“When I Slow Down, I Go Faster.” – Ken Blanchard, PhD, The One Minute Manager. The year was 1985 when The One Minute Manager was first published. It was a year or so after that date when this writer picked up that book, and began to apply some …
“When I Slow Down, I Go Faster.” – Ken Blanchard, and Manufactured Housing Read More
In May, the McBee Town Council passed a temporary moratorium on manufactured homes from being placed in that town’s city limits. WISTV reports that the motion read, “Mobile Homes are prohibited from being placed on any lot within the town limits of McBee, South Carolina and any current uninhabited …
What are skilled workers? “Its training the works for the skills that industry needs,” said Linda McMahon, who heads up the federal Small Business Administration (SBA). Johnson Controls, makes numerous products, including heating, ventilation or air-conditioning systems and fire alarms, for housing, business and for manufactured home firms too. …
“Manufactured home communities have a long history of providing low-cost housing in the U.S., where residents drive their homes in, secure them, and pay a monthly rent to stay on the owner’s land. These homes are typically the least expensive option when it comes to unsubsidized housing, serving households with …
“The National Association of Realtors is usually a good source of statistics but they’ve gone off the rails with this factoid,” says John Wake in a new column on Forbes. Wake’s column should get manufactured housing industry professionals and investors thinking. Wake was looking at a tweet by the …
“Compared with the unregulated mobile/trailer homes of the past, the manufactured homes built after 1976 have a higher level of safety, durability, and quality, and the small fraction of homes damaged during hurricanes attests to their safety and durability. New design features and multi-section homes are increasingly giving them the …
NEWARK, ARKANSAS – on Tuesday, 7.17.2018, Equal Justice Under Law – a national civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C. – filed a federal civil rights complaint against the City of Newark for blocking and banishing residents simply because they do not own an expensive home. “In 2015, the …
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit met today. They examined the existing regulatory structure for prudentially regulated financial institutions, with a view to exploring avenues how Congress and regulators can address challenges through policy changes. “While I believe in robust capital requirements, I don’t …
Balancing Capital Requirements and Access to Credit Read More
In states and local jurisdictions from coast to coast, various private or public agencies offer programs that provide grants, low cost loans, or other assistance in obtaining repairs or even replacements for aging mobile home or older manufactured housing units. These types of programs routinely have income and …
It’s an event that’s more than double the size of the Louisville manufactured housing trade show’s display. This brand-new event is also much larger than the number of manufactured and tiny homes displayed at the factory-built housing industry’s Tunica Show. Who’s making this special event happen? Out of millions …
Huge New Factory-Built Home Wholesale Liquidation Event Announced Read More
No good parent demands that an infant start to walk moments after they’re born. Development of motor skills and intellect takes time. The initial achievement for the normal baby is to learn to roll over, then to crawl, later that first step, walking, and finally a healthy child learns …
Crawl, Walk, Run – Monday Morning Manufactured Housing Marketing and Sales Meeting Read More
Nature abhors a vacuum. At the center of every business’ or industry’s success was the recognition of a need, followed by the steps required to fill that need. The affordable housing crisis is well known and documented. What is less embraced are the causes and potential solutions, which includes …
7 Reasons Why Manufactured Housing is Poised to for More Rapid Growth Read More
Facts are facts. They are not partisan, or at least, they shouldn’t be. It may not always seem like it, but tax rates and related policies – hold that yawn, please – can be significant drivers of economic activity. Translated, taxes can help or harm business, including manufactured …
Really? Taxes are Cut, Tax Collection and Revenue Grows? Read More
“We’re thrilled that it passed this first hurdle,” said Cameron Herrington to the Portland Tribune. Herrington is the “anti-displacement coordinator for Living Cully,” which is described as a coalition of nonprofits campaigning to create the new protections for residents. “In 2016, the Portland Housing Bureau worked with …
City Fighting to KEEP Dozens of Manufactured Home Communities Read More
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) anti-trust division has the slogan, “Protecting and Promoting Competition.” It sums up why this issue matters to thousands of manufactured home industry professionals, and consumers. Rephrased, this rule could impact every manufactured home industry professional, regardless of what company or organization you are working for …
Tom Hardiman with the Modular Home Builders Association (Modular Building Institute) thoughtfully confirmed for MHProNews the data on shipments of new modular homes cited by the recent Harvard State of the Nation’s Housing in 2018 Report. Accuracy in information are important for all aspects of factory home building. The …
Manufactured and Modular Housing Factoids, and Profitable Analysis Read More
“Investors: D.R. Horton, Inc., America’s Builder, has been the largest homebuilder by volume in the United States for thirteen consecutive years,” says the publicly-traded company’s website. Their website provided the following data, linked here. The screen capture below is just part of that fact sheet. Horton sells more …
What other industry that has existed for over 40 years, and still struggles with the proper terminology about its product? Have you ever heard of anyone use the term ‘crank phone with a land-line,’ when describing a modern smart phone? Or who calls a modern E-Class Mercedes by …
Wheat and chaff. Everyone, and any organization that one cares to study, will have good and ill to be found. The wheat from Warren Buffett can include his understanding of the need for long-term investing in common sense arenas that have an endurable competitive advantage. The chaff could be could …
How Warren Buffett Built Berkshire Hathaway Investment Empire, Infographic Read More
When Jon Markman reveals much with his first paragraph in Forbes, which said: “Since 1975, Sun Communities has been flying under the radar. Managers have been buying and operating trailer parks.1 And they have been making a fortune for shareholders.” Markman’s bio says Analyzing tech stocks through the prism …
Forbes Boast$ about Manufactured Home Community Operation Read More
