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There are over 60,000,000 Americans with household incomes under $20,000 per year. To this giant market, a mobile home is the only form of detached housing that they will ever be able to afford.

Atlanta-headquartered ARA, the largest privately held, full-service investment advisory brokerage firm in the nation focusing exclusively on the multihousing industry, is pleased to announce the sale of Jade Isle Manufactured Home Community in St. Cloud, Florida.

It was Day 2 of Mobile Home University, an intensive, three-day course on how to strike it rich in the trailer-park business. Seventy-five or so students had signed up for the class, which Rolfe offers every other month in different places around the country. Most of the enrollees weren’t real estate speculators; they were jittery members of a hard-pressed middle class.

Solar lighting has been available for many years, but people often perceive its quality and brightness to be low. That’s not the case anymore, and solar lighting consumers should expect higher quality and brighter light from Gama Sonic.

Lending conditions improved in 2013. Although banks remained cautious, we observed more competition and interest in financing 2, 3, and 4 star quality parks, properties that would not have been approved in 2012. Many of these parks had a ‘story’ and their owners have a few scars from the Great Recession. Our careful loan packaging and strong oversight of both the underwriters and the appraisers made for successful outcomes.

Most folks know the Red Cross responds to disasters, especially the major ones that make the evening news because they affect whole communities. Yet, a home fire or a loved one having a medical emergency can also be a major disaster for a family or individual. The American Red Cross mission includes helping peopleknow how to respond to disaster and sometimes to avert them.

Ponca City, Oklahoma (January 27, 2014) — Atlanta headquartered ARA, the largest privately held, full-service investment advisory brokerage firm in the nation focusing exclusively on the multihousing industry, is pleased to announce the sale of Meadowbrook Village Manufactured Home Community in Ponca City, Oklahoma.

The Madison Group (TMG), a commercial loan broker and loan consultant, announced today that it has arranged the financing for the purchase of a Manufactured Home Community in San Antonio Texas. The MHP was an older property located in a rural area on the periphery of the city.

I have been appraising non-residential property for almost a decade. My primary geographic areas are eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. As a commercial appraiser I have appraised a wide variety of commercial, retail, industrial, and multiple family properties.

Recently, one of our employees received an email from a valued client. The email said that important information was attached and to open the attached weblink to retrieve it. The employee opened the weblink and found a Google sign in page.