Mobile Home Sales On The Rise
-- WJLA/NewsChannel 8 - Sat 06/28/08 12:34:20 pm --
Many local communities are in a foreclosure crisis and home sales are dropping but sales of one type of home are actually going up.
Nationally, the sale of single mobile homes is up a whopping 19 percent in the last year. People who may have never considered moving into one in the past are now taking a closer look.
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Tips on dealing with flooded manufactured homes
-- KHQA TV7 - Sat 06/28/08 11:52:54 am --
JEFFERSON CITY, MO. -- The Missouri Public Service Commission's Manufactured Housing and Modular Units Program reminds manufactured home owners that if your home has water in it due to the flood, it may be possible to minimize the amount of structural damage by quickly removing all wet material and drying out the structure as soon as it is safe to enter the structure.
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City Governments Change for Better - Every Community Owner Will Benefit
-- By Frank Rolfe - Sun 06/22/08 06:52:34 pm --
I remember
ten years ago, when every city official you saw would complain about how nasty
manufactured home communities are, and how they wished they would all close
down. I had constant struggles wit...
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Homes away from home
-- Edmonton Journal - Sun 06/22/08 06:42:25 pm --
...Porras and 53 other workers from Chapala, a city of 15000 in central Mexico, are assembling modular homes for Bennetts one ...People still have that trailer-park mentality, but our buildings are high quality, and spec for spec are cheaper than site-built homes. And they can be ready much quicker...
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Reclamation project underway in Farmington Hills
-- Detroit Free Press - Sun 06/22/08 05:54:48 pm --
The homes will be inspected for green certification twice during manufacturing, he said. First, the modular homes will be built by Fairmont Homes Inc. in ......
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More working poor turning to mobile homes - Muskegon Chronicle
-- MLive.com - Sun 06/22/08 05:48:58 pm --
Manufactured homes are a good choice for a range of owners, from a growing family to a retired couple, ...Today, it can be the last resort for those caught in the home foreclosure crisis....
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Ask Eddie: Is That Home HUD or Modular ?
-- by Ed Hicks - Sun 06/22/08 05:31:16 pm --
Which of these two homes is built to the so called modular codes, and
which one to the HUD Codes? Is it
important? Not sure?
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VIDEO: This Old Shipping Container
-- Recycled Finished Structural Systems - Sat 06/21/08 04:55:16 pm --
Art Fennell Reports' Janet Zappala talks with 2 men who have found an energy and resource saving way to make functional homes. Shipping containers are realizing new potential as building materials for the housing industry. Stronger than conventional house framing because of their resistance to lateral loads seen in hurricanes and earthquakes and because steel is basi...
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More investors eyeing mobile home, RV parks as low-maintenance ...
-- Inside Tucson Business - Fri 06/20/08 08:30:02 pm --
The US market has 50000 manufactured housing communities and 15000 RV communities, said John Newman, senior vice president who will focus on acquisition ...there is growth in the 55+ parks...Family-occupied parks are land banks that eventually get converted to other uses but provide a good income stream while operating....
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Fleetwood Announces Offering of 12,000,000 Shares of Common Stock
-- PRNewswire - Fri 06/20/08 08:18:04 pm --
RIVERSIDE, Calif., June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: FLE) announced today that it intends to commence an underwritten public offering of 12,000,000 shares of its common stock. The Company expects to grant the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to 1,800,000 additional shares of common stock from Fleetwood. The Company expects to use the...
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HUD Releases Final Installation Program Rule
-- Federal Register - Fri 06/20/08 07:51:47 pm --
This final rule establishes aand local requirements in states wherestate that wishes to operate its ownfederal manufactured home installationHUD administers the installationinstallation program must contain stateprogram, as required by sectionprogram. However, HUD has concludedinstallation standards that afford605(c)(2)(A) of the Nationalthat a plain reading of sections 604(d)residents of manufa...
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Colorado MHCommunities Rent Surveys Have Been Updated!
-- INSTANT DOWNLOAD - PARK OWNERS & INVESTORS - Thu 06/19/08 10:41:29 pm --
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Factory-Built Homes Appreciate
-- LEN BONIFIELD ARCHIVES - Sun 06/15/08 05:41:21 pm --
Last week's column quoted industry leaders about why they felt a
factory-built home might depreciate. Let me dispel the myth that all
factory-built homes depreciate. This is no more a fact than saying all
site-built homes appreciate. There are many factors that determine the selling
price of your factory-built home.A nationally recognized consultant who
writes...
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Travel trailers not manufactured homes
-- Orangeburg Times Democrat - Sun 06/15/08 05:17:15 pm --
The article concerned trailers with high levels of formaldehyde. The story refers to travel trailers, not manufactured homes.
Testing performed by the Center of Disease Control found that the levels of formaldehyde emissions in manufactured homes were below the acceptable level set by HUD and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Travel trailers are not required to meet HUD Code standards....
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Selling Manufactured Homes Using Reverse Mortgage Program
-- Sell to Seniors at 45% of Retail - Sun 06/15/08 04:14:31 pm --
Reverse Mortgages are becoming popular in
America. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) created one
of the first. HUD's Reverse Mortgage is a federally-insured private loan, and
it's a safe plan that can give older Americans greater financial security. Many
seniors use it to supplement social security, meet unexpected medical expenses,...
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Why are the prices of existing land lease communities so high?
-- by Ed Hicks - Sun 06/15/08 02:29:41 pm --
In a nutshell . . . not withstanding major problems with available viable chattel mortgage financing programs for home buyers to purchase their new/used homes, community owners are pricing their communities on the basis of their perception of value, which is based on three important factors:
-the current low commercial interest rates,
-the overall slow loss of...
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House Resolution Recognizing Manufactured Housing Industry
-- News Releases - Sun 06/15/08 01:09:52 pm --
Washington, D.C. -June 10, 2008- Today, the House of
Representatives passed a resolution introduced by Congressman Joe Donnelly
recognizing...
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Staying Put, in a Mobile Home
-- New York Times - Sun 06/15/08 11:47:47 am --
NAVIGATING the rocky shoals of retirement housing can be unappealing when the available options have names like active adult, continuing care and assisted living.
But here at a place called Someday, on a breezy ridge overlooking this tiny Putnam County village, about 35 couples ages 55 and older have discovered...
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Team Building Program for Champion
-- PRNewswire - Fri 06/13/08 11:11:10 pm --
Afterburner teams up with
Champion Homes to improve tactical execution and performance.
Atlanta June 13, 2008 --
Following two successful Afterburner training seminars during Champion's
Leadership Conference in January, Chairman, President and CEO William C.
Griffiths became convinced that company-wide...
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KBS production back online Monday
-- SunJournal.com - Fri 06/13/08 10:52:05 pm --
Despite the folding of Oxford Homes, Maine Home Center, Burlington Homes and Waterford Homes, the move by KBS to reopen the plant signals that the modular that the modular home industry is not dead in the Oxford Hills area, ...The economy is not as bad as it looks.. rehired each of the approximately 45 employees who were laid off and will add another five or so in addition to 120 employees at the...
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