“Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows.” Origin, William Shakespeare, who wrote “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows” from The Tempest, per Politics Web. “There’s Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos.” Jim Hightower, former Texas Department of Agriculture Commissioner, per Wikiquote. George Soros is a foil in …
Whitney Houston died a tragic death. She began her career in Gospel. It was Roberta Flack’s, not Houston’s song, but one might suspect that near the end of her dramatic life, the lyrics “killing me softly with his song” were perhaps filled with deep meaning for Whitney. 11,582,041 YouTube views – published Mar 16, …
Cui Bono? “Killing Me Softly,” Manufactured Housing’s New Theme Song? Read More »
Successful politicians and good brands have much in common. Consider for a moment how Acura’s video commercial made a mark in the blogosphere, one that caused scores of keyboards and social media posts to go favorably wagging. “The [Acura automotive] ad is buoyed by Motörhead’s rendition of the Rolling Stone’s classic, Sympathy for the …
Warren Kicked Hornet’s Nest – How Move May Connect With MH, Renters, Professionals Read More »
The year was 1998. It happened to be the year that manufactured housing hit its last peak, but it was also the year that Simon Reynolds compiled and published “Thoughts of Chairman Buffett – Thirty Years of Unconventional Wisdom from the Sage of Omaha.” Until you turn to the back of Reynold’s book, not many …
When someone is introduced to manufactured homes and their tremendous value, they are often shocked. ‘How is this much home for such a modest price possible?’ A key part of the answer mirrors any product produced in a production center. Cars built in a driveway would cost far more than a car built in production …
What’s wrong is that enough people don’t ask what’s right – that’s a faithful paraphrase of the brilliant writer and believer, G.K. Chesterton. One need not look far to discover that the Creator of all has a healthy sense of humor. Warren Buffett, Kevin Clayton, Tim Williams – among their allies, pawns, lackeys, and stooges …
“Tony…as I think you know, it’s ALWAYS been my position that lease option and rent to own are illegal if they are a “workaround” for chattel financing, which is what most such schemes are…” – MH Industry attorney, not an association exec, in off-the-record comment about his legal perspective about the issue that follows. George …
If you look around the world, Americans have much to be grateful for, and so too does our once far greater industry. But as one carefully peers and ponders the details, one begins to sees that there’s so much more that could be accomplished in our nation. The same holds true for manufactured housing …
Don’t Be Another Victim, Push-Back Pay$, Phase Two of Manufactured Housing Revolution Read More »
Depending on who’s estimate we accept, there’s some 550,000 to 660,000 homeless in the richest nation on earth, the U.S.A. As rents rise, so does homelessness, says Zillow’s research, which supplied the higher homeless count. With some $22 trillion dollars spent on “Great Society” programs as of a 2014 Heritage Foundation report, one must ask …
Affordable Housing – Fleetwood, Champion, Clayton – Genius of the Christmas Story Read More »
The American Dream is more than housing that someone owns, but that is a key element to it. Properly understood, this story could bridge much of the left-right divide. Properly told, and it would likely need to be a series, it could win a Pulitzer or other prize for reporting. Nevertheless, those true tales are …
