Skimmer alert: the subject isn’t a video per se. But we open this Daily Business News on MHProNews with a comment about a new video because it shines a light on broader issues that have drawn comments – also shared below – from a variety of industry personalities. Many are …
From sources: inside the GSEs, from within the ranks of producers of HUD Code manufactured housing, plus association sources – meaning those aligned with the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) – the Daily Business News on MHProNews has received calls, messages, and in-person news tips about the Duty to Serve (DTS) …
Explosive Comments on Duty to Serve Manufactured Housing Lending from Well Placed Sources Read More
The number of former Conseco, Greentree, and other now defunct industry lenders that are still working in manufactured housing (MH) is not insignificant. Similarly, as MHI bleeds staffers and members on a periodic basis, past or current members and staff are among those who message or call MHProNews …
Let’s be clear. This post is a simple comparison between the image-defending video Clayton Homes clearly invested several thousand dollars in for their ‘Have it Made’ campaign vs. a video by a purported Clayton Homes home owner, who is slamming their construction and quality. The Clayton-slamming customer …
“Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire…” – part of a children’s rhyme to discourage dishonesty. “You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.” – Mark Twain, advice to youth, per Speakola. “Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that …
“Pants on Fire” – Latest New Manufactured Housing Shipment Report Read More
Whatever your position is on Nancy Pelosi (CA-D), she is proving you can’t beat someone with no one. That principle applies in numerous aspects of one’s business or professional life too, including our once far-greater in scope industry. Affordable housing advocates need more than a lament. Those who …
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, chances are, it’s a duck. It’s useful, because of the insights revealed. What’s useful? The costly Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) self-defense, self-promotion video is arguably a fine razzle dazzle production. Their video obviously reflects the issues MHI’s leadership and …
Before we get into the purported Clayton/21st/MHI “kill shots” in our headline and feature image, a few words – a preface – are in order. Preface: We consider ourselves to be among those independent industry professionals who are positive-goals and solution-oriented people by nature. Those who know us …
Clayton’s Miss, Kevin and Tim’s Manufactured Housing Kill Shot, More Read More
It is one of the most controversial issues in the manufactured housing industry today. Through their apparent power at the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), Clayton Homes has backed the notion of a “new class of manufactured homes.” It is a thorny issue, as there are various, divided views …
There are some things you can’t make up. There are not many that would accuse Brad Pitt and the Make it Right Foundation he helped establish of purposefully providing modular homes that have been drawing negative media attention for the last few years. It seems like a fit for …
There is no joy for a pro-manufactured housing trade media to report any bad news about problematic cases. But ignoring bad news is debatably worse for the industry than not stating what the facts, concerns, and often mainstream media reports reflect. In this case, the jury has ruled. …
America and our industry are suffering under several interrelated issues. Let’s do a quick survey with links to details, and then push onto a specific and time sensitive example for manufactured housing. One is arguably the problem of monopoly, impacts many industries, not only ours. That is not today’s focus, …
Crisis of Misinformation, Fact Checks, and Manufactured Housing Read More
The Conference Board has released its latest data, which dipped slightly, but is still near its historic high for the past decade. Consumer confidence is periodically cited by publicly traded manufactured home producers as important for buyers to make that major purchasing decision. Other recent data reflects what could …
Consumer Confidence High Heading into Holidays, Per Conference Board, Retail Sales Surge Read More
Not one, but two different former independent HUD Code manufactured housing retailers that sold out to Clayton Homes in recent years revealed a surprising trend to MHProNews. Retail traffic – manufactured home shoppers – at formerly independently-owned manufactured home sales centers declined after Clayton Homes bought their locations, …
Clayton Homes Owned Sales Centers Reveal Surprising Trend Read More
It is stating the obvious to observe that the news media, as well as the entertainment world, has an ability to influence the perceptions of readers, viewers, and listeners. As the majority of front-line industry professionals, serious investors, owners, executives, and management know, tens of millions of our fellow …
AP and numerous local media announced last week that residents in a manufactured home community in California won a multi-million-dollar judgment from a jury. “A jury has awarded more than $5.5 million to 31 residents of a Southern California mobile home park1 [sic] rife with problems including sinkholes, sewage …
Jury Awards Millions to Residents in Suit Against Controversial Community Operator Read More
There are times that one must look outside of one’s industry or profession for useful insights. That’s the case with today’s Monday Morning Marketing and Sales Meeting. Toyota has issued a recall for some 800,000 Prius vehicles, per NPR. Those recall totals are equal to about 11 years …
Ford and Toyota Teach Manufactured Housing Professionals and Investors Read More
The truth can be stranger than fiction. Prepare to scratch your head in wonder, to be stunned, or both. But the evidence will be provided, and you can decide for yourself whatever you think it means to you, your business, the manufactured home industry, and our nation that is seeking …
A report and analysis from Columbus, GA linked further below from earlier today includes the interview of a man who stated that he was homeless prior to moving into an affordable manufactured home. Now an official in that town is threatening to close the community that provided a once-homeless man with …
If there is one thing that almost everyone likes, it’s good press. The reverse of that reality is that public officials, mainstream media, and professionals dread media scrutiny that reveals unjust behavior. Against that backdrop is the following mainstream news story out of Columbus, GA. It focused on a …
Public Official, ABC News, Manufactured Home Community Owner Clash Over Resident Concerns Read More
