“The Industry has to prepare for when the orders from the REITs slow down,” said a senior level executive with a HUD Code manufactured home production company.

The HUD Code builder agreed with the Daily Business News’ reporting that the industry’s orders are essentially flat, when orders going into communities with vacancies are factored out.

Though not a member of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform, (MHARR), he said that they were routinely correct on the issues that impact producers.

 

By contrast, he lamented that what MHI (Manufactured Housing Institute) says and does, “just doesn’t make sense.”  “It hasn’t for years,” the industry veteran flatly stated.  It was similar to the observation by the president of another MHI member company, who said prior to the departure of Pam Danner from the leadership spot at the HUD Code program, about how many complaints he was hearing about her and regulatory overreach.  Yet, during much of 2017 year, MHI as silent on keeping Danner in the top spot, until industry push-back grew so sustained, they pivoted.

Executive On Challenging Paradigms

The discussion with the MHI producer turned to recent reports on the Daily Business News, relative to Clayton Homes and the Manufactured Housing Institute.

“Tony, you [MHProNews] challenge people’s paradigms” among industry professionals. “Not everyone” knows what to do with that, said the non-MHARR producer.

On the Near Future for Manufactured Housing

“If we [HUD Code home builders] put that 15 percent we save from tax reform into infrastructure, our people, and processes,” he said amazing things could be done in the next few years.

While he wanted to keep his comments off the record, he was appreciative of the coverage of industry issues and how MHProNews “keeps it interesting.” ## (News, analysis, commentary.)

Note 1: Stay in the know! Thousands of MH Pros, Investors, Officials and Housing Experts do it. You, your team, and industry colleagues can sign up to the MH Industry leading headline news/updates – typically sent twice weekly – click here to sign up in just seconds.

(Third party images are provided under fair use guidelines.)

Submitted by Soheyla Kovach to the Daily Business News for MHProNews.com.