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By / January 10, 2025 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Manufactured housing professionals have likely seen one or more of the headlines (see below) and may have heard the buzz about the latest Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) enforcement action taken on January 6, 2025 against Clayton Homes’s captive lender, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance (VMF). But what thousands of professionals …

Warren Buffett Led Berkshire Hathaway’s Clayton Homes’ Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance CFPB Suit-Manufactured Housing Pros-Investors-Affordable Home Advocates-We’ve Seen This Movie Before-FEA Read More

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Franklin Homes-Chance’s Home World Earn Auto Evolution PR for 3000+ Square Foot Triple Section Oddly Labeled a ‘Tiny Home’ Luxury Model ‘Gives New Meaning to Downsizing’-MHVille Analysis

By / January 8, 2025 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

On the date this article about Franklin Homes (a.k.a.: Franklin Structurers) is being drafted that firm has an “A” rating with the Better Business Bureau. Franklin is a member of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), and per that MHARR website on this date: “Peter James” is MHARR’s …

Franklin Homes-Chance’s Home World Earn Auto Evolution PR for 3000+ Square Foot Triple Section Oddly Labeled a ‘Tiny Home’ Luxury Model ‘Gives New Meaning to Downsizing’-MHVille Analysis Read More

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CFPB Director Rohit Chopra-‘Vanderbilt Knowingly Traps People in Risky Loans’ ‘CFPB Sues VMF-Sets Borrowers Up to Fail on Manufactured Home Loans’ ‘Manufactured Homes-Vital Affordable Housing’

By / January 7, 2025 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is correct in saying that ‘manufactured homes are vital affordable housing,’ as is shown further below. Per the CFPB pleadings linked further below filed “Case 3:25-cv-00004” in the “United States District Court – Eastern District of Teneessee.” According to National Mortgage Professional’s version of …

CFPB Director Rohit Chopra-‘Vanderbilt Knowingly Traps People in Risky Loans’ ‘CFPB Sues VMF-Sets Borrowers Up to Fail on Manufactured Home Loans’ ‘Manufactured Homes-Vital Affordable Housing’ Read More

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Troy Green: Sherry Chris Joins National Association of REALTORS® as Independent Consultant and Special Advisor to CEO Nykia Wright; MHVille Comps between NAR-MHARR-Manufactured Housing Institute

By / January 6, 2025 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

‘Sherry Chris Joins National Association of REALTORS® as Independent Consultant and Special Advisor to CEO Nykia Wright.’ In case you missed it (ICYMI), it is now a new year. How will 2025 differ from 2024? Time will tell, but here in MHVille – the diminished version of the once far …

Troy Green: Sherry Chris Joins National Association of REALTORS® as Independent Consultant and Special Advisor to CEO Nykia Wright; MHVille Comps between NAR-MHARR-Manufactured Housing Institute Read More

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SkyView National Manufactured Housing Community Sale Comps November 2024 vs. UMH Properties New Site Development Cost Data Facts with Analysis; plus Sunday Weekly MHVille Headlines in Review

By / January 5, 2025 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

“Since 2010, UMH has tripled the size of the company by acquiring 107 communities containing approximately 18,800 developed homesites. These communities were acquired with a blended occupancy rate of 73% for a total purchase price of $616 million or $33,000 per site.” So states the UMH Properties 55th Anniversary presentation …

SkyView National Manufactured Housing Community Sale Comps November 2024 vs. UMH Properties New Site Development Cost Data Facts with Analysis; plus Sunday Weekly MHVille Headlines in Review Read More

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Paul Harvey’s “And Now You Know the Rest of the Story” Lessons Plus Keen Insights for America on Why Harvey’s ABC Radio Stories Still Matter; Preston ‘The Tucker’; Facts with MHVille Analysis

By / January 4, 2025 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

“When I was a child, my parents used to listen to Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story.” The premise of the broadcast segments – which proposed to reveal the hidden, or unknown back-story of familiar people, incidents, or phenomena – was alluring even to an 8-year-old. There was more …

Paul Harvey’s “And Now You Know the Rest of the Story” Lessons Plus Keen Insights for America on Why Harvey’s ABC Radio Stories Still Matter; Preston ‘The Tucker’; Facts with MHVille Analysis Read More

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Challenging Frank Rolfe-Dave Reynolds-Mobile Home University Claims About ‘Need’ for Higher Lot Rents-Site Fees; ‘How to Build and Operate a Mobile Home Park’-Gov or Legal Action Needed-MHAnalysis

By / January 3, 2025 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Daily, objective, and detail minded thinkers among MHProNews readers will recall that on 1.2.2025 this writer considered as part of a more detailed report a recent item expressed by Frank Rolfe and Dave Reynolds linked “Mobile Home University” or MHU. It was per that Rolfe and Reynolds linked MHU site …

Challenging Frank Rolfe-Dave Reynolds-Mobile Home University Claims About ‘Need’ for Higher Lot Rents-Site Fees; ‘How to Build and Operate a Mobile Home Park’-Gov or Legal Action Needed-MHAnalysis Read More

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‘Illegal-Unconscionable’ Class Action Case Hits Manufactured Housing Firm-Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park Residents try to Keep Rights ‘Can’t Sleep’ ‘OMG–Bad Investment’ ‘Displacing People for Greed’

By / January 2, 2025 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

According to the pleadings of court case filed by Wesoloski Carlson, P.A, attorneys for plaintiffs (linked below): “This action arises as a result of the illegal and unconscionable acts to illegally evict the Plaintiff and approximately 5000 other residents of the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park (“Li’l Abner”).” Li’l Abner …

‘Illegal-Unconscionable’ Class Action Case Hits Manufactured Housing Firm-Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park Residents try to Keep Rights ‘Can’t Sleep’ ‘OMG–Bad Investment’ ‘Displacing People for Greed’ Read More

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Phil Graham: ‘News is the First Rough Draft of History’ – Economic-Poly Winners and Losers in 2024 plus 2025 MHVille w/Affordable Housing Industry Analytical Preview – How AI is Changing USA

By / January 1, 2025 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Left-leaning Google’s Gemini says: “The phrase “news is the first rough draft of history” is attributed to Philip L. Graham, the former publisher of The Washington Post, meaning that news reporting provides an initial, incomplete account of events that can be further refined and expanded upon by historians later on; essentially, journalism …

Phil Graham: ‘News is the First Rough Draft of History’ – Economic-Poly Winners and Losers in 2024 plus 2025 MHVille w/Affordable Housing Industry Analytical Preview – How AI is Changing USA Read More

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Stone-Kuttner-Kotkin: American Dream Slip vs Rise of Neo-Feudalism: ‘There’s Class Warfare all right but it’s My Class the Rich Class that’s Making War and We’re Winning’-Warren Buffett (2024)

By / December 31, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

In “The Rise of Neo-Feudalism” published on The American Prospect (TAP), Katherine V.W. Stone and Robert Kuttner raise the concern that: “The private capture of entire legal systems by corporate America goes far beyond neoliberalism. It evokes the private fiefdoms of the Middle Ages.” Per Stone and Kuttner: “Elites are …

Stone-Kuttner-Kotkin: American Dream Slip vs Rise of Neo-Feudalism: ‘There’s Class Warfare all right but it’s My Class the Rich Class that’s Making War and We’re Winning’-Warren Buffett (2024) Read More

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Champion Homes Shakeup: Mark Yost Out-Tim Larson Appointed President-CEO; Sarah Janowicz; Kevin Doherty; Has Champion Failed to Meet Fiduciary Duties on Material Issues re: Preemption-CrossMods?

By / December 31, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The federal preemption and CrossMods related parts of the headline with respect to Champion Homes are addressed in Part II. But first up is the switch in leadership at Champion (SKY) from Mark Yost to Timothy Larson. According to WallMine on April 2, 2024 — “Mark Yost is 47, he’s been …

Champion Homes Shakeup: Mark Yost Out-Tim Larson Appointed President-CEO; Sarah Janowicz; Kevin Doherty; Has Champion Failed to Meet Fiduciary Duties on Material Issues re: Preemption-CrossMods? Read More

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Official Total Manufactured Housing Production-Shipments in all 50 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico; MHVille Consolidation; final 2024 Sunday Weekly Manufactured Home Industry Headlines Recap

By / December 29, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

If 2024 seemed to go by all too quickly for you and yours, join the club. A week from now, if all goes well, there will be the first headlines in review for the first Sunday in 2025. It is now less than a month to the inauguration of a …

Official Total Manufactured Housing Production-Shipments in all 50 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico; MHVille Consolidation; final 2024 Sunday Weekly Manufactured Home Industry Headlines Recap Read More

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HUD Documents Own Failures to Congress-Homelessness Soars to Record High Under Biden-Harris; ‘I’m Mad as Hell’ – What HUD Did and Didn’t Say in Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress

By / December 28, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” The famous speech from the classic movie Network is posted further below along with that sadly still timely video clip. “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad,” said fictional anchor …

HUD Documents Own Failures to Congress-Homelessness Soars to Record High Under Biden-Harris; ‘I’m Mad as Hell’ – What HUD Did and Didn’t Say in Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress Read More

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Champion Homes (SKY) Curious Investor Claims+Missing Info? Champion in 1998 vs. 2024; Attention Former and Future President Trump HUD Sec Nominee Eric Scott Turner; Manufactured Housing Analysis

By / December 27, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

According to their “about us” investor relations (IR) page: “Champion Homes, Inc. is one of the largest homebuilders in North America and employs approximately 8,800 people. With more than 70 years of homebuilding experience and 48 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and western Canada, Champion Homes, Inc. is well …

Champion Homes (SKY) Curious Investor Claims+Missing Info? Champion in 1998 vs. 2024; Attention Former and Future President Trump HUD Sec Nominee Eric Scott Turner; Manufactured Housing Analysis Read More

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Warren Buffett Nears Death-Berkshire Hathaway Boss of Clayton Homes-21st Mortgage-Vanderbilt Mortgage Issues Letter-See 4 Buffett Nonprofits-Read his Philanthro-Capitalist Statement with FEA

By / December 26, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

In Part I of this report is the full statement from the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) website of a letter by Warren Buffett to shareholders that has and continues to make news since it’s release pre-Thanksgiving 2024. In Part II of this article will be additional facts, information, and a critical …

Warren Buffett Nears Death-Berkshire Hathaway Boss of Clayton Homes-21st Mortgage-Vanderbilt Mortgage Issues Letter-See 4 Buffett Nonprofits-Read his Philanthro-Capitalist Statement with FEA Read More

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‘I’m Dreaming of a Contrarian Christmas’-Patrice Lewis–Real America–’Come in From the Cold’–’Wishing Believers and Unbelievers Alike the Blessings of Christmas’ Potpourri Music, Videos, Songs, More

By / December 25, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

There are any number of things to celebrate this, and every, Christmas. The Contrarian view of Christmas and more will be shared in Part II.  But first up today in Part I is author Patrice Lewis, courtesy of the WND News Center to MHProNews.  Lewis’s commentary speaks for itself.   …

‘I’m Dreaming of a Contrarian Christmas’-Patrice Lewis–Real America–’Come in From the Cold’–’Wishing Believers and Unbelievers Alike the Blessings of Christmas’ Potpourri Music, Videos, Songs, More Read More

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Investing Overseas? Asian Supply Chain? Depending on Country: China-India-Pakistan-Brazil-More ‘Situation May be Worse than You Think’; Nations Growing Faster than China; MHVille Facts-Analysis

By / December 24, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Once someone begins to digest the reality of several nations overseas, it could dawn on some MHVille pros how important it is to make the United States of America (USA) into a safe haven, an oasis for living a life where the rule of law, authentic liberty, and sound investments …

Investing Overseas? Asian Supply Chain? Depending on Country: China-India-Pakistan-Brazil-More ‘Situation May be Worse than You Think’; Nations Growing Faster than China; MHVille Facts-Analysis Read More

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‘Fooled’ – Matt Stoller on Steve Bannon-Musk-Trump and ‘Skinny CR’ Bill in Big Monopoly Round Up; Making Sense of the News; Layton on Manufactured Housing; MHVille Facts-Evidence-Analysis

By / December 23, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

As regular and detail mined readers may know, “Making Sense of the News” is a tag line used by Washington, D.C. based WMAL, a.k.a.; “Washington’s Mall.” In an era of “Manufacturing Consent” via big media, big tech, big business, and big government, to better understand our professional reality there is …

‘Fooled’ – Matt Stoller on Steve Bannon-Musk-Trump and ‘Skinny CR’ Bill in Big Monopoly Round Up; Making Sense of the News; Layton on Manufactured Housing; MHVille Facts-Evidence-Analysis Read More

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As Christmas and Hanukkah Approach, Bestselling Author Hanne Nabintu Herland on ‘Christmas and Saint Nicholas the Original and true Santa Claus’; plus Sunday Weekly MHVille Headlines Recap

By / December 22, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

A recent article in our eclectic series published on the Patch focused on a column by best-selling author, commentator, and historian Hanne Nabintu Herland. Her column is entitled: “Saint Nicholas, the original and true Santa Claus.” That article about an obvious Christmas topic was provided by the WND News Center …

As Christmas and Hanukkah Approach, Bestselling Author Hanne Nabintu Herland on ‘Christmas and Saint Nicholas the Original and true Santa Claus’; plus Sunday Weekly MHVille Headlines Recap Read More

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Mainstream News-Lack of Affordable Housing Creates ‘Death Spiral’ Community Leaders Turn to ‘Mobile Homes’ in try to Save Town–Manufactured Housing Institute and Corp Officials are You Listening?

By / December 22, 2024 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Let’s start with the punch line. Stonington, Maine could end up with problems that resemble much of California if their community fails to attract more manufactured housing so their residents can afford to live there. It is a troubling for many other locations as this report will illustrate with examples …

Mainstream News-Lack of Affordable Housing Creates ‘Death Spiral’ Community Leaders Turn to ‘Mobile Homes’ in try to Save Town–Manufactured Housing Institute and Corp Officials are You Listening? Read More

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