There are many times in dealing with prospects that a sales person, or a selling community manager, faces a decision. It can be summed up like this. Should I tell the truth, or should I shard the truth, or even tell a lie? What if telling the truth might cost …
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“Scientia potentia est,” is Latin that is commonly translated as Knowledge is Power, but it is more accurately translated into English as Knowledge is Potential Power. All Knowledge comes from one of two sources, your own experiences, or insights learned from the experiences of others. There are no exceptions. …
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“Rollohome was started by Elmer Frey in his family barn as a one-time trailer sale. Soon he and his brothers Roland, Harold and Norman and his brother-in-law John Bertschie, began large scale operations in the sale and production of mobile homes. By 1950, Rollohome, was the city’s fastest growing business …
Rollohome, Creating 60,000 Factory-Built Homes in 2 Years Read More
“Rent control fights are heating up in California and Illinois, and manufactured homeowners are continuing to organize for better treatment from corporate landlords,” the leftist-activist group, MHAction stated in a release to the Daily Business News. “Nationwide, MHAction is joining a coalition of affordable housing advocates calling for Congress to …
“The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) in written comments filed on May 30, 2018, has called on the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) — the federal regulator of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — to significantly revise and amend the final rule that it issued on December …
The absurdity of publishing only half-truths, ‘happy talk,’ endless self-promotion, and polite platitudes has been on full display in manufactured housing for years. Google’s dictionary defines absurd this way: wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate – “the allegations are patently absurd” arousing amusement or derision; ridiculous – “gym shorts and …
There is in all communications efforts the risk of saying too much, or too little, when seeking to make an important point. In an era when thousands of messages are heard or seen daily by the average American, the risk of tuning out news or issues that seem disquieting …
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New York “Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood today announced an order directing Walker’s Manufactured Housing, Inc. (“Walker’s”) and its owner, Stanley Hall, to explain their failure to sit for testimony as required by the Attorney General’s subpoena,” said in a release to the Daily Business News. “My office will …
Attorney General Sues Manufactured Home, Modular Housing Company, and owner Stanley Hall Read More
“It is no secret about lifting HUD [Code manufactured] homes…[it’s] done all the time,” said industry installation expert, George Porter. “There are some differences because of the [different kinds of HUD Code manufactured home’s] frame, but fairly similar,” Porter told the Daily Business News via a series of emailed …
WASHINGTON – House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) issued the following statement to the Daily Business News upon attending a signing ceremony at the White House for S. 2155. The “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act,” is the formal name for S 2155, which was …
White House Signing Ceremony on Historic Pro-Growth Financial Regulatory Reform Read More
“We are at the tip of the iceberg,” for the manufactured home industry’s opportunities, said Rick Rand of Great Value Homes in WI. Rand – a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) board member, and award-winning communities veteran – would not weigh in on the latest controversies about the Arlington, …
If one takes candidates at their word – which is never a given once they are elected – it must be noted that candidates Secretary Hillary Clinton, and businessman, builder and media maven Donald J Trump each made a range of stated policy positions. Last night, the House passed …
Shifting Momentum, Demographics, Women, the 2018 Midterms, and Manufactured Housing Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Today, the House of Representatives voted 258-159 to pass the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act,” which represents the most significant pro-growth financial regulatory reform package since the passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley nearly a generation ago,” said the House Financial Services Committee Chairman in a statement …
“A recent article in the Washington Post regarding the HUD manufactured housing program and the reassignment of former program administrator, Pamela Danner, vividly highlights the glaring need for a new, independent, collective, national trade association to more effectively represent the industry’s post-production sector,” said Mark Weiss in the latest …
Just hours or days before an expected Congressional vote in the House on their version of S. 2155, the Seattle Times is reporting on federal investigations into the business practices of Clayton Homes, Vanderbilt Mortgage, and their affiliated Berkshire Hathaway lending units. “Gwen Schablik, a former Clayton employee who …
The topline is simple. Many if not most of those so-called MHAction protestors were not manufactured home residents. But where did MHAction come from? What is the origin of their funding? Are there possible silver linings from the headlines they grabbed? The Washington Post’s recent report on manufactured housing …
In a series of video media releases to the Daily Business News, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) touts recent accomplishments, explains how he hopes to narrow the gap for minorities, and boost all Americans’ earnings. In one of these video releases, Senator Scott also spotlights an effort to get more …
Imagine if during the 2008 campaign, if someone in the Bush Administration had planted one or more FBI informants in then Senator Barack Obama’s campaign. Then further imagine, that federal investigations were started, based in part on information paid for by opposition to then-candidate, Senator Obama. Then envisage that …
“…Trade Minister Moises Naim said the pages of history books are filled with people hanging on to dead ideas. Naim, who created a highly critical TV miniseries about Chavez that was banned in Venezuela, calls it “political necrophilia,” per Yahoo News in their latest in a periodic series of reports …
The Daily Business News can report that there are multiple candidates for the position vacated by the removal of Pam Danner at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Manufactured Housing Programs (OMHP). According to the HUD website, the Mission of “The Office of Manufactured Housing …
Who will replace Pam Danner at HUD’s Office of Manufactured Housing Programs? Read More
