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Mel Watt Charged With Sexual Harassment – Manufactured Housing Industry Repercussions?

By / July 30, 2018 / Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, Politics, regulation

“The mortgage industry and Washington were rocked Friday by news that Federal Housing Finance Agency Director [FHFA] Mel Watt has been accused by an agency employee of sexual harassment,” wrote Rob Blackwell for AmericanBanker.   As many manufactured home industry veterans know, the FHFA was established as the receiver for the Government …

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Enduring Good Will Value from Good Business Practices, Monday Morning Manufactured Home Sales, Marketing Meeting

By / July 28, 2018 / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, Marketing Sales Management, mobile home, People

  “Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs.” – Theodore Roosevelt per AZquotes.   If memory serves, it was about 1988 when Colorado’s manufactured housing association used that quote in an article about this writer’s operation in Purcell, OK.  The …

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Manufactured Housing Industry Potential – Sunday Morning Manufactured Home Reports, Headline News Recap 7.22.2018 to 7.29.2018

By / July 29, 2018 / Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Headlines - Week In Review for Manufactured, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, NIMBY, Politics, Trends

What’s Keeping the Manufactured Housing Industry from Attaining Is Full Potential? Years before the Urban Institute asked last January, “Manufactured homes could ease the affordable housing crisis. So why are so few being made?” MHProNews and MHLivingNews explored that very topic,  day by day, story by story, video by video, …

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Race, Equal Opportunities, Affordable Housing, CNN’s Lydia DePillis, and the Dinesh D’Szouza Reality Check

By / July 28, 2018 / Analysis and Commentary, Association, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, NIMBY, People, Politics, regulation, Zoning

  “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell, per Goodreads.   What does that quotation mean?  “The meaning of this statement is that someone can redefine who they are and, in fact, what a society is by being able to …

Race, Equal Opportunities, Affordable Housing, CNN’s Lydia DePillis, and the Dinesh D’Szouza Reality Check Read More

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Blackstone Brilliantly Bets Big On Manufactured Housing, Enters Manufactured Home Communities Contest

By / July 27, 2018 / Affordable Housing, Business, Canada, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks, Trends

    “Blackstone Group LP has made its first bet on manufactured housing by buying a portfolio of communities sold by Tricon Capital Group Inc., according to people with knowledge of the matter,” said Bloomberg earlier today. As the Daily Business News on MHProNews reported earlier this month, Tricon sold …

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Giant Blackstone Enters MHVille, President Touts Record Economic Growth, Plus MH Market Updates

By / July 27, 2018 / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Economy, Finance, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, Politics, Stocks, Trends

There will be a special report later this evening on the entry of the Blackstone Group (BX) into the manufactured home community space. They’ve been added to our evening closing ticker recap.  But tonight’s feature will be on the economy.  Despite concerns over tariffs, trade and the latest faux gaff, …

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Q2 Best Economic Growth in Years, Per Federal Data, MHVille Insights

By / July 27, 2018 / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Economy, Jobs, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, regulation, research, Trends

  There are numerous points that mainstream media pundits are passing over or missing in the latest economic report. Certainly, the major news outlets fail to mention manufactured housing (MH) at all when it comes to economic data and potential impact.   The Daily Business News will begin by setting …

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Focus on More Financing, HUD Program Reforms, Aimed at Increasing Manufactured Homes Sales, Meeting with Assistant Secretary–Federal Housing Commissioner, Brian Montgomery

By / July 27, 2018 / Advocacy, Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Finance, loans, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry

The Daily Business News has been advised of a meeting at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which took place on July 25, 2018.   The focus of that high-level meeting’s discussion? It could be summarized with the following bullets. To: • obtain more personal property financing options …

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Public Radio, State Research Says “Manufactured Homes Could be Opportunity in Affordable Housing Crisis”

By / July 26, 2018 / Advocacy, Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Non-Profit

  Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax held a series of community meetings on the eviction crisis recently, says Virginia’s Public Radio (VPR) to the Daily Business News.   The underlying problem? A lack of affordable housing.  “Now some advocates think manufactured homes, also known as mobile homes, could be a part …

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Facebook Faded Fast, Biggest Plunge in History, Plus MH Market Updates

By / July 26, 2018 / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Company News, Economy, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, research, Stocks, Trends

It’s no secret that FANG – Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google – has drawn a growing amount of monopolistic concerns in the last 2 years. It’s also no secret that big tech has faced push-back from the right, which says that FANG often has shown bias for progressives, and animus …

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MH Association Spotlighted Candidate in Gubernatorial Race Raises Tax Issue in PAC Campaign Ad

By / July 26, 2018 / Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Politics

The Florida Manufactured Housing Association (FMHA) spotlighted Adam Putnam earlier this year, after his tour of a HUD Code manufactured home and modular housing factory in Plant City, FL.   Ag Commissioner, Gubernatorial Candidate Adam Putnam Tours Palm Harbor Plant Adam Putnam’s connected political action committee (PAC), called ‘Florida Grown,’ …

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Sam Zell’s Equity Life’s Properties (ELS) Score$ Again, Manufactured Home Communities Industry’s Most Complete Report

By / July 26, 2018 / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Company News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks

  The Business Journal noted that Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) has 409 properties in the U.S. and Canada.   The Real Deal touted the ELS Chairman Sam Zell angle, in announcing the $50.35 million dollar purchase price. None of the mainstream media sources bothered to show that the monthly site …

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Realtor University, Journal for the Center of Real Estate Studies, Makes Corrections– “The Market for Manufactured Homes,” by Scholastica ‘Gay’ Cororaton, CBE

By / July 25, 2018 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, housing, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, research

  It took under one week from the day since Mark Weiss, JD, President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) and MHProNews/MHLivingNews publisher L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach reached out to a National Association of Realtors researcher for corrections to be made in their seminal report …

Realtor University, Journal for the Center of Real Estate Studies, Makes Corrections– “The Market for Manufactured Homes,” by Scholastica ‘Gay’ Cororaton, CBE Read More

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Earnings Beats, Trade Deal Announced with EU, Stocks Rise, Plus MH Market Updates

By / July 25, 2018 / Announcements, Business, Canada, Economy, Finance, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, Politics, Stocks, Trends

Let’s note from the top that this is just one step in the challenging road of trade negotiations with various economic players globally. The talk from China is still tough. But Mexico’s new president is hinting that there may be a deal.  With that backdrop, what was announced today from …

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New Home Sales Fall to 8-Month Low in June, Data Signals Trouble – or Opportunity in Disguise for Manufactured Housing?

By / July 25, 2018 / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, housing, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Trends

  Let’s start with what the bottom-line for professionals and investors should be in this new data-driven housing report.   The manufactured home industry demonstrably holds a key to America’s economic growth.  The need and market are there. How so? First, let’s look at the facts from the latest conventional …

New Home Sales Fall to 8-Month Low in June, Data Signals Trouble – or Opportunity in Disguise for Manufactured Housing? Read More

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“Even When We Had a Hurricane, It Wasn’t This Bad,” Profitably Decoding Post-Windstorm, Survivor of Possible Tornadoes Statement, Impacting Manufactured Home Community, Manufactured Housing Industry

By / July 25, 2018 / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, disaster, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, media ignorance

  The weather event earlier this week was first reported as a tornado strike by local media on a “mobile home park1” which in this case appears to be a manufactured home community.   Profitably Decoding Windstorm Reports for Industry Professionals Before diving into the details, this Daily Business News …

“Even When We Had a Hurricane, It Wasn’t This Bad,” Profitably Decoding Post-Windstorm, Survivor of Possible Tornadoes Statement, Impacting Manufactured Home Community, Manufactured Housing Industry Read More

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Joseph Stronks Joins Manufactured Home Industry Lender as Chief Operating Officer

By / July 25, 2018 / Announcements, Business, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, Small Business

  “Community West Bancshares, (NASDAQ:CWBC), parent company of Community West Bank, announced that T. Joseph Stronks has joined the bank as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer,” said the company via a release to the Daily Business News. Stronks will lead the Central Operations, Information Technology and Facilities departments of …

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State of the American Workplace Report, Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

By / July 24, 2018 / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, research, Stocks, Trends

One of the hot topics among manufactured housing business owners and management today is the ability to recruit a more qualified workers and team members.  While there is plenty of anecdotal insights from manufactured home professionals, there is no operation that is known to be publishing industry specific, evidence-based information. …

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“Huge Opportunity for Growth,” Says Tom Hardiman, Executive Director, Modular Building Institute

By / July 24, 2018 / Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, People, Trends

“The hotel/hospitality sector represents a huge opportunity for growth and greater adoption of modular construction,” said Tom Hardiman, Executive Director of the Modular Building Institute (MBI).   His comment came as a reaction to this video about modular construction, as well as the latest data that he’s reviewed. “In fact,” …

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Freedonia Group’s Comprehensive Incursion into Manufactured Housing

By / July 24, 2018 / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, research, Trends

  The truth is often hiding in plain sight. Who says?    “Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that’s in plain sight.” – Stephanie Meyer, per AZ Quotes.   “I’ve found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out …

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