Need Help with Texas MHA Membership and TDHCA Licenses for MHP

[John Jacobus]

We just bought a park in San Antonio, TX and will be bringing in ~40 new homes over the next 1-2 years. We are not certain about the Texas MHA membership requirements and/or Texas DHCA licensing requirements and are hoping to connect with park owners in TX who have navigated this path before.

Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA):

We seek insight into the TDHCA licensing types. We want to own and operate parks in Texas while also filling in vacant lots with new and used homes. It’s unclear to us which type(s) of licenses we need in order to execute this plan:

1. Retailer - we will be moving in new / used homes.  Does this qualify as selling new homes if we rely on the CASH program?
2. Broker
3. Installer - we don't plan to do the installation ourselves but we do plan to have new homes moved in.  
4. All of the above
5. Some combination of 1-3

Texas MHA:

It seems that a TDHCA license is needed in order to join the Texas MHA as a community owner. Is this true?  Are there ways around this?