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Manufactured Housing, Prison Reform, Production, and Factory Built Housing Opportunitie$

By / November 24, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Factory-Built Homes, housing, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, People

Prisons. Prisoners. Manufactured housing. There are already points of intersection.  Can – and should – there be more? Can the factory-built housing industry and the penal system each benefit by developing deeper ties with the other?  Can that be accomplished profitably? The private and public sides of the U.S prison …

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No Market Report T-Day, Manufactured Housing Industry Reflections

By / November 24, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Announcements, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry

With the U.S. stock markets closed on Thanksgiving day, the most recent report available is last night’s closing numbers, charts, data, insights, and commentary – which are reported at the first link below. While the manufactured home industry has been rising for several years, its potential is far greater than …

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“Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find,” James Carville, Clinton Strategist

By / November 23, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, media bias, media ignorance, mobile home, People, Politics, Trends

A Democratic strategist said in the run-up to Thanksgiving, 2017, that the holiday should be used to torture supporters of President Donald J. Trump. Then candidate Trump’s 2016 opponent, Secretary Hillary Clinton’s full infamous quote: “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what …

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Sexual Harassment, and the Manufactured Housing Workplace, Two Short Videos

By / November 22, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Management, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, Politics, Trends

Most Americans say they’ve witnessed or experienced sexual harassment, per a recent national poll reported in the Daily Business News. So, that means that what’s happening in other industries, is also taking place in MH Industry workplaces, in locations from border to border. Harassment suits are known to create serious …

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Sexual Harassment, Workplace Poll, Congress, President Sound Off – MH Industry Impact?

By / November 22, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, People, Politics

Quinnipiac University has released the results of a new poll that looks into the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace, Congress and the presidency. “Sixty percent of American women voters say they’ve experienced sexual harassment, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today,” states the poll’s media release …

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Small Business Legalese, Restrictive Contracts to Protect Company Information, 2 Minute Video Tips

By / November 21, 2017 / Advocacy, Association, Business, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Trade associations often provide a variety of services, such as discount offers, to their members. In the case of manufactured housing, you also have the group’s lobbying and advocacy activities. But with most state associations limited to a few hundred companies, beyond the basics of an annual meeting, networking, some …

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“Perverse”–Warren Buffett-Dodd-Frank, CFPB, Manufactured Housing, Loans, Independent Businesses Fact Check$

By / November 20, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Election, Legal, Legislation, loans, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, Politics, regulation, Trends

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” – Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway (BH) Chairman, parent to Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance (VMF) & 21st Mortgage Corp, other industry suppliers, et al, cited per BrainyQuote.   The essence of simplicity for business …

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NFIB’s Juanita Duggan Cheers, Leads, Explains Why on Tax Reform for American Businesses

By / November 17, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Legislation, Manufactured Housing Industry, Small Business, Trends

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) President and CEO Juanita Duggan said that “the House took a big step toward tax cuts that will help America’s small businesses grow and create jobs.  Small businesses account for more than half the jobs and half the economy.  We look forward to working …

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Study Recommending New Manufactured Housing Association for Independent Retailers, Communities, Lenders, Others Released

By / November 16, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Communities, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, regulation, research

As was teased earlier today, a new report has been released that recommends to manufactured housing industry companies and state associations that a new “post-production” trade association be formed to represent their unique interests. A post-production association could be defined as an trade association that represents all those not directly …

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Criminal Charges Filed Against Manufactured Home Community Owner

By / November 12, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, regulation

It’s been about 6 months since the Daily Business News last reported on the Oak Hollow community in San Antonio, TX. A decrepit sewage sanitation system is a key part of the allegations. It was problem back then, but it has turned into a criminal indictment of Joe Mangione, the …

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FEMA, Manufactured Housing Industry’s Gift that Keeps Giving?

By / November 11, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, regulation, Small Business

Around the time of Hurricane Katrina, the Wisconsin Housing Alliance’s (WHA) Ross Kinzler advocated that Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) emergency housing units be designated as something other than a manufactured home. That bit of forethought was never adopted. A dozen years later, today the formal FEMA term “Manufactured Housing …

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Possible Professional, Media Scam Alert, So-Called Manufactured Home Industry “Researchers”

By / November 9, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Announcements, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, media ignorance, mobile home, research

While press releases (PR) often bring useful information, a media release can be used to peddle fake or problematic news about – whatever. In this case the whatever involves the manufactured home industry. The apparent targets are investors, the media, housing professionals – and through them, others. As a disclaimer, …

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Troubling University Research, “Dying Industry,” Says MHI Member Exec

By / November 9, 2017 / Advocacy, Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Economy, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, media ignorance, mobile home, People, regulation, research, Trends

“Affordable housing for middle- and lower-income families is drying up by the month in California,” opens an article sent by an MHI member company executive, in response to recent industry coverage on the Daily Business News. The subject line in the news tip had two words in it, “Dying industry.” …

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“Mobile Home Fires,” “Free Smoke Detectors,” 1 of 1000s of Examples Why Terminology, Informed Media Important to Manufactured Home Industry Professionals

By / November 6, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, media ignorance, mobile home, research

In Champaign Illinois, there have been what’s described as “two mobile home fires” recently, and as a result, the local fire department is going to the local Shadowwood manufactured home community to give away and install smoke detectors. WANDTV said that, “They’re calling Saturday a “Smoke Detector Blitz” and say …

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CATO/YouGov Research Reveals Surprising Views of Clinton, Trump Voters, Free Speech, Political Correctness

By / November 6, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Non-Profit, People, Politics, research, Trends

That the nation – and thus Washington, D.C. – are polarized is no secret. That big pieces of legislation impacting manufactured home owners, businesses, and investors has been stuck in the halls of Congress, due in part to polarization is widely known too. But just how wide is that gap? …

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Historic! Affordable Manufactured Housing, Local/ National Politics, Professionals, Investors and the Home-Buying Public

By / November 5, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Container Housing, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, media ignorance, mobile home, People, Prefabricated housing, Trends, Zoning

From its earliest days, America had a need, a thirst, for affordable housing. About a century ago, Sears sold pre-cut kit homes by catalog as one way to obtain that affordable American Dream of home ownership. As Americans have long been a people ‘on the move,’ the original trailer houses …

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“You Made Me, Promises, Promises…” Historic Iranian, American Lessons in Freedom

By / November 2, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Economy, Election, Flashback, housing, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, Politics

This image at the left was posted and is found online in Iran today. It’s a page from a newspaper published during the ousting of the Shah, and the coming to power of the once exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader. The red outlines around the Farsi …

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USDA, Arthur Brooks Spotlight Facts with Useful Signals to Manufactured Home Professionals, Investors

By / October 30, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, Politics

Generally speaking, the more Americans there are working in stable jobs, the more opportunities there are to sell homes – including manufactured homes – to those citizens. That reality is one reason why publicly traded manufactured housing companies often note economic activity and signals – up or down – in …

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Propaganda, and the Manufactured Housing Revolution

By / October 25, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Announcements, Association, Business, Manufactured Housing Industry, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, People, Politics, regulation

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World “In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand …

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Resident Homeowner Groups, Public Policy, Media, Manufactured Housing, Investors, and You

By / October 24, 2017 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Canada, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, media bias, People, Politics, regulation

State associations, in places such as Ohio or Florida, have demonstrated their ability to work with resident/homeowner groups on a variety of issues. For example, Tim Williams and Andrea Reichman with the Ohio Manufactured Home Association collaborated with resident groups in their recent battle to save their state regulatory structure, …

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