie Mae fixed-rate loan to refinance Rincon Country Mobile Home Park in Tucson, Arizona. Damon Reed, Senior Vice President and Capital One’s Director of MHC (manufactured housing community) Finance arranged the transaction to retire existing higher-rate …

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Jul 21 2015July 21, 2015

Factory-Built Homes—the New Cool

By Matthew Silver / July 21, 2015 July 21, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, Trends

As the housing recovery sputters along from the Great Recession, trying to overcome the lowest percentage of homeownership in 20 years (63%), even with the aid of artificially maintained low interest rates, people are moving away from the McMansions with their high maintenance and trophy appearance, and paying more attention …

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Jul 19 2015July 19, 2015

Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News-July 12-July 19, 2015

By Matthew Silver / July 19, 2015 July 19, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, Stocks

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Congressman Stephen Fincher is demanding Fairness for MH owners Deer Valley CFO Steve Lawler Inside MH Video and Home Tour Cancer Cures and Today’s MH What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform’s (MHARR) Mark Weiss documents …

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Jul 17 2015July 17, 2015

Patrick to Discuss Q2 Financials July 30; Gendell Sells More Stock

By Matthew Silver / July 17, 2015 July 17, 2015 / Business, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, RV, Stocks

Elkhart, Indiana-based Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:PATK) will release its Q2 financials before the market opens Thursday, July 30, 2015 followed by a conference call at 10:00 AM Eastern Time that same morning for a discussion of the results and other business matters. The call will be conducted by Todd Cleveland, …

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Jul 16 2015July 15, 2015

Senate Bill 1711 Provides for TRID Hold-harmless Period

By Matthew Silver / July 16, 2015 July 15, 2015 / Business, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, People, regulation

Following a story MHProNews posted July 8, 2015 regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) postponement of implementing mortgage loan transactions under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) and Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA), or TRID, Senate bill S. 1711 would provide temporary safe harbor from that enforcement. According to nationalmortgageprofessional, …

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Jul 15 2015

Manufactured Home Communities need Specialized Attorneys

By Matthew Silver / July 15, 2015 July 15, 2015 / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, regulation

Executive Director of the Iowa Manufactured Housing Association (IMHA) Joe Kelly tells MHProNews recent court decisions have made it more important than ever for manufactured home community (MHC) operators, regardless of their size, to have their leases and other written documents vetted by an attorney who knows real estate law …

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Jul 15 2015July 16, 2015

Council Set to Deny Siting Request for three New Manufactured Homes

By Matthew Silver / July 15, 2015 July 16, 2015 / Business, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, regulation

An attempt by Danny Wyant to site three new single-section manufactured homes (MH) on his mother’s property in Waynesboro, North Carolina is being met with stiff opposition from neighbors and the city council, even though Planning Director Michael Barnes said current ordinances do not prohibit the placement. Siting of manufactured …

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Jul 15 2015July 14, 2015

Vintage Tiny Home Living Nearly One Hundred Years Old

By Matthew Silver / July 15, 2015 July 14, 2015 / Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, People

While the tiny home movement is springing up in different parts of the country with newly-built homes and modular micro apartments ranging in size from 200 to 500 square feet, Hugh Siler has restored an original 1923 four-plex in Orange County, California, each apartment with 475 square feet. When Siler …

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Jul 14 2015

Vermont Land Lease Community to become Resident Owned

By Matthew Silver / July 14, 2015 July 14, 2015 / Business, Communities, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Founded in 1923, the oldest manufactured home community (MHC) in Vermont will soon become a resident-owned community, as residents of Farrington Mobile Home Park announced they completed a deal to acquire it from the Farrington family. After months of negotiations, the North End Co-op reached terms with the family, and …

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Jul 14 2015

Rep. Fincher: CFPB Continues to Prevent Access to Manufactured Housing for Millions

By Matthew Silver / July 14, 2015 July 14, 2015 / Business, Finance, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

In thehill blog, Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN), a member of the House Financial Services Committee reiterates his call for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to support his bill to restore access to financing for manufactured home buyers. He writes, “Manufactured homes are commonly more affordable than a rent payment and …

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Jul 14 2015July 13, 2015

Manufactured Home Community Hit with Multiple Violations

By Matthew Silver / July 14, 2015 July 13, 2015 / Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

The village of Somers, Wisconsin has issued 17 violations against the Alfred and Embassy Mobile Home Park for bad skirting, dangerous stairs, tall weeds, and junk in the middle of the street that could block first responders, according to kenoshanews. Trustee Joe Cardinali said the general appearance of the community …

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Jul 13 2015July 13, 2015

Huntsville City Council to Vote on Prohibiting Manufactured Homes from City

By Matthew Silver / July 13, 2015 July 13, 2015 / Business, Communities, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Following a story MHProNews posted July 9, 2015 regarding the Huntsville (Texas) City Council initial vote to prohibit manufactured homes from being sited inside the city limits, unless they are in a manufactured home community, opposition to the vote has surfaced. Due to be finalized at the July 21 city …

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Jul 10 2015

Work has Begun to Repair Manufactured Homes in Land Lease Community

By Matthew Silver / July 10, 2015 July 10, 2015 / Communities, Company News, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Several residents of The Woodlands manufactured home community (MHC) in Lockport, New York were told two years ago that the owner of their community would repair cracks that had begun appearing in the walls, ceilings and floors of their manufactured homes (MH). Although Equity LifeStyle Properties owns the community, but …

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Jul 9 2015

Community Loan Fund Assists another Community into Co-Op Status

By Matthew Silver / July 9, 2015 July 9, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Finance, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, Small Business

Add Parkland Estates Cooperative, Inc. of Litchfield, New Hampshire as the state’s 114th resident-owned community, according to Steve Varnum of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund. What had been Hillsboro II Mobile Home Park became Parkland Estates June 26, 2015 when the residents of the 33 home site community negotiated …

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