There are several new and recent items that are purportedly making it ever more clear what is occurring that are artificially stymieing manufactured housing industry growth. There is a new report from the Washington, D.C. based independent producers association – linked below – that raises several disturbing concerns. They should …
Is Manufactured Housing Industry Backstab Coming Into Clearer Focus? Read More
As the headline news from CNN and Fox Business reflect, there’s a flurry of items that contributed to the stimuli for investors on a largely down broader markets day, and a mixed day for manufactured home stocks and equities. But something to watch are those voices that keep trying …
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Keenya Robertson is a fair housing advocate and the President of Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence (HOPE). She said “Something is not right,” per Yahoo News. “People are being treated differently because they are from a different country. That is a violation of the Fair Housing Act,” Robertson said, according …
The manufactured housing industry has to a significant degree been conquered. Who will be the leaders and the voices that liberate our industry, it’s millions of home owners, and the millions more who could benefit from manufactured home living? That’s a tough but pertinent question, as the battle …
Love him. Hate him. Agree, disagree or be ‘meh’ about his policies and politics. Ignore the scandals attached to his wife and himself if you wish, because hundreds of thousands of donors clearly have. Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialistic independent from Vermont has announced he is running for the …
A manufactured home community (MHC) professional told MHProNews that the single largest competitor for our industry is subsidized housing. Ponder that statement. That and the recent Daily Business News on MHProNews report linked here and further below about ‘appalling’ are apt backgrounds for the following stern warning from the U.S. …
HUD Warns PHAs, Manufactured Housing Pros – Take Note Read More
In a press release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews, is the following from the New York State Attorney General’s (NY AG) office. The release contains the details of the suspect arrested and charged with swindling over a $1 million dollars from would-be buyers of factory-built homes. The NY …
The headline question, according to a manufactured home industry attorney familiar with the issues, says what attorneys often do. “It depends.” Under the headline, “RM LAW Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Cavco Industries, Inc.” one reads the following. “RM LAW, P.C. is a national shareholder litigation firm. RM LAW, P.C. …
The Daily Business News on MHProNews recently referenced the Sam Zell quote, “If Everyone is Going Left, Look Right.” Paul Harvey, on his famous radio show, might have said this about “the rest of the story.” A prior version of that quote by Zell had left and right reversed. Sometimes, we utter …
The data that follows is according to a February 11, 2019 report from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) delivered by email to their members. The Arlington, VA based trade group issued it with their normal copyright notice, but as their attorneys know, there are specific circumstances when copyrighted materials can …
In New York State, numerous incidents connected to manufactured home communities and manufactured homes has been making news. But not in a positive way. Recently, there were several dozen cases of rent-to-own or ‘contract-for-title’ transactions by community operators that caught the ire of the N.Y. State Attorney General’s office. …
Manufactured Home Community Residents on ‘Rent Strike,’ Republican Lawmaker Calls Foul Read More
There are potential issues that ought to have been raised in the 2020 Census that experts have told the Daily Business News on MHProNews should have been included. That will be a topic of a planned upcoming report. But today’s U.S. Census topic impacts every affordable housing or manufactured home …
The 2020 Census, Supreme Court, Manufactured Housing, and You Read More
“In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.“ – Warren Buffett, per Industry Week. That’s Buffett quote is one that our publisher agrees on 100 percent. MHProNews’ publisher was a multiple award-winning history major, in high school and college. So, there are days like today that he likes to have …
In states such as Colorado or Texas, one can find Clayton Homes owned manufactured home retail stores which achieve significant sales volume and/or higher earnings for their general managers (GM). One such Clayton retail GM – per sources with the Knoxville, TN metro based firm – earns over a million …
Clayton Retail GM Earns Big Bucks, Insider Insights for Manufactured Housing Read More
Let’s be clear. The publishers of MHProNews are political independents. We believe that affordable housing is a non-partisan issue. A new report stresses the notion that Democratic and Republican lawmakers can and are working across the partisan political divide to promote manufactured homes as an important part of the solution …
The left-of-center New York Times dubbed Patrick Caddell as the self-taught pollster who helped propel an obscure Georgia peanut farmer – Jimmy Carter – onto the White House. Right-of-center Townhall said, “Carter Pollster Turned MAGA Supporter” Pat Caddell “Has Passed Away.” As MHProNews examines the emerging politics of the 2020 …
Patrick Caddell, pollster to Former President Jimmy Carter, Dies at 68 Read More
Billionaire Warren Buffett speaks about “value investing,” plus only investing in concepts that can be easily understood, and make sense. Buffett believes in well managed firms. Those concepts from the 3rd richest man on earth are proven to work just fine. Others methods he deploys are arguably less savory. …
Rebecca Luyre at the Hartford Courant reported the cancellation of a HUD Section 8 contract for affordable housing at aging buildings named Barbour Gardens in that city in Connecticut. “Protests over the dismal living conditions at a North End apartment complex have cut short the federal government’s $750,000-a-year contract with …
In the internet age, the amount of data that is available for a savvy manufactured home marketer is quite amazing. This chart from Visual Capitalist and Title Max grabs data points that you could gather on your own, given some research. To see this chart full size, click …
There are tens of millions of Americans too young to recall that at the end of the Clinton Administration, that the U.S. had a budget surplus. That was a bipartisan effort, with the Republican Party (GOP), led by then House Speaker Newt Gingrich achieving a grand bargain of entitlement and …
America’s $22 Trillion Debt, Markets Soar, Plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates Read More
