This Trulia Study Illustrates the Disappearing ‘American Dream’ … -- Michael J Power - Wed 08/25/10 08:37:09 pm -- Government and industry experts agree, consumer interest in buying homes is an essential element of a healthy real estate market, and absorption of today’s bloated housing supply is critical to recovery. These market fundamentals, though, are moving farther and farther out of reach as the American Dream of homeownership fades into the background for many.
A new study from real estate data pro...
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Who Uses the Finished MHCommunity Budget? -- Chrissy's Views - Manufactured Home Community Mana - Wed 08/25/10 08:34:13 pm -- The community manager will use the finished budget on an ongoing basis as purchasing decisions are made throughout the year. The maintenance supervisor should also use it for guidance when ordering supplies and timing delivery of materials. The office manager in a large community will use it when acquiring needed office supplies and items for resident relations.
By adhering to the numbers proje...
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More people finding manufactured housing the way to go -- Greenwood Index Journal - Wed 08/25/10 08:26:29 pm --
Manufactured home retailers are reporting big gains in new home sales nationally and locally.
According to an industry trade group, manufactured housing made up nearly a quarter of all new homes sold for less than $200,000 last year.
Analysts suggest more people are considering pre-fabricated housing as an option because of its affordability, offering homebuyers m...
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Heating Season is Around the Corner - Inspect Your Furnace for Safety -- by Mark Bower - Tue 08/24/10 11:00:29 am --
With winter now not very
far away and Coleman's announcement, a few years back that some of their
furnaces should be inspected for a possible failed heat exchanger may have you
wondering if your furnace is safe....
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Lower Your Monthly Home Loan Payments -- NOW IS THE TIME!! - Tue 08/24/10 10:37:57 am -- Financing or refinancing your manufactured or modular home NOT difficult as you might think. You may be surprised to see the variety of loan options available FOR YOU. Whether you are purchasing, refinancing, or looking to cash in on some of YOUR equity there is a financing option RIGHT HERE for YOU ... ...
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Housing Starts Rise 1.7 Percent In July -- BuildeingOnLine - Tue 08/24/10 10:16:09 am -- Privately-owned housing starts in July were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 546,000. This is 1.7 percent above the revised June estimate of 537,000, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development The gain occurred entirely on the multifamily side, with single-family housing production falling 4.2 percent to 4...
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Economic Stimulus For your Family - Refinance for Lower Monthly Payments -- by Dan Freeman - Wed 08/18/10 11:59:57 am --
Why are you waiting to
refinance your manufactured home? Now is a great time to cut a deal and
lower your monthly debt. Interest is back down, at historically low
rates. Home sales are in...
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The Mother of All “Community Policies” -- The Mother of All “Community Policies” - Tue 08/17/10 03:05:30 pm -- Over the years I accepted that most residents ‘tossed and lost’ those little booklets we used to hand out with pages and pages of Community Rules & Regulations”. So I put together my well known ”One Pager” & tossed out those booklets.
What I found is that the Resident “P & P’s did more than spell out the do’s and don’ts for the residents. I believe that these policies also spell out for the...
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Consumers get $21M after mortgage fraud accusations -- WRAL.COM - Tue 08/17/10 03:00:00 pm -- Sanford, N.C. — Approximately $21 million is back in the hands of North Carolina consumers. Four big mortgage companies paid the money after being accused of fraud.....
The money is coming from the people who handled Farnsworth’s mortgage. WR Starkey Mortgage is writing checks to 171 North Carolina families. The company is accused of using inaccurate credit information to...
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MOBILE HOME INVESTING: Banks Should Post Warning Labels -- by Lonnie Scruggs - Tue 08/17/10 10:08:21 am --
Today’s mail brought an unsolicited brochure from one of the local banks entitling me to open a premium interest rate CD or IRA account. In large bold print, it goes on to say I will earn one of the highest rates available in years. Their chart shows how I can invest $1,000 for 2 years and earn 5.5%, 3 years 5.75% and if I leave my money in their bank for 5 years, I’ll earn a...
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Manufactured Homes & Wind Storms...This may blow you away! -- Manufactured Housing Videos - Mon 08/16/10 09:28:50 pm --
Manufactured Homes, tornadoes, hurricanes, high winds: are these of concern to you? Check out these amazing facts on modern manufactured homes in wind storm conditions!
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Manufactured Home Loans: What’s the Difference Between a Personal Loan and a Mortgage Loan? -- by John Arendsen - Fri 08/13/10 09:19:10 pm --
Manufactured homes are an interesting animal to be sure. It is the only form of housing that can either be classified as Personal Property or Chattel (like a car) or Real Property (like a regular site-built home) and how the distinction is determined can be confusing.
To be considered real property, the owner of the manufactured home must also own the land upon which...
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Manufactured home dealers seeing sales boost -- www.msmmha.com - Fri 08/13/10 04:53:27 pm --
Aug 12, 2010
Manufactured home dealers across Mississippi are crossing their fingers for better sales in 2011.
The housing market has yet to fully recover from its fall several years ago. However, some dealers such as Southern Colonel Homes of Laurel and Clayton Homes in Hattiesburg are seeing better numbers this year.
In fact, Clayton Homes, which i...
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Risk of House Price Decline Slightly Shrinks -- HOUSINGWIRE - Thu 08/12/10 02:32:16 pm -- The overall risk of future house price decline slipped in the first quarter of 2010 (Q110), compared with the previous quarter, according to the latest data from PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. — the principal operating subsidiary of The PMI Group (PMI: 2.675 -3.78%). Despite the results, PMI finds that more than half of MSAs still remain at high risk of house price decline.
T...
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A WEB SITE FOR YOUR MANUFACTURED HOUSING BUSINESS -- SALES AND MARKETING - Wed 08/11/10 09:07:01 pm -- Our webmaster has 32 years experience in the manufactured housing business. He also has been designing MH business web sites since the begining of internet time. We can offer a unique synergy between manufactured housing and internet marketing available noplace else on earth.
We will make your pages project a professional image that your prospects will trust, as we lead them to explore your pr...
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Clayton to Ship Classrooms, Modular Homes to Haiti -- Knoxville News Sentinel - Tue 08/10/10 11:55:40 pm -- KNOXVILLE — Clayton Homes Inc. is partnering with the Clinton Foundation to ship modular classrooms to Haiti as part of the effort to rebuild the country after its devastating earthquake several months ago.
Clayton Homes, a division of the Berkshire-Hathaway Co., said it has reduced the cost of the classrooms and plans to discount the cost of modular homes the company als...
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Why I Love Mobile Homes - Part II -- by Stu Silver / Zalman Velvel - Sun 08/08/10 11:27:00 am -- So I'm sitting outside the Kangaroo Convenience Store in Ocala, Florida, in July, sipping coffee and nibbling on a cheese muffin. (Never had one before, so I had to try one.) It was a quarter to six in the morning, in July, and all the gas pumps were occupied with vans and pickup trucks. At 5:45...
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Industry Woes: Head Up Or Heads In The Sand? -- by Michael J Power - Sun 08/08/10 10:51:54 am -- De Nile. A place, a state of mind, a state of being? (Yes, you have heard it before.)
As I sat in or outside the intensive care room at the hospital recently (accidental overdose of a loved one), I thought, this was a tough way for any one to be shocked out of their denial. Pain medication addiction, of someone very close to me, had been difficult for me to watch also.
Alone with my thoughts...
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For the Past Year Home Prices Have Generally Moved Sideways -- S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices - Sat 08/07/10 02:01:25 pm -- Data through May 2010, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its
S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show that the annual
growth rates in 15 of the 20 MSAs and the 10- and 20-City Composites improved in May compared to
those reported for April 2010. The 10-City Composite is up 5.4% and the 20-City Composite is up 4.6%
from where...
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Geithner Looking At Mortgage Reform Options -- HOUSINGWIRE - Sat 08/07/10 01:48:07 pm -- US Treasury Department secretary Timothy Geithner noted the Obama Administration is planning to reform the mortgage finance industry and the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) as part of its move to bring greater clarity and regulation to the broader financial system.
His comments, delivered at New York University, arrive after Obama signed the Dodd-Frank financial r...
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