UMH Properties, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust. The company is headquartered in Freehold, New Jersey and currently employs 460 full-time employees. The firm's primary business is the ownership and operation of manufactured home communities, including leasing manufactured home spaces on an annual or month-to-month basis to residents. The firm also leases manufactured homes to residents and, through its REIT subsidiary, UMH Sales and Finance, Inc. (S&F), sells and finances the sale of manufactured homes to residents and prospective residents of its communities and for placement on customers’ privately-owned land. The firm owns around 134 manufactured home communities consisting of approximately 25,600 developed homesites. The communities are located in New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Alabama and South Carolina. In connection with the operation of its communities, UMH also leases homes to prospective tenants. The firm sells and finances the sale of manufactured homes in its communities through S&F.