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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. ...

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. ...

Buffett sees subprime opportunities
-- Reuters - Thu 06/26/08 11:43:37 am --
Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway had already made some subprime investments through its Clayton Homes manufactured housing unit... As Buffett wades in, others are sure to follow. Some already have -- giant bond Post and Read Comments about ...

Nobility Homes, Inc. Announces Sales and Earnings for Its Second Quarter 2008
-- Press Release - Thu 06/26/08 11:32:03 am --
OCALA, Fla., June 24 -- Today Nobility Homes, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOBH) announced sales and earnings results for its second quarter ended May 3, 2008. Sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2008 were $8,700,899 as compared to $10,323,420 in the second quarter...

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Mobile Home Park Selling Tips
-- by Dave Reynolds - Wed 06/25/08 03:28:42 pm --
One question we frequently get from individuals and companies that are listing their mobile home park for sale on our site is "How much information should I include in my ...

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Anatomy Of A Meltdown: The Credit Crisis
-- Washington Post - Tue 06/24/08 09:52:01 pm --
How homeowners, speculators and Wall Street dealmakers rode a wave of easy money with crippling consequences...a loan officer who attended the affair, now marvels at those gilded times. ..In its hiring frenzy, the mortgage company turned a busboy into a loan officer ...

Multifamily Vacancies Increase as More First-Time Buyers Purchase Homes
-- Multi Housing News - Tue 06/24/08 04:51:43 pm --
Outlook of the National Association of Realtors (NAR). "We have been seeing, over the last two years, relatively tight vacancy rates because of the slowdown in home sales," says Walter Molony, a spokesman for NAR. "This will change, as sales are expected to pick up." Because of this, multifamily vacancy rates are expected ...

Excerpts From The Grissim Ratings Guide
-- Rating Each and Every Manufactured Home Builder - Tue 06/24/08 11:36:42 am --
the most comprehensive, trusted and authoritative guides to manufactured homes, written by veteran journalist and author John Grissim...first consumer ratings guide to every manufactured home builder ever published. .. provides at-a-glance listings with key information home shoppers need to make an informed buying decision. ...

VIDEO: Compromise on manufactured housing
-- WDEL NEWS - Mon 06/23/08 06:14:23 pm --
long awaited deal between manufactured home owners and those who own the land their homes occupy has been finalized. ..The House Manufactured Housing Subcommittee approved compromise legislation giving residents the right of first offer when landowners decide to sell. Ed Speraw, President of the Delaware Manufactured Homeowners Association, says reaching the agreement was just the first step t...

MHCommunity Property Management from A to Z
-- Chrissy Jackson Archive - Mon 06/23/08 11:24:55 am --
When someone asks about what it takes to be a "good" property manager, our minds often envision a person with skin as tough as alligator hide; someone as fair and impartial as a judge; one whose patience is unlimited; and whose wisdom knows no bounds. Those, however, are personal attrib...

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...

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...

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 ......

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....

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?   ...

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...

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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