“The Supreme Court has agreed to a hearing for a case that could conceivably — PLEASE consider this the longest of long shots — overturn the election of 2020, throw out all the legislators who voted to certify the results and leave them ineligible to run for office ever …
Activities and “to do” style checklists have limited value if they are not authentically aimed at achieving their higher purpose. Decades before the company that bears his name ‘went woke,’ Walt Disney noted that “Everyone needs deadlines.” For anyone that has sold manufactured homes at the retail level in a …
The truth about inflation being a proverbial tax on the poor and most marginalized is once again being proven in the U.S.A., per the recent analysis of federal data on inflation. That’s but one of several takeaways from the report on WND by the Daily Signal, which cited research economist …
To grasp the odd Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) statement to their members this week and associated document to HUD, it will be recalled that when MHI first announced what they initially called a ‘new class of manufactured housing’ – later rebranded as “CrossModTM“ homes – MHI staff and corporate leaders …
There is not always a direct or perfect correlation between the rise in the Federal Reserve rate and mortgage rates. So observed a 35-year mortgage industry veteran in comments provided to MHProNews a few months ago. That observation has been born out once again by the latest information from the …
“The Pew Charitable Trusts is a public charity formed in 2003 from the merger of seven foundations created by the Pew family, which made its money in the oil business. It operates the Pew Research Center as a subsidiary.” So says “Influence Watch” which says that “Capital Research Center [CRC] conceived of this …
The answer to the headline question “Has the Manufactured Housing Industry Become a Target-Rich Environment for Plaintiffs’ Attorneys?” objectively speaking should be ‘it depends.’ There are clearly several examples of current and pending litigation over issues both well-known as well as opportunities (from a legal standpoint) that are less obvious …
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) media engagement efforts in 2022 apparently created new wrinkles for the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), their corporate leaders, and for public officials to consider. How so? Via routine press releases on monthly national manufactured housing production and top ten shipment states data …
Matt Stoller is an antitrust writer/researcher. Stoller is the author of the book Goliath and of the BIG newsletter which are focused on the problems and news associated with monopoly power in America. In his 12.5.2022 issue, Stoller asserts as his theme that increasingly political leaders on the right are …
Manufactured Housing Properties Inc is among the newer arrivals to the blossoming trend of acquiring manufactured home communities, which is often misnamed by mainstream and others in media as ‘mobile home park investing.’ As of September 15, 2022, publicly traded Manufactured Housing Properties Inc (OTC: MHPC) states that their corporate …
Most ‘news’ is to a significant degree backward looking. History matters in national, local, professional or industry – including manufactured home industry (a.k.a. MHVille) – related issues. There are issues that have little or no relationship with collusions or conspiracies. But there are some issues where the facts and known …
The latest information about HUD Code manufactured home production from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) revealed that the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) alleged efforts to depress manufactured housing shipments to lower levels are perhaps finally succeeding. Manufactured home production fell in October 2022 year over year from …
In recent years, among the typical issues that one hears or reads about manufactured housing tends to involve the following. A) zoning/placement, B) financing, C) news involving some variation of ‘predatory behavior’ that often involves a manufactured housing sector consolidator, D) about a publicly traded firm and their stocks, E) …
“Just think back to December 2019… When you sat down to write out your business plan. Remember how excited you were? You thought 2020 would be your biggest year ever… But what happened? Boom… Covid happened.” So said entrepreneur and popular author/speaker Patrick Bet-David (PBD) who went on to say …
Stating the obvious can be a potent method for bringing clarity to an issue. When finding housing under $200,000 has become quote – “a myth” – manufactured housing ought to be soaring to all time highs. Was that mentioned by the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) in their latest emailed “news” …
“Merriam-Webster, America’s oldest dictionary publisher, has just chosen “gaslighting” as its word of the year. Searches on its website for the word have spiked by 1,740% in 2022, according to the company. Gaslighting is the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for one’s own advantage.” So said the BBC …
“Our mission is to fight homelessness with dignified living, getting the homeless off the streets and in a sustainable, supportive community environment benefiting themselves, the community, and the city’s economy.” So says the About Us page on the Kansas City, Kansas (KCK) Eden Village website. “Eden Village of Kansas City …
1) Apparently notorious Frank Rolfe with Impact Communities/”Mobile Home U” has argued that there ought to be no new ‘mobile home parks’ developed. What Rolfe calls ‘mobile home parks’ are often more properly known today as manufactured home communities. In fact, more manufactured home communities, both land lease and fee …
According to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) pre-dawn on 11.26.2022, Flagship Homes has a “Business Response Rate of 0%.” While Flagship Communities website boasts that they are a “Manufactured Housing Institute” (MHI) 2022 “Excellence in Manufactured Housing” “Award Winner,” 0ne must consider that source. In stark contrast to being an …
The left-leaning Washington Post and other sources are cited in what they apparently see as ‘breaking news’ on Biden-era policies regarding the supposed prevention and treatment of COVID19. These are important issues of interest to manufactured home professionals and virtually all others, because a million-plus Americans reportedly died of COVID19. …
