Executive summary. To solve a problem, to tap an opportunity, one must discover the root causes and address those core issues. There are numerous untold stories in the manufactured housing industry. The common stories read and seen in mainstream news tend to leave the uninformed with the impression that manufactured home owners got …
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Affordable housing, including manufactured homes, is not a partisan issue. At least, it shouldn’t be. When HUD Secretary Ben Carson, M.D., and Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) shared the brief exchange below, there was an energy in Carson’s words. It’s an energy – “a shock” – that many have experienced over the …
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Clayton Homes made the news several times in recent days. As a heads up to readers, this mentions legislation, but that isn’t the headline topic. The example that follows exemplifies a reality check that will tee up an “Aha! Moment” for many. The subjects Clayton Homes has been included in mainstream media reports included such …
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Let’s be crystal clear at the outset. Only One can claim to have been betrayed by a close comrade, arrested, found guilty at three separate rigged trials, beaten, brutally whipped/scourged, mocked, marched off on public streets, crucified, died, and was buried in a borrowed grave for our sins on a Friday that’s paradoxically …
Jennifer Hall, Doris Hydrick and Dennis Hill @ SCMHI, There’s only two full-scale professional trade shows in the manufactured home profession today. Louisville and your South Central Manufactured Housing Institute (SCMHI) event in Tunica. At least two of you personally know the sources for our report on Keith Holdbrooks and Clayton Homes decision to scale …
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Not necessarily in this order of importance, but count us as true believers in: Manufactured Homes, America as a Constitutional Republic with free enterprise, and in the four F’s – Faith, Family, Flag, and Fortune (career). Count me as a pragmatist too. In both trade publishing and in our professional services to the industry, …
The written word, or the spoken word has its limits. Words can be misunderstood. Duly Warned What follows is a reminder that we gave MH Industry readers a fair warning just days ago as to what was about to happen on S. 2155. Once someone understands how ‘their game is played,’ what happens is …
“I have no comment on MHI’s legislative agenda.” – Ross Kinzler. “The [MHI] Urban Design Project didn’t have any lasting market effects.” – Ross Kinzler Priceless, direct quotes. Why Priceless? They are significant observations – and de facto admissions – by someone ‘defending’ MHI, and their ‘new class’ of manufactured homes. The …
Hindsight is twenty-twenty. Warren Buffett doesn’t need to convince me or gain my agreement with him on that point. On that and the value of history, Mr. Buffett and this Masthead writer would agree. Buffett and we agree too on the value of research, reading, asking, listening, probing, and understanding. For the record, …
Buying into the manufactured housing industry today is like buying a stock that is significantly undervalued. That’s what many believe. Count the Masthead’s industry veteran’s author among them. Buying into manufactured housing now is like buying a stock that is significantly undervalued, and is potentially poised for serious growth. The odds are good …
