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• Affordable Housing and the Two Sides of Rent Control, in Two Videos – Pros and Cons

 

• Patrick Industries-Manufactured Housing Supplier-PATK Investor Relations Spotlights Manufactured Home Industry Challenges, Opportunities

 

• Manufactured Home Communities’ Dodd-Frank Moment Looms, Senator Elizabeth Warren Takes Aim at Several Manufactured Housing Institute Community Members

 

• Representative Ilhan Omar’s Bill Would Regulate Manufactured Home Community Owners

 

• John Grissim Guides Author Finger Pointed at 21st Mortgage Corporation, Notorious Tim Williams Letter Cutting Off Retailers

 

• Democratic Professor Defends Conservative Right to Free Speech; How Free Speech Helps, Harms Manufactured Housing

 

• Rare Earth Minerals Threat By China, How Serious is It? Plus Manufactured Home Industry Stocks

 

• Lawsuit By Manufactured Home Community Owner Claims City “Intent” on Putting it Out of Business

• Senate Democrats – Including 2020 Presidential Contenders – Ask CFPB Protect Consumers Against Predatory Lenders — Point Finger at Clayton Homes, Berkshire Hathaway Lending

• Dramatic, But Misleading? Manufactured Home Marketers Eye-View of Recent Tornado Deaths in Oklahoma, Alabama

• “Game On” – “Fighting Discriminatory Zoning” “Moral Obligation” Fix “Worsening Nightmare” – State Associations Entering Spotlight

• What is Marketing? What is Selling? Succeeding with Manufactured Homes in Your Local Marketplace(s)

• Shocking, True State of the Manufactured Housing Industry, plus Solutions for Profitable, Sustainable Growth – May 2019

• George Allen’s “Peace Offensive,” Saul Alinsky, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, and Manufactured Housing’s War

• Wheel Estate – Manufactured Home Consumer – Special Shopping Report

 

• Memorial Day, We Remember, Beyond Burgers, Brats, and Buns

• Obstruction, Cover Up, Impeachable Says Speaker Pelosi – Donald Trump Jr. Responds – How Washington Works, or Not – Manufactured Home Import

• Is War Ahead? Insider Sources in Iran Talk Trump, Middle East Conflicts, plus Manufactured Home Market Updates

 

• Skyline Champion Soared, What’s Up? Initial Look Behind the Curtain

 

• Battle in City Over Permitting Some Manufactured Home Replacements for Tornado Ravaged Conventional Housing

 

• Kobayashi Maru, Crime, Kevin Clayton, Darren Krolewski, MHInsider – State of Manufactured Housing Industry

 

• April New Home Sales Drop, Mortgage Rates Slide, Trade Tension Woes, plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

 

• Stephanie Reid Raises Undocumented Immigrants Getting Ripped Off by Manufactured Home Communities Issue

 

• Are You Customer or Product of Tech Giants? Manufactured Housing Connections and Implications

 

• Americans “Lost Faith in Washington,” Politics Threatens Economic Recovery

 

• The Best Medicine, “Honey, I Forget to Duck,” One Liners from the “Great Communicator”

 

• Wild Washington “Impeachment,” “Infrastructure” Theater Fuels Wall Street Dip, plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

 

 

• Triad Financial Services, ECN Result$, plus Manufactured Housing Industry Stock Updates

• “Monopoly” in Manufactured Housing Alleged by George Allen, MHI Defender’s Turn by former Community-Investor, Self-Claimed EducateMHC Blogger

 

• “Trailer Parks,” Presidential Candidate, Prior HUD Secretary Julian Castro on MH Community Operators, Residents Not Knowing Their Rights

 

• “Home is Where Our Hearts Are” – President Trump Address to American Housing Professionals

 

• HUD Rescinds 2017 “Guidance” on Carport-Ready Manufactured Homes, Other Changes Ahead?

 

• Manufactured Housing Institute Housing Alert! “On Capitol Hill…MHI Advances Manufactured Housing Finance Reform,” Redux

 

• Tiny House Comparisons, $50,000 Tiny House Vs. $165,000 Tiny House – Millions of Video Views

 

• Modern, Proven Path to Freedom

 

• Capitalism vs. Socialism Town Hall Discussion, Plus Manufactured Housing Equities Updates

 

• What Are Manufactured Housing Industry Professionals Focused On?

 

• Kevin Clayton, Clayton Homes CEO, New Video Interview

 

• Andy Gedo, Partner at ManageAmerica, Raises Clayton Homes Monopolistic Practices Debate; Manufactured Housing Institute Related Issues

 

• Dr. Mark Calabria, FHFA Director Interview, Front Lines of GSE Reform, Manufactured Housing Impacts Ahead

 

• Ultimate, Proven Contrarian Investing – Ethical vs. Unethical, Legal vs Illegal Manufactured Housing Industry Strategies

 

• Inside Scoop on the Manufactured Housing Industry in Memes

 

• Census, HUD Official Residential Construction Report for April 2019, Dare to Compare to Manufactured Housing Data

 

• ‘Minorities Aren’t Being Well Served in Housing Finance’ Today, per Mozilo – Former Exec Near Eye of the 2008 Housing/Mortgage Storm

 

• Amazon-Berkshire Announcement – Emerging Factory-Building Elephant in the Room?

 

• HUD’s 2019 IT Innovation Award

 

• MIT Answers – What’s the Minimum Needed by Family of Four for Housing, Food in Each State in U.S.?

 

• Tariffs “…Will Effect Demand,” says Kevin Clayton, Answers CNBC’s Monopoly Question – Video – plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

 

• Earning a Six Figure American Dream, on 10 Hours Weekly – plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates

 

• Senator Elizabeth Warren Takes Shots at former VP Joe Biden, Team Trump Supporters Ponder Improving Economy

 

• Iranian Oil Sanctions Depressed Production, Raised Tensions, Prices – plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates

 

• Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage Corp, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance – Investor Lessons Learned

• Legacy Housing Corporation [LEGH] Reports 2019 First Quarter Results

• Joe Stegmayer, George F. Allen, Manufactured Housing Institute Slogans, Slump, Slurs, Solutions

• CFPB Outlines New Regulatory Plan, Review

• Rope-a-Dope – Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act, Mom, Dad, & You

• Senator Cory Booker – ‘We Need a President…to Enforce Antitrust Laws,’ Digging Warren, POTUS Trump

• Socialism vs. Free Enterprise, 2020, and Increasing Interest in U.S. Socialist Candidates, Policies

• Biggest Dow Losers? Companies Tied to Chinese Trade, plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

• Higher China Tariffs “Hits Home,” Building Impacts Ahead, Per NAHB

• Sexting, Alice, Zhivago, Network, Culture, Mother’s Day, and Celebrating Manufactured Housing

 

• Manufactured Home Community Case Study, UMH Properties, Lessons for Independent Community Owners, Investors

 

• Nathan Smith, SSK Communities, Manufactured Housing Institute Leader, Profitably Correcting the Record

• HUD Secretary Ben Carson Speech on Manufactured Homes, “Manufactured Housing…Active Ingredient…Medication…for a Stronger America.”

• What the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Said About March 2019 Shipment and Production Data

 

• FHA Incentives For Property Owners Investing in One of Over 8000 Opportunity Zones

 

• Prior Facebook Insiders Among Harshest FB Critics, “Break Them Up” – plus MH Market Updates

 

• What Does Doing Your Job Looks Like in Manufactured Housing?

 

• Manufactured Housing’s Professional Credibility

 

• Bryan Resident Blast Officials “Travesty by Government” – Manufactured Home Ban, Limitations, Update

 

• On “the Border of Insanity,” plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates

 

• New Manufactured Home Professional’s Website Nears Launch

 

• Sales Topped $1 Trillion Dollars, Volume Car Dealers – When Automotive Pros Enter Manufactured Housing

 

• Attorney Harmeet Dhillon – ‘They Are Gaslighting Us,’ ‘Ignoring This At Your Peril – Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

 

• AEI’s National and Metro Housing Market Trends-Indicators, Interactive Maps and Data

 

• Not Renaming Manufactured Homes, Redefining Manufactured Homes – Tiny House Lessons Learned

 

• Ramadan 2019, Faith, Fear, Drama – plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

 

• Declining Manufactured Home Shipments More Serious Than Retailers, Communities Being Told

 

• Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger Video Interview at Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting on GSEs Lending for Affordable Manufactured Housing and Clayton Homes

 

• Nobility Homes Annual Report – New, Illustrated Investor’s Corporate Snapshot of Manufactured Modular Home Producer

 

• Warren Buffett’s Profitable Lessons for Manufactured Housing

 

• HUD Secretary Carson on National TV, Touting Manufactured Housing, More Jobs & Investment Opportunities

 

• George F. Allen’s Unity Call for MHI, MHARR, and National Association of Manufactured Housing Community Owners (NAMHCO) Examined

 

• Governor Signs 18’ Wide Single-Section Bill

 

• Warning – Number 1 Manufactured Housing State, Texas – Reports Month Over Month Rise, Year over Year Shipment Decline Continues

 

• Newly Published Regional State Data Reflects Gainers, Losers in New Manufactured Homes Shipped

• Conventional or Manufactured Housing – Facts Matter, and Public Engagement Matters Too

 

• MHCC Addresses Multiple Issues, HUD Secretary Carson Praises Manufactured Homes at Meeting

 

• Cowards, How Winning Is Done, and Manufactured Housing

 

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• HUD Secretary Ben Carson Surprise Appearance at Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee, Exclusive Quotes – Addressing Manufactured Home Industry

 

• Holocaust Remembrance Day, You Don’t Know What Tough Is, and Ramadan

 

• Top Ten Smaller Cities Millennials Moving to For Lower Housing Cost, Plus Stock Updates

 

• One Word From Fed’s Jerome Powell Sent Stocks Lower, Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

 

• Jobs Surge in April, Unemployment Rate Falls to the Lowest Since 1969, plus Manufactured Home Market Updates

 

• Skyline Champion (SKY) Hedge Fund Dumps Shares, Value Declines

• MHARR Weighs in, HUD Secretary Carson Letter – “Discriminatory…Exclusionary Zoning of HUD-Regulated Manufactured Homes”

• New Manufactured Home Community Research Data – Site Fees, Occupancy Survey, YoY Changes, 20 Top U.S. Markets
• Multibillion Dollar Opportunities Knock in Solving Affordable Housing Crisis

• National Association of Home Builders Co-Hosting HUD Innovative Housing Showcase

• Prosperity Now, Nonprofits Sustain John Oliver’s “Mobile Homes” Video in Their Reports

• Barron’s Big Money Manager Survey Democratic, Trump, Congress Result$, plus MH Stock Updates

• Cruise Ship Retiring at Sea? Will it Eat Into 55 Plus Community or Assisted Living? Plus, Manufactured Home Market Updates

• Wall Street Expects POTUS Trump Reelection in 2020, MHVille First Looks

• New Investigation, Insider Trades, Hedge Fund Dumps Cavco Industries (CVCO)

 

• New Investigation, Insider Trades, Hedge Fund Dumps Cavco Industries (CVCO)

• Secretary Carson Letter Lights Fuse for Explosive Change, Obliquely Addresses Manufactured Housing Action Concerns

• National Academy of Sciences Praise for Industrialized Housing Projects, Research, Profitable Manufactured Housing Lessons Learned

• Manufactured Housing – White Hats, Black Hats, Investing, Consumers, MH Independents

• Ultimate Reporters, Researchers, Affordable Housing Advocates, or Shoppers 3’rd Party Research Reports on Mobile Homes, Manufactured Homes, and Modular Housing

• Bipartisan Praise for Manufactured Housing, What’s Next

• Climate Change, Greener Manufactured Housing Investing, and Truth Telling

• White House, CNBC, Larry Kudlow Unpack Today’s Economic Report, Plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

• 2020 News: Big Brother, Antitrust – Anti-Monopoly – Manufactured Housing, and You

• American Pie – The Parody Project – The Day Collusion Died, and Manufactured Home Investing

• Rising Oil, Fuel Costs, and Manufactured Housing – plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

 

• Legacy Housing Corporation’s $10 Million Stock Repurchase, Plus Manufactured Home Market Updates

 

• FEMA Opens Its First Manufactured Home Community In Disaster Response

 

• MHI, MHARR, NAMHCO, George F. Allen=Manipulating Manufactured Housing Pros – Caterwauling Mudslinger, Just Write a Check, Pay Cash, Use Plastic, and Shut You Up

 

• Bill Advances New Rules Regulating Manufactured Home Communities, Esther Sullivan Strikes Again

 

• HUD Secretary Carson to Host Innovative Housing Showcase Featuring Affordable Housing Solutions

 

• MHARR says – Lead, Follow, Get Out of the Way

 

• YIMBY Action, Extreme Housing Shortage, and Manufactured Homes

 

• “You Cannot Tax People Into Prosperity,” Housing, Taxes, Policy Failures, Plus MH Market Updates

 

• Unique Shipping Container Home, Lessons for Factory Builders, Manufactured Home Professionals

 

• Infographic – Mapping How Much A Buyer Must Earn to Buy Median Priced House

 

 

• Deer Valley Homebuilders Release w/Video Underscores Surprising Clayton Homes, Berkshire Hathaway Connections

 

• B2B Statistics, Trends 2019 – April 2019 Snapshot of Manufactured Home Professional Readers

 

• “Less Waste, Better Buying” – Earth Day and Manufactured Housing Image-Building

 

• “Baseless Discrimination Against HUD Code Manufactured Homes”

 

• State of Blue-Collar Workforce White Paper, Plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

 

• Ultimate Victory

 

• Start of Passover for Jews, Good Friday for Christians 2019

 

• The Blind Leading vs. Truth Telling, Life of Jesus Video

 

• Early PreFab Leader Sears Sues Eddie Lampert, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin for Alleged Billions of ‘Theft,’ Plus MH Market Updates

 

• The Two Gardens, America, and Manufactured Housing

 

• “Warren Buffet’s Exploitative Mobile Home Investment” Kori Hale in Forbes Rips Clayton Homes, Berkshire Hathaway’s Predatory Manufactured Home Practices

• Government Forces Sale of Manufactured Home Community, Case Ruling, Details

• Insider Tip – “Selling Access” to HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Manufactured Housing Institute’s Latest Razzle Dazzle

• Foundation for Action as Fannie Mae CEO Put on Notice for Robust Personal Property Manufactured Home Lending

• Ross Kinzler Confirms Allegations, MHEC Peer Claims “Association Malpractice;” Member Backstab, MHI Failure Concerns

• The God Who Sees, Kathie Lee Gifford & Nicole C. Mullen Inspirational Music Video

• Monopolization of America Video, Your Customers, Manufactured Housing, Berkshire News Tip, and You

• Got a Fair Housing Complaint? HUD Awards Millions More in Anti-Discrimination Efforts

• ‘Revitalization doesn’t have a color or party, it starts in the heart’ Scott Turner, Opportunity Zones Conference, Plus MH Market Updates

• Wells, Chase, Citi Mortgage Lending Plunges, Plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

• Tax Day Infographic, Fascinating Facts At A Glance
• What Tiger Woods, Nike Can Teach Manufactured Housing Leaders, Plus MH Market Updates

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