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CFPB: What’s the difference between being pre-qualified and pre-approved for a loan?

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Amy Tierce, writing in the NationalMortgageNews, tells MHProNews that the CFPB’s website gives an answer to the question, What’s the Difference between being pre-qualified and pre-approved for a mortgage? but that the CFPB’s answer is not, Tierce says, “the full story.” Some lenders have decided, she says, to “not issue pre-approval letters due […]

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NBC News Today Show report shows Manufactured Home did as well as Conventional On-site Construction in hurricane high winds test

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“Regarding this previous portion of the test, IBHS indicated: “When one of these high wind-rated HUD-Code homes is installed on a permanent foundation, in most of the country, it would end up resisting wind storms better than surrounding site-built homes.” So stated a MHI President and CEO, Richard “Dick” Jennison

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Tim Williams, 21st Mortgage, elected Vice-Chair during Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Summer Meeting

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The 2014 Summer Meeting for the  Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) concluded yesterday with Tim Williams, CEO of 21st Mortgage, was elected as Vice-Chair of the industry’s largest national trade association.  Williams, a respected industry icon, was unopposed. 97 industry leaders, plus MHI staff, friends and family attended the June 8-10 event

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HUD’s Pam Danner shines at elegant Alexander Hotel in Indianapolis amid Optimistic 2014 Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Summer Meeting

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97 industry leaders – plus staff, friends and family – came to the Alexander Hotel in Indianapolis, IN June 8-10 for the 2014 Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Summer Meeting. The new manufactured home program director at HUD, Pam Danner, was featured on the final day, in addition to her participating

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Rain and Clouds Don’t Dampen Ohio Manufactured Home Show’s Strong Public Attendance

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Cool, cloudy and rainy weather failed to dampen the solid turnout of the public who came by the thousands to see modern manufactured and modular homes on display during the Eastern Ohio Home Show. Tim Williams, executive director for the Ohio Manufactured Homes Association, provided MHProNews with these officials totals:

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George Allen Fact Check: 6 Errors/Contradictions in one section alone (290/1)?

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The Washington Post famously hands out “Pinocchios” for false or misleading statements made by public officials they fact check, including notables such as U.S. President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other foreign or domestic public figures. Since the MHIndustry’s George F. Allen boldly proclaims himself weekly to be

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Even with Thunderstorms, Tunica Pre-Show Estimates Exceeded

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While weather and other factors kept some potential attendees away, preliminary figures from Show Ways Unlimited and the registration company indicted that a total of 2195 professionals attended the 2014 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show.  Pre-Show estimates on total professionals expected at this year’s event were for 2100 total. The timing

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Free Manufactured Housing Finance, Business Seminars and Forecast

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Some 2100 +/- manufactured housing industry professionals from all segments of the industry are expected at the 2014 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show. Registrations have come in from states coast to coast. The Tunica Show features more homes and exhibitors than any other industry trade show in North America. Networking and

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MHARR, MHI and GSE Reform, Background to Danny Ghorbani’s release and George Allen’s Planned “Story”

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On Sunday, March 16 at 4:47 PM ET, a news release was received from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) on the topic of the highly-charged issue of a Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE, “Fannie and Freddie”) reform plan. Some 3 Hours and 43 minutes later, at 8:30 PM on the same

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Danny Ghorbani, George Allen, Michael Power, et al: False, Misleading Statements and Tortuous Interference?

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Sources have told MHProNews that Danny Ghorbani, President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has once more allegedly made threatening statements directed at our publisher, as Ghorbani’s response to articles and commentaries published that analyze Ghorbani’s written/public statements. Why? “Our industry needs financing and is

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S 1828 Co-Sponsors grow in wake of MHI Legislative Session

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Sources with ties to Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) tell MHProNews that the number of sponsors and co-sponsors for S 1828 has jumped from 4 to 9 as a direct result of the recent visits by members to their U.S. Senators. Dan Coates (R-IN), Rand Paul (R-KY), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Joe

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MHARR’s HUD/MHI Missive: on the record, “No Comment,” but off the record…

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MHARR’s president “broadsided” HUD – as well as MHI – on Thursday, January 29th with an emailed release. The timing seemed odd, observers told MHProNews, as this took place in the immediate aftermath of an extraordinary semiannual oversight hearing on Capitol Hill. Chairman Jeb Hensarling’s Financial Services Committee had members

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Mobile and Manufactured Homes Gets Federal Grant Money

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Ostego County New York was awarded a Federal Community Development Block Grant to rehabilitate the “mobile homes” of low and moderate income families. CNYNews tells MHProNews that the County has recognized how “important and widespread” the need is for manufactured housing as a form of affordable home ownership. Key points

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Manufactured Housing’s New Year, 2014!

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MHProNews will launch it’s January 2014 issue on Thursday, January 2. Factory-built housing in general – and manufactured housing specifically – continues to go through significant changes, with three years of rising sales. New featured articles, 2 new exclusive interviews and much more will help you start out the new

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