No offense to those who craft a news release, but there is routinely a different story lurking behind whatever is being presented by a given organization. When the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s (NHCLF) director of communications sent the release that follows, it is unlikely that Steve Varnum imagined that a report like this would emerge. This has his base release, uses their featured image, plus much more from NHCLF. They are a “CDFI,” which they say is a “Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) [that] strengthen communities.” Their website seems to indicate that they have been doing conversions of commercially owned communities into resident owned cooperatives communities (ROCs) since 1984. But there is not a word in what they sent about what arguably makes then a kind of oasis amid the often troubling, “predatory,” and potentially illegal practices since the dawn of the Warren Buffett led Berkshire Hathaway era of manufactured housing in 2002. Buffett, his allies at the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), include a far more dramatic telling of factual tales that include evidence from Sun Communities Inc (SUI), ‘Berkshire’s Bads’ such as Frank Rolfe’s and Dave Reynolds’s latest pitch, and the under told take of how ROCs repeatedly outperformed Col. George F. Allen (ret.) and his daughters experience in manufactured home community operations. Following the NHCLF’s release will be additional information, related analysis, plus our business daily left-right headline news, manufactured Home connected stock and results at yesterday’s closing bell.

Here is the information and photo provided by Varnum to MHProNews. Per their website, “ROC-NH™ is a program of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, Inc. and a ROC USA® Certified Technical Assistance Provider. ROC-NH is a registered service mark of ROC USA, LLC.”

 

 

Photo caption [top center]: From left, Brookside Cooperative Secretary Lynzey Ly and President David Kirsch. Photo courtesy NH Community Loan Fund.

Manufactured-home park in

Hill purchased by residents

NH Community Loan Fund helps families in
Brookside Cooperative organize and purchase
Brookside Mobile Home Park

HILL, NH (9/7/2021) – The homeowners in Brookside Mobile Home Park recently purchased their 21-unit manufactured-home park, making it New Hampshire’s 139^th resident-owned community (ROC).

Using training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH™ team, homeowners organized and formed Brookside Cooperative, Inc. in April 2021.

The cooperative then negotiated with the park’s owners, Timothy and Sherri Minor, reached a $440,000 purchase price, and finalized the deal August 31 with a mortgage from the Community Loan Fund.

Sherri Minor said, “Being a family-owned and -operated business has made us really understand the people and know them and their families. I have great comfort in knowing they own it as a group. I know what it means to them.”

Co-op President David Kirsch said that through the work of buying their community he has already seen a heightened sense of responsibility and more engagement among Brookside’s residents.

“We are making plans for getting all urgent repairs completed and looking to the future to see what else we can do to improve the condition of the park. There is a growing sense of community that I didn’t see before. I can envision our small park hosting events for our residents to enjoy together,” he said. “None of this would have been possible had we chose to just let some other private investor buy the park.”

On the day of the closing, co-op Treasurer Ellie Duclos remembered the day she phoned ROC-NH’s office looking for help. “I called because I didn’t want to see the park bought out. As a ROC, we have the control and ability to do what needs to be done. We have an amazing board, each with their own unique outlooks, abilities, and experiences that I believe will bring this park together to form a fantastic community.”

Brookside Cooperative is Merrimack County’s 20th ROC. Those communities contain 1,201 permanently affordable homes.

Cooperative ownership means Brookside’s homeowners are now eligible for products and services, including real mortgages, that haven’t been available to them. Studies show that when the land is secure, the availability of home financing improves the home’s value, the owner’s ability to make improvements, and overall housing affordability.

The nearly-8,500 homeowners in New Hampshire’s ROCs, spread across every county, also have access to management guidance, technical assistance, and leadership training in which they earn college credit through ROC-NH and its national network, ROC USA.

For 38 years, the Community Loan Fund has worked across N.H. to connect people, families, and business owners with the loans, training, and advice that allow them to have affordable homes, secure jobs, and quality child care, and become more economically stable.

A complete list of ROCs in New Hampshire is available at https://www.communityloanfund.org/co-op-list/.

More information on the Community Loan Fund is online at www.communityloanfund.org.

About the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund

The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, based in Concord, N.H., turns investments into loans and education to create opportunity and transform lives. We collaborate with a wide range of donors and investors, and with business, nonprofit and government partners, to provide the financing and support people need to have affordable homes, have quality jobs and child care, and become financially independent. Established in 1983, the Community Loan Fund was one of the first Community Development Financial Institutions in the nation, and has received industry awards and recognition for social impact, financial strength, and performance.  ##

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Per the information on their website, from 1984-2001, there were 49 ROCs funded by NHCLF. From 2002-YTD 2021 there have been 90 ROCs funded by the same organization.

  

Additional Information on ROCs, MHCs, Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), Frank Rolfe, Dave Reynolds, Legislation That’s Moving, GF Allen and his Daughter, Plus more Related Facts, Analysis, and MHProNews Commentary

When investigators begin to pull back the veil on the timeline of events in manufactured housing in the late 20th into the 21st century, several factual elements should emerge to objective and truth-seeking thinkers.  Among them, in no particular order of importance, are the following.

 

 

The disruption caused by the wave of repossessions that followed in the wake of the wet and wild “GreenSeco” era of manufactured housing is reflected in contemporary reports like the MHI commissioned Roper Report, the writing of Marty Lavin, Joanne Stevens, Bruce Savage, and Fast Company.  Taking the last first, Reingold’s narrative of the Ballad of Clayton Homes challenges the folksy yarn spun by Berkshire, Clayton, and MHI sycophants.

 

 

Reingold’s evidence-based claims in Fast Company tear at what investors or others are told to believe about the ‘official’ version of Berkshire’s acquisition of Clayton Homes, which even Kevin Clayton called an “ugly” legal battle. What is it that causes people to lie about something that doesn’t need to be lied about, if all is good?

 

 

The NHCLF website makes several interesting statements. Among them are the following on their mission statement page.

 

“we believe

1). One of the barriers that keeps people with low incomes from achieving greater self-sufficiency is a lack of access to credit.”

That statement from the NHCLF website is demonstrably true.

 

That was one of the reasons that the Congress made part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008 what was a hopeful provision for manufactured housing advocates. HERA “mandated” a Duty to Serve (DTS) manufactured housing, which critics say has been twisted, weaponized, and is making dozens of manufactured home communities less affordable, not more affordable. Who says? NPR in a report on August 6, 2021: “We find out what happens when big investors spend billions of dollars buying mobile home parks and make them less affordable for the people” who live in those communities that NPR said are commercial “loans are backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”

 

But why is this possible? As fact- and evidence-based MHProNews Masthead report and analysis revealed, Buffett announced not long after his buyout of Clayton Homes that they would be portfolioing their loans. That strategy would only work if the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) would not get heavily involved in financing individually owned single family manufactured homes via personal property (chattel or home only) loans.

 

 

Depending on the source cited, some 80+ percent of all manufactured homes are financed that way, see the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recent reporting on that topic.

 

 

The Roper Report, Joanne Stevens – whose business unit is now ironically a member of the “Berkshire Hathaway family of companies” – Marty Lavin, and the late MHI VP of communications Bruce Savage have all provided useful insights into what the manufactured housing world looked like post-2002.

 

 

Without a doubt, Berkshire had the money, media, and means to grow manufactured housing. But instead, as his buddy Bill Gates observed, in a parasitic fashion, Berkshire’s presence in manufactured housing was “parasitic.” A parasite, per the CDC is a creature that feeds of a host. By the hook or crook crippling of access to credit for those with more modest means – the very ones that DTS was supposed to benefit – the apparent Iron Triangle working in manufactured home lending turned a program meant for good into one weaponized for harm.

To be objective, Joel Kotkin describes a similar hollowing out from within in other industries too.

 

That noted, the seminal third-party research by Samuel Strommen at Knudson Law – whose research and allegations of wrongdoing as yet still publicly unchallenged by Berkshire and MHI – explains in a systematic and well documented fashion how the once proud manufactured home profession was all too often turned into “a Rube Goldberg Machine of Human Suffering.”

In that context, George F. Allen (GFA), cited along with other apparent MHI & Berkshire surrogates, attacks Strommen for documenting what Allen himself has previously alleged himself, though GFA did so with less thorough research and evidence.  But then, do not expect Allen to be consistent, as he touted his credentials as a community-investor, when a well-placed source in his orbit said that Allen’s own daughter Carolyn failed in a land-lease community venture that had a financial drag on Allen. Allen’s never denied that well-sourced claim.

But the sometimes entertaining ‘magician’ Allen is arguably not the only ‘flim flam man’ in manufactured home community investing. Allen himself once mused harshly about Frank and Dave for luring investors by claiming that investing in a manufactured home community was passive investing. As recently as this past week, Frank and Dave have emailed out that arguably bogus claim. Per their ‘educational’ pitch on September 3, 2021, “How To Keep Mobile Home Park Investing Passive.” Perhaps it could be somewhat passive if someone else is doing the managing and other day-to-day details. But the reality is that in the Berkshire-era of manufactured housing, it often requires more work to properly operate a manufactured home community than it did when NHCLF began making loans to convert investor owned properties into ROCs in 1984.  Why? Because the elimination of perhaps 10,000 plus or more retailers post-January 2009 resulted in a loss of the source many if not most community owners used to fill vacant sites.

 

 

The Rest of the Story? Management and Investing 101

Inspect what you expect. If you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know your business. No one report, no single story or even a single volume book could begin to cover the various nuances that have caused manufactured housing to underperform during an apparent and growing affordable housing crisis.

ROCs are not perfect, as our reporting on the saga of Millie Francis has revealed. By the way, Francis recently called to thank MHLivingNews because following our most recent reports, yet another manager was reportedly dismissed (separated from) Vanguard’s management of the ROC she calls home.

 

 

But ROCs are a fine and important option that provides a useful alternative to the so-called predatory behavior that is often traced back to MHI member firms. MHProNews has editorially supported ROCs from early on and have continued to do so.

But that predatory behavior operating in the background of the NHCLF release is fostering the push in Congress to pass new legislation to regulate and impose certain conditions on sellers of manufactured home communities. MHI supports one of those two bills. This is the true-to-life, fact- and evidence-based reports and analysis that literally no one else in our profession’s other trade bloggers and publishers has the cojones to report on, or to do so in anything like an authentic fashion.

 

 

So, while ROCs predated the Berkshire era, there is an apparent surge in conversions since 2002, the year that Berkshire began his move into manufactured housing. There are a variety of valid ways to tell a story. Compare and contrast is one of them. Gathering the facts, providing them to readers, allowing a range of views, that’s a proven way of getting closer to the truth. There is more to the story of how so much of traditionally affordable manufactured housing has gone astray, of course. But now you know more of the rest of the story than a mere press release – no matter how good – would have provided.

 

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Next up is our business daily recap of yesterday evening’s market report, related left-right headlines, and manufactured housing connected equities.

The Business Daily Manufactured Home Industry Connected Stock Market Updates.  Plus, Market Moving Left (CNN) – Right (Newsmax) Headlines Snapshot. While the layout of this daily business report has been evolving over time, several elements of the basic concepts used previously are still the same. For instance. The headlines that follow below can be reviewed at a glance to save time while providing insights across the left-right media divide. Additionally, those headlines often provide clues as to possible ‘market-moving’ news items.

 

Market Indicator Closing Summaries – Yahoo Finance Closing Tickers on MHProNews…

 

 

Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – evening of 9.7.2021 

• A big drop
• This photograph taken on September 24, 2020 shows a physical imitation of a Bitcoin at a crypto currency “Bitcoin Change” shop, near Grand Bazaar, in Istanbul.
• Bitcoin falls below $43,000 on El Salvador’s first day using it as legal tender
• El Salvador buys bitcoin as the digital currency becomes legal tender
• George Soros calls out BlackRock’s ‘China blunder’
• Risk Takers 2021: Wall Street’s hottest investor is betting big on a handful of stocks. Critics say she’s playing with fire
• The US workforce has gotten significantly older and more diverse
• Russian space chief invites Elon Musk to his home: ‘I already set the teakettle on heat’
• Volkswagen CEO on the race to electric, the chip shortage and Elon Musk
• Greener and cheaper: Crewless vessels are mapping the ocean thanks to an Irish startup
• These companies are pushing back against the Texas abortion law
• Video game CEO is out after praising Texas abortion law
• New Orleans businesses survived Katrina and Covid. Now they’re contending with Ida
• Pro-choice protesters march outside the Texas State Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Austin, TX.
• Why Texas’s strict abortion law is terrible for the economy
• Apple expected to unveil new iPhones at event scheduled for September 14
• US media personality Kim Kardashian attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 92nd Oscars at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on February 9, 2020.
• Kim Kardashian and crypto FOMO: Why regulators are worried
• IN THE WORKPLACE
• A union organizer stands outside an Amazon fulfillment center on March 27, 2021 in Bessemer, Alabama.
• US labor unions are better off, but still a long way from their former might
• Lots of people are quitting. Here’s how to do it right
• It took a pandemic to crack India’s glass ceiling
• Why East Asian youth are ‘lying flat’
• Attacked, rejected and harassed: Asians around the world speak out on workplace discrimination
• ON THE ROAD
• 2022 Grand Wagoneer Series III.
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• Audi unveils a shape-shifting concept car
• Aston Martin reveals its topless Valkyrie hypercar
• This $4.7 million racer will likely be Bugatti’s last gas-powered supercar

Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax – evening of 9.7.2021

• Next Door to Texas, Mexico Supreme Court Rules Abortion Isn’t a Crime
• A striking decision in a nation with a huge Catholic population, coming even as neighbor Texas ratchets up abortion limits and many neighboring countries continue to take a harder line. [Full Story]
• 11th at 20
• More Deaths From 9/11-Linked Illnesses Than in Attack: Report
• Lawmakers Recall ‘Haunting’ Moment the World Changed
• 9/11 ‘New York Values’ Was One of Donald Trump’s First Great Political Moments
• Poll: Americans Warier of US Government Surveillance
• 9/11 NYPD Dispatcher: Need Unity, Compassion Again
• The Flight That Fought Back
• Son of 9/11 Victim to Biden: Don’t Come to Ground Zero
• Gitmo Pretrial Hearings for 9/11 Suspects Are Restarting
• The Day That Changed Our World
• More Sept. 11th at 20
• Newsmax TV
• Chansley Attorney: Client ‘Harmless’ but Forever Tied to Jan. 6
• Waltz: Biden Has Set Stage for ‘Terrorist Superstate’ |
• Murphy: Border Wall News Shows Biden’s Hypocrisy |
• Burchett: Taliban Expects ‘Checkbook Diplomacy’ |
• Mullin: State Dept ‘Lied’ on Afghanistan Evacuation |
• Pete King, Rep. Biggs: Afghanistan, Taliban Stronger Than on 9/11
• Ronny Jackson: US Helped 4 Citizens Leave Afghanistan Overland
• Wittman: Taliban Holding Americans Hostage If Detaining Planes |
• More Newsmax TV
• Newsfront
• Pro-Choice Caitlyn Jenner Backs Texas’ ‘Right’ to Restrict Abortion
• Prominent transgender voice and California GOP gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner has rankled pro-choice voters amid the ongoing recall election for Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom, standing up for Texas…… [Full Story] |
• Bolsonaro Supporters March Against Brazil’s Supreme Court
• Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gathered in major [Full Story]
• Whitmer Urges GOP Legislature to Repeal Abortion Ban
• Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday urged the [Full Story]
• Trump Backs Challenger to Third House Republican Who Voted to Impeach
• Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Michigan state [Full Story]
• Harris-Backed Bail Fund Helped Release Man Who Was Then Arrested for Murder
• A man recently arrested for murder had just been released on a [Full Story]
• Hurricane Ida 9 Days Later: 430K Still Without Power
• Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Louisiana, most of [Full Story]
• Anti-Taliban Resistance Declares It Will Fight On in Panjshir
• The anti-Taliban resistance force in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley is [Full Story]
• Related
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• Poll: 40 Percent of Voters Blame Biden for Tragedy in Afghanistan
• The Flight That Fought Back
• United Airlines Flight 93 was 46 minutes into its six-hour journey [Full Story] |
• White House: U.S. States to Decide Whether to Extend Lapsed Jobless Benefits
• White House: U.S. States to Decide Whether to Extend Lapsed Jobless Benefits
• Local officials who want to extend enhanced unemployment benefits can [Full Story]
• Chansley Attorney to Newsmax: Client ‘Harmless’ but Forever Tied to Jan. 6
• Jacob Chansley, the so-called “QAnon Shaman,” will continue to be a [Full Story]
• Taliban Announce Hardline Govt as Protests Grow
• The Taliban announced their new government on Tuesday, with a [Full Story]
• ‘Tiger King’ Zookeeper Erik Cowie Found Dead at 53
• Erik Cowie, known as one of the zookeepers featured in the Netflix [Full Story]
• The Big Bang Theory Cast Is Much Different In Real Life
• UpbeatNews
• Trump Showing More Signs He’ll Run in 2024
• An increasing number of signs point to former President Donald Trump [Full Story]
• Man in Vietnam Gets 5 Years in Prison for Spreading COVID
• Breaking quarantine and infecting others has gotten a 28-year-old man [Full Story]
• El Salvador’s World-First Adoption of Bitcoin Hits Snags
• El Salvador on Tuesday became the first country to adopt bitcoin as [Full Story]
• Reasons for Florida Family’s Massacre May Never Be Known
• Investigators say that when they captured Marine veteran Bryan Riley [Full Story]
• Taliban Gloat Over Ruins of CIA’s Afghan Base
• After America’s longest war, Taliban commander Mullah Hasnain [Full Story]
• Related
• Blinken Denies Taliban Blocking Americans From Leaving Mazar-i-Sharif
• Texas Gov. Abbott Signs New GOP Voting Bill Into Law
• Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an elections overhaul into [Full Story]
• Virginia Set to Remove Richmond’s Lee Statue Wednesday
• A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, [Full Story]
• NYC to Pay Youth Not to Commit Crime, Get High School Diploma
• New York City plans to fight crime by paying at-risk youths to choose [Full Story]
• Portland, Oregon, Weighs Boycott of Texas for Abortion Law
• Texas’ six-week abortion restriction has spurred Portland, Oregon, to [Full Story]
• Related
• Texas Bishops Praise Supreme Court’s Decision on ‘Heartbeat Act’
• Justice Dept Will ‘Protect’ Abortion Seekers in Texas
• SF Archbishop: Catholic Politicians Who Support Abortion Should Be Challenged
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• Another violent holiday weekend in Chicago left six dead, including a [Full Story]
• Trump Defeats Biden in 2024 Election Poll
• Former President Donald Trump defeats President Joe Biden in a 2024 [Full Story]
• California Bill Seeks to Halt Prison-to-ICE Deportation Pipeline
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• A statue of Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee that towers [Full Story]
• 9/11 NYPD Dispatcher to Newsmax: Need Unity, Compassion Again
• Candace Baker, a New York Police dispatcher on Sept. 11, 2001 who [Full Story]
• Actor Michael K. Williams, Omar on ‘The Wire,’ Dead at 54
• Actor Michael K. Williams, who as the rogue robber of drug dealers [Full Story]
• Guantanamo Pretrial Hearings for 9/11 Suspects to Begin
• Pretrial hearings for suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh [Full Story]
• Labor Secretary Walsh: Focus Must Shift From Unemployment to Job Connections
• Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said the focus now must be on [Full Story] |
• Shortage of Supplies and Workers Will Delay Gulf Rebuilding After Ida
• Joe Sobol, owner of Big Easy Construction in New Orleans, has bad [Full Story]
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• Biden Declares New York Disaster Area After Ida Damage
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• More Newsfront
• Finance
• Ryanair Ends Talks With Boeing on Large 737 MAX 10 Order
• Ryanair has ended talks with Boeing on a major new order for Boeing 737 jets due to a disagreement over pricing, the Irish airline said on Monday. Ryanair is already the largest European customer for the 737 MAX, with 210 firm orders of the 197-seat MAX 8-200 model. In July… [Full Story]
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• Djokovic Aims to Tame ‘Hammer’ Berrettini
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• Ford Poaches Apple’s Car Project Chief Doug Field
• More Finance
• Health
• New COVID Cases 300 Percent Higher This Labor Day Than Last Year
• With the Delta variant surging and many Americans mask- and vaccine-free, new cases of COVID-19 spiked to levels over the long Labor Day weekend that were 300% higher than those seen over the same weekend in 2020, according to a new tally from Johns Hopkins University. That… [Full Story]
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• Medical Journals Issue Warning of Health Dangers of Global Warming
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• More Health
• Correspondents
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• Insiders
• Steve Cortes
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• Economic Nationalism + Cultural Conservatism
• Biden’s 1970s-Style Economy
• Paul F. deLespinasse
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• New “Lung Training” Device Is Going Viral In United States
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• The Wire
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• Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson Touts COVID Vaccine
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• John Lydon on Wife’s Alzheimer’s Battle: ‘I Won’t Abandon Her’
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• Food Network Reacts to Former Host’s Controversial Abortion Tweets

 

Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Equities Closing Tickers

Some of these firms invest in manufactured housing, or are otherwise connected, but may do other forms of investing or business activities too.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry lender
                        • NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
                        • NOTE: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of  the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm.  Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.

 

Summer 2021…

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