Two town board members of Sylva, North Carolina are reconsidering a 15 year-old ban on siting single-section manufactured homes outside of manufactured housing communities (MHCs), saying it may be unfairly punishing people of modest means. Board member Mary Gelbaugh says, “We are trying to make housing available, and I’m worried …
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Demand for Canada’s version of manufactured housing is rising rapidly in Manitoba, at the very time spaces in provincial land lease communities are scarce. With single family home sales in the region averaging $285,000, a new manufactured home in Manitoba for $115,000 looks very reasonable. So it is no surprise …
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Istockanalyst reports that a bill by CA state Senator Jean Fuller could make it easier for residents in land lease communities there to get private money loans. With professionals, buyers and sellers all pointing to a lack of commercial banks in the field, this is seen as important for all …
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“US Housing Starts & Building Permits Plunge In September” is the headline from the financial news and views site ZeroHedge, which in turn credits the following graphics to left-leaning Bloomberg. Among the quoted items in Part I will be a correction made by MHProNews for an apparent typo which in …
The “contributed content” by Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) CEO Lesli Gooch and MHI President Mark Bowersox in the most recent article posted on MHI endorsed MHVillage’s MHInsider is 1121 words, not counting the headline, byline and date. MHI leaders decided for their own reasons to put CEO Gooch more ‘on …
Every profession has its Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Manufactured housing is no different. In the recreational vehicle (RV) or automotive industries it is common to report the actual production volume as a KPI. In conventional housing and real estate, the number of “housing starts” or existing homes sold are also …
“I would like to offer our congratulations to Tony and Soheyla Kovach on the 15th anniversary of MHProNews. MHProNews provides the manufactured housing industry with a resource that is truly indispensable — an independent source of news and commentary on industry and industry-related issues that is not beholden to the views, interests, …
“The heavy selling of ELS shares appears to be in the process of exhausting itself,” said Zacks in a report dated 10.9.2024 entitled: “Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS) Loses -12.19% in 4 Weeks, Here’s Why a Trend Reversal May be Around the Corner.” “While the stock has lost 12.2% over the …
Mark Cole writing via John Maxwell said: “Rick Warren says it this way, “The greatest detriment to tomorrow’s success is today’s success.”” Cole went on to say: “Here’s the question that every leader must ask him or herself regularly: “What is the next level worth?” John Maxwell teaches a very …
“LBM Journal is the leading media company serving lumberyards, building material distributors, wholesalers, manufacturers, and service providers.” LBM Journal is one of the various trade and other platforms that reported on the National Association of Home Builders “Eye on Housing” report on manufactured housing production and data for 2023 that …
Much of what follows would be more difficult to find if not for the arguably more pro-free speech platform that used to be called Twitter and is now called X. Left-leaning Mark Zuckerberg, who per left-leaning NPR: “Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, and Priscilla Chan, his wife, …
Nasdaq issued a “Relative Strength Alert for Sun Communities” on October 07, 2024 at 01:31 pm EDT. It said: “The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics.” Per BNK Invest via Nasdaq …
The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) “inches higher,” per their press release to MHProNews that is provided in Part I below. Part II or this article with analysis will focus on some insights from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and a fresh analysis supported by left-leaning Bing’s AI …
The headline paraphrase above is a quote from Part IV below that said in part: “a few large companies can tarnish the entire industry’s image.” To tee that up, and according to UMH Properties’ (UMH) press release that follows, they have been in business since: “1968, is a public equity …
As one of the reports in the headlines for the week in review detail, the Longshoremen’s strike vs. the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) had the potential to disrupt components used in manufactured homes as well as conventional housing, not to mention untold numbers of other products imported into the …
The three Cs, as longer-term manufactured housing pros may recall, are Clayton-Champion-Cavco. The so-called three Cs never really left, although for a time with the merger of Skyline and Champion to get the publicly traded (SKY) name made it expedient and legally accurate to call it Skyline Champion (SKY). From …
It doesn’t require a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) issued so-called “Housing Alert” to know that there is an affordable housing crisis in the U.S. Someone didn’t have to tune into the Governor Tim Walz (MN-D) and Senator J.D. Vance (OH-R) vice presidential debate on CBS News on Tuesday 10.1.2024 to …
Bananas have been called “America’s favorite fruit” and they routinely arrive in the U.S. by boat. So does an array of other products perishable and durable products, including numbers of components for HUD Code manufactured homes that the Texas Real Estate Reasearch Center (TRERC) previously reported arrive at Gulf of …
Once someone understands patterns of behavior, those patterns may become quite simple to spot. For example. In politics, there are those who demonize their foes, and yet when the facts are closely examined, the demonizers are often the proverbial demons, guilty of the very things that they accuse their opponent …
“If you want something bad enough, take the steps needed to make it happen, no matter how long it takes. Sometimes you get lucky and can skip some steps, but most of the time you can’t. The secret to achieving any goal is nothing more than putting in the necessary …
