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Important New Year’s Resolutions for Community Owners By Frank Rolfe & Dave Reynolds
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It’s a new year, and that means it’s a new beginning for putting your best foot forward on your property. Affordable housing is a serious business, an...
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The Very Serious Business of Higher Lot Rents By Frank Rolfe
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It is well known in the industry that our lot rents are ridiculously low. Most owners are raising them annually in an attempt to get them up to econom...
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How to Bring Holiday Giving to Your Community Year-Round By Dave Reynolds
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People like to do nice things during the holidays. They give money to the Salvation Army representative at the grocery store. They buy gifts for neigh...
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Tomorrow’s Home Foundation (THF)
Press Release
Tomorrow’s Home Foundation (THF) is a non-profit organization in Wisconsin that provides critical home repairs to low-income manufactured homeowners.
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The Parallels Between the MH and Fast Food Industries By Frank Rolfe
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Nearly 4,000,000 Americans work in the fast-food industry. It’s a $200 billion revenue sector, which has grown from only $6 billion in revenue in 1970...
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The MH Industry Has Much to be Thankful for This Year By Dave Reynolds
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Thanksgiving is the time of year in which we all gather to give thanks for our blessings. And the entire manufactured housing industry has a great dea...
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Why You Should Join Your State Manufactured Housing Association By Dave Reynolds
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When I got into the business over two decades ago, I didn’t even know that Manufactured Housing Associations (also known as MHAs) existed. Back
then t...
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Why Part of the Rise of the MH Sector is Based on Mistakes by the SF and MF Industries By Frank Rolfe
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I am firmly convinced that the manufactured home community industry has fallen into one of the most envious positions of any real estate sector in U.S...
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The Benefits of Win/Win Deal Making By Dave Reynolds
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There many different strategies that buyers utilize when trying to buy a manufactured home community. Some get these concepts from books they buy at B...
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Why Cities Often Get the “Grandfathering” Concept Wrong By Frank Rolfe
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There are three types of manufactured home communities out there: 1) legal conforming 2) legal non-conforming and 3) illegal. Of these, by far the maj...
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