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CTAP educates Mainers about ROCs

Posted by Mike Bullard February 3, 2017

Vendors set homes as manufactured housing takes center stage Friday at the Maine Manufactured Home Show in Augusta.

AUGUSTA, MAINE – Cooperative Development Institute is spending the weekend educating Maine home buyers about the benefits and advantages of resident-owned communities.

“The big difference between a commercially owned community and a ROC is the security of land ownership,” Jeanee Wright, a cooperative development specialist with CDI in Maine, told a family attending the show Friday afternoon. “In a ROC, you know you’ll never be forced to leave so long as you pay your rent and follow the community rules. Plus you won’t have to deal with a landlord, you’ll be the landlord.”

CDI, the ROC USA® Certified Technical Assistance Provider in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, is sponsoring a booth with ROC USA at the Maine Manufactured Home Show at the Augusta Civic Center.

This weekend’s show features several homes to visit and a variety of vendors such as manufacturers, dealers and home improvement specialists.

Andrew Danforth, director of CDI’s New England Resident Owned Communities (NEROC) Program, said the home show is a great opportunity to point people looking for a new home into one of the eight cooperatives in Maine.

“Chances are, a house is a family’s largest asset,” Danforth said. “What better way to make the most of that by setting it in a vibrant resident-owned neighborhood where you can enjoy cooperative land ownership and have a say in managing the community?”

The show runs through the weekend.

ROC USA PHOTO / Mike Bullard

Jeanee Wright tells Maine Manufactured Home Show visitors about resident-owned communities Friday in Augusta, Maine.

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