A good turn of a phrase or image is proven to stick for some time. Perhaps that explains why the report on 5.7.2021 from Fannie Mae to MHProNews brought to mind the colorful recent Issues and Perspective image that the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) President and CEO …
A presentation by former Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Vice President Jason Boehlert has surfaced. Boehlert left MHI and was replaced by Lesli Gooch, who later became MHI’s CEO. Boehlert’s power-point pitch-deck slides shared data from MHI that perhaps inadvertently, but nevertheless clearly, revealed just how badly the industry’s manufactured home …
Under the headline report entitled “Regulatory Capture: Systematic and Institutionalized Corruption of Regulators under Neoliberal Regime” is this quote. “Regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them…mellow, and in old age…they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.” John Kenneth Galbraith Let’s …
Instead of a line-by-line fisking of Jessica Wildlife’s popular observations, data, and rationale via Medium on her theme – “We Can’t Afford to Live Anymore, and The Rich Are Gaslighting Us” with her subtitle “It’s doing serious damage” – this report and analysis will present her thesis in full. After …
In a news update from the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) to MHProNews was the following report on May 3, 2021. TMHA created a monthly tracking tool to see how HUD Code manufactured home builders perform when compared to the broader conventional housing market. In April the answer was a …
Roughly once a month, Mark Weiss, J.D., President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) pens an “Issues and Perspectives” (IP) which are laced with facts and evidence. Each column demonstrates his mix of a sharp wit, keen legal and other insights, and/or an equally …
There are several websites that provided employees, past and present, and opportunity to sound off on the company that they work for in a fashion that may avoid retaliation. Per 122 reviews on Indeed, the average rating is 2.5 out of 5. Glass Door’s update 4 days ago is only …
Jonathan Stempel in WHTC and Reuters published an item on April 29, 2021 5:27 PM under the headline: “Factbox: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway at a glance.” The articles says it was edited by “Diane Craft and Steve Orlofsky.” Stempel’s article is supposed to be a preview of facts and statements …
Warren Buffett said about Clayton Homes, “We are in no hurry to record income, have enormous balance-sheet strength, and believe that over the long-term the economics of holding our consumer paper are superior to what we can now realize through securitization. So Clayton has begun to retain its loans.” That …
“The housing crisis is beyond desperate; this development will provide high quality homes at a starting price of $200,000,” said Jennifer Tsang. “These are not trailers, these are manufactured homes.” According to CBC News, Cygnet Investments “has been trying to develop the 436-hectare property for nine years.” Jennifer Tsang, with …
In a media release on 4.27.2021, Deer Valley Corporation (DVC) (OTCMKTS: DVLY) announced the following “short form merger.” Following this press release will be additional information on Peerless Homes Corporation and on Deer Valley. Deer Valley Corporation Announces Completion of a Short Form Merger With Deer Valley Merger Sub, Inc. …
Each aspect of the headline will be addressed in this lemons or lemonade examination of the decades of mendacious hypocrisy used by America’s so-called corporate and political elites, much of which are on full display this week. For decades, American working class, middle class, retirees, independent smaller business owners – …
Comments and insights from Sun Communities Inc. (SUI) in their new 1st quarter 2021 earnings call, shown further below, correctly raised reasons to look at recent RV industry data to compare it with what is occurring in manufactured housing. The following is from the March 2021 RV Industry Association (RVIA) …
“Absolutely right!” That two-word reply came from an educated, impressive author, speaker, and public figure who is an Igbo from Nigeria. It was his reply when asked for his reaction to the essence of the following thesis for this report and analysis. Operating in the background of the 1990s era …
Few if any topics are of greater concern to manufactured home professionals than manufactured home single family “home only” financing. So, on one level the emails involving former MHI chairman Joseph “Joe” Stegmayer, who served for years as the Chairman and CEO of Cavco Industries (CVCO) makes sense. Additionally, it …
As IBISWorld and the Atlantic previously reported some time ago, the ‘street retail’ sector of the manufactured home industry has been devastated during the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) era of manufactured housing. Does the loss of perhaps some 20,000 independent street retailers in the last 2 decades mean that the manufactured …
Executive Summary. All authentic problem solving involves accurate information, an evidence-based understanding of that information, and a clear path towards a viable solution to the problem(s) faced. This outline report and analysis will aim to do the following. It will set manufactured housing’s current status in the broader national context. …
“Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed,” said Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), in an article on the WEF website about their transformational initiative. “In short, we need a ‘Great …
“It’s just amazing, his personality, to be such a genius,” said Kevin Clayton, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway owned Clayton Homes, about Berkshire Chairman Warren Buffett. But what sort of genius is Buffett? Is he a good or an evil genius? To answer that question, quotes from Buffett about his view on …
Jim Edwards’ LinkedIn profile says he was previously a columnist with CBS News. He has since gone on to Business Insider “Editor-in-Chief (BI UK and International)” and “Editor In Chief (News) INSIDER.” He’s not a lightweight. His prior report on the CIA merits some context before framing it in a …
