Do you know all of the benefits of advertising your Community with MHVillage?
This article will highlight some of the benefits and the details about advertising your community on MHVillage.
Advertise Your Community on MHVillage
With more than 36,000 communities on the website, by including your community you will gain exposure to the already robust traffic on MHVillage (Last month better than 500,000 visitors to the site!).
“MHVillage has been our number one lead generating and converting source year-over-year. Their support staff is quick to respond and very helpful on all fronts. If they don’t have an answer they will find a workaround or another solution that may be even better than you thought. MHVillage always goes above and beyond for us, which helps me in my day to day.”
Most of the manufactured home communities in the U.S. are already on MHVillage. All you need to do is either claim your community advertisement or contact our customer service professional to add your community to our database!
“What does it cost?”
The Basic Community Listing is: FREE!
You read that correctly, for no charge you can create an account and get started advertising your community about the following on our site:
Two Community Photos
A complete list of community details
An email contact option (Hello, free leads!)
“What if I want more than two photos?”
We also have a community upgrade called The MHVillage Showcase (Current Price: $34.95 per community, per month)
This upgrade offers:
Unlimited Community Photos
Your Community Logo at the top of your page
A complete list of community details & features
A full community description (great for vacant sites too!)
An email, phone and website contact option
Your community will show higher in a search result with a bolder appearance
The Showcase upgrade has a monthly cost. This feature can be upgraded or downgraded at anytime.
“We typically upgrade our focus properties on MHVillage, which is extremely helpful in getting our listings to the top and our community highlighted. I also like how we can have more than two photos on the Showcased Community. If a community needs more traffic, my first question is always regarding MHVillage and if they have updated their page, added new pictures and refreshed their listing. Because having good presence on MHVIllage means having a good presence online.”
The biggest manufactured housing show in the Midwest is less than two months away, and The Louisville Show Schedule has been released.
The 2018 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show, Jan. 17-19, is a can’t miss for industry professionals. It provides 57 new model homes to tour, which also is an opportunity to learn from and ask questions of manufacturer representatives.
“A selection of manufacturers will show new ‘community series homes’ in Louisville and profile a unique partnership in the industry,” Midwest Manufactured Housing Federation Chairman Kreil Moran said. “This can help create prolonged success for everyone involved in the industry.”
Community Series homes are modest size multi-section homes and single section homes that have the latest features and appointments of the larger, contemporary manufactured homes. Replacing an old home or infilling an empty space improves the look, value and profitability of the community.
Nearly 3,000 people are set to attend The Louisville Show, including more than 90 service and supply exhibitors who will provide all the latest parts, tools, products and solutions for 2018.
In addition to the recently released Louisville Show schedule provided in summary below, the Manufactured Housing Institute and KMHI have collaborated on an appreciation luncheon from 5-7 p.m. on the opening day. The reception is open to attendees and will be held at The Crowne Plaza.
A new Commodore Home.
The Louisville Show Schedule
Wednesday Jan. 17
Designing a New Class of Manufactured Homes…………………………8 – 9 a.m.
Speakers: Chris Fisher and Richard Jennison
Update on MHI’s Underserved Home Buyer Strategic Research Initiative.
How to Buy Manufactured Homes at the Louisville Show…………… 9 – 10 a.m.
Moderator: George Allen
Panel Discussion and Q & A moderated by George Allen of GMA Management
The Millennial Opportunity: Reaching the Next Generation
of Homeowners and Residents ……………………………………………..10 – 11 a.m.
Speaker: Darren Krolewski
MHVillage provides the latest trends and topics in reaching the next generation of homeowners and residents.
Thursday, Jan. 18
Growing Your Business…………………………………………………………..8 – 9 a.m.
Speaker: Ken Corbin
What it takes to grow your business and create long-term success.
Advances in Chattel Finance…………………………………………………. 9 – 10 a.m.
Moderator: Ken Rishel
Traditional outside finance sources and as other sources for buyers and residents.
Friday, Jan. 19
Ask the Engineers: Beyond the Showroom
Install and Cost-Effective Foundations …………………………………………….. 8 – 10 a.m.
Moderator: Frank Bowman
For more information regarding the 2018 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show, contact Dennis Hill at (770) 587-3350, or visit the Louisville website www.thelouisvilleshow.com.
The Louisville Show is a professional industry event. Therefore, it is not open to the general public.
November JLT Market Reports provide information on 264 communities, including 14 in the new Olympia report
Datacomp has published its November 2017 JLT Market Reports for manufactured home community rent and occupancy in Oregon, Washington and the Minneapolis-St. Paul MSA.
Publisher of JLT Market Reports, Datacomp is the nation’s #1 provider of market data for the manufactured housing industry.
Recognized as the industry standard for manufactured home community market analysis for more than 20 years, JLT Market Reports provide detailed research and information on communities in 131 markets throughout the U.S. Reports include the latest rent trends and statistics, marketing programs and a variety of other useful management insights.
JLT Market Reports November Summary
November 2017 JLT Market Reports includes information on 264 “All ages” and “55+” manufactured home communities in Oregon’s four major markets, three major markets in Washington and the Minneapolis-St. Paul MSA.
Altogether, the reports include data representations for about 46,867 homesites, up from 17,319 homesites in 2016.
“We are pleased to expand our reporting in November to include data on 14 new communities and 1,056 homesites in Olympia, Wash. This is information that will be updated and published annually, as is custom for our full range of reports,” Datacomp Executive Vice President Darren Krolewski said. “All of our reports are designed to assist in business decision making for owners, managers and others manufactured housing professionals with interests in specific markets.
Information on JLT Market Reports
Each JLT manufactured home community rent and occupancy report published by Datacomp includes detailed information about investment grade communities in the major markets, including number of homesites, occupancy rates, average mobile home community rents and increases, community amenities, vacant sites, and repossessed and inventory homes.
JLT Market Reports also include management insights that rank communities by number of homesites, occupancy rates and highest to lowest rents. Established reports show trends in each market with a comparison of November 2017 rents and occupancy rates to November 2016. Most market report include a historical recap of rents and occupancy from 1996 to present.
The November 2017 JLT Market Reports for Oregon, Washington and Minnesota are available for purchase and immediate download online at the Datacomp JLT Market Report website at www.datacompusa.com/JLT, or they may be ordered by phone in electronic or printed editions at (800) 588-5426. Each fully updated report for manufactured home communities is a comprehensive look at investment grade properties within a market. This enables owners and managers, lenders, appraisers, brokers and other organizations to effectively benchmark those communities and make informed decisions.
About JLT Market Reports
For more than 20 years, countless professionals have trusted JLT Market Reports for timely and accurate management reports on land lease manufactured home communities. JLT Market Reports are currently published for 131 markets nationwide and are recognized as the industry standard for manufactured housing industry data. In 2014, JLT & Associates merged its resources, skills and expertise with Datacomp, the industry’s oldest and largest national manufactured home appraisal company and number one provider of market data for the manufactured housing industry, and MHVillage, the premier website for advertising mobile homes for rent and sale nationwide. For more information, or to purchase complete JLT Market Reports, call (800) 588-5426 or visit www.datacompusa.com/JLT.
Senate Banking Committee Draft Gives Manufactured Home Retailers Dodd-Frank Relief
The Senate Banking Committee released a bipartisan agreement to provide Dodd-Frank relief by redefining the role of a manufactured housing retailer/seller. New language shows the dealer/retailer is not considered a “loan originator”.
Previous language associated the roles simply because dealer/retailers provide a customer with assistance in the mortgage loan process.
This is a key tenet of the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act, which excludes manufactured housing retailers and sellers from the definition of loan originator so long as they are only receiving compensation for the sale of a home.
Manufactured home retailers and sellers are in the business of selling homes and have no involvement in loan origination. They currently are at risk of being considered mortgage loan originators. Loan originators must comply with licensing or qualification requirements unrelated and irrelevant to manufactured home retailers and sellers.
MHI Works Toward Dodd-Frank Relief
The committee agreement affirms MHI’s position that current language is inappropriate for a manufactured housing retailer.
The language was a part of a bipartisan regulatory reform package drafted by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-ID). A bipartisan group of nine Republicans and nine Democrats cosponsored the measure.
The provision is in Section 107 of the package, which is within the title of the bill dealing with improving consumer access to mortgage credit. Specifically, Section 107 amends the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) to exclude from the definition of “mortgage originator” an employee of a retailer of manufactured or modular homes who does not receive compensation or gain for taking residential mortgage loan applications while maintaining consumer protections.
Senator Joe Donnelly (D-IN), author of the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act (S. 1751) and long-time supporter of manufactured housing, strongly advocated for inclusion of this important consumer access provision in the package.
New Language Complements Recent Actions
The Senate’s bipartisan reform package should be considered by the Senate Banking Committee within weeks. MHI will continue working with the sponsor and authors of the package as it moves through the legislative process.
The inclusion of new language in the Senate’s financial regulatory relief package is the result of MHI’s persistent efforts. The institute wants to ensure changes in Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing are passed into law as soon as possible.
In addition to the Senate regulatory reform package, the full Preserving Access to Manufactured House Act was passed as a part of the House’s financial reform package (H.R. 10) in June. In addition, the House in September passed the bill’s provisions as a part of its Fiscal Year 2018 Appropriations package.
This communication was contributed to MHVillage by MHI. Contact MHI’s Government Affairs Department at (703) 229-6208 or MHIgov@mfghome.org with any questions about Dodd-Frank relief.
Update on Dodd-Frank Relief
The United States House of Representatives is expected to vote next week on H.R. 1699, the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act.
Please contact your Representative and ask them to vote in favor of H.R. 1699, the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act.
Click here and follow the simple steps on MHI’s website to correspond with your Representative on this important matter. An email to your Representative has already been composed. All you have do is insert your home address and click submit!
Please give this your immediate attention and send it along to others in your organization and everyone else you know in the industry urging them to do the same.
7,590 New HUD-Code Homes Shipped in September 2017
In September 2017, new manufactured home shipments increased 2.9% to 7,590 homes as compared to the 7,375 homes shipped in September 2016. Total shipments for September 2017 are 9.9% lower than August 2017.
Compared with September 2016, the trend shows across-the-board increases. Shipments of single-section and multi-section homes by were up 0.4% and 3.6%, respectively. Total floors shipped in September 2017 increased 3.6% to 11,694 compared to September 2016.
Shipments have increased each month this year when compared to last year. Shipments from January through September this year total 68,421 homes compared with 59,911 homes in 2016, a 14.2% net increase.
The seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of shipments was 86,495 in September 2017, down 6.7% from the adjusted rate of 92,754 in August 2017. The SAAR corrects for normal seasonal variations and projects annual shipments based on the current monthly total.
In September 2017, 130 plants for 35 corporations reported production data, unchanged from August 2017.
Former Residential Brokerage Firm Owns and Operates 40 Manufactured Home Communities and RV Resorts in Six States
CHICAGO, IL (November 2, 2017) — Zeman Homes this month marks its 50th year of
operation and its emergence over that period as one of the country’s largest privately
owned operators of manufactured home communities and RV resorts.
Founded in 1967 by Bud and Dorothy Zeman, the company began as Zeman Realty, a
residential real estate company headquartered in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood.
Shortly thereafter, the company added a second office in Park Ridge and grew to over
35 real estate agents. Nearly a decade later, Mr. Zeman expanded operations to include
the listing and sale of mobile home parks, a business that quickly grew as the company
phased out its residential brokerage business.
Black Hawk Estates
Zeman Homes’ entry into the ownership and operation of manufactured home
communities came in 1983 following a sale that fell through for a client’s property.
Because Mr. Zeman had given his word that the deal would close, he and a group of
investors stepped in to make the purchase. Now, 34 years later, the company owns and
operates more than 11,000 individual sites in 40 communities across six states and sells
approximately 800 homes per year.
A Company Milestone
Commenting on the milestone, Zeman Homes’ Chairman Ed Zeman stated, “I am
humbled and proud to continue the legacy my mother and father started. It has been a
true pleasure watching our company grow from my days doing odd jobs after school at
the first property to where we are today. While the company has grown exponentially
over the years, our commitment remains the same – to provide high-quality living
environments both in the manufactured home space and in the RV resort market.”
Co-founder Dorothy Zeman added, “When Bud and I started this company back in 1967,
we were in our twenties with three little kids just trying to pay our bills on a day-to-day basis. We started this real estate company to make some extra money on nights and
weekends. Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected it to grow into the
company it is now.”
About Zeman Homes
Zeman Homes is one of the largest and most respected manufactured home operators
in the country. Founded in 1983 by Bud Zeman, Zeman Homes has grown to over 40
properties across the United States. The Zeman Homes team focuses on the business
of finding families and individuals affordable homes while developing, improving and
maintaining great neighborhoods. The company has also recently expanded its property
portfolio to include RV resorts in Florida and Illinois. For more information, visit http://www.ZemanHomes.com or call (877) 936-2646.
This announcement of Zeman Homes’ 50th Anniversary was provided to MHVillage.com by Katie Tharakan of Tharakan Consulting, LLC.
MMHA Home Showcase Emphasizes Flexibility of Manufactured Housing
The Michigan Manufactured Housing Association (MMHA) recently put on its second MMHA Home Showcase. It presented six manufactured homes to nearly 5,000 attendees at The Novi Home Show.
Adventure Homes, Champion Home Builders, Skyline Homes, Clayton Homes and Manufactured Housing Enterprises brought news homes to the show. Each home highlighted an array of styles, sizes and prices available from MMHA members.
The show homes ranged in size from a 746 square-foot single-section to a 2,100 square-foot multi-section. Attendees were able to see open floor plans, built-in entertainment centers, gourmet kitchen islands, fireplaces and porches.
Each home at Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Mich., was well-appointed and staged for the show.
Professional, Consumer Feedback Affirm Direction of Design & Feature Options
“The MMHA Home Showcase, held in conjunction with The Novi Home Show, was the perfect setting to highlight these stylish, beautiful homes,” said Darren Ing, show director of MMHA. “To hear so many people complimenting the homes, designs and styling was exciting and encouraging.”
Prior to the opening of the MMHA Showcase Oct. 13, the MMHA hosted an industry-only reception where more than 125 MMHA members, legislative representatives and others involved in the business of manufactured housing mingled in the displayed homes.
Social Media Tour Garners Wide Attention
Additionally, a 5-minute Facebook Live tour of the new Catena home garnered more than 7,000 views, reached 22,000 people and had nearly 450 post engagements.
“After the positive responses from manufacturers, community operators and the general public regarding the MMHA Home Showcase last year, the association decided it was definitely worth the time and effort to bring these homes to the public again,” said Richard Winkleman, director of community operations for AJR Development and MMHA board of directors president.
The Michigan Manufactured Housing Association educates the public about the benefits of manufactured and modular home living, and connects people interested in a community or home with MMHA members.
MMHA is one of Michigan’s oldest trade associations, founded in 1941. MMHA is a nonprofit association that represents the manufactured home industry in Michigan. For more information, visit the Michigan Manufactured Housing Association.
MH Pros Go in Search of Answers on Florida Manufactured Housing Post-Irma
In the days following Hurricane Irma, a team of unlikely documentarians hit the soggy ground in South Florida searching for answers on manufactured housing post-Irma.
They handed out water and rations, called when they could to notify emergency workers of stranded or distressed residents, and offered plenty of blessings and well wishes too.
However, the line of questioning most often, and where the cameras were trained, had more to do with homes that remained rather than those wiped out.
“The industry fared much better than we anticipated,” Ayotte said following the visit to six communities in Naples and Bonita Springs, Fla. “There were fewer damaged and destroyed home than expected.
“The new product performed extremely well,” he said. “We did not find one home that was built and sited after 1994 that suffered any significant damage. Maybe a roof shingle or two that had come loose, but that was about it.”
A roof shingle or two, amid the piles of rubble, splintered lumber and debris that continues to fill front yards and line streets in some areas.
A Report from Storm-Damaged South Florida
An estimated 77 people died in or from the aftermath of the storm. Area emergency rooms a month later continued to see double the normal traffic; storm victims with severe dehydration, slip and fall injuries, or trauma from working to move debris.
“A lot of site-built homes had roofs missing, holes in roofs, blown windows,” Ayotte said. “There were boats and RVs stacked up on the side of the road. The amount of destruction in general was amazing.”
An older home adjacent Jenkins’ residence.
Older manufactured homes, Ayotte said, sustained damage, most often from attached structures pulling up from high winds, and ripping away siding or roofing fascia. But even those sustained only minor damage to the primary structure. FMHA continues to ask for input from residents, community managers and owners.
Ayotte said he saw two homes that shifted on their foundations.
“We had a good cross-section of the industry, and we met with a lot of community owners and home owners,” Ayotte said. “I was amazed at how upbeat and resilient these people were.
“We really believe that we have a great product, and these storms give us the opportunity to assess the industry and affirm that we’re building and siting the homes that we want to have out there. These homes are performing just as we want them to perform.”
How One Couple Survived Irma
John Jenkins is one of the homeowners Ayotte and his team ran across during their first tour of Florida manufactured housing post-Irma.
Jenkins, his girlfriend Susie and their dog BO, waited nervously in their 2017 Destiny home, which had been delivered and installed at Riverwood Estates in Naples only a few months prior. They watched the reports as the storm shifted and hopped west. And then they went from nervous to concerned, or something just shy of scared.
The couple placed a call to Jeff Wagner, from GTS Homes. Wagner had installed the home, and answered the call. He assured Jenkins that the home was sturdy and anchored tight.
“There was nowhere to go,” Jenkins said. “If you go north, that’s the track for the hurricane. If you go east, all of those people were coming toward us. It really surprised us. We were supposed to be out of the way. But Jeff assured me that everything was new and in place. He thought we’d be OK.”
‘Serenity inside this home’
“We watched that thing come up on us, we stayed in it as the eye came over top of us, then it hit again and scraped right across before swinging northeast again,” Jenkins said. “The fierceness of the outside made the relative calm and serenity inside this home very surreal. It was very much in contrast to what was going on outside.”
Flooded and debris-strewn streets in Naples, Fla.
Jenkins said his home shook a little. He saw a small leak atop the back door, which has since been replaced. His primary concern, he said, was getting hit by flying debris from other structures, automobiles and large trees.
Many homes in his community, he said, though older – from the ’70s and ’80s – stayed on the ground. That’s because of government-funded tie-downs handed out to residents following deadly Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Even without electrical and other municipal services for 10 or more days following Irma, which made landfall on Sept. 10, Jenkins and his girlfriend felt relatively fortunate.
True, they had damage to the skirting. But, the home and all Jenkins invested in it is intact.
“You can look out the back of my house and right through the front and through what used to be the living room of my neighbor’s home. That’s the typical story down here, of older built homes,” Jenkins said. “It was definitely an age thing… there’s no comparison.”
Implementation of health and safety standards for Florida manufactured housing:
1976 HUD code: Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards – Amended/updated several times including most recently in 2015.
“I didn’t have any house that I know of destroyed from this storm, and we sell all the way down to Key West,” Qurnell said. “Our goal is to give the customer the best possible product. I think we did that in this case and in most cases. And the industry as a whole is building and siting quality homes. We can stand to have more people understand that, particularly in the face of media reports that often paint a different picture.”
Qurnell points out that factory-built homes like his have the benefit of weekly inspections from fire marshals, something few site-built homebuilders experience.
“We can’t cut corners even if we wanted,” Qurnell said. “We build a high-quality home with the same shingles, siding, shudders and many other materials used for site-built homes. Those are the points where you can get wind lift in there and the damage can begin.”
To review manufactured housing post-Irma, Ayotte traveled with a videographer/photographer, a member of the marketing team and two representatives, including Qurnell, from noted home manufacturers. FMHA presented the video produced from the first and two subsequent trips to South Florida during the recent National Communities Council in Chicago.
“When we approached him about the storm, he said ‘I felt good.’,” Ayotte said. “We couldn’t have asked for a better testimonial.”
The 30-foot Fiero is a 274 square-foot tiny home that sells for $75,000.
Tiny House Appendix Q is the first residential legal description for an emerging American industry.
The tiny house movement takes shape
Veteran builder and noted tiny house aficionado Andrew Morrison took the stage recently at The National Tiny House & Simple Living Jamboree to talk about the new tiny home Appendix Q, the first-ever and little-known legal description of the dwelling style that has captured the American imagination.
Tiny Home Zoning and Code Expert Andrew Morrison
Ever since he and his wife Gabriella built and moved into their sub $30,000 tiny house, paid for out of pocket, the pair has been providing insight on the ins-and-outs of tiny homes to the droves of enthusiasts who will pay to listen.
Now, Morrison and associates have managed to install the tiny house Appendix Q into the 2018 International Residential Code.
This is more than a movement within the movement. More than a clarification in black and white. This is the stamp of approval for the birth of an industry.
“I travel all around the country and there are so many people who have yet to hear about the tiny house appendix,” Morrison said during his talk at the Jamboree in Arlington, Texas. “The tiny house code is, I think, the most important thing we have going on in the industry.
“We have a pathway, so let’s start using it. Let’s go with it. It’s a big deal,” he said.
How Tiny House Appendix Q Was Built
Morrison is a 20-year veteran of the building industry who in a 2015 TEDx talk provided insight toward compromised nature of traditional housing and home finance in the United States. The popular platform boosted his public profile. However, the real trick may have come in late 2016 when Morrison’s team managed to get language passed by the International Code Council in a single try.
“A friend of mine named Martin Hammer, an architect, saw a tiny home building code that was put together and it was… awful,” Morrison said.
The proposed language was deemed unusable. But its entry allowed Morrison’s team to engage the International Code Council in a two-month comment period, which, if handled well, would allow for entry of the consideration language.
Appendix Q Establishes Rules for Tiny Homes as a Permanent Residence
Tiny homes on display at the Tiny House Jamboree
Morrison, along with Appendix Q co-author Hammer, got to work on building tiny house Appendix Q with a focus on establishing the rules for a permanent residence, a home on a foundation that is built to stay as local planning allows.
“That’s one of the things we want to attain, is a house that meets health and safety code and is affordable,” Morrison said. “Housing is becoming less and less available to us, and that has to change.”
A team of 10 presented in Kansas City, Mo., during October 2016 in front of hundreds of building officials and fire marshals. They took questions, defended their position and made changes to the language as needed. When approved by a two-thirds vote, the same language needed the same approval from more than 20,000 registered professionals nationwide.
“We were vetted, and we won,” Morrison said. “We got it done in two months and approved in the first try… it usually takes six to nine years for something this massive to be approved.”
Next Steps on Tiny House Appendix Q
While approval of the tiny house language is a massive leap forward, much work remains.
Tiny homes have gained popularity in recent years because of increasing housing costs, stagnant wages and a what Morrison views as a “grassroots movement towards minimalism”. Builders need a code for residential tiny homes. However, the code also allows local building officials to offer guidance.
On that latter point, now that Appendix Q is part of the 2018 code, it’s up to individual states & municipalities to adopt the updated 2018 code, which often lags. Most governments are working under the 2015 code, and some continue to site the 2012 code.
“It’s the code that gets approved, not the appendix,” Morrison said. “These governments need to then choose which appendices they want. Do we want the straw bale, do we want the manufactured home, do we want the tiny home code? So we need to get out there and advocate for our code.
The Morrisons meet with state representatives to talk about Appendix Q as they travel for speaking engagements. They teach and they do presentations on tiny living, and encourage people to live an inspired life.
Added Language for Tiny House Appendix Q
Tiny House Appendix Q has mention of how to incorporate wheels in the build-plan.
Tiny home interior
But any incorporation in a build-plan of a trailer would require an application under Section R104.11 “Alternative materials, design, and methods of construction and equipment”.
“This allows people to supply engineered plans that will work for something not specifically addressed in the code itself,” Morrison said in comments following his presentation.
Tiny house experts now refer to anything that uses a chassis as a “moveable tiny home”. This replaces the phrase “tiny home on wheels”. The “on wheels” reference immediately makes inspectors and others in the validation process want to call the home an RV, which is a vehicle under the RVIA/ANSI codes. The “moveable” phrase means the home can be moved but is not stationed on wheels.
Movability of a home also becomes a difficult proposition for financing. This is primarily because a lender needs to know where to find a home, if needed, for financial recourse.
Darin Zaruba, founder of the Tiny House Jamboree, views Appendix Q with tempered enthusiasm.
“This certainly is a big step in the right direction, but given that the language was unable to address tiny homes on wheels, there remains a lot to be decided,” he said. “Tiny house Appendix Q addresses the residential code, but it’s anyone’s guess the direction homes on wheels will go. Will it be RVIA or ANSI? Will we be able to write something into the appendix? Everyone has opinions and preferences, but the question hangs out there.”
However, Morrison maintains that a tiny house can have a chassis, axles and wheels and still be a permanent residence. The home must be built to the approved IRC code for the area.
The heavy lifting has been done
“We will meet the code as it’s written right now,” Morrison said.
“This was done because all of the people on the other side of the table had droves of people coming saying they want to build a tiny home, but they couldn’t do anything. There was no code,” Morrison said. “So, they needed this, and that’s important to recognize.”
All-new lineup of modular homes redefines ‘A Smarter Way to Build™’for today’s market
Champion Modular, Inc. has announced that — as part of its 2016 acquisition of multiple manufacturing plants and renowned modular home brands — it is revitalizing and re-launching All American Homes®.
All American Homes is a series of more than 25 ranch, bonus-ranch, cape and two-story modular homes. Each home features high-end craftsmanship at affordable prices.
The All American Homes’ began in the 1970s and, after changes in ownership and a brief hiatus, officially debuts Jan. 17–19, 2018, at the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show.
So, Champion Modular will unveil the first home in the lineup in Louisville. The Brooklyn, a three-bedroom, two-bath ranch model, showcases the latest in design, styling and smart-home technology in the industry.
“Just as with Champion’s other brands, we know the pillars that will make All American Homes a success are its innovation, premium craftsmanship and commitment to integrity,” said Mark Yost, president of Champion Home Builders. “This new line is a continuation of an undeniably rich heritage, but it is also so much more than that. It is a reflection of this brand’s evolution — an evolution that mirrors the tastes of its customers and fits their diverse wants, needs and lifestyles.”
Demand Drives Relaunch Within Champion Modular
It was with these customers in mind that Champion endeavored to bring All American Homes back to the market. As a result, the change began with gaining insight into their valuable perspectives on what made the brand so iconic in the past, in order to make it successful today.
“Our goal was to not only reestablish the All American Homes brand, but to reinvigorate it,” reflected David Reed, vice president of Champion Modular. “To do so, we hit the road and spoke directly with many former All American customers, incorporating their feedback into our formula for success. The result is a solid product offering that integrates the preferences of its customers, but does so without sacrificing quality or affordability.”
A former customer of All American Homes weighed in on what the brand re-launch means to his company.
“All American Homes was a top modular homebuilding company for decades, so we are very happy to see it return,” said Bob Lang, owner of LaPorte Housing Specialists, Inc., in LaPorte, Indiana. “We have nothing but great memories working with All American in the past and look forward to once again championing the All American name.”
Also, All American Homes’ select building materials and amenities include cabinets by Merillat®; faucets by Kohler®; appliances by Whirlpool®; and Silver Line®windows by Andersen Windows and Doors®. Detailed product information and pricing will be available at the 2018 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show. To learn more about All American Homes, visitallamericanhomes.com.
About Champion Home Builders
Founded in 1953, Champion Home Builders specializes in a wide variety of manufactured and modular homes, park-model RVs, and modular buildings for the multi-family, hospitality, senior, and workforce housing sectors. Champion started as a single manufacturing facility in rural Michigan and grew to offer factory-built housing and other structures throughout the U.S. and western Canada. The company operates 28 manufacturing facilities throughout North America and employs more than 5,200 people.
About Champion Modular
Champion Modular is a wholly owned subsidiary of Champion Home Builders and was established in 2016 as a company strategically focused on modular construction. The company specializes in high-quality single-family homes, upscale customized homes and commercial structures. Champion Modular products are built under the All American Homes®, Excel Homes®, New Era Building Systems™, New Image Homes®, North American Housing and Champion Commercial Structures brand names.
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