Following an email to a limited number of manufactured housing professionals this morning, one of them posted the following to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) request for input. The core of the message from our publisher to encourage the FHFA to hold Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to fully […]
At this time, 4:45 AM ET, there are only 4 comments posted on the Federal Housing Finance Agency website. “The current population of the United States of America is 329,784,810 as of Thursday, November 14, 2019, says WorldoMeters. There are some 22 million Americans living in mobile or manufactured housing, roughly 3/4th of
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We gave it a day to see how many plays on YouTube 2020 Democratic hopeful Elizabeth Warren’s new wealth tax ad would garner. You’ll see that video plus others from both sides of the left-right divide in tonight’s featured focus. As one pundit who has numerous Democratic contacts observed, the
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The supervisor of a Greene County town and the owner of a manufactured home community there were indicted on federal criminal charges Friday November 8, 2019. The allegation is conspiring to fraudulently siphon thousands of dollars in federal storm aid intended to rebuild the land-lease community following a devastating 2011
This will be a timely fact-check and analysis of a report by Marcus & Millichap Research Services, which periodically cited Datacomp-JLT; CoStar Group, Inc., Institute for Building Technology and Safety; Manufactured Housing Institute; U.S. Census Bureau. Their report concludes with these words. “The information contained in this report was obtained
The so-called Big Three in manufactured housing each put out public statements. Clayton Homes is a subsidiary of publicly traded Berkshire Hathaway. Skyline Champion is well behind Clayton in market share but is in the number 2 spot. Cavco Industries is in third, all according to the most recent data
There was an internal debate at MHProNews (that happens…) as to what the topic would be for our market focus tonight. Senator Elizabeth Warren and comments made by Steve Forbes? We might do that one soon, because it is an interesting look at where they might be right as well
The Request for Input (RFI) comments for the Duty to Serve manufactured housing plans by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were originally set some time back for November 12, but when we checked in yesterday to submit, the date was revised to 11.15.2019. Thus, those industry professionals so motivated
Programming note: ladies, there is a special message just for you in the last paragraph of this report. Please don’t miss it. That said, let’s dive into our headline topic. Snopes has recently done their version of a fact check. First, the topic, then their fact check, our
Tonight’s report will be a bit different than normal. Our format will be the same, but when you get to tonight’s featured focus report, think back a little over a year when Cavco Industries made their last bombshell announcement that sent their stock south. Regular readers please note there
Executive Summary. The Duty to Serve manufactured housing has been twisted into a pretzel in order to give an appearance to the casual observer of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 being followed. But as a careful review of what follows will reflect, voices across the left-right
There are many forms of manipulative and deceptive techniques being used in the world today. One of these is paltering. Paltering is “an active form of deception that involves the use of truthful statements to convey a mistaken impression” (Rogers, Zeckhauser, Gino, Norton, & Schweitzer, 2016) said an article entitled
Competitive Strategy. Getting to Yes. Secrets of the Soft Sell. Seven Habits of Highly Successful People. from Good to Great. How the Mighty Fall. The Magic of Believing. The Art of the Deal. Thoughts of Chairman Buffett. These are just some of the dozens of books on this writer’s bookshelves,
It has been just over 5 months since the Innovative Housing Showcase in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall. Several videos and interviews involving manufactured housing were produced during that event, some of which were posted to YouTube so that the views on those videos could readily be seen. MHProNews
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“As Congress turns up the heat on companies like Facebook, they’re facing added pressure,” says Full Measure’s YouTube page. “Nearly every state has now joined an anti-trust investigation that could threaten the way the tech giants do business. Lisa Fletcher talks with the Attorney General for the District of Columbia,
It goes without saying that manufactured housing is a subset of the larger American economy. As modest as the manufactured home industry may be today, it was not always so. Given the affordable housing crisis, the recognized quality that is documented by third-party research, and supervised by federally mandated inspections,
Today is Veterans Day, a federal holiday that honors America’s military. Though Veterans Day is a federal holiday, NYSE and the Nasdaq are open, but bond markets are closed Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. According the VA.gov website blog, here is a list of restaurants and other firms that offer free or special deals to vets.
Credit Human is one of the financial institutions that serves the manufactured housing industry. From their website is this pull-quote. Build Financial Slack Financial health is not about how much money you make, it’s about having enough financial slack. Your income minus expenses is what we mean by financial
Data about Manufactured Home Professional News (MHProNews) is produced automatically by a variety of third-party sources. Among them are Webalizer and MailChimp. A recent research report of data from Webalizer indicated that federal and state governmental sources account for thousands of hits monthly on MHProNews, which is a small number if
President Donald J. Trump’s campaign has not been shy about pushback. Accuse him of collusion with Russia? Challenge that at every level. After 2 years, Special Counsel Robert Mueller effectively delivered nada. As longtime MHProNews readers may recall, shortly after the probe was launched, relying on experts like Harvard Law’s
