There will be a brief commentary below on the snapshot of the manufactured housing market this evening. That will be followed by Jim Cramer’s – the Mad Money show host – commentary on left-of-center business and investment focused news site, CNBC. Cramer has been a vocal critic of the Fed’s …
The holiday season hasn’t caused the Manufactured Housing Institute of South Carolina still-new communications person to slow down. Janae Frazier has stepped up to the plate with two new pro-industry videos produced on the MHISC’s YouTube channel in December, 2018. The two videos are entirely different styles, as a …
State Association Steps Up, Promoting Manufactured Home Communities Investing Read More
Palm Lake Cooperative at 7272 42nd Way North in West Palm Beach, Florida, has sold the community to MHC Palm Lake LLC. That’s an affiliate of MH Communities, the manufactured home investment arm of Chicago-based Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), per the Business Journal and a local court filing. …
Sam Zell’s ELS Scores Again, Details Others Missed Read More
Informed sources with and connected to Clayton Homes reveals new angles on an emerging, as well as previously stories. According to sources, in under 2 years, Clayton Homes has and will invest some $55,000,000 in technology tied to the manufactured home buyer’s shopping experience. Clayton has demonstrated some of their virtual tour technology …
The Louisiana Manufactured Housing Association (LMHA) video below takes a tact at defending and promoting the acceptance of manufactured homes that is noteworthy. It could have utilized the singularly important point of HUD Code manufactured home enhanced preemption, or any number of other research points that were …
Spotlighting Pro-Growth Educational Effort by Louisiana Manufactured Housing Association Read More
We are periodically asked for an executive summary of the issues that have caused the purported manipulation of the most affordable kind of permanent housing in America. What follows is that executive summary, and it will include two complimentary threads. Read the text. Then look at the illustrated cartoon-style …
The issue that follows is tied to allegations of corruption, how that impacts affordable housing, and thus millions of Americans, plus taxpayer funded budgets. At its core, it’s not a matter of one political party over that one. It seems that the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and the Berkshire …
Affordable housing, working and middle class incomes are far from a new issue. They have been part of the national scene in the U.S. for decades, as this brief recap and linked reports will serve to outline. And sexual or other scandals have arguably often taken those long-pressing issues …
Scandalous, Presidential Politics, Affordable Housing, Mobile and Manufactured Homes Read More
Many if not most Manufactured Housing Professionals – MHPros – know the truth about our industry’s products and services. That said, millions of people don’t know. You might say that they have been conditioned into thinking something that is untrue. Hold that thought, because in many ways it is …
Children, Grandchildren, Family, Manufactured Housing, Money, and You Read More
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that “Former Obama housing chief Julian Castro says he’s taking a step toward a possible White House campaign in 2020 by forming a presidential exploratory committee,” with an announced decision set for Jan. 12, 2019. Castro is said to be the second …
During a widely acknowledged affordable housing crisis, industry professionals and investors should be asking – how is this possible? The chart below provided by an association member reveals that Texas – #1 among the states in new sales – took a drop in new HUD Code manufactured home shipments …
The drama of the changing of the guard at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) that oversees the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been duly tracked by the Daily Business News on MHProNews. One of those barn-burners around allegations of sex …
Rep Jeb Hensarling Applauds Appointment of Dr. Mark Calabria to Head FHFA Read More
These are #NettlesomeThings. A Clayton retailer sent a long message as part of a confidential news tip, that included the following. The Daily Business News on MHProNews has added our customary bold/brown to reflect a direct quote, but the rest are emphasis and typos are in the sender’s original …
“Lots of Sizzle,” Clayton Sales Performance, Other MHI & Clayton Homes News Tips Read More
The initial public offering – IPO – for Legacy Housing Corporation is set for 12.14.2018, per NASDAQ. That makes this a good time to take a look at what they and others beyond the manufactured housing industry are saying about Legacy. “We like old-fashioned businesses. This one is …
What Others Say – Legacy Housing Corp (LEGH) IPO Set for 12.14.2018 Read More
It should be a given that the upper management of Clayton Homes, and their Arlington, VA based Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) are in favor of their stated agendas. No sooner than MHI released their self-promotion video, than the industry’s new home shipments data – those …
“What Are We, Chopped Liver?” MHI Member December 2018 Reactions Read More
Manufactured housing trade show season begins in only a few weeks. First at Louisville, then about 2 months later at Tunica, independent producers of HUD Code manufactured homes, state coded modular housing, ANSI code RV ‘Park Model,’ and tiny houses are among the types of factory-built housing products that …
From time to time state association executives or their staff send hot links into their members to select members. These are often about mainstream news stories that the executive or an association staffer at times fails to carefully check. We’re human, it happens. But as MHProNews reported last …
It’s your own personal rights, property, and wealth that are in the crosshairs. If what is described from news accounts that follow hasn’t yet happened to you, odds are that someone at a meeting you or they attended know about just such an incident on some personal level. …
This is true storytelling with a manufactured housing (MH) purpose. Relax with your favorite Sunday beverage, as you dive in… Winter up north is obviously quite different than winter in central Florida. Having spent about a decade doing MH business projects from bases in WI and IL, the …
If you were a housing shopper, would you buy a home from a cat killer? Hold that thought, as we’ll deal with the alleged cat-killing manufactured home community (MHC) owner noted in the headline in a few moments. But first, realize that if it isn’t cat killing, the …
