It has been about a month since the news rocked Cavco Industries that Joe Stegmayer had stepped down as Chairman and CEO in the wake of a subpoena issued by the SEC. We’ll look at the latest as our featured report, below. If you’re new, already hooked on our …
The drama of the changing of the guard at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) that oversees the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been duly tracked by the Daily Business News on MHProNews. One of those barn-burners around allegations of sex …
Rep Jeb Hensarling Applauds Appointment of Dr. Mark Calabria to Head FHFA Read More
These are #NettlesomeThings. A Clayton retailer sent a long message as part of a confidential news tip, that included the following. The Daily Business News on MHProNews has added our customary bold/brown to reflect a direct quote, but the rest are emphasis and typos are in the sender’s original …
“Lots of Sizzle,” Clayton Sales Performance, Other MHI & Clayton Homes News Tips Read More
In the waning days of 2018, the political tag line in Washington, D.C. might be “It’s the border, stupid.” Stocks swung wildly again but closed only slightly down on a day that President Donald J. Trump apparently surprised “Chuck and Nancy” into doing an on-camera border security and wall funding …
The Daily Business News report on SKY earlier today should provide several of the cues that matter to manufactured housing industry professionals and investors. But for some time, manufactured housing stocks have often been gyrating more due to broader market forces, one of the reasons why MHProNews began the mantra …
Stocks Rebound Despite Clouds over Huawei, China, Brexit, Plus MH Market Updates Read More
Manufactured housing trade show season begins in only a few weeks. First at Louisville, then about 2 months later at Tunica, independent producers of HUD Code manufactured homes, state coded modular housing, ANSI code RV ‘Park Model,’ and tiny houses are among the types of factory-built housing products that …
From time to time state association executives or their staff send hot links into their members to select members. These are often about mainstream news stories that the executive or an association staffer at times fails to carefully check. We’re human, it happens. But as MHProNews reported last …
It’s your own personal rights, property, and wealth that are in the crosshairs. If what is described from news accounts that follow hasn’t yet happened to you, odds are that someone at a meeting you or they attended know about just such an incident on some personal level. …
This is true storytelling with a manufactured housing (MH) purpose. Relax with your favorite Sunday beverage, as you dive in… Winter up north is obviously quite different than winter in central Florida. Having spent about a decade doing MH business projects from bases in WI and IL, the …
If you were a housing shopper, would you buy a home from a cat killer? Hold that thought, as we’ll deal with the alleged cat-killing manufactured home community (MHC) owner noted in the headline in a few moments. But first, realize that if it isn’t cat killing, the …
The Daily Business News on MHProNews has spent weeks first documenting the sound fundamentals of the economy, and then underscoring some of the same – and very cogent points that – this Ph.D. from J.P. Morgan Chase makes in our featured report this evening. If you’re new, already hooked …
JP Morgan Guru Says, “Fake News” Shares Blame in Volatile Markets, plus MH Stock Updates Read More
Skimmer alert: the subject isn’t a video per se. But we open this Daily Business News on MHProNews with a comment about a new video because it shines a light on broader issues that have drawn comments – also shared below – from a variety of industry personalities. Many are …
A glance at our manufactured housing watchlist reflects that several of the industry’s tracked stocks are closer to their one-year lows than the one-year highs. As the broader markets have slid, so has manufactured housing, and those firms that have sizable stakes in manufactured housing. The reasons cited are the …
Strong Job, Economic Data Contrast with Market Fears, Plus MH Stock Updates Read More
News is a business. Period. News as a business can provide useful, authentic, manipulated, and/or weaponized information. Like any product or service, there are better ones, and worse ones. Manufactured housing professionals have plenty of reasons to properly engage with news media, but also need to be wary …
Understanding the News as Business, and Manufactured Housing Read More
Facts, evidence, and reason are for mature adults. Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen, because they often use a lack of evidence as if it was evidence. Facts are ignored at the peril of those who – for whatever reasons – ignore them. “Billionaire investor and liberal activist …
The number of former Conseco, Greentree, and other now defunct industry lenders that are still working in manufactured housing (MH) is not insignificant. Similarly, as MHI bleeds staffers and members on a periodic basis, past or current members and staff are among those who message or call MHProNews …
Warren Buffett doesn’t likely lose any sleep thinking about what the Daily Business News on MHProNews publishes. He reportedly leaves sleep loss and heart burn mostly to his company CEOs. With baseball season over, the end of college football’s season in sight, and with the pros season not …
An Area of Agreement Between Warren Buffett and MHProNews Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Alexa Fund has invested in factory-home building. Other FAANG stocks have a direct impact on manufactured housing, for marketing and other reasons. Investors ran for cover today for reasons noted in our left-right bullet headlines, below. The drop in FAANG will be our featured report this evening. …
FAANG Stocks Drop $140 Billion, Plus Manufactured Housing Industry Markets Read More
“Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire…” – part of a children’s rhyme to discourage dishonesty. “You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.” – Mark Twain, advice to youth, per Speakola. “Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that …
“Pants on Fire” – Latest New Manufactured Housing Shipment Report Read More
Whatever your position is on Nancy Pelosi (CA-D), she is proving you can’t beat someone with no one. That principle applies in numerous aspects of one’s business or professional life too, including our once far-greater in scope industry. Affordable housing advocates need more than a lament. Those who …
