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MHARR Retains Officers -- Tackles Critical Issues In Washington The Board of Directors of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), at its March 28, 2013 meeting in Tunica, Mississippi, voted unanimously to retain the Association's current officers to serve another term in their respective positions. Consequently, MHARR's national officers – who also comprise the core of the Association's pivotal Executive Committee – will continue to be: · John Bostick (President, Sunshine Homes, Inc., Red Bay, Alabama), Chairman · Mike Cappaert (President, Cappaert Homes, Inc., Vicksburg, Mississippi), Vice Chairman · James Newman, Sr. (President, MHE, Inc., Bryan, Ohio), Treasurer · Peter James (President, Franklin Homes, Inc., Russellville, Alabama), Secretary Each of these re-elected officers will serve a term that will extend until March 2015. In addition to ensuring the continuity of the Association's leadership, the Board also tackled major issues in the nation's capital that continue to impact both manufactured housing -as a comprehensively federally-regulated industry -- and millions of American families in need of affordable housing. Key issues considered and addressed by the Board include: - Sanctioning the cooperative effort between MHARR and MHI on three critical agreedupon objectives concerning the federal program and consumer financing. Chief among these objectives is expanding the availability of personal property (chattel) consumer financing via private sector sources (in conjunction with the Government Sponsored Enterprises) and public sources through the Federal Housing Administration's Title I program. The two associations have concluded that the failure of the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) and federal government agencies to provide significant securitization support for manufactured home chattel loans, which has excluded millions of potential homebuyers from the manufactured housing market, can best be resolved through a correction of existing laws to substantially increase the availability of this type of financing used in conjunction with the industry's most affordable homes. In addition to an expansion of chattel-based consumer financing, the other agreed MHARR-MHI objectives concern the resolution of two key reform aspects of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 that program officials have refused to properly implement, i.e., the appointment of a non-career manufactured housing program administrator and the appointment of collective industry representatives as voting members of the congressionally-mandated Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC). In addition to its cooperative joint effort with REACH MOR Unique Monthly Visitors MHVillage.com mhbay.com MobileHomes-For-Sale.com mobilehome.net More Exposure Senior-Retirement-Living.com And Visibility mobilehome.com Than all the Others manufacturedhomesource.com COMBINED! ManufacturedHomeFloorPlans.com seniormobiles.com MORE TRAFFIC = MORE LEADS MH-Quote.com mhbo.com manufacturedhomes.com 0 100,000 200,000 SOURCE: Most recent data provided by Compete, Inc., a Kantar Media Company recognized as the pre MAY 2013 10 THE JOURNAL No. 8 on Get It Quick Page