Housing rehabilitation loans are available for mobile/manufactured homes in mobile home parks, says the Winona Daily News. While this program is for parts of Minnesota, similar programs exist in other states and markets too. “Semcac, a Community Action Agency serving southeastern Minnesota, has funds available through Minnesota Housing for housing …
“Scientia potentia est,” is a maxim from Latin translated as ‘knowledge is power,’ or ‘knowledge is potential power.’ In the 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, one of those 7 habits is ‘seek first to understand, then to be understood.’ Understanding and knowledge, these are widely understood as critical …
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Introduction When you do the math, it is far more than a $64 billion dollar question, as an upcoming report will outline. But that $64 billion dollar number – roughly ten times the retail output for all of manufactured housing in 2017 – will help industry readers …
Was the Urban Institute Misled, Duped, or Part of a Manufactured Housing Industry Scam? Read More
Before diving into the video and headline issue, some background on tiny houses will be useful. Those in manufactured housing for at least a few years know that the media seems enamored with tiny houses. So, while there are mainstream news stories that point out that tiny house living …
Calling It Quits – Tiny House Counter Trend, Manufactured Home Pros Need to Know Read More
The Florida Manufactured Housing Association (FMHA) and Palm Harbor Homes hosted Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Adam Putnam, in Plant City, FL on January 16. “It was a very positive experience for everyone involved,” said Mark Kelly with Palm Harbor Homes, in a release to the Daily Business News. …
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Washington, D.C., February 6, 2018 – “The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), year-over-year manufactured housing industry production grew once again during December 2017,” said MHARR in a release to the Daily …
Frank Rolfe has become a well-known personality in the manufactured home industry. He’s been called a genius. Others take issue. For example, sometimes, Rolfe says “mobile homes,” and they are indeed a pre-HUD Code home. But other times, he says that, and he’s talking about a manufactured home. On terminology …
Comparisons and analogies are useful methods of sharing ideas. God rest Grayson Schwepfinger’s soul; while he and I did some things similarly, others were quite different. “Schwep” believed in telling “the company story” using a “pitch book,” a presentation book. In his method, that was to be done …
What’s Your Manufactured Housing Narrative? Monday Morning Sales Meeting Read More
“It’s the gift that keeps on giving,” an attorney researching the manufactured housing industry said to the Daily Business News. If so, it’s a gift courtesy of Warren Buffett, Kevin Clayton, and 21st Mortgage’s – and prior MHI Chair – Tim Williams, and the Urban Institute, among others. …
Warren Buffett Wants an MH Shark Tank – Clayton, 21st, MHI, ‘Gift that Keeps Giving’ Read More
When the Daily Business News first began doing periodic reports on Revolution Precrafted Properties, the Trump family had some interests in their operation. For the purposes of this update on their star-studded designs and plans, we’ve not delved into that aspect of their business at all. But that previously reported …
It was a battle that the entire industry needed to track, because of the implications for other state governments that might be tempted to follow suit. In spite of several ‘false narratives,’ the manufactured home industry ultimately lost that battle. Fires Burning Manufactured Housing’s Public Image? News, Review, MH Industry …
We’ll start with the website insights, and then move onto the 9-quick manufactured home marketing, training, educational, inspirational, and sales tips. Over-simplifying, there are in manufactured housing today, 4 kinds of websites: Non-existent. As hard as it may be to believe some 2 decades after the websites came …
9 Quick Tips, Plus Your Website – Monday Morning Manufactured Home Sales Meeting Read More
Marcus & Millichap CEO Hessam Nadji was interviewed by Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, in a discussion on the impact of tax reform legislation on real estate. Nadji notes that there is a lot to unpack from the recently enacted bill. In states with high real estate prices, there are …
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Have you ever walked into an office or store and ‘felt’ the atmosphere? For example, it might feel: · upbeat, or · …oppressive. Shoppers and visitors to your location can often detect or ‘pick up’ on the atmosphere of your business. If you are a retailer, does your office ‘feel’ …
Atmosphere, and Super-Charging Results – Monday Morning Sales Meeting Read More
MHProNews tends to focus on HUD Code manufactured homes, but we routinely spotlight other forms of factory-built housing. We’ve done so for years. This Daily Business News flashback 2017 year-in-review will be a series of links, that will let you click on some of the dozens of stories that we’ve …
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“A lot has changed in the way manufactured homes are constructed, utilized, and perceived,” reads a page on the State Farm Insurance website. Those are the first words under the photo at the left and after their classic headline, “Beyond ‘Trailers’ – Buying Modern Manufactured Homes,” “For starters, there’s sometimes …
In the final analysis, manufactured home industry professionals want their business, location, and/or website to become a good destination. Once a place on-or-off-line becomes a destination, the next obvious goal ought to be to create an encounter that does one of two things. 1) Draw people back (no sane professional should …
Destinations, Manufactured Homes, the Manufactured Housing Industry, and 2018 Read More
The Urban Dictionary and others sources tell variations on the following classic blonde joke. In one variation, the woman has a cooking accident, which sets her kitchen on fire; in another, there is a barn that is mistakenly set ablaze. Per the JokeYard, is the following version of the politically-incorrect …
Manufactured Housing’s “Duh!” Monday Morning Sales Meeting Read More
To cure a problem, one must first recognize that a problem exists. A recent message to the Daily Business News on MHProNews from an award-winning Manufactured Home (MH) industry executive read in part, “…you are rapidly becoming the industry’s institutional memory…” The MH Industry, as is true for most professions, …
As we approach Christmas – and begin to wrap up 2017 – let’s keep this Monday Morning Sales Meeting hyper-simple today. Almost everyone in the industry agrees that mainstream news-and-entertainment industries impact – mostly harmfully – the manufactured housing industry. A Harvard report predicted that the first decade of 2000 …
