That a wide array of private businesses are subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is not a surprise to thousands of manufactured housing industry professionals from coast to coast. As recently as this month, Fair Housing attorney – Nadeen Green, JD – has published on the subject of …
Are the Blind, Leading Legally? Ruling on Websites, ADA Puts MH Businesses on Notice Read More
“I don’t care whether you are a liberal, conservative, independent or something else – the bottom line with this year’s [2016 presidential] election was simply more of the same or something new, different or unique,” said Tim Connor, CSP. Jim Clayton told MHProNews that “my thinking is increasingly optimistic and tends to …
4 and 0 – Special Elections and Manufactured Housing – Clayton, Connor, Hamilton Read More
The Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) has wrapped up the heavy lifting from their legislative session. The TMHA’s DJ Pendleton tells MHProNews that they set out to achieve two major goals. Their report to the Daily Business News having achieved both of their key efforts. It’s the background and import …
Texas Strut$ Their Stuff – What Association Success Looks Like Read More
The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks. By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving …
Deer Valley Soars, Spotlighted, Most Tracked Stocks Rise Read More
“You are entitled to your own opinions. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” So said Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was paraphrased recently by Tim Williams of the Ohio Manufactured Housing Association, in that association’s efforts to battle the Kasich Administration’s ongoing plan to over-regulate manufactured housing in …
Regulation Nation – Manufactured Housing Associations, Companies, and Professionals Read More
The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks. By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving …
Nobility Homes Spotlight Report, Nobility Rises, Most Tracked Stocks Slip Read More
Being “green” is all the rage for millions of Americans. Indeed, sustainability is good – and all forms of modern factory building are demonstrably more sustainable than their on-site built counterparts tend to be. Just the reduction in wasted materials, which sources say runs about 30 percent, is significant for …
Closer Look, VERMOD’s ZEM= Zero Energy Modular – ‘Manufactured Home Replacement’ Read More
The Herald Leader reports that the Siloam Springs, Arkansas Board of Directors approved a pair of moratoriums on Tuesday to “buy time for city code change on medical marijuana and mobile home [sic] trailer parks [sic].” The local paper said that “The moratoriums will temporarily prohibit applications from being made …
The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks. By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving …
Proud Patrick Performance Perspective Spotlighted, MHCV, Markets Mixed Read More
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has created its own controversy, on the eve of their much ballyhooed “Legislative Fly-In” to Washington, D.C. Two of the industry trade association’s senior staffers were allegedly terminated, days prior to their event, as was first reported by the Daily Business News, at this link …
Social Security disability lawyer Eric C. Conn plead guilty earlier this year to a scheme that defrauded the federal government of over half-a-billion dollars. While a legacy factory-built housing professional yesterday quipped, tongue in cheek, that the real Ponzi scheme is social security itself, “The Conn Mann,” a judge and …
Eric Conn ‘Trailer Law Complex’ Social Security Attorney ‘On the Lam’ Read More
The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks. By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving …
Skyline Investor Move$ Spotlight; Other MH Stocks, Broader Markets Mixed Read More
Multiple sources tell MHProNews that two “senior staff” members have been “fired” from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). Lois Starkey – former Vice President of Regulatory Affairs – with MHI, and Tom Heinemann – previously the Vice President of Federal Government Affairs at MHI – are both gone. Their names have …
Senior Staff Shakeup at the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI)? Read More
There are certainly voices on both sides of the climate controversy and how that relates to energy policy. To oversimplify is to say that Secretary Hillary Clinton and Jill Stein represented those in the 2016 presidential race that broadly favored continuing along the path that President Obama’s administration had begun. …
Competitive Enterprise Institute Grades Trump on Energy, Domestic Policies Read More
The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks. By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving …
Investor$ Big Move$ – LPX Spotlight; Tricon, LCI lead, NOB, SKY Bleed Read More
Expert Matthew Wallace, JD, CPA provided the professionals of the manufactured home industry today with a useful article that will be necessary – sooner or later – for millions of home owners who live in a pre-HUD Code mobile home, or a post-code manufactured home. Wallace was keenly welcoming of …
Free Resource for Retailers, Communities, Your Customers and Residents Read More
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” said Alexander Pope, about 208 years ago, and it is as true today as it was then. An early version of the saying, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” is attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, (1091-1153), and that too …
Jana Kasperkevic, Tiny Houses, Manufactured Homes & Financing Read More
In response to President Donald J. Trump’s call to proclaim June National Home Ownership month, USDA’s Acting Deputy Undersecretary for Rural Development Roger Glendenning said he celebrates the vital contribution homeowners have made to communities across rural America. “Owning a home provides rural residents a secure environment where they can …
The Chicago Tribune reported earlier this month on a suspicious fire in an Oak Lawn manufactured home community. Two deaths were reported. When law enforcement ruled the matter an alleged case of arson, it made the deaths apparent murders. “Are there murderers here?” – resident Mary Grochola said, per the Tribune, “A …
Fearful Residents Ask, “Are There Murderers Living Here?” Read More
The AZ Republic has been reporting on a brewing scandal that could make FEMA’s embarrassment over their Louisiana placement of Manufactured Housing Units (MHUs) pale by comparison. The Navajo Housing Authority spent $12 million building 91 new homes, all but one was later demolished. Then, “After failing to spend nearly …
Modular Housing Scandal? HUD Investigating, Senator McCain Blasts, Wants Reforms Read More
