The concentration of wealth and power is a real issue which no less a figure involved in manufactured housing than Warren Buffett has spoken about. Regardless of whether or not someone agrees or disagrees with certain thinkers, it can be useful to probe what they said to see what may …
Perhaps someday public officials and/or plaintiffs’ attorneys peering into the woes hobbling the manufactured housing industry will consider if emails like the one below from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) violated RICO. The Jeffrey Grell law firm says under the heading: “Mail and Wire Fraud. The extensive use of RICO in the …
In an interesting news article on startup factory-builders from Crunchbase was the following keen insight. “In an interview last year, Veev CEO Amit Haller told Crunchbase News that the goal of more affordable housing will require building at scale. In a more ideal world, he envisioned that building homes would …
Money Made, Celebrity Net Worth and The Street each provided an estimate of Kevin O’Leary’s net worth as about $400 million dollars in 2023 reports. According to the first source: “Kevin O’Leary is a Canadian businessman, investor, and television personality with a net worth of $400 million from ventures like SoftKey …
The previously steeper rate of decline in U.S. HUD Code manufactured housing production has slowed. But the decline in manufactured home production has continued, said the Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). That ongoing year of decline has somehow occurred despite the fact that a U.S. …
Business-financial news and views site Barron’s in a recent report ran a headline that said in part that: “…Suit Against Berkshire Challenges Buffett’s Good Guy Image.” Per Bing AI, the late Charlie Munger – Buffett’s longtime vice chairman at Berkshire who died on 11.28.2023 – said about Greg Abel, “Munger …
In the course of preparing a new article on Mobile and Manufactured Home Living News (MHLivingNews) linked among the headlines in review below, the topic of homelessness as a result of inflationary trends sparked the connection with Thomas Jefferson attributed remarks in addressing the concerns of a couple asking …
The Daily Signal has thoughtfully made available to MHProNews the following exclusive report on regulations and what that publication says is the “hidden tax” and impact of regulations on the average American family caused by Biden era federal policies. The title to their exclusive is: “Here’s How Much Regulations Cost …
Legal and illegal immigration has become a hot button topic in nations other than the United States of America (USA). The ‘exploitation narrative’ is also a transnational topic, as this reply from Bing AI indicates. “The concept of exploitation is a prominent topic in political discourse and policy debates…The concept …
“Legacy’s consumer finance business closed more loans in October of 2023 than any other month in the company’s history,” said Duncan Bates, President and CEO of Legacy Housing. Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jeff Fiedelman said: “Legacy delivered an 18.6% return on shareholders’ equity over the last 12 months.” As MHProNews …
There is a mix of good news and troubling news that has emerged from Skyline Champion’s (SKY) earnings call and related ‘official’ corporate information. Several remarks in the following earnings call transcript for Skyline Champion’s most recent quarterly results ought to be a good reason to look more carefully at …
After years of fact checks and reviews by MHProNews, it has become apparent that all publicly traded “investor relations” presentations (a.k.a. “pitch decks”) can provide information potentially useful for a variety of insights and purposes. That will be demonstrated in this report on Cavco Industries (CVCO). Cavco is currently led …
Oddly missing from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) email to industry members and others dated 11.22.2023 are manufactured housing industry statistics. Those details are not given freely to the public by MHI, nor are they provided to manufactured housing industry members by MHI without cost on their new or prior …
According to a recent report by left-leaning NBC News, based largely on data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the following 5 bullets and charts ‘sums up’ the U.S. housing market. NBC described the housing market as being in a “deep slump.” Indicators of that slump? Falling home sales. …
“You should write your obituary and then try to figure out how to live up to it,” said Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) in a recent letter to his shareholders obtained by MHProNews. As informed industry professionals know, Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to …
Grab a snack, a favorite beverage, and dive into this detailed discussion on how ‘The Winners Are the Workers’ per sources that span the left-right divide, and as explored by this back and forth discussion with Bing AI led by inquiries by this writer for MHProNews. Using the balanced or …
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men.” That’s the words of Thomas Jefferson, …
When a ‘survey’ is a ‘sentiments’ survey, as the Texas Real Estate Research Center (TRERC) told MHProNews earlier in this year, it is entirely possible for TRERC and the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) to be accurate about their survey results, but nevertheless be inaccurate or even misleading, intentionally or …
MHProNews will set the table for the headline Congressional letter and related analysis by a series of “stating the obvious” remarks, which may prove to be useful to you and others in your circle. If we the people don’t vote at every legitimate opportunity we have, then those we would …
If an unofficial history of Legacy Housing is ever written, it could include the words ‘that which doesn’t break me is going to make me stronger.’ Such a history may also say ‘Whatever it takes’ – including vertical integration with their own captive lending program. Perhaps as a result of …
