Mediation - Developing Positive Relations In Your Community - And It's Free!!
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By: Ken Pryor, Program Coordinator, Oregon Housing & Community Services, Manufactured Communities Resource Center
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Financing Your Community
Feature Article: Anthony J. DiMarco and Gerard D. DiMarco
Financing Your Community
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Financing Your Community
Feature Article: Anthony J. DiMarco and Gerard D. DiMarco
2015 Oregon Legislative Session Adjourns - The Good and the Ugly and Nothing In Between
Community Update
Earlier this week the 2015 Oregon Legislative Session adjourned. This session was notable for two reasons - the first for passing MHCO's long awaited changes eliminating past due taxes on abandoned homes and the second for the tenacity of rent control to raise it's head in floor debates, a legislative work group proposal and amendments.
Bill Miner: Question and Answers When Selling a Community In Oregon (Second of Two Parts)
Property Management
Q: What happens after I give them the financial information?
Kim Berry: Filling Mobile Spaces with RV's : The Pros and Cons
Property Management
When you drive through a "pure mobile home park" and then drive through a park with a lot of RV tenants you can feel the difference in overall quality. The overall value of a MHP with "Permanent RV" tenants mixed in with Mobile Home tenants is lower than a MHP which is completely filled with Mobile Homes.
Summer Check List With Imagination
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Is your entrance neat and welcoming with well landscaped signage projecting the property's IDEAL image to Residents and future Residents?
Legislative Update: A Signature and a Move to Rules
Community Update
Yesterday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed the coalition bill (HB 3016). The abandonment/past due tax portion of the bill will go into effect on January 1, 2016. MHCO has already been working with Phil Querin and Diane Belt (Oregon Tax Assessors) to create the forms necessary to take advantage of the new law. Those forms will be uploaded to MHCO.ORG at the end of the year.
Bill Miner: Question and Answers When Selling a Community In Oregon (First of Two Parts)
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A: HB 4038, which has not yet been codified, requires an owner to give written notice of the owner's interest in selling the park before the
owner markets the park for sale or when the owner receives an offer to purchase that the owner intends to consider, whichever occurs
Legislative Update: Senate Action on Coalition Bill and a PROPOSED Rent Control Amendment
Community Update
This morning the Oregon State Senate passed the 2015 Landlord-Tenant Coalition Bill on a vote of 29-0 with one Senator absent. The bill now moves on to Governor Kate Brown's desk for signature.