The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) released its monthly economic report. It will be recalled that the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) published their similar data about 2 weeks ago, and that MHARR previously raised concerns about the causes and trajectory of declines new HUD Code manufactured home shipments …
“Does Beto O’Rourke have a shot at being a big contender in 2020?” asked Fox News, which finds its answer from MSNBC which says Francis “Beto” O’Rourke raised a stunning $6.1 million in 24 hours, per the candidate’s campaign. If so, that tops the haul by Senator Bernie Sanders. On …
The debate over the breakup of big mega-powerful corporations is heating up. In the American Republic, a healthy exercise of thoughtful free speech is a good thing. Many of those discussions start with a call to break up Big Tech, which voices on both sides of the left-right political aisle …
Generally, before the start of each session of a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) business meeting, there is a brief reference made the antitrust guidelines. This, say experts, is important on several levels. MHI has produced a handout, linked here, which includes the following sentence. “The general requirements of …
This first video below is a ‘behind the scenes’ look published by Made, Clayton Homes’ ad agency/marketing firm. At the time this article is being drafted, it’s had 411 views. Frankly and for fairness, much of the generic content or claims that their video portrays we’d editorially agree with. We …
“Numbers of these people are paying more for rental housing” than they would for manufactured homes, said then Senator Bob Corker (TN-R) in the video posted below. The headline quote is from an independent ‘mom and pop’ owned manufactured home community owner, who is also on this Inside MH video …
Presidential budget proposals are ‘aspiration’ to use the phrase that some have applied to the Green New Deal. But it addresses several items that should be important to investors, professionals, and the nation at large. On a day when the broader markets rose overall, and industry track stocks closed mostly …
“Decades after capitalism seemed to have triumphed over socialism, politicians are once again arguing about the merits and drawbacks of these opposing economic systems,” says the Prager University’s YouTube page for their new video. Published on Mar 4, 2019, by PragerU, at about 2:40 PM ET on 3.15.2019, …
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“If you are willing to abandon your principles for convenience, or social acceptability, they are not your principles, they are you costume.” – Joe Concha, the Hill. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” – Warren Buffett per BrainyQuote. “What we learn from …
How does the manufactured housing industry, it’s current and potential home owners achieve mutual victories? That ought to be a key issue for professionals, investors, indeed all in the mix. Here’s how a multi-year manufactured home industry leader put it. “The entire industry must focus on one goal – …
In a pre-dawn exclusive, the New York Post cited investigations in New Jersey by state regulators “since at least May” of 2018. They noted that “Applied Underwriters, which was accused of “bait and switch” marketing tactics by California officials in 2017, illegally altered its contracts with customers to boost the …
The source of the following memo is known to have served on one or more Duty to Serve (DTS) committee(s) with the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, other Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) staff, and MHI member companies that participated in various discussions about access to lower …
In an email to MHProNews, came the following on 3.10.2019. “Tony, Soheyla and their team are always my first call for getting the word out about Legacy Housing’s manufactured home shows. They are excellent at promoting to our targeted industry audience and it shows every time in our post-show attendee analysis. …
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Can the 24/7 news cycle become much more intense? The usefulness of our evening ‘left and right’ headline news recap for busy manufactured housing industry professionals is perhaps more useful than ever since we began the practice some years ago. In about a minute or two, most pros can get …
Apple is one of the most popular smartphones in the world, so scammers targeting product users have a wide possible target audience, including those involved or connected to the manufactured housing industry. For example, “Canada is predominantly an iOS market, according to research. As of November, 54.9% of all smartphones (15.9 …
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American teens and those older have typically learned the quip – ‘Don’t assume. Because when you assume, you make an Ass/U/Me.’ It seems there is a fair amount of assuming going on in manufactured housing. When one looks at the evidence, facts, and money trails – as we must …
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February’s job totals were the worst since Sept 2017. The broader markets are down for 5 straight days. Part of the buzz about the lower numbers is reaction to the anemic job report, which included a sharp drop in construction jobs. A look under the hood of the February jobs …
There are voices in manufactured housing that are floating a variety of reasons for the poor results in 2018, and the continuingly poor performance to start out 2019. Those reasons could be listed, in no particular order of importance, such as: – Weather, – FEMA, – Inventory adjustments by retailers, …
There are numerous states that experienced a downturn in new HUD Code manufactured home shipments in December of 2018. Each of those, to varying degrees, merit their own story. One that experienced a pronounced drop was the #1 production and shipment state in the U.S., which is the state of …
There’s plenty of reasons why manufactured housing ought to be performing much better than it has been. The report featured this evening is about a survey by BankRate. Properly understood, their data could be added to the list of reasons why much more sales growth is possible. On a day …
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