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“”We can afford to lose money – even a lot of money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation – even a shred of reputation,” wrote Warren Buffett to managers,” according to a post on the Wall Street Journal’s Facebook page. Now contrast that with the investment-focused Motley Fool’s citation […]

What’s the largest national trade association in manufactured housing? As longtime former-member George F. Allen should know, it is the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), based in Arlington, VA. They have for years claimed that “MHI is the only national trade organization representing all segments of the factory-built housing industry.” –

For over a year, the Daily Business News on MHProNews has been virtually alone in the industry’s trade media in periodically spotlighting the Opportunity Zones that were part of the Trump Administration tax and economic stimulus plans. Given the nation’s complex ‘carrots and sticks’ federal tax system, the Opportunity Zones

“The first session of the 57th Oklahoma Legislature completed its third month last week as the Senate and House completed hearing bills on the floor of their respective chamber by the April 25 deadline,” said the Manufactured Housing Association of Oklahoma (MHAO). Governor Kevin Stitt has signed the bill that

  There are all kinds of fights and battles. Some are physical. Others are mental. Still others are bruising business battles or political brawls. You don’t have to be a boxing fan to love some of the underlying themes in the Rocky series of movies. As Rodger Castro said about

We will weave two seemingly disconnected topics together. Holocaust Remembrance Day and the approach of Ramadan. First the Holocaust didn’t just impact Jews, who were certainly a prime target. Millions of non-Jewish people died in the same Nazi death camps. It is also not enough to wag a finger at

Let’s have some fun admitting that while there are real pains to being the contrarian to the manufactured housing industry’s BOR-ing ‘Knoxville-Arlington Amen Corner,’ there is also a liberating quality to it. We on the Daily Business News on MHProNews don’t have to wonder what the big boys think when

HUD Secretary Ben Carson told the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) yesterday that manufactured housing “is a product which clearly fills a need that would otherwise go unmet.” Secretary Carson made a surprise appearance that the MHCC meeting in Washington, D.C. yesterday. Per informed sources, HUD’s Office of Manufactured Housing

Last night, the Daily Business News on MHProNews looked at regional data that revealed 3 states with increases, but 3 others with significant declines in new manufactured homes shipped. Now, in our pre-dawn report, multiple tips from members of the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) provided their state’s latest –

Tips from members of the Manufactured Housing Association of Oklahoma (MHAO) members provided the data their state association produced. The graphic below summarized MHAO’s calculations of what the states of AR, KS, LA, MO, NM, OK, and TX shipped in February 2019 vs 2018, and a Year over Year (YoY)

MarketWatch has a column today about capitalism and the law that merits a good fact-check, but we will defer that topic for another date, as the headlines for today were focused on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s “one word” that sent generally sent stocks down. On a day with slightly

“Sankaty Advisors Llc decreased its stake in Skyline Champion Corporation (SKY) by 29.6% based on its latest 2018Q4 regulatory filing with the SEC. Sankaty Advisors Llc sold 2.01 million shares as the company’s stock declined 5.55% while stock markets rallied. The hedge fund held 4.79M shares of the homebuilding company

According to key “congressional supporters of the 2000 reform law” in a letter to HUD said that “…changes to the law [the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000] give “HUD the legal authority to preempt local requirements or restrictions which discriminate against the siting of manufactured homes … simply because

Let’s begin this report with a clarification of the headline. The term white hats and black hats are metaphorical for ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys.’ We know professionals in our industry who literally wear black hats. That should not be construed as a slam on any of those who literally

Investors crave certainty. In a true constitutional republic, they should have that, but many if not most Americans may not know what those words actually mean.  Sad and costly. In the wake of the 2016 election, stocks began their record runup.  But as the elections of 2018 approached political uncertainty

Before you take out that credit card to pay for similar data to Datacomp-JLT or others, why not look at what this free snapshot provides. It may save you some money. In a release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews, Marcus & Millichap Research Services provided the following snapshot.

“The San Francisco Bay Area, and California generally, has an extreme housing shortage.” So says YIMBY Action. The video posted further below by John Stossel for Reason makes their point in sobering terms. Unlike NIMBY, YIMBY means, Yes In My Back Yard. YIMBY Action says, “This housing shortage is causing

  “The state’s most destructive wildfire broke out just before dawn Nov. 8, burning nearly 14,000 homes in the communities of Paradise, Magalia and Concow, and killing 85 people,” said KQED News. “The blaze’s destruction worsened an already difficult housing crisis in and around the nearby city of Chico: Butte

Ask a manufactured home retailer, and many will tell you that they are not happy about rising oil – and fuel – prices.  While every price hike tends to bug a seller, fuel can seemingly bite faster than some shifts.  Tonight’s focus will be on the end of Iran oil