This week (on Sept 27) we celebrated the anniversary of the Model T’s debut in 1908. It was the first mass-produced car that was considered affordable for the public. The Ford Motor Company created middle class jobs with their car, and they offered motorized transportation to the masses. Factory built housing has a similar vision, …
Model T in U.S. history and Factory Built Housing Read More »
It would be difficult to understate the importance of what took place in Washington, DC on September 22nd, when officials from MHI and MHARR met jointly with HUD officials, as reported Friday in our Daily Business News. Given the often tenuous and rocky history between these two key trade groups representing manufactured housing’s various interests, …
In case you missed the previous Masthead blog post, I hope to see many of you this Sunday through Tuesday, as we do our Texas Two step. Catch more info at the link below. Texas Sized Tid-Bits The second of our pair of two steps will be moving our MHProNews.com (MHMSM.com) website next weekend …
A pair of Two Steps, first Texas and then Internet Style! Read More »
We will know in the coming months (14 or less) if Texas will be home to the next President of the United States. We know already that CEO Magazine rates Texas as a top “business friendly” state. Unemployment in Texas is lower than the national average. Of keen importance to us in manufactured housing, Texas …
September means the busy meeting season is upon us. Are you going to: Texas MHA‘s, Indiana MHA’s or the NYHousing Association‘s meetings? Please stop and say hi before or after my presentations there. August brought new records here at MHMSM.com (MHProNews.com). Thanks for “voting” us #1 with your time, laptops, computers, mobile devices and browsers. …
A very successful retail center, one of the top 100 in the country, has the following practice that I though was brilliant. Every day, people in their office read stories from sources like ours. Then they discuss them! I’m told the ideas that come from that discussion are part of what makes and keeps these …
The news last week about the Lochmiller conviction reported in factory built housing Daily Business News should be a wake up call for many. For those of us who have watched the ups and downs of HUD Code manufactured housing, we recall that in the 80s, 90s and early 00s, some took advantages of apparent …
Arrested! Convicted! In Manufactured Housing News Read More »
In recent weeks, we’ve had Marty Lavin, Al Cole and Pat Curran among others sounding off on Industry related issues via our popular Industry Voices Guest Blog. For those who have not followed that blog, shame on you! if you aren’t a regular reader, you are missing out on some often bright minds sharing keen …
Sounding off to resolve Manufactured Housing Industry’s news blues Read More »
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 …
Conspiracy theories, Fixing Chattel Lending and Manufactured Housing News Read More »
Three Manufactured Housing News topics today: 1. Post MHI DC meeting comments 2. Reality Check/Getting Mad, and 3. Business Building in the Spring of 2011 So let’s jump in and get started. 1. Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Winter Meeting and Legislative session Duties here in Chicagoland kept me from attending the Manufactured Housing Institute’s (MHI) …
MHI Legislative Meeting in DC, Manufactured Housing Industry News Reality Check Read More »
