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• Affordable Housing Crisis Rages, Sages Sing Manufactured Home Praises, Fix the MH Industry Tricks – Easy as 1, 2, 3

 

• Tunica Manufactured Housing Show, MH Industry Pro Feedback, Day 1

 

• ‘Green New Deal Fantasy,’ “Revenge Politics,” Says Democrat Schultz Pondering Independent 2020 Run, plus Manufactured Home Stocks

 

• Spreading City Ban on Individual Lot Placements Threatens Independently Owned Manufactured Home Communities, Retailers, Residents, and HUD Code Producers

 

• Lesli Gooch, PhD, Manufactured Housing Institute EVP Reveals DTS Financing Con Job

 

• “Collusion Delusion,” “An Illegal Takedown that Failed” WH/Media Round-Up, plus MH Stock Updates

 

• Manufactured Housing – Easy as 1, 2, 3
• HUD Proposes Ending Manufactured Home Formaldehyde “Health Notice”

• Fact Check, Darren Krolewski, MHInsider Claim on 2019 Louisville Show Attendance

• Golf Tournament Location Has Changed at 2019 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show

• “Whatever It Takes,” Hard As Nails Men’s Conference, and Manufactured Housing

• Speak No Evil, Only Evidence. Tunica Show, Feds, Clayton, 21st, MHI, MHARR, Public Debate, and You

• Future Rate Signaling to Fed? POTUS Trump Wants Heritage’s Stephen Moore on Federal Reserve Board, Plus MH Stock Updates

• Manufactured Housing Compromise? Carrots and Sticks, and Mutual Victories?

 

• Urgency Grows, Another City Prepares Ban on Manufactured Homes

 

• HUD Secretary Carson “HUDdle Conference” Draws Manufactured Housing Issues Engagement

 

• “Out-Performing the Market” Robert Robotti, Value Investing, and Manufactured Housing

• “Don’t Mess With the Virgin,” Heated Fair Housing Manufactured Home Community Controversy Comes to Conclusion

• Subsidized Housing vs Manufactured Homes, Community Owner Sounds Off

• Cha-Ching! Manufactured Housing Made Simple in 2019

• Smile! You’re on Candid Camera! Security, Casino Hotels, and Fix the MH Trick$ Tunica Event

• Manufactured Housing Compromise? Carrots and Sticks, and Mutual Victories?

• Fix MH Industry Trick$ – Special Meeting at Tunica Show

• Ford’s Big Lead Dog, Teaches Manufactured Housing, Legal Q&A

• Facebook’s “Network Effect – Value Destruction,” Password Scandal Latest Headache, plus MH Market Updates

• Fed Caves, Rates Hikes, Balance Sheet, Smoother Sailing Ahead? Plus Manufactured Home Market Updates

• “Potentially Enormous Costs” “Proposed DOE Manufactured Housing Energy Standards” Exposed as HUD PD&R “Whitewash”

• National Association of Home Builders CEO Jerry Howard Declining Housing Affordability, Plus MH Market Updates

• Manufactured Housing Institute’s Monthly Economic Report Spotlights Challenge, What MHI, WHA’s Amy Bliss Said

• White Collar Shakedown, Fear, Hobbs Act, and Manufactured Housing Independents Struggles

 

 

• Prefabulous by Clayton Homes, Behind the Scenes of Manufactured Housing’s Powerhouse “Have it Made” Campaign

• Fix MH Industry Trick$ – Special Meeting at Tunica Show

• Cha-Ching! Manufactured Housing Made Simple in 2019

• Subsidized Housing vs Manufactured Homes, Community Owner Marge Clark Sounds Off

 

• Manufactured Housing Institute’s Monthly Economic Report Spotlights Challenge, What MHI, WHA’s Amy Bliss Said

 

• White Collar Shakedown, Fear, Hobbs Act, and Manufactured Housing Independents Struggles

 

• Restraint of Trade, Manufactured Housing Institute, Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage, and Antitrust Law

>>>MHARR Analysis Exposes HUD PD&R Energy Costs “Whitewash”

• Beto Mania! Fox, MSNBC, CNBC Weigh-In 2020 Democratic Contender, plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates

 

• Federalist’s Harsanyi Argues Senator “Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Break Up Big Tech Would Be Bad for America”

 

• “I Can’t Think of a Good Reason to Keep People from Buying Affordable Housing” – Manufactured Home Industry Voices Video

 

• Historic Welfare Reform Can Spur More Worker Availability, Save Taxpayers, Expert Analysis – plus Manufactured Housing Industry Market Updates

 

• For Profits (and Goodness) Sake! Educate Your Manufactured Home Team Mates

 

• Hedge Fund Dumps Shares of Skyline-Champion, plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates

 

• Mobile Home Militia – “Clayton [Homes] Wants Your Cornbread Too” “Join the Revolution” – ‘You Gotta Have Swagger’

 

• “November Rain” – DoJ’s Top Antitrust Cop – Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim ABA Speech on Antitrust Enforcement for Americans

 

• Tim Williams, PBS News’ Bad Bargain, Manufactured Housing Institute, Buffett’s Mirror, and Clayton’s Costume

 

• Court Ruling on Sierra Club vs Rick Perry DOE on Manufactured Home Energy Regulations, Constitutional Law Professor, MHARR Weigh In

 

• Minnie Driver, Millionaires, and Billionaires – Debunking “Housing for the Poor” Image of Manufactured Housing

 

• Investors, Professionals, Planners, Advocates – Examining Affordable Manufactured Home Industry Market Potential

 

• “Tug of War” – Manufactured Home Community Legislation – “Vicious Cycle Goes On,” Impacting Industry, Home Owners, and Potential Buyers

 

• HUD Secretary Ben Carson Sounds Off on Housing Market, Opportunity Zones, More

 

• Howard Schultz Serious About 2020 Independent Run, Outlines Plans, plus Manufactured Housing Equities Updates

 

• Raucous Caucus, Democratic Reality Check by Speaker Pelosi, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, plus MH Market Updates

 

• “Warren Buffett has Another Headache”from Berkshire Hathaway Owned Brand, Says NY Post “it ain’t from a Dairy Queen Blizzard.”

• DTS Manufactured Home Lending Committee Member Says MHI in “Unholy Alliance”to Divert Needed GSE Support Away from Manufactured Housing
• Rocking Manufactured Housing Shows, Events, and Marketing Promotions

 

• What HUD Will and Won’t Say About Manufactured Housing Programs in 2020 HUD Budget

 

• Warren Kicked Hornet’s Nest–Anti-Trust How Move May Connect With MH, Renters, Professionals
• Controversy Erupts! Tunica Manufactured Home Show ‘Educational Seminar’-Legally Questioned “Lease Option” “Chattel Lending” ‘Taught’ by Spencer Roane,Promoted By George F. Allen, SECO

• Warren Buffet’s Quotable Quotes on Business, Institutions, Behavior, and News Reporting
• Killer Alabama Tornadoes Didn’t Discriminate– Tragic Yet Powerful Storms vs. Manufactured Housing, Conventional & Commercial Construction Insights

• Drilling Down on State Manufactured Housing Shipment Data, Shocking Revelations, Warning Signs
• Anti-Monopolistic or “Antitrust” Action Heating Up in Washington, D.C.,What It Could Foreshadow for MHVille

• Study – Top Reasons People Can’t Buy a House?Plus, Manufactured Housing Stock Updates
• “What’s My Name?”What Manufactured Housing Marketers, Pros, Investors Could Learn From This Video

• No Impeachment Says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-D), Trump 2020 Budget Rollout, Plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates
• Phishing Alert – Targeting Business and Consumers– Scammers Masquerading as Apple
• Apt Warning for Manufactured Housing Professionals, MH Customers, by Award Winning Journalist Sharyl Attkisson, TEDx

• February Jobs Data in 1 Infographic, Construction Hit, Plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates
• HUD, Census Bureau Releases Mainstream January 2019 Housing Starts Data, How Does Manufactured Housing Compare?

 

• $170 Million Manufactured Home Community Acquisition by Giant RHP Properties, 17 MHCs, Now 25 States

• HUD Secretary Ben Carsonon Opportunity Zones, Revitalization, DROPS 2020 Announcement,Plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

• MHI’s Growth Agenda? Rick Robinson, JD, SVP Manufactured Housing Institute, Preemption Evidence, Writ of Mandamus, and Addressing HUD Code Manufactured Home Shipment Woes

• Sheila Dey, Western Manufactured Housing Communities Assoc, Tells Capitol – Manufactured Homes, & Housing Crisis, Report and Analysis

• President Donald Trump Talks About Factory Built Housing Legendto Scouts

• Record Numbers of Manufacturers Are Optimistic, Per New Reports

• As Affordable Housing Crisis Rages, New HUD Code Manufactured Housing Shipments Fall, Some States Drop 35-40 Percent

• Over 1 Million Views in 3 Weeks! Helen’s Reality Check Reveals What’s Blowing Away Any Manufactured Home Industry Promotions

• PwC’s Roschelle Says Plenty of Upside in Housing Market, Plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

• Canadian-Owned U.S. “Mobile Home Park” Condemned, Residents Must Scramble to Meet Deadline to Vacate

• Millennial Justin Haskins – Heartland Institute – Calls for Debate of the Socialist Comeback in America, Plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates

• Bad News Is Coming to MHVille, Again. Three Vital Stages for Manufactured Housing Professionals

• Manufactured Housing’s Top 10, March 2019

• Arrested! Triple Homicide, Arson of “Mobile Home,” Crime and Affordable Manufactured Housing Resistance

• Rent Control & MH – Politicians “Are Carpet-Bombing Our State With Regulations That Will Deliberately Destabilize The Housing Market And Leave It Obliterated”

>>>>>>>>In Manufactured Home Marketing, Size and Results Matter!

• Millennials Driving Home Ownership Rates Back Up, Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

 

• “Whose Got a Problem?” Coach Lou Holtz Wisdom = “If Enough People Care”
• New Inductees Into State’s Manufactured Housing Industry Hall of Fame Announced

 

• Housing Policy, and Pragmatism – Bridging the Gap – Conservatives AND Liberals, or Conservatives VS. Liberals?

• WH Economic Advisers Chair Kevin Hasset on U.S. Economy, 2018 totals, 2019 Forecast, plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

 

• “Billion Dollar Empire Made From Mobile Homes,” What Washington Post’s Peter Whoriskey Didn’t Report

• Independent Businesses, Affordable Manufactured Housing, Open Markets, & Robust MH Sales Growth

• Manufactured Home Industry Professionals Feedback, Manufactured Housing Institute and Zoning Related Issues – Part 1

• Lina Khan, AntiTrust Legal Queen, Set to Join Democratic Staff, FAANG & BM, Beware – Plus MH Market Updates

• Dramatic Reversal, City Passes Urgency Ordinance Effectively Banning Manufactured Homes, Front & Back Stories

• Sparks Fly! Rep Jim Jordan’s Broadside of Convicted Perjurer, Michael Cohen, Plus MH Market Updates

• Trillion Dollar Housing Plan, American Action Forum (AAF) Research on Green New Deal, Costs Graphic, Video

• Housing Economists Projections from NAHB, CoreLogic, Nationwide, and MHVille

 

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• Fed Chair Powell Challenges Theory Behind Sanders, AOC, Progressive Green New Deal Plans, plus MH Market Updates

• Berkshire Chairman Warren Buffett Announces Support for 2020 Hopeful, Behind the Curtain

• Top Global Brands – Animated Infographic from 2000 to 2018 – Most Companies are American, Plus Berkshire Hathaway Ties

• Top Independent Manufactured Home Retailer Outsells Clayton Homes, Doesn’t Sell CMH Products, Per Mainstream News
• 12 Reasons to Oppose a New Manufactured Home Post Production Association

• Modular Company Sued
• 6 Things Missing From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter
• DC Talk, HUD Whitewash

• MH Justice 

• Arrested! Attorney General Files Charges on Manufactured and Modular Home Retailer, Police Arrest Suspect

• Manufactured Home Community Residents on ‘Rent Strike,’ Republican Lawmaker Calls Foul

• Do Looming Shareholders Suits Against Cavco Industries Foreshadow Problems for More Manufactured Home Industry Publicly Traded Firms?

• “…Results have been Catastrophic.” Official Text-POTUS Trump on Socialism Speech + FLOTUS Melania Video, Plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates

• Manufactured Housing Institute February 2019 Monthly Economic Report, with 2018 Revelations

• The 2020 Census, Supreme Court, Manufactured Housing, and You
• Presidents Day Facts and Video Quiz

•  Clayton Retail GM Earn$ Big Buck$ – Insider Insights

 

•  HUD Horror“Appalled” said David McCarthy – HUD Cites “Substandard Conditions”
• Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) Chairman Sam Zell’s Mantra, Manufactured Homes, and Contemporary Controversies

•  In Connected World, Oil and More Impacts Factory-Builders, What Does Latest Unrest Mean? Plus More Headline Topics
• Democrats, Republicans Agree – “Manufactured Homes Can Play a Vital Role in Easing” the Affordable Housing Shortage 

• Senator Dick Durbin (IL-D), On The Record, RE: Green New Deal, plus MH Stock Updates
• Will Canadian City’s Tax Plan Inspire U.S. or More Canadians to Follow With Affordable Housing Battle Tool?
• Is Manufactured Housing Industry Backstab Coming Into Clearer Focus?

• China Trade, Fed, Mixed Signals on Meh Day, Plus Manufactured Home Market Updates
• Discrimination!? Ethnic, Racial Bias by Manufactured Home Community Investigated – Investors and Community Owner Alert

• “Feeling the Bern” – Love or Hate Sanders, Take Him Seriously – plus MH Stock Market Updates
• Game On: “Socialism is About Power, not Equality,” Space Force, and Battle for Manufactured Housing Independence

• HUD Warns PHAs, Manufactured Housing Pros – Take Note

 

• Democrats, Republicans Agree – “Manufactured Homes Can Play a Vital Role in Easing” the Affordable Housing Shortage 
• Legacy Housing Announces New Bulk Leasing Program for Manufactured Home Communities and Mobile Home Parks
• Warren Buffett “Oracle of Omaha” HBO Documentary Berkshire Hathaway #Advexon Video
• Patrick Caddell, Dies at 68
• Grasping True Value of the Green New Deal for America, Affordable Housing Professionals and Advocates
• Democratic and Republican Policy Dilemmas, Affordable Housing, Economic Growth, and Manufactured Homes
• Manufactured Home Marketing Resource, Richest and Poorest Counties in each of the 50 United States of America

 

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