When you promote the value and durability of our product, you are protecting and promoting yourself and our manufactured and modular home industry. Let's start the day with some quotes from Industry personalities you may know, and then wrap up with a few rapid fired points on protecting and promoting yourself in an enlightened fashion. …
I was talking today with a respected industry leader. Part of the discussion was about fear mongering. There are voices in our great Industry that have and will sound the alarm on a topic, often offering a solution that is profitable to the voice doing the advocacy. While the warning (say for example, on Dodd-Frank …
Let me start by inviting you to take a good look at this Industry Voices guest blog post by a seasoned West Coast MH Business owner, entitled, Will we catch the Tsunami? If you haven’t read it yet, please do. Yes, now, before proceeding. Done? Glad to have you back. As you can see John …
No, I've not turned 36 (again…and again and, okay, you get the picture). But the HUD Code went into effect 36 years ago, on this date! How many of you are ready to celebrate this industry birthday…or anniversary…of manufactured housing? Reader's Digest has run a department in their magazine for years, using the theme …
The Center For Responsive Politics has provided us with the following insights as to the lobbying activities of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). Bill Number Congress Bill Title No. of Reports & Specific Issues* H.R.3849 112 Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act 2 S.1813 112 …
We've all heard from the media that apartments have high occupancy since the conventional mortgage/housing bubble burst. The area of construction that often dominates the conventional housing news is multi-family rentals, ie: apartments. Still, apartments experience turn-over, and the multi-family pros have a strategy they are using to enhance retention and increase referrals. When this …
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Make no mistake about it, this column will be all about manufactured housing and how we can advance our Industry's cause. The logical route for that may seem a bit of a curved road, but hang in there and this will make sense. Knowing how fractured our industry can be, please indulge a few disclaimers, …
It is always a pleasure to work with forward thinking, goal and solution oriented professionals. Let me confess that we can't fully take the wraps off this story just yet, but here comes the meaty sneak peak. Get a glimpse into what has already been dubbed by the few who know about it as The …
The long awaited “State of the Manufactured Housing Industry” Congressional field hearings held in Danville, Virginia are finished – now what say you? Have you read the testimony? If not, the link to all key testimony is found below. https://www.manufacturedhomepronews.com/mh-field-hearing-yields-hud-mhi-industry-and-resident-viewpoints/ The link above is your chance to read the comments by: Henry …
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You don't have to be an economist to realize that the Christmas shopping season is off to a good start. My wife and I were among those millions who came to the pre-dawn (okay, midnight) Black Friday door buster blowouts. The line of shoppers waiting to check out in the middle of the …
