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Larry Korte

Larry Korte serves the Balance Group’s clients by developing and delivering their image and message effectively and professionally. Often partnering with graphic artists, Larry develops:

  • web sites 
  • computer based trainings 
  • presentations
  • training manuals 
  • e-mail broadcast systems 
  • electronic newsletters. 

Larry's involvement with housing construction includes: completing a General Contractor's class, attending George Porter's 15 hour Initial Certified Installers course for manufactured housing, remodeling houses for sale, attending home shows and touring factory-built housing production facilities. He plans to build his next home with factory-built housing.

Larry's background and talents provide the clients of The Balance Group with accessible, professional materials to promote their messages. He enjoys helping clients maximize the power of technology at a level that they can afford and learn to maintain for themselves. Resume*.

 
   
 

Deliver your message and
enhance your image,
online.

Wouldn't it be nice to leverage technology from a business perspective; whether you are a nonprofit, trade association, or business?

 
   

What an exciting time to effectively communicate; whether it's customers, members, government officials, or those looking to make a difference in the world.  It doesn't matter where we live and work, whether local or distant, we're all connected.
    Larry Korte

 

Excellent!  Thanks so much, as always, for your expediency.  We couldn’t remain as updated and fresh without you.
    Wendy Puckett,
Executive Assistant/Corporate Board Secretary
 
 

Diane Korte, Planner

Diane Korte, is a land use planner with over twenty five years of experience in both public and private practice. She has supported all aspects of residential development serving as a current planner, a long range planner, a federal grants administrator, and an environmental planner.

For the past ten years, Ms. Korte has consulted for factory built housing state associations.
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For the Kentucky Manufactured Housing Institute:

  • Developed MH Land Use Policy Guides & Model Ordinances more...
  • Testified before Kentucky House and Senate. Legislation passed
  • Developed "Planning Commissioner's Training Module on Manufactured Housing" more...
  • Facilitated Strategic Planning Workshop more...
  • Developed a "Disposal of Uninhabitable Mobile Homes" program tied to a "Serving Kentucky" agenda more...

For the North Carolina Manufactured Housing Institute:

  • Planner for Raleigh Urban Design Home
  • Coordinator of: full day, half day, and Lunch & Learn conference sessions for local government officials more...

As a National Speaker:

  • Manufactured Housing Institute's
    "Developing with Manufactured Homes" seminars
  • American Planning Association 2003 National Planning Conference "From Brownfields to Homes" panel moderator and presentation developer
  • Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation's "Developing Community Assets with Manufactured Housing"
  • MHI Congress and Expo 2003
    "Cityscapes at the Mills of Carthage"

Ms. Korte has supported the Manufactured Housing Institute in negotiating national policy issues with the American Planning Association. On a practical level, she served on approval teams for two 350 unit land lease communities.

After sitting through years of public meetings where affordable housing projects of all types were met with fear and derision, Diane made a commitment to finding solutions for families living in substandard apartments and housing. An important part of this solution is factory built housing. Educating decision makers at the local, state, and national levels on the benefits of factory built housing is a key step. 

Experiencing the frustration of meeting with people unable to compromise on their stands, Diane was trained in consensus building, negotiation, and mediation practices and in the “Technology of Participation" to enable her to work successfully toward public dispute resolution.

Diane brings her enthusiasm and years of training and experience to each project she undertakes.
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In urban, suburban and rural communities,
I served as a current planner, a long range planner, a federal grants administrator, and an environmental planner.

  • Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Long Beach, California
  • Hudson Valley, New York
  • Raleigh, North Carolina
 
   

 

 

The quality of group interaction within an organization; how they communicate, resolve differences, adapt to change, and create intent, has everything to do with the quality of what they do in the world.
    Diane Korte

 

 
   

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