Sun Communities, Inc. is self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company owns, operates, and develops manufactured housing communities concentrated in the midwestern and southeastern United States. Sun Communities is an integrated real estate company which, together with its affiliates and predecessors, acquires, operates and expands manufactured housing communities. Sun Communities Operating Limited Partnership, (the Operating Partnership) is the entity through which the Company conducts substantially all of its operations. As of December 31, 2008, Sun Communities owned and operated a portfolio of 136 properties located in 18 states (the Properties or Property), including 124 manufactured housing communities, four recreational vehicle communities, and eight properties containing both manufactured housing and recreational vehicle sites.