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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug 7-Aug.14, 2016

By / August 13, 2016 / Advocacy, Announcements, Awards, Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, Stocks, tiny house, Trends, Zoning

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Comparing Tiny Houses vs Manufactured Homes – Function and Value vs. Fashion What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Children of home owners more likely to own homes. Trump tells NAHB he identifies with them. Residents of closing community continue trying to …

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Trump’s Speech Plays to National Association of Home Builders

By / August 13, 2016 / Business, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, People, regulation

Saying that “housing equals jobs,” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, playing to members of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), said that he would cut regulations, lower taxes and create jobs if he is elected, as the 900 small business owners responded with resounding applause at the Fontainebleau Miami …

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Discrimination? Was a Limited MH Loan Approval Legal? MHProNews Investigates

By / August 12, 2016 / Business, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, Legal, regulation

A manufactured home retailer recently contacted MHProNews on condition of anonymity, with a very specific concern about the validity of a loan approval. The loan in question was made with restrictions by the lender on a manufactured home (MH) shopper. The applicant reportedly was a senior citizen, the consumer was …

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Mainstream newspaper shares the love for MH, compares favorably to trendy Tiny Houses

By / August 10, 2016 / Business, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Manufactured Homes, regulation, tiny house, Zoning

Jim Weiker at the Columbus Dispatch recently told MHLivingNews about their take on the growing popularity of “Tiny Houses,” and compared them to the manufactured home (MH) market. Factory-built home industry professionals have been aware for years of the trend.  Some – like Fairmont’s President Brian Cira – have wondered …

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Housing Platforms: Dems say Up the Ante; GOP says Shut Federal Spigot, Throttle Regulators

By / August 9, 2016 / Business, Economy, Finance, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, regulation

Both the Democratic and Republican campaigns this year are devoting considerable energy to housing, the cornerstone of the “American Dream,” but both have different approaches to the topic, as dispatch tells MHProNews. Platforms serve more as rallying cries than actual policy initiative, and typically, the Republicans will call for less …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug 1-Aug. 7, 2016

By / August 8, 2016 / Advocacy, Announcements, Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, regulation, RV, Stocks

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Loans – Financing – Mortgages for Manufactured, Modular and Mobile Homes What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Sale of Minn. MHC challenged by Attorney General. Section 8 vouchers can now but MH. Hall of Fame inducts Class of 2016. NC MH …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 24-July 31, 2016

By / July 30, 2016 / Advocacy, Announcements, Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, regulation, RV, Stocks, Zoning

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com NIMBYism? Debunking Myths About Manufactured Home Communities (aka ‘Mobile Home Parks’) What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News FEMA moving manufactured homes into four W. VA. Counties. CFPB proposes clarification of Know Before You Owe. Patrick’s revenues rise 35%. Sun’s stock projected …

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CFPB Tries to Clarify Know Before You Owe, but Lenders Still See Glitch

By / July 30, 2016 / Business, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, regulation

  In an attempt to provide more clarity to lenders on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau(CFPC)’s “Know Before You Owe” mortgage disclosure rule, the agency has proposed “additional tolerance provisions, clarified a partial exemption for housing finance agencies, extended the rule’s coverage to all cooperative units, and provided more clarity …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 17-July 24, 2016

By / July 24, 2016 / Advocacy, Announcements, Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, regulation, RV, Stocks, Trends, Zoning

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com The Aha! Moment – Entertainer’s Delight LifeStyle Model Home Video Tour Proud to be American, God Bless the USA, Lee Greenwood Music Video, Interview What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Trump’s acceptance speech unexpectedly draws favorable response on CNN. New Jersey …

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Wyoming City Finally Settles on MH and RV Ordinances

By / July 22, 2016 / Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation, RV

Following a story MHProNews last posted July 19, 2016 regarding the updating of manufactured home regulations in Laramie, Wyoming, after years of delays, hesitations and changes, MHProNews has learned the Laramie City Council passed a final reading of a set of ordinances dealing with manufactured homes (MH) and recreational vehicles …

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The Dodd-Frank Legacy: Billions Spent, More Designated, Questionable Gains

By / July 21, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Economy, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Six years after passing the Dodd-Frank Act, which was designed to avert another financial crisis, the American Action Forum (AAF) asserts Dodd-Frank has imposed over $36 billion in final rule costs plus 73 million paperwork hours. That is an increase from last year’s $24 billion in final rule costs and …

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Petitioners in Ill. City Seek Special Use Permits for MH Sitings

By / July 21, 2016 / home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

On the old business agenda of the Madison County Planning and Development Committee in Edwardsville , Illinois, its next meeting will consider the petition of a couple requesting a special use permit to continue the siting of their multi-section manufactured home “for a period not to exceed five years.” At …

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Laramie, WY Updating 50-year old Manufactured Home Regulations

By / July 19, 2016 / Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation, RV, Zoning

As kowb1290 in Laramie, Wyoming tells MHProNews, licensing of manufactured home communities (MHC) began in the 1950s, before zoning even existed, and has remained mostly unchanged as part of the zoning code since. The city council will consider the third and final reading of updated standards for MHCs on Tuesday, …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News July 10-July 17, 2016

By / July 16, 2016 / Advocacy, Announcements, Awards, 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 Educator, Builder Compare Conventional House to Residential Style Manufactured Home Living & Quality Illinois Professional Couple Discover their Getaway Home near Florida’s top Beaches What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Section 8 vouchers good for buying manufactured home. CBO: U. S. …

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Manufactured Home Ordinance Redefines MH Registration in South Carolina

By / July 15, 2016 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Darlington County, South Carolina is losing $7,800 each year to manufactured home (MH) residents not registering their homes, according to legistarweb-production, prompting the county to amend an ordinance that will re-define exceptions for registration of mobile and manufactured homes. Currently, temporary registration may be obtained for manufactured homes stored because …

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MHARR Issues a Call to Arms to Defeat the Enactment of DOE’s New Proposal

By / July 14, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Noting the Department of Energy’s new proposal is critical to the manufactured home industry because “it is genuinely draconian and will have a drastically negative impact,” the Manufactured Housing for Regulatory Reform’s (MHARR) Mark Weiss, says its final adoption can be stopped with enough pushback. Commenting on a meeting at …

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Newby Management considered for Fort Meade’s MH Community

By / July 12, 2016 / Announcements, Business, Communities, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Mayor Jim Watts of Fort Meade, Florida was surprised when only one management firm responded to a request to operate the city’s manufactured home community, theLedger tells MHProNews.  Newby Management was the only respondent.    While the city has managed the 250-home site MHC over the years, city commissioners thought …

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House Passed Appropriations Measure would Alter Funding and Leadership of CFPB

By / July 11, 2016 / Advocacy, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, regulation

The U. S. House of Representatives passed the $21.7 billion Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 239-185, in a party line vote, that would bring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under Congressional appropriations oversight. The measure would also replace the single director with a five-member bipatrisan commission, a …

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House Reaffirms Support for MH by Defeating two Potentially Crippling Amendments

By / July 8, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and the Indiana MH Association informs MHProNews that in the U. S. House of Representatives, two amendments to the Fiscal Year 2017 Financial Services Appropriations bill were defeated that would have stripped language from the bill that make necessary changes to the Dodd-Frank Act in …

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MHC Reality Show Prompts MHC Souvenir Shop

By / July 5, 2016 / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The manufactured home community (MHC) that has been the setting for TLC’s Myrtle Manor TV reality show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is in fact Patrick’s Mobile Home Park, according to myrtlebeachonline. Owner Cecil Patrick currently sells souvenirs relating to the show but has to apply for a “special event” …

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