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| As site and home rental income should continue to grow through our rent increases and improvements in occupancy, we should continue to increase the profitability of our sales operation |
| We are pleased to report another quarter of normalized FFO growth |
| And in working with our Vice President of Rentals and our other Vice Presidents, we feel very confident that we can achieve a similar amount of homes as last year |
| But if you're able to achieve the same number of homes coming in but on a just-in-time basis, the results will be even better than they are today |
| We made considerable progress executing our long-term business plan, which resulted in improved operating and financial results |
| Demand is incredibly strong on the sales and the rental front |
| We're very pleased that this year we were also able to achieve a double-digit same-property NOI increase |
| In 2020 and 2021, we had eight consecutive quarters in a row where we had double-digit same-property NOI increases |
| The improved operating results are generating a meaningful increase in community value, which is being realized through our financing and refinancing efforts |
| So we are a strong company |
| So great progress on the underlying property fundamentals are among the best of any REIT that I've seen report recently and the double-digit growth in same-store NOI is very, very compelling |
| This is the third consecutive quarter of sequential FFO growth |
| We believe that the company is well positioned for additional FFO growth, as we continue to improve our operating results |
| I believe we sold about eight new homes last year and have very strong demand to continue to sell homes, and those are all very profitable sales |
| And Fohl Village has been a very strong location and we're very pleased with the numbers |
| So we still have plenty of runway to go, and we've proven that demand is very strong |
| We are well positioned to execute on these opportunities when they arise |
| Our team did an exceptional job installing, renting and selling over 1,200 new homes this year |
| Our successful sales and rental programs generated a net increase in occupancy of 704 units, an increase of 210 basis points over last year |
| Manufactured backlogs have been reduced to four to eight weeks, so we believe we will be able to achieve similar if not better occupancy gains with just-in-time inventory |
| We believe that we have positioned the company to outperform in the coming years |
| UMH had a solid year on the financial and operating fronts |
| These items will help us to generate additional occupancy and revenue gains thereby increasing earnings and property values |
| The occupancy and revenue gains position UMH to outperform the market in 2024 |
| We are well-positioned to continue to grow the company internally and externally |
| Same-property income increased by 11% for the quarter and 9% for the year generating same-property NOI growth of 19% for the quarter and 13% for the year |
| These expansions are located in good markets in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Indiana and should generate profitable sales |
| The gains made on the occupancy and revenue fronts, position us for an even stronger 2024 |
| This should help to reduce our interest expense and carrying costs, while allowing us to generate similar overall occupancy and revenue gains next year |
| Our rental home portfolio continues to perform exceptionally well |
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| Our results for 2022 and the first half of 2023 were negatively impacted by our inventory issues |
| The affordable housing crisis is only going to intensify from single-family homebuilders pulling back resulting in fewer housing starts, mass migration to the United States, and the obsolescence of the existing housing stock |
| But to the extent it didn't hit on a per share level today, it's strictly because of the problems we spoke about the first half of the year carrying such inventory and needing to pay down the cost of that inventory through issuing equity |
| The spread between buyers and sellers resulted in a relatively muted transaction year in the UMH space |
| As we have discussed throughout the year, our financial results were impacted by the carrying costs associated with our unusually high inventory levels during the first half of the year |
| The shortage of housing is there and it's not so easy to get the approvals and to build those communities |
| Are you seeing any uptick in bad debt on the rental units? The apartment guys have been getting a hit harder by various fraud schemes |
| COVID caused manufacturing backlogs that increased the cost of each home, increased the amount of inventory we carried and increased many costs associated with carrying high inventory, but that is all behind us now |
| And so the challenge there is can you add that many homes with just-in-time inventory |
| But even to the extent that you're not able to you're going to have significant savings on interest costs |
| And related to that, a big part of your business has been -- the challenge has been the higher cost of funding, because you do have significant growth opportunities that you're investing in |
| So you had a lag in 2023, caused by not having inventory in 2022 and too much inventory in early 2023 |
| Our cost of capital was high this year, because of the low stock price |
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