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As property evaluations in or near metropolitan areas continue to rise, existing manufactured/mobile home communities occupying those properties have been under siege from developers who see an [...]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has settled two Fair Housing Act cases and filed one new case. The descriptions below are from press releases issued by HUD. While the cases [...]

Freddie Mac has announced that starting March 1, 2020 CHOICEHomes will no longer have to include a garage or carport to be program eligible.  This is fantastic news! I have worked with the [...]

Residents at the Westwinds Mobile Home Park in San Jose, California started this decade with an unsettling surprise. Just after New Year’s, mobile home park management taped letters to the 723 [...]

In a recent blog by Brynn Barger appearing in MHINSIDER Magazine titled “The Shift: Tiny House Builders Moving Toward Manufactured Homes,” echoing the seemingly imminent demise of the “tiny home [...]

In 1908, Sears began a new adventure, radical for their time, selling prefabricated, “kit” houses. These mail-order homes arrived complete with framing, finishing, fixtures and all, with an [...]

It is a situation that nearly every manufactured home community in the country has faced. A resident  presents the manager with a certificate they purchased on-line declaring that an animal in [...]

“Under ordinary competitive conditions, any long and serious maladjustment between supply and demand cannot last”  – George W. Stock, author According to MHN Multi-Housing News, vacancy in [...]

Mobile home parks have long represented a slice of the American dream for those who couldn’t afford land. Nowadays mobile home parks represent a cash cow for park owners and as such are exposing [...]

Location, location, location, is the axiom associated with real estate property valuations, not older mobile homes sited in a space rental mobile home parks. There is at least one Southern [...]