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The insurance you have for your manufactured home community serves a different purpose than the insurance a resident has on their home. While some manufactured homes may be owned and rented out by the community, and thus covered on the community’s insurance policy, tenant owned homes are only insured on tenant mobile home owners policies. This means that if their homes or belongings are damaged, they could face significant out-of-pocket expenses unless they have mobile home owners insurance. Why Is It Important for Residents to Carry Their Own Insurance at a Manufactured Home Community? Residents' insurance plans can help protect them [...]

Resident background checks are a great tool to help you reduce risk in your manufactured home community and provide valuable information to help you make informed decisions. When conducting background checks and other tenant screening, there are many things to consider, such as how to keep your screening process consistent and what you need to do to stay in compliance with Fair Housing laws and local and state regulations.  Allowing residents with a history of assaulting and attacking others can make you liable for those bad residents’ acts. How Can Resident Background Checks Reduce Risk?  Although background, credit, and rental history [...]

As a manufactured home community owner, you are responsible for maintaining common areas and addressing potential hazards to the community members' and visitors’ safety. Premises injuries, most commonly in the form of slip and fall or trip and fall accidents, come in many forms. For example, broken playground equipment causing a cut, a child falling onto hard ground from playground equipment, or unsecured signage falling on someone and causing a head injury. These injuries can potentially result in large liability claims and cause your insurance rates to increase for years. With proactive maintenance and inspections, many premises injuries are preventable. What [...]

Now that summer is here, there are a multitude of events and gatherings you can host at your manufactured home community to boost community engagement and improve tenant satisfaction. Residents who feel connected to their community are more likely to renew leases and refer the community to their friends and family. Strong community engagement fosters better communication with residents. With kids out of school and the warmer weather, summer is a perfect time for these summer event ideas for improving community engagement and retention. Why Community Events are Important for Resident Engagement and Retention Community events like these can create a [...]