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What Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Philadelphia are to the birth of the United States, Bob Sirles, Rebecca Storey and the Meredith Center...more»
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Lois Parris was a wife and full-time mom until her youngest was in kindergarten. Then, when she got a job in the office of a local truck company, she...more»
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Paul Bradley has worked for 24 years to create resident-owned communities, first with the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, and for the last four...more»
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Denise Stone has fond memories of raising her young family in Wakefield, Mass. Stone, her husband, and their three children lived in a close-knit...more»
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Well-run cooperatives plan for the future. They put money aside in capital reserve accounts for the inevitable day when their water, septic or...more»
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Nancy Hollinrake was shocked to learn how lenders viewed manufactured-home communities. When she and her husband wanted to buy a tidy 1,500-foot...more»
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By the early 2000s, residents of close to 50 manufactured-housing parks had converted their communities to resident ownership, and we all had learned...more»
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Manufactured-home cooperatives have come a long way since Meredith Center Cooperative became New Hampshire’s first resident-owned community in 1984....more»
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From the start, it has been an uphill struggle for Sandy Ridge Estates Cooperative. In 2003, the 35 families in Pine River Mobile Home Park were...more»
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The name of the mobile home park in the shadow of the White Mountains was Scenic View, but the view within the park was anything but. Nearly half the...more»