2012 Award Recipients Announced CMPA Symposium June 3rd & June 4th Bellagio, Las Vegas Robert Coldren, Hart, King & Coldren "Advocacy Fighter Award" "This is well deserved for all the time you personally have put in on behalf of your clients and the industry. Without your efforts over the years, this business would not be what it is today- THANKS!!" Richard Bessire Richard Bessire, Bessier & Casenhiser "Freedom Fighter Award" "Dick and I have worked together for 30 years, ever since he was a property manager for Fox and Carscadden. He is a true treasure to our industry. This award is a terrific acknowledgement of Dick's efforts and hard work." - Robert Coldren

ROC USA® names new Communications and Marketing Manager

Michael Bullard joins social venture

March 26, 2012

Concord, NH – ROC USA, LLC announced that Michael Bullard has joined the management team as Communications and Marketing Manager. He begins his new role April 9, 2012.

Prior to joining ROC USA, Bullard was Executive Editor of the Cecil Whig, a countywide newspaper serving readers in Cecil Country, Maryland. Bullard spent almost 10 years with the Whig. During his tenure, he substantially increased the company’s online presence and multi-media approach to news reporting.

“I am excited to have Mike on our team – he brings a journalist’s ear for a good story, a proven ability to communicate with a wide array of audiences and impressive new technology skills,” said Paul Bradley, president of ROC USA. “Mike’s going to help get the word out about the benefits of resident ownership as well as help our community leaders get and stay connected.”

“I'm really excited by the work ROC USA is doing – the stability that resident ownership affords has the potential to open many other doors for homeowners,” Bullard said. “As a New England native, I'm also anxious to return home and start down a new career path.”

ROC USA is a social venture with a mission to make resident ownership of “mobile home parks” viable nationwide. In operation since 2008, ROC USA has helped 35 resident corporations – co-ops in most states – purchase their communities. In the process, these resident groups have preserved nearly 2,200 affordable homes in 12 states.

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Dear Tony,

We’ve reached 100. That is, 100 resident-owned manufactured-housing communities in little New Hampshire.

Will you help us spread the good news?

The 54 homeowners at Big W Mobile Home Park in Derry last week became the 100^th resident-owned community in NH.  This is a historic milestone for the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund and our ROC-NH™ team. It’s also evidence of the growing interest in and enthusiasm for resident ownership, and of the strength of this affordable housing sector. 

The Derry homeowners join more than 5,600 others in NH, and another nearly 1,500 homeowners in 22 communities in the ROC USA^®network, who enjoy the security, stability and affordability that cooperative resident ownership provides.

Perhaps the most remarkable element of our First 100 story is that in the 27 years since our first conversion, through boom and bust economic and real estate cycles, not one park has failed!  

That statement speaks not only to the resourcefulness and resilience of the co-ops, it tells us that ROC-NH’s strategy of training and working closely with community leaders, and supplying intensive assistance when needed, works.

Resident-ownership also means that the NH homeowners have access to the Community Loan Fund’s NEXT Award-winning Cooperative Home Loans. The only program of its kind in the US, Cooperative Home Loans have provided fair, fixed-rate mortgage and home-equity loans to more than 500 homeowners and homebuyers in manufactured-housing cooperatives.

For 27 years, we’ve turned investments into loans and education to create opportunity and transform lives across NH. We invite the many individuals and institutions that donate to, invest in, or partner with the Community Loan Fund in any way to celebrate our First 100 with us.

We hope you’ll help us spread the news of our achievement to your audiences through your newsletters, social media and other communication channels.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , our communications director, will be happy to supply any material you need.

Thank you.

Craig W. Welch
Vice President of Housing

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Tulsa (October 18, 2011) – In a move that will provide increased value to exhibitors as well as show-goers, the Manufactured Housing Association of Oklahoma (MHAO) Board of Directors announced that the new show dates for the 2012 Great Southwest Home Show will open for Trade Days, Thursday, March 1 at 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and run through Friday, March 2, and will be open to the General Public beginning Saturday morning, March 3 through Sunday, March 4.  The MHAO approved this time change in response to ever-intensifying requests from multiple Show stakeholders.  Additionally, being mindful of minimizing incremental costs to exhibitors, the Board approved a discount to manufacturers wishing to showcase more than four homes.

“This new show time will allow exhibitors to schedule ample time for appointments with key retailer partners in a more relaxed and unhurried atmosphere”, said Doug Gorman, GSHS chairman.  “It will offer all buyer attendees additional time to seek out new supplier partners while also giving time for meetings with current suppliers”.

The Great Southwest Home Show showcases factory built homes from around the country.  The QuikTrip Center at Expo Square in Tulsa, Oklahoma is located in the center of the heartland with easy accessibility to the Expo.  The QuikTrip Center is the largest indoor open-space facility in the country and can hold up to 100 homes and hundreds of booth exhibitors in an environmental friendly atmosphere.   The Great Southwest Home Show will be showcasing eye-popping, energy-efficient designs and fine craftsmanship that can make factory built homes one of the fast-growing segments of the home market.

“Show-goers can conveniently meet face to face with the industry experts and compare home and framing styles and familiarize themselves with many companies and hundreds of floor plans under one roof, instead of having to travel around the country to see them.” –Deanna Fields, Executive Director

The Great Southwest Home Show will feature homes from around the Midwest, South and Southwest region!

The Great Southwest Home Show will once again offer educational seminars during the lunch hour  on Thursday and Friday that is pertinent to retailers and community owner in the industry and an ALL-INDUSTRY NIGHT RECEPTION on Thursday evening on the show floor, allowing ample time for networking and closing those sweet deals that can only be had by attending an Industry Sponsored Show.  

The Hard Rock Tulsa Hotel and Casino located minutes from the QuikTrip Center at Expo Square, is once again selected as the Host hotel offering rock bottom show rates to our attendees.

Quotes from service/suppliers exhibitors, manufacturers and retailers on last years show!

“Time and time again, the Great Southwest Home Show has proven to be a strong supporter for the manufactured housing industry.  Growth and prosperity in this industry will continue with the dedication and commitment from industry manufacturers and exhibitors that showcase their products and services  to businesses across the region”, Julie Dwyer, Regional Manager, Triad Financial Services


 “The Great Southwest Home Show is one of the best investments we make each year. We have fun while we work”. Mike Harrison, President – QuikBrick

“The Great Southwest Home Show is invaluable for pro-business solutions…Whatever the initiative has been to grow our company, the Great Southwest Home Show is there for us”, Doug Gorman, Retailer/President,  Home-Mart

“Attending the Great Southwest Home Show does help me keep in contact with key people in the industry and meet new contacts that I otherwise wouldn’t have met.  Most of the people I do business with today are people I met at trade shows”,  Bo Radley, Retailer/President, Aspen Homes


 “As a manufacturer, we like to take part in the Great Southwest Home Show.  It allows us to participate in both  retail and public days, and it’s an opportunity to introduce our new product line”, Ray McKay, General Manager, Ft. Worth, Legacy Housing

“Being a show partner with The Great Southwest Home Show provides added opportunities for success in our business”  Charlie Boyer, Oak Creek Homes, LP, COO/VP- Manufacturing Division


“At the Great Southwest Home Show, we have a chance to see and visit with many of our clients, as well as meet with other industry leaders from across the country."  Kurt Kelly, President, Mobile Insurance


“The Great Southwest Home Show allows us to visit with those involved in the industry which garners for future growth” Tom Francis, Royal/Durham Supply


“As an independent retailer in Kansas the southwest show allows me to secure my new spring product line of homes.” Dayne Rhinehart, Kansas Retailer/Village Homes


“The Great Southwest Home Show gave us a great platform to introduce and sell our Rocky Mountain Series.” Howard Mc Girt –General Manager,  Southern Energy Homes of Texas


“The Great Southwest Show provides the best environment to do business. From set up to selling it is an enclosed environment. No weather to disrupt operations; facilities are close; open concessions; controlled temperature; booths among the homes (see it all) and the comfort of walking a floor not a parking lot. Because of the geographical location we see retailers not seen at other shows. Retail days also bring out serious buyers. The whole event is a blast! We will be back!”  Howard Broughton, V. P. of Sales & Marketing, Palm Harbor Homes

Lake Forest, Illinois, September 8, 2011 – Green Courte Partners, LLC ("Green Courte") announced today the acquisition of the Parkside Village manufactured housing community, located in the Buffalo, New York suburb of Cheektowaga. The four-star, age-restricted community contains 156 home sites, which have remained 100% occupied since the community was developed in the early 1990's. With the completion of this acquisition, Green Courte now owns two land-lease communities in Cheektowaga, including Sky Harbor, a family community with 638 home sites, approximately seven miles north of Parkside Village.

Commenting on the acquisition, Randy Rowe, Chairman of Green Courte Partners, LLC, stated, "We are very pleased to add this high quality community to our portfolio. While this was a relatively small acquisition for our third fund, Green Courte Real Estate Partners III, LLC, we are pleased to add to our existing footprint in this market. Our focus continues to be on larger communities, but we will make smaller acquisitions in markets where we already have a presence."

Green Courte has engaged American Land Lease, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of its second fund, Green Courte Real Estate Partners II, LLC, to manage the community. American Land Lease manages substantially all of the land-lease communities in Green Courte's portfolio which now includes over 18,100 developed home sites across 49 communities in ten states. American Land Lease will operate the community under their 55+ lifestyle brand, Solstice Communities
 
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About Green Courte Partners, LLC
Green Courte Partners, LLC is a Chicago-based private equity investment firm targeting niche real estate sectors, including land-lease communities and parking assets. The firm combines focused investment strategies with a disciplined approach to transaction execution and asset management. Green Courte's goal is to invest in high quality assets that will generate attractive risk-adjusted returns over a long-term holding period.
For additional information, please visit the firm's website at www.GreenCourtePartners.com
 
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