“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

1. MHI and MHARR released their dueling press releases this week on their different takes on the fire sprinkler issue. Click the respective names of each organization above to see their statements. Which one makes the most sense to you?  Feel free to sound of to me or post a comment.

We provide. You decide.

2. Manufactured home community owners often complain that HUD Code builders “don’t get it.” An owner of multiple communities has sounded off in the Industry Voices guest blog. Builders and Community operators should check it out.

3. Why do some see doom and gloom, but others keep buying up pieces of the Industry? Part of the answer lies in the numbers! Find out why we can rise to 200,000 annual new home shipments – or more – at this article here.

4. Who are those focused on providing the tools for a manufactured housing rebirth? the Midwest Manufactured Housing Federation (MMHF) pros are certainly among them! Check out at this link below the many ways the MMHF and others are making a brighter future possible. How MH Pros can Make More Money in 2012.  MH Retailers!  Learn how you can access genuine zero down financing.

5. Is there a way to grow the Industry, in part by attracting the support of MH home owners? A marketing professor says yes! See her compelling column linked here.

6. Indiana Manufactured Housing Association’s (IMHA) Power Symposium for community operators last Wednesday was really fine. We will plan to do a wrap up report on the IMHA meeting later this week. But one of many great take away was this statement by Eric Oaks, Oxford Bank and Trust, who said: ‘The game is the same. Some of the rules have changed.’ This was Eric’s way of saying if we adapt to the rule changes in manufactured housing, the business is still the same. Eric publicly and privately encouraged industry pros not to buy into doom and gloom. The opportunity to prosper is still available.

7. We plan to do an update in the Daily Business News this week on the MHI hunt for a replacement to departing Thayer Long.

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein

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