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Chicken’s Don’t Fly!

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In the sales training sessions we provide retailers and manufactured home communities, we express in various ways that success begins with the proper mental outlook. "Your attitude determines your altitude" is a truism. How many sales greats did you know that are negative or believe it can't be done? By contrast, the positive "can-do!" and …

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Manufactured Housing facts from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Report

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The following information comes to us from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), forwarded from various state executive directors and MHI. “We estimate that in 2014 the average price of new manufactured homes (including the cost of lot development) is $53,230 for single homes and $100,259 for double homes. Increasing the price of new …

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Bombs in the Burry

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"Hurry, hurry, hurry, bombs in the burry!" is a colloquial expression that conveys a sense of haste or urgency. A burry is a patch of burrs, or a bitter cold climate like northern Minnesota's in winter. It was MHC and RE industry legend, Sam Zell, who told some 200 MH Industry pros that we needed …

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Manufactured Housing Institute – Suppliers Division – Product Placement Project

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At the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) annual meeting, the Suppliers Division voted in favor of doing a creative MH industry image building project that would use Product Placement in videos. Video is hot online. The number two search engine right behind Google is YouTube! You can find YouTube videos on seemingly countless subjects. The MHI …

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Who’s Missing?

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PresenterPro and Nancy Geer from the New York Housing Association both reminded me recently that a picture is worth a thousand words. We are regrettably living in an era of decline for tens of millions of Americans. Most of us would rather see the robust economy of the 1990s vs. the anemic one we have …

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