Marty Lavin has weighed in on a topic that George Allen, Doug Gorman and others have graced our pages with here at MHMSM.com. Conspiracy theories and our baker’s dozen year turn down in sales since 1998 seem to go hand in glove. You will want to set the time aside to really read, not to skim, Marty’s Lavin’s latest thoughts. See how the MH/Grassy Knoll crowd fits in with how we can make personal property lending – and thus our Industry – better.
Pat Curran joins us for the first time with an Industry Voices guest blog post. This industry lender will show us his ideas on how we can protect and save Chattel Lending, and promote while protecting the manufactured housing industry.
I first met Pat back in the late 80s, when he was with Foremost, and my team and I were busy retailing manufactured homes in Purcell, OK. Pat’s is another article that will need more than a skim! Because he too gets into the trenches, as to what it will take to make personal property (home only or ‘chattel’ lending) truly viable, but it goes into other Industry and national issues too!
Pat’s article, like Marty’s, is for long term Industry thinkers, movers and shakers only.
Finally, I want to give everyone a heads up on what is coming here to MHProNews.com.
Yes, MHProNews.com is already an active URL (web address) for MHMSM.com and MHMarketingSalesManagement.com. Our rebranding will be phased in over time, so people don’t wake up one day and ask, Hey! What happened to MHMSM.com? Fear not. We are still here, and MHMSM.com aka MHProNews.com plans to be for a long time to come.
The next stage will be our new site facelift.
We’ve listened to you our many readers. The new format will be much more news looking. Easier navigation. All the same great current content. But more features too, some that you won’t find anywhere else that I’ve seen online in manufactured housing.
We will still have those same great columns by top Industry pros. We will still have the most content, most news, most blogs found on any single known site in the modular and manufactured (factory-built) home industries.
We are and can be your one stop shop for Industry news, tips and views you can use.
We hope to have the new site, which is already well into development, up and running by the end of summer.
Our developer, who also did a site revision for a FoxNews affiliate, says our site is already as large as that new station’s was, and we are much newer!
—As a heads up to all, when we do the site switch over, our site will be down for several hours, maybe the better part of a day. As large as it is, there will typically be some bugs to work out. Just be confident that with your patient input, we will make this as smooth as possible. <—
Please be prepared for what we believe is another big step ahead for the most comprehensive place in America for manufactured and modular housing news, tips and views you can use. As George Allen said, the Industry turn around needs a good Industry online news source! We are glad to be that source of choice for you and 60,000 plus others MH Pros in the moon of June, 2010.
Hmmm. MH Pros. MH Professionals. MHProNews.com. Kinda sums it up, doesn’t it?
We want to thank our sponsors, writers and team members – past, present and to come – for making all this possible for you.
Oh, yes! Speaking of conspiracy theories and manufactured housing. Please remind me to tell you the latest one that crossed my desk. It’s a doozie.
Enjoy Marty, Pat and all our fine featured writer contributors.
Let’s catch up again next week.##
