Plans to transform what the Boulder City Review called a “blighted mobile home park” (sic) into townhouses came before the city’s planning commission. The plan to transition the Boulder City Mobile Home Park into a townhome community were unanimously approved by the town’s commission on September 21st, with Chairman Jim …
Boulder City Planning Commission Approves Rezoning Of Mobile Home Park Read More
Work started this month on a new clubhouse and community center for Sterling Estates, a manufactured home community in Adrian Michigan, 72 miles southwest of Detroit. “We had a need for this, so it’s good to see work on it finally begin,” said Sterling Estates owner, Germano Mularoni. “This was …
Manufactured Home Community grabs positive media via New Clubhouse Construction Read More
Ventura, California based Anacapa Homes received positive local media coverage by announcing that they are the new area representative for Skyline Homes. The company touted how the addition of Skyline Homes adds to a mix that also includes California and Arizona based producer Redman Homes. Anacapa Homes is owned and …
Manufactured/Modular Home Retailer Grabs Positive Local Media Coverage Read More
This past week has underscored our theme of Superior September 2016 coverage of the news that matters for manufactured housing industry professionals, and all those who follow or are engaged in the factory-built home industry. The articles below will include numerous special reports from respected writers Joe Dyton and RC …
Sunday Morning Weekly Recap – Manufactured Housing Industry News Sept 11 to Sept 18, 2016 Read More
The purported road-to-home ownership cloaked as “Rent to Own” is often found to be harmful and misleading, reports The New York Times. Although housing prices have recovered from the financial collapse of 2008, borrowers with less than stellar credit reports and those seeking to finance lower priced properties are left …
NYT – Rent to Own Houses Blur Lines, can harm Tenants Seeking Ownership Read More
Construction of a new manufactured home retailer location has begun in Leitchfield, Kentucky with the expectation of opening in 60 days if the weather holds. Exit 107 Homes is at exit 107 on the Wendell Ford Western Kentucky Parkway in the west central part of the state. Lauri and Jimmy …
New Manufactured Home Retailer Opening in Kentucky Read More
Fastbrick Robotics in Perth, Australia has developed a robotic arm that can lay brick at the rate of 225 standard bricks an hour, the equivalent of half a day’s work for a top human bricklayer. It is a form of 3D printing, creating the shell of a house without human …
Robotic Bricklayer Lays 225 Bricks/Hour. On Tap: 1000 Bricks/Hour Read More
The Department of Energy (DOE) sent the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) a copy of the proposed new energy standards rule before its official publication, leading MHProNews and MHLivingNews publisher L. A. “Tony” Kovach to contact M. Mark Weiss, the President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform …
MHARR’s Mark Weiss Chides the DOE and MHI for their “Buddy System” Read More
Updating a story MHProNews last posted June 18, 2015 about the possible re-opening of the former Magnolia Homes in Gering, Nebraska, starherald reports former owner Doug Fillingham is set to re-open as Family Built Homes, hiring many of the same employees who lost their jobs last June when Magnolia ceased …
Former Magnolia Homes Modular Facility Re-opening as Family Built Homes Read More
Following a story MHProNews published Jan. 25, 2016 regarding the siting of a spec home in Crookston, Minnesota by Homark Homes, the Crookston City Council has, at least temporarily, pulled the plug on the proposal. As the grandforksherald reported, the Crookston Housing and Economic Development Authority had earlier approved the …
Following a storyline MHProNews has posted several times, the last being Jan. 25, 2016 regarding opposition to modular homes in Cape Coral Fla., the developer says changes are coming to make the homes fit in better with the neighborhood. Beginning in Feb., garages will be attached to homes, breezeways will …
Cape Coral Contenders Continue Criticizing Modulars at City Council Read More
In the news from CNNMoney: Mexican peso drops to lowest value ever versus the dollar. Barclays employs 51 % women, 49 % men. AmEx stock down 20% this year, nearly 25% last year. Oil spikes 23% in two days to $32/bbl, spurring the stock market, while oil company defaults are …
Carlyle Posts Largest Advance; Dow Moves back above 16k Read More
Tedd Benson at Bensonwood in Walpole, New Hampshire approaches modular home design by considering the function and usable life of six distinct interconnected layers: site, structure, skin, space plan, systems, and stuff, as treehugger informs MHProNews.. The structure is designed to last 300 years, wrapped in an extremely-efficient thermal envelope, …
MHProNews has learned from Marcus & Millichap that Dan Mulkey, vice president investments in the firm’s Tampa Bay office, arranged the sale of Livingston Mobile Home Park in Lutz, Fla. The 65 home site manufactured home community (MHC), set on ten acres, sold for $1,465,000 to a Tampa-based buyer who …
Adding to the growing number of resident-owned manufactured home communities (MHC) in New Hampshire, Green Meadows Mobile Home Park in Concord has become Freedom Village Cooperative after the residents banded together and purchased the community for $4.25 million, the same price a third party had offered owners James and Kathy …
Manufactured Home Community becomes Co-op in New Hampshire Read More
A story MHProNews last published Sept. 10, 2015 concerning a business in Brewer, Maine that has been converting shipping containers into modular buildings since 2011, was ordered to cease and desist. The attorney general’s office said it was making manufactured homes (MH) without a license. It has now received a …
SnapSpace may Move Modular Container Building Operation to South Carolina Read More
If Kim Mele has her way, next summer she will have a campground near Methow, Washington, renting out 12 vintage travel trailers to campers who want to spend a few days in the woods on riverfront property, according to what methowvalleynews tells MHProNews. Each unit is being refurbished with a …
The December 2015 Featured Articles on MHProNews’ home page are scheduled to go-live late December 2nd, or early December 3rd. They will include: Thoughts and comments of real estate and investment mogul – ELS and EGI Chairman – Sam Zell. These will include vintage, unfiltered comments by Mr. Zell on hot …
Glass Shattering, Thoughts of Chairman Zell, Terror and New Issue Read More
“The optimist doesn’t deny the reality of rain. The optimist just picks up an umbrella, and opens as needed.” – The Elk. Problem solving requires realistic, objective thoughts and a search for practical solutions. Thanksgiving is rightly a time of celebration. Right after turkey, family, friends and Black Friday door-busters, …
For 20 years the Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club in Biddefore, Maine has enjoyed a successful relationship with the Biddeford Regional Center of Technology (COT) in the construction of energy-efficient modular homes. As mainelymediallc informs MHProNews,upon completion the homes are sold by the club and the revenues are returned to the school …
Rotary Club Partners with School to Build Modular Homes, Do Rehab Read More
