The Louisville Show is a Must Attend Event

The Louisville Show is rich in history and tradition, and for many of us, memories of times gone by. For some, that would be reason enough to attend, because they see the Show as important and worthy of support as an industry statement of who and what we are. This show has chronicled our history and progress from 8′ wide “wobble boxes” to 32′-wide HUD Codes that are structurally superior to most site built housing.

Others need much more to take the time and money to make the trek to Louisville. For them, the Show offers a chance to network with others in the industry and learn things they don’t know that could affect their choices and decisions in their businesses. In the past, much of this has been informal, but now Dennis Hill has stepped it up, and garnered experts to put on seminars and workshops on a variety of subjects vital to those planning on staying in the industry, at no charge to the attendees of the Show. These seminars are reason enough for community owners and retailers to attend.

The seminars are just the beginning, however. The Show is, as it should be, the biggest and best place to gather information about the new homes and products that are available. It is amazing how many retailers and community owners think they know what’s out there, that actually don’t know about products and homes they should be considering. This is the place to discuss why levers on doors, wider doorways and halls, and taller toilets can significantly increase sales when marketed properly. This is the place to learn about selling brand new homes into a community for $32,000.00 and still have a real profit of $5,000 or more.

It is the place to learn about the latest trends in financing from Title I, to low interest loans to A credit borrowers, to the burgeoning new opportunity that owner assisted captive finance presents. It is a place to learn about new trends in set-up and installation, from skirting to lower perimeter enclosures as well as marketing techniques to generate more foot traffic.

The Show also offers the opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. It also creates a venue to relax after hours with others who appreciate Roger Miller’s “King of the Road” at places like Howl at the Moon, or for industry rich conversation over dinner at the Brown Hotel. What more in the way of reasons does one need to be there?

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Ken Rishel of Rishel Consulting Group and Precision Capital Funding is the industry-acknowledged expert on owner assisted chattel financing. In addition, he was a highly successful community retailer and community owner, as well as working with an outside lender during their growth to a national force in manufactured housing. He has been on the Board of Directors of two state associations, was appointed by the Governor to serve as the first chairman of the State of Illinois Manufactured Housing Quality Assurance Board, and is a nationally recognized and sought speaker within the manufactured housing industry. He serves on the MHI Task Force on Dodd-Frank, and his company was the MHI winner of the 2010 Service Supplier of the Year Award. He is also the author of the Chattel Finance Newsletter, which has over 9,000 subscribers.

Information on the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show is available here.