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Some Worry About Sales of FEMA Mobile Homes
posted 11/09/09
11:04 am
raising some concerns.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency sold 1,047 units that had been stored at the Hope Municipal Airport for $7.2 million.
Some in the industry are worried the sale will flood the market and undercut private dealers while state regulators wonder if the units fall under their authority.
The homes were built in 2005 for use by victims of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita along the Gulf Coast - however many went unused.
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posted by: sgtcustersgirl on 12:20 am on 11/10/09
I thought that many of those homes were found to have high levels of formaldehyde (sp?) in them. What happened to those? Surely they are not being sold to people!
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