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and that the subject matter must affect interstate commerce. For better or worse (better in this case), the federal courts have adopted a fairly broad definition of what kind of transactions are covered by the FAA (basically anything involving ���interstate commerce���). If you are involved in operating MHC���s, manuNADA Mfd. Housing Cost Guide Goes Digital facturing, selling, After 40 years in print, NADAguides is taking the NADA Manufacrenting or insuring of tured Housing Cost Guide 100% digital. The printed Guide Book will be replaced by the NADAguides Manufactured Housing CONNECT digital mobile homes, or desolution. Gone are the days of hand-writing value reports and flipping veloping communithrough page after page to perform multiple calculations for depreciated ties, you almost replacement costs of a manufactured home. NADAguides Manufactured certainly fit the definiHousing CONNECT does all of this for you. tion of ���interstate NADAguides Manufactured Housing CONNECT is accessible from any commerce,��� even desktop, laptop or tablet device with Internet access. The NADAguides though you may only Manufactured Housing CONNECT digital solution assists retailers in the do business in a single tracking and valuation of their inventory; community owners with trackstate. ing the values of rentals in their communities; and, insurance and finanThe practical imcial institutions with managing their portfolios. NADAguides Manufactured Housing CONNECT allows users to print customized value pact of these decisions reports (with their company name, address and logo on the report is that you can include header), and with the simple click of a button, users can export informaarbitration agreements tion from all of their saved value reports to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in your contracts with for analysis. Going forward, NADAguides Manufactured Housing CONthe expectation that NECT data will be updated six (6) times a year. The easy-to-use transthey very likely be enfer tool helps users update their saved values as the new data is made forced. Just as imporavailable. tantly, the Nitro-Lift ���For many years, our editorial team has been limited in how we can excase affirms that it is pand the manufactured housing data because we have been bound by the constraints of the Cost Guide���s page and binding size,��� states Sherrie Clevenger, Managing Editor of NADAguides. ���Taking the printed Cost Guide 100% digital through NADAguides Manufactured Housing CONNECT allows us to improve the data in ways that were only a dream in years past.��� May through August of 2013 will be the final printed edition of the Cost Guide. Current subscribers to the printed publication are transitioning to the new NADAguides Manufactured Housing CONNECT. For more information about NADAguides Manufactured Housing CONNECT, go to www.nadaguidesstore.com, or call 800.966.6232. the arbitrator, not the courts which will decide whether the arbitration agreement can be enforced. If you have not already incorporated arbitration into your agreements, you should do so. As this is a fast changing area of law, you should also make sure your arbitration provisions have been updated to reflect the most recent changes in the law. The benefits of going to the minor trouble of getting arbitration in your agreements include: ��� Avoiding punitive damages exposure ��� Avoiding jury trials ��� Reducing legal fees ��� Getting a quicker result ��� Saving time T J Rob Coldren is a founding partner of the law firm Hart, King & Coldren in Santa Ana, California. For over a quarter of a century, Mr. Coldren���s practice has emphasized representation of mobilhome parks and recreational vehicle parks, as well as park owners, throughout the State of California. 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