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TMHA HAS MOVED

We are now located at 505 West 14th Street in Austin

posted 12/7/2009 12:37:11 PM

TMHA Continuing Education online now!

Get your 8-hour credit today! Members AND non-members are welcome to enroll in TMHA's brand-new online CE

posted 11/9/2009 5:25:08 PM

ALAMO CHAPTER "NIGHT AT THE RACES" THIS THURSDAY!

Join us in San Antonio Oct. 29!

posted 10/19/2009 11:40:56 AM

• Cavco
• CRECO
• Mobile Insurance & Purvis Commercial
  
• R.A. Financial
• R&H’s Mobile Home Parts
• Spears Mobile Homes
  
• Standard Insurance
• Style Crest
• YES! Communities

METROPLEX CHAPTER FALL GOLF TOURNAMENT

Register today!

posted 9/28/2009 12:23:53 PM

• Atlantic Service & Supply
• CREICO
  
• Mobile Insurance & Purvis Commercial
  

2009 Convention Registration

Registration is CLOSED!

posted 5/26/2009 11:06:42 AM

Metroplex Chapter Golf Tournament

Register by May 8 for only $100 per player!

posted 4/9/2009 5:05:44 PM

• 21st Mortgage
• American Residential Communities
• Centerpoint Daylighting Solutions
• Standard Insurance
• Oak Creek Homes
• Stylecrest

Second Quarter Board Meeting & Capitol Visit Day 2009

Special thanks to our Board members and Capitol Visit Day participants!

posted 2/10/2009 12:15:02 PM

HURRICANE IKE UPDATE: TMHA’s Hurricane Preparedness Proposal

Presented to the Select House Committee on Hurricane Ike Devastation Dec. 3, 2008

posted 12/16/2008 3:44:52 PM

The following proposal was submitted to the TMHA Board of Directors at the Nov. 13 First Quarter Board Meeting. The Board unanimously voted for TMHA to actively pursue disseminating the material to the appropriate parties. Since then, TMHA has been working with the Select House Committee on Hurricane Ike Devastation, specifically Chairman Sylvester Turner’s office. TMHA is also working with the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs and the Governor's office to spread the word.

TMHA Chairman Jody Anderson presented and testified on the topics below at the Dec. 3 Committee hearing in League City, Texas.

1. TMHA members do not have to “Mobilize” – that’s what we are; mobile. Our membership is made up of a variety of individual businesses, all licensed by the State of Texas and accustomed to working together in an organized fashion. One call to the Association’s office could set the entire emergency housing response in motion when the need arises.

2. TMHA members already have equipment and supplies strategically located all over the state, ready to go. We can begin relief efforts as soon as the weather and road conditions permit. Homes could be in place, at designated sites awaiting utilities, giving evacuated citizens a place to return to so they could begin rebuilding their community. In many situations, our member business locations could act as additional staging areas for first responder relief efforts or serve as centralized distribution points, especially for smaller towns and more rural areas.

3. TMHA members provide products built to strict State and Federal standards on a regular basis. There is no need to ramp up or invent new standards or guidelines or institute new inspection requirements. State and Federal guidelines are already in place to insure public safety.

4. TMHA member manufacturers can start producing additional homes whenever they are needed as long as the existing standards are not altered.

5. TMHA members will provide emergency homes that have been produced in Texas, by Texans, for the Texans in need. Whatever State and/or Federal money is used will remain in Texas and ripple through our own state economy. Most of it will flow into and around the specific areas of affected by the disaster, providing additional momentum for recovery.

6. Provided the homes are not altered from existing standards, when the homes are no longer needed they could be re-marketed by TMHA members for the State (assuming the State purchased homes as part of a relief plan) fairly easily. This provides the State with an opportunity to recapture some of its relief expenses and create another economic ripple for the Texas economy. Even if homes are given to private citizens affected by the disaster, homes meeting “normal” standards can be resold and financed as part of routine business, used as trade-in homes or brokered through local TMHA retailers.

7. By polling its community members, TMHA can serve as a clearing house of information on available manufactured home spaces in affected areas. This information could be forwarded to other TMHA members involved in relief efforts and could be the first areas to receive emergency housing units. These spaces already have utility hook-ups and will be ready to occupy once utility service is restored.

8. TMHA member manufacturers can also produce homes built to the industrialized (or modular) building code. While there will be less modular inventory available at the beginning of a recovery period, if an affected municipality prefers this type of product our members can begin providing these homes in a matter of days, not months. The same industry infrastructure that supports the placement and distribution of HUD-Code homes will be available for the placement of Modular Code homes.

9. All of the presented ideas adhere to the provisions of the Stafford Act. 
Specific Excerpts from Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as amended, and Related Authorities as of June 2007. This Act constitutes the statutory authority for most Federal disaster response activities especially as they pertain to FEMA and FEMA programs.

Sec. 307. Use of Local Firms and Individuals (42 U.S.C. 5150)
(a) Contracts or Agreements with Private Entities
(1) In General - In the expenditure of Federal funds for debris clearance, distribution of supplies, reconstruction, and other major disaster or emergency assistance activities which may be carried out by contract or agreement with private organizations, firms, or individuals, preference shall be given, to the extent feasible and practicable, to those organizations, firms, and individuals residing or doing business primarily in the area affected by such major disaster or emergency.

Sec. 323. Standards for Public and Private Structures (42 U.S.C. 5165a)
(a) In General - As a condition of receipt of a disaster loan or grant under this Act -
(1) the recipient shall carry out any repair or construction to be financed with the loan or grant in accordance with applicable standards of safety, decency, and sanitation and in conformity with applicable codes, specifications, and standards; and
(2) the President may require safe land use and construction practices, after adequate consultation with appropriate State and local government officials.
(b) Evidence of Compliance - A recipient of a disaster loan or grant under this Act shall provide such evidence of compliance with this section as the President may require by regulation.

Sec. 621. Administrative Authority (42 U.S.C. 5197)
(a) In General - For the purpose of carrying out the powers and duties assigned to the
Director under this title, the Director may exercise the administrative authorities provided under this section.
(b) Advisory personnel - The Director may employ not more than 100 part-time or temporary advisory personnel (including not to exceed 25 subjects of the United Kingdom or citizens of Canada) as the Director considers to be necessary in carrying out the provisions of this title.
(1) Persons holding other offices or positions under the United States for which they receive compensation, while serving as advisory personnel, shall receive no additional compensation for such service. Other part-time or temporary advisory personnel so employed may serve without compensation or may receive compensation at a rate not to exceed $180 for each day of service, plus authorized subsistence and travel, as determined by the Director.
(c) Services of other agency personnel and volunteers - The Director may -
(1) use the services of Federal agencies and, with the consent of any State or local government, accept and use the services of State and local agencies.

Photos from the TMHA 56th Annual Meeting and Convention

posted 10/19/2008 9:57:00 PM

Click on the image above to view pictures from the event

Hurricane Ike Relief Update

posted 10/19/2008 9:54:16 PM

TMHA will continue to keep the membership apprised of all Hurricane Ike relief efforts. Subscribe to our instant update email list by contacting Meredith Ballentine at mballentine@texasmha.com, if you are not already subscribed.

HUD ANNOUNCES DISASTER ASSISTANCE IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE IKE

Foreclosure protection offered to displaced families in Texas and Louisiana

For more click here

FHA First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit

posted 10/19/2008 9:53:09 PM

• The tax credit is available for first-time home buyers only.
• The maximum credit amount is $7,500.
• The credit is available for homes purchased on or after April 9, 2008 and before July 1, 2009.
• Single taxpayers with incomes up to $75,000 and married couples with incomes up to $150,000 qualify for the full tax credit.
• The tax credit works like an interest-free loan and must be repaid over a 15-year period.

Click here for more information.

2008 Convention Recap

posted 10/19/2008 9:51:28 PM

TMHA’s 56th Annual Meeting and Convention was a huge success! Thank you to all our sponsors and the more than 220 members who were able to join us in Horseshoe Bay! Please take a moment to share your thoughts on the 2008 Convention by taking our quick Convention Satisfaction Survey. You opinion is important to us!

Suggested Form for 18-month Clearance from Tax Assessor online NOW!

posted 10/19/2008 9:50:05 PM