Following the public slam last fall by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) of the Washington Post report on manufactured homes last September 2021, that mainstream news outlet included by MHARR and the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) this past week. It is one of several mainstream media reports …
Stating the Obvious and reviewing the facts can bring clarity to long festering issues that may have vexed our society as well as our industry for decades. For an example is the issue of homelessness. It should go without saying that the less affordable housing is, the greater housing insecurity …
People and professionals are normally social creatures prone to certain behaviors. “The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” Quote Investigator says that “is Warren quoting the English philosopher Bertrand Russell, because his words so aptly describe the insidious nature …
Equity LifeStyle Properties (NYSE:ELS), as their name implies, project an image of resort living, often near bodies of water. The ELS property Heritage Plantation is located in Vero Beach, FL – only about 10 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and boasting two modest lakes – has per residents and a …
Per the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) this morning, “Supreme Court Blocks Vaccine Mandate for Large Businesses” explaining “The Supreme Court has blocked the Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for workers at large private businesses. The mandate required that workers at businesses with 100 or more employees must get vaccinated or submit …
Crisis has long spelled opportunities in disguise. That reality is exemplified by a well known quotation from the assassinated Democratic President John F. Kennedy quotation shown below which identifies the source as an ancient piece of Oriental (Chinese) wisdom. Whatever someone’s personal politics – or lack thereof – may happen …
It is useful in business to periodically step back and take stock in an objective and rational fashion. Some retailers in manufactured housing, for example, will hold a Monday morning sales meeting. How many deposits? Approvals? Denials? What can be done, if anything, to turn the TD into a financeable …
Any adult of sound mind capable of independent thought who has not yet figured out that politics impacts business, and business impacts politics, has arguably not been paying close enough attention. Additionally, someone doesn’t have to agree with constitutional Harvard emeritus attorney Alan Dershowitz, a self-proclaimed Democrat, to apply his …
“2021 was world’s 6th-warmest year on record,” said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) federal government website, which says the NOAA is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. “After two consecutive years (2019 and 2020) that ranked among the top three warmest on record, Earth was a slightly …
HUD Code “Manufacturers continue to pull those backlogs down through capital investments in their existing plants, bringing new plants online, and expanding their labor force. These measures should open up the order-flow spigots. Housing demand has remained strong, and investors are planning the greenfield development of several new manufactured-housing communities …
News can be marketing. Marketing can be news. Cavco Industries executives, alongside others that are involved in the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), are looking up from their coffee, tea or favorite beverage to a pairing of information from this review of recent JD Supra and Mondaq updates on Cavco’s SEC …
On January 4, 2022, Ginnie Mae (GNMA) welcomed new President Alanna McCargo. McCargo was unanimously confirmed by the Senate last December, GNMA tweeted on 12.15.2021. Ginnie Mae plays a key role in single family manufactured home lending under the HUD/FHA Title I loan program. That program has been all but …
Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) recently reported their ranking of Legacy Housing (LEGH) for their stock-investments focused readership. “Currently, LEGH sports a Zacks Rank of 1. Shares of Legacy Housing have appreciated 47.7% in the past six months,” they said. Additionally, that source noted on 1.10.2022 that “The Zacks Consensus Estimate …
Manufactured housing has an incredible story to tell, almost unbelievable, but evidence based and true. The tale of the evolution from trailer house to mobile home to manufactured housing to modern manufactured homes is worthy of several books or screenplays. The press release below tells part of that story through …
Give the corporate geniuses behind the curtain at the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) their due. In selecting Lesli Gooch, Ph.D., to be the CEO of their purported insiders’ club – dubbed as a nonprofit trade association that claims to work for “all” – MHI corporate leaders picked a woman who …
As industry veterans with several decades of experience of knowledge of history know, for decades what was bad for mainstream conventional housing was a good indicator for an increase in manufactured home sales. That is why the report from Fannie Mae offers a potential for growth, “IF” industry leaders or …
Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) leaders have been formally asked to respond to a range of questions and concerns related to their performance on behalf of the manufactured housing industry’s companies and employees. The question has been posed to them because MHI claims to represent “all segments” of manufactured housing. That …
“A year after January 6 Capitol riot, hundreds face charges but questions remain, said CBS News on 1.5.2022. Some 19 paragraphs later, left-leaning the CBS report stated: “Thus far, no one has been charged with sedition — attempting to overthrow the government.” Just the News cut to a key point …
While other publicly traded companies that produce manufactured housing say they are interested in organic growth, among the larger publicly traded brands, Legacy Housing LEGH:Nasdaq) alone has eschewed buying out locations of their active competitors (mergers and acquisitions or M&A). Why such an obvious factual statement is commonly missed by …
“I first saw this story in 1972 and it is repeated every year since, or at least the same general theme. A shame it never comes to pass.” So said Marty Lavin in one of the last emailed comments to MHProNews for 2021. Lavin was referring to a what amounts …
