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“Home is Where Our Hearts Are” – President Trump Address to American Housing Professionals

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported a slight dip in the sales of existing homes, which will be part of a planned upcoming report.  But real estate in general is seen as strong.  But the need for housing is strong, which is a factor fueling the steady rise of […]

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Triad Financial Services, ECN Result$, plus Manufactured Housing Industry Stock Updates

As longtime readers of this evening report know, this report has evolved from the early days of our daily reporting. In more recent years, we not only provide readers with the closing tickers for manufactured home industry-connected equities, but we also give a snapshot of the broader markets. Furthermore, in

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HUD Rescinds 2017 “Guidance” on Carport-Ready Manufactured Homes, Other Changes Ahead?

  In a news release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews, the Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) said the following. MAY 21, 2019     TO:                 MHARR MANUFACTURERS                         MHARR STATE AFFILIATES                         MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW

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Tiny House Comparisons, $50,000 Tiny House Vs. $165,000 Tiny House – Millions of Video Views

No spoilers for this video, just the facts. In 3 weeks, this video has had 2,173,639 views as of the time the Daily Business News on MHProNews drafted this article. There were about 37,000 ‘thumbs up,’ vs. 1800 thumbs down. There were 2,801 comments posted. That’s more comments than the

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Capitalism vs. Socialism Town Hall Discussion, Plus Manufactured Housing Equities Updates

There are stock watchers that think that the current runoff has hit bottom today.  Time will tell.  But there is a lot of red on the major markets and on manufactured home connected stocks this evening.  Not huge drops, but a slide, nevertheless.  That said, our feature tonight is the

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What Are Manufactured Housing Industry Professionals Focused On?

The first and most obvious answer is their own business interests.  That’s the entirely natural answer to the headline question above.  But the question seeks a deeper response, one that asks – what topics or issues are attracting professional reading?  Because what a professional read says much about where an

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Manufactured Housing Institute Housing Alert! “On Capitol Hill…MHI Advances Manufactured Housing Finance Reform,” Redux

It’s literally historic… …it is a reminder why historic items matter… …and we’ll do our customary fact-check and analysis at the end of this MHI exclusive report that they provided to MHProNews directly after the === ##===, below.   HOUSING ALERT On Capitol Hill…MHI Advances Manufactured Housing Finance Reform The

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Why Richard “Dick” Jennison and Lesli Gooch at MHI Should Resign or Go

by L. A. “Tony” Kovach   For some years, this scribe and others have tried to correct the kinds of issues that will be cited in this column in an off-the-radar fashion. Those efforts have candidly not been successful. Having tried the behind the scenes approaches, we are again taking

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Why has MHI Issued a News Release on DOE Proposals Prior to the Rule Being Published? Q&A with M. Mark Weiss of MHARR

by L. A. “Tony” Kovach As regular readers of MHProNews know, MHARR’s new president took the reigns there almost 1½ years ago. When MHI sent us a news release on not yet published DOE standards, it immediately raised some questions for me. So we contacted M. Mark Weiss, the Manufactured

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Controversial Media Reports – The Guardian & KVUE – On-The-Record Interview with Frank Rolfe of Mobile Home University, MobileHomeParkStore, RV Horizons

by L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach One of the most controversial figures in the MHC world today is Frank Rolfe. Frank has staunch supporters and adamant detractors among the ranks of MH Professionals. When the latest Frank Rolfe related article and video reports came out, MHProNews was contacted by a variety of industry

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Andy Gedo, Partner at ManageAmerica, Raises Clayton Homes Monopolistic Practices Debate; Manufactured Housing Institute Related Issues

Andy Gedo’s LinkedIn profile says he is a “Partner at ManageAmerica.” They are on online property management platform, that cites manufactured housing as one of their specialties. They are active at Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) events, and per sources, an MHI member. To set the stage for the discussion that

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Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg Discusses Antitrust Breaking Up, What Kevin Clayton, Joe Stegmayer, MHI Can Learn, plus Manufactured Home Market Updates

Brookfield, Blackstone, ELS, and Sun Communities are all near the peak value of their stocks for the last year.  It’s an interesting backdrop to a day when the major markets and many other manufactured home industry connected stocks have fallen. That noted, our focus tonight is Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg’s

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Inside Scoop on the Manufactured Housing Industry in Memes

Some readers have asked the Daily Business News for MHProNews for an executive summary of why manufactured housing is underperforming compared to its historic norms. It has been a while since we’ve done cartoons or memes.  While these are meant to be a bit on the lighter side, the issues

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MIT Answers – What’s the Minimum Needed by Family of Four for Housing, Food in Each State in U.S.?

MIT is the famous and widely respected Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  They recently provided an update to what they call their “living wage calculator.” The data shown is from CNBC based upon their use of MIT’s methodology. For those who look and say, ‘that’s too low,’ keep the following in

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Earning a Six Figure American Dream, on 10 Hours Weekly – plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates

Let’s file tonight’s feature under ‘just for fun’ with a purpose.  Tonight’s short video provides tiny sense of why the American Dream is still attainable. On a good day for the markets, keep in mind that this isn’t something you could do in a truly socialist country. If you’re new,

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Census, HUD Official Residential Construction Report for April 2019, Dare to Compare to Manufactured Housing Data

Our publisher was laughing this morning after he read an email. When asked what the joke was, he replied by showing a pro-Manufactured Housing Institute trade media outlet that was announcing their ‘State of the Industry’ upcoming report. “The state of the industry can be summed up by statistics,” said

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Dr. Mark Calabria, FHFA Director Interview, Front Lines of GSE Reform, Manufactured Housing Impacts Ahead

“Mark Anthony Calabria is the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). He was formerly the chief economist for Vice President Mike Pence,” per Wikipedia. A release by the FHFA on April 15, 2019 said in part that: “Dr. Mark Calabria Sworn In as Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.”  Roll

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Amazon-Berkshire Announcement – Emerging Factory-Building Elephant in the Room?

There was no mention this evening of factory-home building when CNBC or some other mainstream business media reported that Berkshire Hathaway has taken a position valued at some $904 million dollars as of the close of the market on 5.15.2019.  But then most others aren’t as keen on factory-built housing,

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