The rebranded Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection – formerly the CFPB, now the BCFP – has produced a January 2019 report that contains new data regarding manufactured housing lending. There are over 200 pages. We’ll simplify that for busy readers. MHProNews will hereby provide the entire document here as a …
That quoted part of the headline phrase comes from the Prager University video, post further below. But before we get to that, a few manufactured housing industry related thoughts. An “ideological echo chamber” arguably exists inside manufactured housing, and outside of the factory-built housing industry too. The video …
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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has released their Small Business Optimism index for December, 2018. In a release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews, NFIB said, “The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index remained basically unchanged in December, drifting down 0.4 points to 104.4…Unfilled jobs and …
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The new National Association of Manufactured Housing Community Owners (NAMHCO) has launched another proverbial shot across the bow of the establishment Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), that they broke away from last year. While it is too soon to see what the effectiveness of this new trade group will …
Manufactured home equities closed mixed again today, and the broader markets overall took their second closing dip that started on Friday. Ideally and historically – given that there is an affordable housing crisis – manufactured housing stocks should be more durable than they have been in recent years. Why the …
Disney’s theme parks are part of a larger conglomerate. It includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following companies. Put differently, consider Disney as one of those giants that are steadily building their moat, rather akin to Berkshire Hathaway. Our publisher L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach has …
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It is no secret that MHProNews believes in applying similar principles of accountability to an association that one should apply to a successful, ethical business. If there was a business manager or company president that year-after-year, failed to deliver, what would happen to such a professional? What happens to …
Go ahead, say it. Naïve, idealistic, rash, foolish, or a crusader who believes that the only way that positive change occurs is by intelligently challenging the status quo. That challenge can and should be honorable, and it can and should be profitable. So, pragmatism and reason are involved. Over the …
Imagine a system methodology or modus operandi (M.O.) that win, lose, or a even a so-so outcome was still rewarded. Hold that thought for later. Next, let’s turn to the Manufactured Housing Institute’s latest ‘news’ update to their members. Using the ‘wheat and chaff’ approach to analysis, MHI provided two …
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“Cari Gorman-Salisbury owns a 2-acre lot surrounded by R1L-175 zoning which limits property owners to site-built structures. Mistakenly believing her property, acquired in 2017, provided for manufactured homes, she bought one and had it delivered one day in September to the property located on the west side of Orme …
Imagine for a few moments that a law would allow you to place a new HUD Code manufactured home someone wants to purchase in one of the numerous areas where they are currently being zoned out by local officials. There is arguably no need to imagine that, because that …
One advantage that HUD Code manufactured homes have over other types of factory building that keeps costs lower is that it is federal and enjoys the enhanced preemption established by the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act (MHIA) of 2000. There are some items that the Daily Business News on …
Surprising Discovery on Manufactured Housing’s Enhanced Preemption, Hidden Gem$ Read More
It has been one of the more-read articles on the Daily Business News on MHProNews, which means it is one of the hotter topics in the manufactured housing industry. And today, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) said the following about NAMHCO – in their take on …
It’s one more #nettlesome data-point that must make a certain CEO in Arlington, VA turn red-faced. According to Fannie Mae, and CNBC, “More Americans think it’s a bad time to buy a home.” What’s bad for higher priced homes, and expensive rentals should be good for manufactured homes. Certainly, that …
Capital, other market manipulations, plus an apparent failure by the Arlington, VA based Monopolistic Housing Institute (MHI) to deliver on their self-proclaimed ‘promotion’ of the industry are obvious takeaways from the latest new HUD Code manufactured home (MH) shipment report. But those are not the only problems that the …
2019 Trade Shows, Next Battleground of the Manufactured Housing Revolution? Read More
First, a message from Susan Brenton with NAMHCO and AZMHCA.com to our publisher, L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach. Tony: Here’s NAMHCO’s statement regarding the Disneyland issue, from President Neal Haney. “It is important to get the nomenclature right – whether it be modular offices or manufactured homes. Trailers are for …
Every part of the headline will be covered in this column and analysis, only the sequence will be mixed. Let’s frame this report simply. Affordable housing is potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the U.S. That’s the conclusion of Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Alexa Fund. …
“Since Colorado-based RV Horizons purchased Houlton’s St. Croix Meadows RV Park in the fall of 2015, Town of St. Joseph Town Board has twice voted to deny renewal of the park’s operating license, citing various infractions including failure to pay its bills to the city,” said the Wisconsin-side of …
Let’s be clear. There are good reasons to use proper terminology. That said, this world-famous “epic and honest” commercial further below has 4.8 million views at the time we are posting it on the Daily Business News on MHProNews. At the time that WAAY-31 TV spotlighted them, they were …
Here’s the overview for this evening’s report. First, we’ll look at HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau’s November 2018 conventional housing data. Then, compare that to the data that was just published today on HUD Code manufactured homes for November of 2018. Finally, we’ll wrap this evening up …
