In business or in advocacy, the case can be made that one should properly give credit or blame when it is due. This manufactured home industry expert news-analysis will explore the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) attempt on 3.21.2024 to bring to their readers and members attention a new policy initiative …
“The American dream is homeownership, and the unintended effects of new regulation and lack of the secondary market by the GSEs is a path to tragically wipe out the remains of this important housing segment.” – Kevin Clayton, remarks to Congress on behalf of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and …
You don’t have to be an expert in housing in general, or in more affordable manufactured housing, to look at headlines and read reports. Someone using Microsoft’s Edge browser can open to a ‘start’ page that includes MSN’s aggregated news feeds. Functions operating in the background of that Edge browser, …
“An opponent is someone who is against a certain idea or belief, while a proponent is someone who is in favor of it,” said left-leaning Bing’s AI powered Copilot on 3.22.2024. The Biden-Harris Administration has said numerous times over the course of its first three years in office that it …
“Vanguard Group Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Equity LifeStyle Properties, Inc. by 1.9% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 24,909,450 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional …
65 to 70 percent of the country consistently say in polling that the nation is on the wrong track. A famous billionaire will be cited below who said the paraphrased headline remark: ‘I Don’t Want a Nation of Thinkers, I Want a Nation of Workers.’ There is plenty of blame …
The Biloxi Manufactured Housing Show is on. The Louisville Manufactured Housing Show for 2024 is in the rearview mirror. The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), dozens of state associations, and several supposedly independent coaches and trainers will be doing seminars, training, or other ‘educational’ sessions for free and/or for a fee …
NASDAQ reported that: “Legacy Housing (LEGH) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.28 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.77 per share.” Be that as it may, odds are that the analysts cited by Zack’s lacked some key insights or they wouldn’t have missed their estimates. With that …
The recreational vehicle (RV) industry and the manufactured home industry have similar and in some respects “intertwined” origins, as the Smithsonian Institute, the RVIA, and other sources would say. Per Bing’s AI powered Copilot: “The origins of the RV (Recreational Vehicle) and manufactured home industries are intertwined, with both having their roots in the early …
Like it or not, billionaires like Warren Buffett, Sam Zell, Nick Hanauer, and a leaked document from Citigroup – among others – have bluntly stated in their own words that the United States today is a society that to various degrees is ‘ruled’ or governed by plutocrats, oligarchs, and corporate …
Per left-leaning Wikipedia: “The Center Square, formerly Watchdog.org, is an American news website that features reporting on state and local government.” Ballotpedia stated: “Watchdog.org is a network of state-based watchdog reporters keeping an eye on government corruption and transparency that was begun in September 2009.” On 3.14.2024 the Daily Signal and The Center Square published …
“MHInsider is the leading information source for the manufactured housing industry, providing the manufactured housing news, legislative updates, operational insight, data, statistics, and trends for manufactured housing professionals.” That bold claim is going to be acid tested in the light of the analysis of the Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) owned …
“Say goodbye to your home” is a pull quote from a campaign email that is obviously partisan but nevertheless made some factual points shown further below in Part II of this report with analysis. Insights from Steve Hollosi into the lessons from the auto industry are found in Part I. …
What follows are a series of exclusively presented facts and figures that paint a picture of what has been aptly described as the “Rise and Fall” of HUD Code manufactured housing. In a related fact-packed report entitled “Affordable Housing Crisis Solution Made Easy – 9 Minutes of Facts with Applied …
What follows is cut and paste from the Berkshire Hathaway website on 3.9.2024. So, it is their ‘official’ list of companies held by that conglomerate. It may be technically correct in some weird or convoluted legal sense. But it is arguably incomplete for several reasons which will be demonstrated during …
For millions of renters, we’re cracking down on big landlords who break antitrust laws by price-fixing and driving up rents.” – Joe Biden, State of the Union (SOTU) address 3.7.2024, per the transcript on right-leaning Breitbart. Biden also said: “Too many corporations raise their prices to pad their profits charging …
Stating the obvious, it is campaign season. Despite dozens of charges (some 91) and legal maneuvers against their biggest challenger, the Biden-Harris (D) ticket is behind in most polls for the past 6 months when compared to deposed prior President Donald J. Trump (R) in a two or multi-person race. …
Since MHProNews reported some 5 weeks ago on the initial wave of investigations of Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) by plaintiffs’ attorneys on behalf of that company’s shareholders, the pace of those announced probes apparently has not slowed. Perhaps oddly, or revealingly, others who claim to be manufactured housing industry trade …
Few things are more important to frontline manufactured home retail sellers than access to more competitive chattel lending. With that in mind, according to their press release: “Persistent efforts by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) to reform the draconian “10-10” rule imposed by Ginnie Mae in 2010 …
Futurism. Left-leaning and Microsoft owned MSN. Right-leaning Breitbart. These are among the mainstream and trade media platforms that have reported on Microsoft (MS) owned Bing AI’s Copilot chat/search function taking on an alter ego called “SupremacyAGI.” MSN, also MS owned so hardly an anti-Microsoft platform, said that SupremacyAGI reportedly claimed …
