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In a release this afternoon to MHProNews, “Universal Forest Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: UFPI) today announced it has completed the reorganization of its operations and is now operating as UFP Industries, a change announced in August 2019.” That will be our featured focus this evening. Periodic readers of this business-nightly feature …
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The Arlington, VA based Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has for the past few years been touting their new class of manufactured homes recently named as “CrossMODTM homes.” When the plan was announced with some fanfare at their Congress and Expo, numbers of MHI members literally walked out of the presentation, …
Josh Hawley, JD, is his state’s junior senator (MO-R) who just turned 40 yesterday. “As Missouri’s attorney general, he launched an antitrust probe against Google in 2017. In his six months in the Senate, he has attached his name to no less than five bills aimed at regulating and reducing …
“Studies find about 40 percent of Americans will make a New Year’s resolution, but only about 10 percent will actually keep those resolutions,” said ClickOnDetroit. “Some experts have advice on how to help boost the odds of making those new habits stick. Most people throw in the towel on their …
Public perception is obvious an important part of the sale of any product or service. If a service is popular or of general interest, the demand is routinely there. That’s especially true in ‘good times.’ Given the millions of housing units needed in the U.S., the fact that conventional housing …
This report will be provided in these 3 segments. Part 1 – Secretary Carson’s certification of HUD’s latest data on homelessness to MHProNews and other media outlets. Part 2 – Thumbnail analysis of HUD Data, what it could mean for affordable, manufactured housing. Part 3 – Related, linked research. …
Facts and trends matter. Data should be near the core of good business or investing decisions. Financial analysts, investors and of course manufactured home professionals are among those who tune in by the thousands to this evening investing and market recap. Beyond graphic snapshots of the broader markets, industry connected …
“Patrick Waite is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. (NYSE: ELS), which owns and operates an $11 billion portfolio of manufactured home resort communities and RV properties across the United States and British Columbia,” according to bus.wisc.edu. Bloomberg’s profile of David P. Eldersveld …
A red-hot, which means viewed a lot, movie streaming on Netflix is Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. It’s best understood as historically grounded fiction. While there’s long been theories on who ordered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, or what happened to Teamsters Union boss Jimmy Hoffa, there’s no public …
The SEC has reportedly recently settled a case with VW. “Volkswagen’s Dieselgate was so beyond just a recall, that was flat-out corruption,” Cox Automotive’s Krebs said. “They lied and got caught.” All told, VW has paid out some $25 billion in fines and claims. The sums could mount as European …
Facts are what they are. MHProNews believes in pragmatic strategies that have worked under Democratic and Republican administrations. Despite rhetoric to the contrary, tax cuts worked for Democratic President John F. Kennedy and Republican President Ronald Reagan. They are working for President Donald J. Trump. Are the results perfect? No. …
Depending on whom you listen to in Briny Breezes, in Palm Beach County, Florida broker James Arena is either being creatively pragmatic or he is a con man who should have his real estate license revoked. Is there middle ground about Arena and his concept for the 43 acre tract …
Community associations and resident advocates alike have been making the issue of elder abuse part of the narrative impacting land lease communities and residents who may be 60 or older. This evening’s market focus will briefly introduce a topic that could be fertile ground for litigants, which means risky ground …
Preface. A new article by a competitor sheds a fascinating light on why the manufactured housing industry is underperforming during an affordable housing crisis. They say that the total number of new communities is ‘slow to rise.’ While that hardly plows new ground, there are several points that it makes …
Music can lift the spirits and move the soul. For our Christmas gift in 2019 to our readers, we selected this medley of tunes classical and modern. The first music video opens with the singers, but transitions to images of Joseph and Mary heading toward Bethlehem. Cutaways between the singers …
The ubiquitous Drudge Report tells us today that Super Saturday sales hit a record $34.4 BILLION dollars. That makes it the biggest single shopping day of the year, reportedly dwarfing evening Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. To give that a manufactured housing context, total manufactured home sales at retail …
This is being written and published the day before Christmas. While some are scurrying for last minute shopping and bargains, others who once did the same are homeless. Tens of millions more are teetering at the edge. As the video that follows will evidence, numbers of those living on the street, …
MHProNews has held the position for years that manufactured housing is underperforming, which means that opportunities for those who grasp that causes and address the cures for that performance deficit. For example, when manufactured home community sector ‘stars’ like ‘Frank and Dave’ say never invest in a new community, think …
James M. Arena is a real estate broker in Palm Beach County, Florida. He is a mayoral candidate for the Town of Briny Breezes, FL. Arena believes the town could be a perfect site for President Donald Trump to build a Presidential Library, Hotel and the first ever Presidential Township …
