This blog post will be somewhat like pieces for a jig saw puzzle; each piece can stand alone, but together it will form a picture. Let’s take piece one, a true tornado survival story. 1. They went into the bathroom of the partially underground lower level of their house. The tornado that hit the Merrill …
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Attention getting headlines vs. a true analysis. This sums up what many in the factory-built home world believe is the heart of the issue with the IBISWorld report on the ‘top ten dying industries’ in America. IBISWorld named manufactured home dealers as one of the top ten, and publications such as The Atlantic , Huffington …
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The calls, emails and commentary on the recent IBISWorld report continues to keep us even busier than normal in covering MH Industry events. We have a new article by the MHMSM.com team that focuses on the strong number of calls, emails, articles and posted comments that have come into us since this story broke a …
The Business Insider headline “Don’t Show this to Warren Buffett…” was just one of many private or public messages that came into my email in the days following the IBISWorld Report that forecast the manufactured housing dealer as a ‘dying industry.’ Many calls came in on this and related topics in recent days as well. …
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March Madness is history and UConn fans revel in their team’s win over favored Butler. Now the NBA playoffs begin April 16. A more brilliant history has been made in Louisville… Tunica… and is coming up in York… Tulsa… the venues of this year’s great manufactured home shows. Irving Berlin said it first about the …
Seven topics this week, one that is pure fun, others more serious, so let’s dive right in. 1. Manufactured Housing: Endangered Species or Phoenix Rising? If you listen to the likes of consultant Chuck Shinn or academic Dr. David Funk, you would think Manufactured Housing is poised for a potentially bright future. In fact, as …
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Tony Kovach and members of our MHMSM.com team report from sunny Tunica, Mississippi on the second day of the largest outdoor home show in the country.
Tony Kovach submitted these three short videos from 2011 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show. He is there with other members of our MHMSM.com team and joined our IT/WebTech Bob Stovall for the popular “Dominate Your Local Market!” seminar this afternoon.
At times many tire of the long string of ‘bad news’ that seems to flow endlessly towards our Industry from Washington DC, our state capital or locally. Many working in our businesses today never knew the glory days of the late 90s, when 372,000+ manufactured homes were sold by HUD Code builders in 1998. Even …
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I heard an interesting fact yesterday. In 1900 there were some 1800 carriage builders in the U.S. Today, only one of those firms survived – Fisher – and they did so by adapting, by changing with the times. Body by Fisher, now a branch of General Motors (GM), became famous and wealth followed. The horse-drawn …
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