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“I Admit, I was Wrong,” said Heritage’s Feulner, Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Economy, Election, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, research, Stocks, Trends

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if certain folks in Arlington, VA made an admission like the headline confession Heritage’s Edwin Fuelner made on camera? But, the focus for this evening’s market report isn’t that, rather, it is two-prime points. General economy/jobs, and the under-reported internal struggles in China over the trade […]

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AG’s Hathaway Lawsuit OK’d

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, People

  “The Consumer Protection Division of the Idaho Attorney General’s Office is now free to pursue a planned lawsuit aimed at banning Paul Hathaway, the former owner of Hathaway Homes Group, from selling mobile and manufactured homes,” per Bryan Clark for the Post Register and Standard Journal   Hathaway Homes

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“All the News That’s Fit to Print,” “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” Affordable Housing, MH Reality Checks

By / / Affordable Housing, Announcements, Association, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry

  Wheat and chaff. Take the best information that a source provides, sift out the chaff, and voila! You have useful information.   The headline two quotes above are from the old tag line of the NYTimes, which brought the industry the sensationalistic “The Cold, Hard Lessons of Mobile Home

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Carson’s Recent Address on HUD, Affordable Housing, and the Manufactured Housing Vantagepoint

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, regulation, Trends

  If you listen to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies video below, the outlook for affordable housing sounds bleak.     By contrast, Mark Weiss, in a soon-to-be-released commentary, told MHProNews that “HUD Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson, as the saying goes, “gets it.”   First, and most fundamentally,

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Skirts vs. Coat-Tails for Biz and Investors? Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Economy

The markets closed mixed, and the midterms are approaching in just 90 days.  As the American Banker noted in their print edition, part of what is up in the air is certainty for business and investors. Is it a blue wave ahead, or is the President of the United States

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MHPro Alert: DOE Issues Manufactured Housing Energy Rule RFI

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, regulation, Small Business

“The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a “Notice of Data Availability and Request for Information” (“Notice”) regarding its previously dormant manufactured housing energy conservation standards rulemaking in the August 3, 2018 edition of the Federal Register (see copy attached),” said the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR)  

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“Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” – FHFA, GSE Federal Oversight Announcement

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, regulation, Trends

The House Financial Services Committee announced that there will be an upcoming hearing that will continue their probe into allegations of “waste, fraud, and abuse.”   The Daily Business News on MHProNews has tracked developments over the ongoing drumbeat out of Washington, D.C. over concerns regarding the Federal Housing Finance

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Ready Player One, “Mobile Home Stacks,” and the Manufactured Home Industry Reality Check

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, ignorance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, mobile home, Trends

Culture is often a reflection of entertainment, and entertainment often influences society, and thus culture.   With that in mind, what did the movie Ready Player One  tell the manufactured housing industry? Ready Player One (RP1) featured people living “in “stacks,” which are literally mobile homes piled on top of one

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Stocks Rise Amid Trade Tiffs, Iran Sanctions Take Effect, Plus MH Market Updates

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Economy, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks, Trends

Don’t look now. The uncertainty over trade, sanctions, tariffs in the first half of the year gave way on Wall Streets to a more recent steady rise in the markets. While there’s plenty of question marks – read, uncertainty – ahead, there seems to be growing confidence that the Trump

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City Settles Case with Community Owner for $1.5 Million

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, regulation, Trends

The City of Chino recently reached a $1.5 million settlement with a manufactured home community owner. The suit originally asked for $34 million, and was filed in July 2010 by Chino MHC, owner of Lamplighter Chino Mobile Home Park,  per the Champion Newspapers. “The settlement agreement resolves long-standing disputes and

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“Insulting” – Local News Report on “Mobile Home” Fire Underscores Why Terminology Matters

By / / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, mobile home, People, Trends

  A local news story of a “mobile home fire” on I-20 underscores why the terminology issue matters.   Before diving into the local media report to see the lessons learned, let’s examine part of a detailed statement from a multi-decade manufactured home professional. Why? Because it very much relates

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Rising Tide Lifts Millions off Food Stamps, Plus Manufactured Home Market Updates

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks, Trends

The USDA reports that the number of people on food stamps, more properly known as SNAP benefits, has been declining by millions since February of 2017. More jobs, higher wages are clearly contributing to that outcome, which will be our focus spotlight this evening. If you’re new, already hooked on

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Manufactured Housing Shipment Totals, June 2018

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, housing, Manufactured Housing Industry, Trends

Manufactured housing shipments continued to rise, but the pace of growth slowed in June, per the latest data from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR).  MHProNews presents MHARR’s latest data, and their formal statement, followed by an MHProNews analysis.    Washington, D.C., August 6, 2018 – The Manufactured Housing Association for

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HousingEconomics Releases New Data on U.S. Housing, Comparing MH and Stick Built Data

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, research, Trends

  HousingEconomics is part of the National Association of Home Builders ® (NAHB), an outlet for NAR data.   According to their website, “The NAHB Economics Group has provided research and analytical solutions to member companies and professional economists since 1970.” And “you can rely on the premier data source

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“Fixing Our Industry’s Terrible” Public Relations, a Proven Strategy

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, Marketing Sales Management

This is a “Feedback Edition” – featuring comments from MH Industry Voices – that is still part of our normal Monday Morning Marketing and Sales meeting.  You could summarize the topic like this.  Shouldn’t our job selling homes that are quality for so much less be easier than it is? 

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They Did It Before…Sunday Morning Manufactured Home Industry News Headline Recap July Aug 5, 2018

By / / Advocacy, Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Flashback, Headlines - Week In Review for Manufactured, Legal, loans, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Marketing Sales Management, mobile home, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, regulation, research, Trends

  They Did It Before, They Can Do It Again    The headline is a play on words, and can be taken in a good way, or a problematic one.   “We did it Before, We Can Do It Again” was a World War II song, aimed to remind Americans

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“Thou Shall Not Steal,” $2 Trillion Annually Lost to Lack of Affordable Homes, Making the Manufactured Home Case

By / / Advocacy, Affordable Housing, Association, Business, Economy, Finance, ignorance, loans, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, media ignorance, NIMBY, Prefabricated housing, Trends

After years of arguably failed polite talk, perhaps more direct and blunt words are needed.   The logic of research economists Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti is that improper land use policies are costing the nation some $2 trillion dollars a year. The reasoning of National Association of Realtors (NAR)

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Significant Slowdown of New HUD Code Manufactured Home Production Growth in June, Per Latest Data

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Economy, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, research, Trends

While manufactured housing production has nudged up marginally in June, the data reveals that it has slowed significantly from earlier this year.   The state-by-state breakdown of production is found in the chart below, based upon data collected for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by IBTS. A

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Lou Barletta – Senatorial Candidate – Sums Up Upcoming Mid-Term Battle Lines, Plus MH Market UPdates

By / / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

It only took Lou Barletta about 3 minutes to machine gun the bullets that sum up the 2018 midterm battle lines. Check out that new video, because the midterms are coming up fast. With markets closing mostly up, the Barletta related video will be our feature for tonight. If you’re

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Loan Zone Manufactured Home Buyers, Sellers – CU Insight on Fannie, Freddie and Duty to Serve Manufactured Housing Industry

By / / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Finance, loans, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, regulation, Trends

“Despite news reports that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will start pilot programs for chattel manufactured home loans, don’t look for a big move by them any time soon in this arena,” said the CU Insight yesterday. The CU Insight’s about us page says, “…is the place for all things

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