There’s plenty of reasons why manufactured housing ought to be performing much better than it has been. The report featured this evening is about a survey by BankRate. Properly understood, their data could be added to the list of reasons why much more sales growth is possible. On a day […]
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Sadly, the mistakes being made in marketing and communications about manufactured housing are legion. The good news? That’s opportunity in disguise, says L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach. The video below – and the firm’s results – reflect concepts that the factory-built housing industry’s professionals, marketers, and investors should ponder. “As the
Last year, growing RHP Properties expanded their portfolio, but the giant manufactured home community (MHC) operation is doing even more buying in 2019. On Sept. 10, 2018, RHP Properties – which says they have the nation’s largest privately-owned portfolio of manufactured home communities (MHC) – announced that they had
Two sets of media releases to the Daily Business News on MHProNews reflects the following data, that should be of keen interest to all segments of the manufactured housing industry. First, the following. “Manufacturing in the United States is on the rise, and manufacturers are confident about the future. Empowered
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HUD Secretary Ben Carson is periodically featured on MHProNews for what should be obvious reasons. Among those is the fact that the agency he heads is the primary regulatory body for HUD Code manufactured housing. In a new video interview, Secretary Carson talks Opportunity Zones, President Trump and allegations of
Ask the typical business professional or sales agent this. Do they want to sell more or less of their product or service? Do they want more profits, or lower profits? The typical answer will be ‘More, of course.’ The background of this story is the profitable sale of more new
There are several kinds of people when it comes to President Donald J. Trump, or any other human being for that matter. Some will only look at the name, and what they think is bad about the man, for whatever reasons. Yet anyone who looks into a mirror closely enough
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The home has a hitch. It’s set up on blocks. There are wooden shims, much like those found under millions of manufactured homes. Helen’s home is a rectangle, a box. The deck is big, but there are plenty of those found on thousands of manufactured homes. So, what is it
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom and PwC ranks as the second largest professional services firm in the world, says the firm’s website. Their revenue in 2018 was reported at $41.3 billion USD, roughly 5¼ times the size of all manufactured housing industry sales
Sheila Dey, JD, is the Executive Director and General Counsel of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association, per their website. Dey is well known in many parts of the industry and leads one of the purportedly stronger and better-funded trade groups in manufactured housing. To dot the i’s and t’s
This troubling story out of the northern U.S. is one that periodically crops up in state-after-state. As Amy Bliss, the Wisconsin Housing Alliance (WHA) state association executive director recently said to MHReview (MHR), “The biggest reason for community closures is because the municipality revokes the license to operate because the
Accurate news is whatever it is. Facts are what they are. Then, there’s spin, hype – or worse. Others, not us, in MHVille trade media – those who sing the Arlington, VA songs – have been talking about sunshine and “momentum.” Well, it turns out that they were right. The
The markets slid today as most investors declined bite on the word that China and the U.S. may be edging closer to a trade deal. Some insist the trade deal is coming soon, while others say it’s a slow dance and could take significantly longer. But tonight’s focus in on
The numbers for new HUD Code manufactured home shipments for January, 2019 are in. The latest data from IBTS and HUD are sobering. The decline that began in 2018 for new HUD Code manufactured home shipments are continuing. We’ll have a separate report with the facts. It’s is the latest
Murders. Robbery. Burglary. Arson. These and other crimes – drug related or whatever other illegal activities – occur in all kinds of housing. From public housing projects to the swankiest gated developments with multimillion dollar site-built housing, crimes occur wherever people are. But for whatever reason, news about crimes, windstorms,
Exploring the following top ten should be a periodic habit for every professional. It should be part of every business review from firms small- to-large in manufactured housing. These top ten items should be discussed internally, until a new habit is formed by those in management, as well as by those
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The quotation in the headline is a reaction cited in detail further below to legislation passed in Oregon for statewide rent control. Rent control is often hailed by resident groups in our industry. The activists at MHAction are just one example of support among manufactured home community (MHC) resident groups.
What follows are just the facts about our reader engagement per third-party Webalizer from the top 2 of several URL/cPanel accounts for Business to Business (B2B) focused MHProNews.com. Year over Year (YoY), traffic on MHProNews has doubled. Pageviews: 15,516,004. Total Visits: 3,168,015. Average page views per visit: 4.89770534546, or just
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On the 10th up week for rising largely markets. It was a good day for the markets in general, and manufactured home connected stocks too. Tonight, we turn to a video with White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Kevin Hassett. He lays out the numbers looking back, and looking
MHLivingNews recently featured a report where Democrats and Republicans came together in a bipartisan way to support manufactured homes as an important part of the solution the affordable housing crisis in their state. That report is linked here and below. Those lawmakers looked at facts, figures, and the reality of
