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April 2007 Entries
That's A Manufactured Home?
Recently, there has been an increasing awareness of the value in Manufactured and Modular Housing in the news and other media. The Orange County Register ran an article Sunday, April 29, 2007, about the future of manufactured housing. . .
posted @ Monday, April 30, 2007 1:44 PM | Feedback (2)
Energy Efficient Manufactured Homes
Did you know that you can purchase a manufactured home which is actually earned the Energy Star rating? It's true - the manufactured and modular industry is one of the first "early adopters" of the whole-home Energy Star rating. According to the Manufactured Housing Research Alliance ("MHRA"), citing a study performed by Owens-Corning (a vendor to the industry), the average homebuyer would pay an additional $2,869 for an energy efficient home, while most manufactured home retailers . . .
posted @ Friday, April 27, 2007 3:35 PM | Feedback (0)
Pioneer Pines Park
I must apologize - it has been a few days since I've had a chance to post to the Blog! Over the weekend I'm going to try (now that I have Windows Live Writer up and running) to post several to catch up. On to today's topic . . . As our website explains, we are working with the owners of the Pioneer Pines Park manufactured housing community in Bakersfield, California to fill vacant spaces with new homes. We started this project a few years ago, and have been very successful in helping . . .
posted @ Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:52 AM | Feedback (0)
MHI Congress & Expo - Part I
This past week, I attended the 2007 MHI Congress & Expo for Manufactured and Modular Housing. I'm proud to say that Homes of the West, L.L.C. was a Silver Sponsor of this event. The event is a national congress and trade show for the industry, and is held each year in Las Vegas. Today I'm going to focus on two speakers from the event who presented compelling arguments for change in our industry. Currently, there is a lot of turmoil in the housing industry, and Manufactured & Modular Housing . .
posted @ Friday, April 20, 2007 11:54 AM | Feedback (0)
Welcome to Our BLOG!
Well, it has taken some time, but we are happy to report that our BLOG! site is finally up and running. It took a lot of work, however, we believe that this will be a great tool for visitors to our site. We will do our best to post information at least Daily, with our focus being on Manufactured and Modular Housing. We have a lot to start off with, so I'll just cover the highlights here, and post more entries in the coming days with more details. What are the first things we hope to . . .
posted @ Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:03 PM | Feedback (0)
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Welcome to the Homes of the West BLOG! We're very excited to present to you The Definitive Source for information related to Manufactured and Modular Housing. We are Manufactured & Modular Home Retailers, Consultants, Transporters and Developers, licensed general contractors in California, as well as a California Real Estate Brokerage. PLEASE CHECK BACK often as we will update frequently!
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