According to Warren Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders linked here (bold added): “If qualifications aren’t broadened, so as to open low-cost financing to all who meet down-payment and income standards, the manufactured-home industry seems destined to struggle and dwindle.” That Warren Buffett quote from his 2009 letter linked below is relevant and was previously reported by MHProNews and MHLivingNews, and thus is not a recent finding. However, as yesterday’s report linked here announced, MHProNews can now report new and arguably important primary source documentation relative to a key pivot to historically low manufactured housing industry production.  The sourcing and details are provided in Part II and Part III below. The timeline is a reference to some of the apparent impacts that same year as the 21st Mortgage letter by Tim Williams, linked here. While the future is often difficult to predict, the documents surfaced by Gemini and ChatGPT are arguably hereby becoming part of a broader record that points to potential coordination on some level between various firms that spans well over a decade. At a minimum, it points to arguably apparent failures on the part of then Champion Enterprises (CHB) and then Fleetwood Enterprises (FLE) to assert their fiduciary duties on behalf of their respective shareholders and stakeholders. For example, Gemini stated below that Fleetwood (FLE): “Collapses 39 days after the 21st Mortgage letter; board pursues liquidation rather than antitrust litigation.” About Champion (CHB): “Files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing floorplan obligations and independent retail financing collapse.” So, both CHB and FLE pursued bankruptcy protection without pursuing antitrust, tortious interference, RICO or other litigation. There appears to be evidence in the history and primary source documents that point to possible reasons why. Also, Cavco Industries (CVCO) in that same year: “Cites severe third-party lending contractions in SEC filings; acquires Fleetwood’s housing assets post-bankruptcy.” Meaning, multiple 3rd party SEC filings reported the effects of that 21st Mortgage letter and all of those primary sources broadly support years of prior MHProNews reporting and analysis. While every table in Part I below are relevant, the first table links together a chain of documents that point towards the same cause-effect outcomes. Quoting Buffett from his annual letter (bold/highlighting added): “Clayton was not always number one: A decade ago the three leading manufacturers were Fleetwood, Champion and Oakwood, which together accounted for 44% of the output of the industry. All have since gone bankrupt.” Was that a sincere Buffett lament? A cautionary tale? Boastful moat bragging?

1. Recall that going into that fateful decade (2001-2010), then Harvard’s Eric Belsky stated in 2000 that the manufactured housing industry was poised to overtake conventional housing. Who said? The Manufactured Housing Institute’s (MHI) publication did.

2. Four years later, MHI’s president and CEO Chris Stinebert said the industry’s financing and inventory woes were behind it. MHI’s Stinebert predicted a rebound that never occurred. Is that part of the reason Stinebert’s name was removed from the public-facing side of the MHI website?

3. While the RV industry broadly rose in the 21st century, the manufactured housing industry generally kept sliding and hit bottom after the Tim Williams/21st letter. The latest data plus historic snapshot of RVs vs. manufactured homes below once more tells the key performance indicators (KPI) tale that the more discretionary RV industry was rising in shipments as manufactured home industry, which have often been characterized as an affordable housing necessity for millions, were falling.

4. Get your favorite beverage for focus and maybe a snack for the time of day that you are reading this. This human authored introduction of this MHProNews facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) hybrid model report is underway.

Part 1. From the Input-Inquiry Process with Google‘s Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered Gemini linked here.

Executive Summary

Re-anchoring the timeline to the exact date of the 21st Mortgage letter—January 30, 2009—substantially sharpens the causal chain central to Samuel Strommen’s antitrust research and the broader Consolidation/Gatekeeper Thesis.

Far from being an isolated memo, the January 30, 2009 letter from 21st Mortgage CEO Tim Williams announced severe credit restrictions on independent retailers immediately preceding the rapid financial collapse of major independent builders. The proximity between this January 30, 2009 letter and Fleetwood Enterprises’ Chapter 11 filing on March 10, 2009 (just 39 days later) provides compelling chronological alignment for allegations of an intentional, coordinated credit chokehold.

Chronological Timeline: The 2009 Credit Chokehold & Corporate Collapse

The revised timeline demonstrates a tight sequence of events in early 2009, linking credit policy shifts directly to corporate distress and market consolidation:

Re-Evaluated FEA Analysis & Synthesis

1. Direct Temporal Proximity: Establishing January 30, 2009 as the exact date of the 21st Mortgage letter resolves any ambiguity regarding sequence. The letter did not follow market distress; it immediately preceded the March 2009 bankruptcy of Fleetwood Enterprises and the subsequent bankruptcy of Champion Enterprises.
2. Support for Strommen’s Antitrust Model: Sam Strommen’s thesis contends that dominant entities utilized captive financing as a market control lever. The SEC disclosures from Fleetwood, Champion, and Cavco—showing that independent retail credit vanished virtually overnight in early 2009—provide empirical, documentary backing for Strommen’s legal argument.
3. Fiduciary Failure and Corporate Capture: Despite the swift impact of the January 30 letter on retail cash flows, neither Fleetwood nor Champion’s leadership launched tortious interference or antitrust actions to protect shareholder equity before entering Chapter 11. This pattern of non-litigation amidst asset liquidation remains a central point in evaluating how consolidation was accomplished.
4. Information Control Context: The subsequent 2017 ejection of MHProNews by MHI reflects a continuing pattern of organizational gatekeeping, removing critical trade journalism that actively investigates these historical and ongoing market dynamics.

Conclusion

Re-running the analysis with the verified January 30, 2009 date solidifies the evidentiary chain. The 39-day window between 21st Mortgage’s credit restriction letter and Fleetwood Enterprises’ bankruptcy filing establishes a direct timeline. This chronological link, supported by SEC filings from FLE, CHB, and CVCO, provides strong factual grounding for Sam Strommen’s antitrust framework and the Consolidation/Gatekeeper Thesis.

— MHProNews notes that Samuel Strommen’s thesis is found here and here. But it isn’t just Strommen’s thesis that this data supports, it is also apparently buttressing the thesis of Maris Jensen, now Ph.D., about the impact of a lack of financing on vertical foreclosure of the marketplace. While MHProNews has previously observed that there are other possible explanations for what looks like coordination between potential antitrust-violators operating in manufactured housing, these latest findings arguably dim that hypothetically more innocent potential.

MHProNews also notes that other Gemini FEAs on this topic are found here, here and here. Confirmation by Gemini of the accuracy of those PDFs of the FEA input-inquiry process are linked here, here and here. —

Part II. From the Fleetwood Enterprises (FLE) SEC 10 Q filing linked here

1. Starting from Page 22 of the FLE 10 Q here (which has highlighting added) and here is the following.

Given the tightening of credit standards by lenders, Fleetwood currently expects that repurchase activity will be higher than has historically been the case and it may be necessary to offer greater discounts in order to relocate such product to alternative dealers during current market conditions.

2. While that says “lenders” it is also a reference to both RV and manufactured housing. The impact of the 21st letter is apparent on the manufactured housing side of that equation.

As described in Note 1 above, on March 10, 2009, the Debtors filed voluntary petitions for reorganization relief under the Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court. The Chapter 11 Cases are being jointly administered under Fleetwood’s caption and case number, In re: Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. et al., Chapter 11 Case No. 09-14254-MJ.

3. Fleetwood also noted:

“Fleetwood is regularly involved in legal proceedings in the ordinary course of business.”

which is common for larger corporations. But that begs the question, why didn’t Fleetwood file an antitrust claim against 21st Mortgage and possibly Clayton Homes or Berkshire Hathaway?

4. Starting at page 35 from this specific Fleetwood (FLE) 10Q.

“In fiscal 2008, we shipped 12,337 manufactured homes, and were the second largest producer of HUD-Code homes in the United States in terms of retail units sold to end customers. In calendar year 2008, we had an 11.5% share of the manufactured housing wholesale market.”

…

“The industry is most affected by the availability of financing, general economic conditions, and consumer confidence. The manufactured housing market has experienced a steep decline that began in 1999, hitting a 54-year low in shipments in 2008. During the 1990s, growth was fueled, in part, by liberal credit standards and by lenders eager to participate in a growing market.”

…

“The growth trend quickly reversed when borrower default and repossession rates soared, causing industry shipments to fall dramatically. Shipments have continued to decline over the past several years due in part to limited availability of retail financing and until recently competition from subprime financing of site-built housing. Due to the scarcity of chattel financing nationwide, the industry has trended toward more “land and home” or conventional mortgage-type financing.”

…

In addition, manufactured housing lenders have maintained conservative lending practices in recent years and some lenders have stopped extending loans to manufactured home buyers altogether.

…

Lender reaction to the turmoil in the subprime sector of site-built home financing may ultimately redress the balance to be less unfavorable for manufactured housing borrowers than it has been for the several years. However, in the near term, an oversupply of new conventional homes and foreclosures has actually increased competition with our products.

5. Starting with page 36 under business outlook are the following from Fleetwood’s (FLE) 10Q in question.

Generally, the manufactured housing market continues to be adversely affected by more costly and increasingly restrictive retail and wholesale financing, aggravated by lenders who are exiting these businesses; pronounced weakness in traditional retirement markets caused by the overall housing market slump; and competition from foreclosures and an excess supply of homes from conventional builders.

6. While that may be interpreted as including other lenders, that above cuts near the heart of the tying thesis advanced by Samuel Strommen or the vertical foreclosure financial thesis advanced by Maris Jensen. Fleetwood’s 10Q also said the following.

“In addition, housing reform legislation passed in 2008 may eventually benefit the manufactured housing industry through the FHA Title I program, which, among other benefits, has increased loan limits for home-only financing from $48,600 to $69,678; the limits will be indexed to inflation in future years. These benefits took effect on March 3, 2009. In the meantime, the overall slowing of the housing market and an increase in conventional housing inventories will negatively impact manufactured housing conditions for some time.”

7. But in hindsight, none of those hopeful factors developed. FHA Title I lending didn’t return, it had declined to near zero. Lending by the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) never returned to the chattel manufactured home lending market, as the FHFA recently admitted. Later, as a tipster at an MHI meeting told MHProNews the following about Tim Williams/21st remark about the failure of the so-called pilot projects by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Which remark by Williams represents his authentic posture? The letter Williams authorized which said “It is with regret that I announce the current economic environment and capital markets in particular have taken a toll on our ability to continue serving the entire industry.” Or the live in front of his peers when he said he was “Happy the [DTS] chattel lending] pilot failed” statement? There is an obvious tension between those remarks. Here “tension” is defined as a “strained state or condition resulting from forces acting in opposition to each other.”

In hindsight, does Williams’ quoted remark above sound like someone who felt bad about cutting off lending to thousands of independent retailers and mortgage brokers? As Buffett effectively said and Harvard’s Eric Belksy elsewhere observed.

8. Returning to the FLE 10Q.

“We anticipate that manufactured housing industry conditions are unlikely to significantly improve during calendar 2009.”

9. MHProNews notes: well, of course not. With both site-built foreclosures and a lack of manufactured home lending, how was the industry supposed to spring back to life? But that anticipated lack of progress could have been good reasons to file suit against 21st Mortgage and potentially Clayton/Berkshire Hathaway. There is no known evidence that such an antitrust/tying lawsuit ever occurred. Instead of pushing for the use of the legal tools to return manufactured housing to more lending along with more favorable zoning/placement, Fleetwood’s management said they were pushing for more modular housing sales instead.

“We are pursuing other opportunities to supplement our business, such as sales of modular products particularly in the area of military housing.”

10. Curiously, an MS WORD search of the FLE 10Q does not mention the word “zoning,” “placement” or “barriers.” Yet MHI itself complained about precisely that in Congressional testimony documents linked below.

11. F0llowing page 40 was the following from Fleetwood (FLE).

“Consolidated revenues were severely affected by the fallout from the housing crisis, restrictions in availability of retail and wholesale financing, unfavorable financing terms, and declining consumer confidence.”

12. While the other factors can’t be ignored, a repeated theme in that Fleetwood 10Q was “restrictions in availability of retail and wholesale financing.” That is precisely what 21st Mortgage’s letter’s impact helped accomplish. On/after page 42 was the following.

Housing Group revenues for the quarter declined from the prior year mainly due to more costly and increasingly restrictive retail and wholesale financing, pronounced weakness in traditional retirement markets caused by the overall housing market slump, and competition from foreclosures and an excess supply of homes from conventional builders. Manufactured housing sales to traditional dealers fell 49.7% as the manufactured housing market continued to weaken.

13. The restriction of wholesale and retail financing, which was precisely what the 21st Mortgage letter announced just weeks earlier, was listed first among the reasons for declining sales. In 2011, Kevin Clayton said the following.

Also from their letter to the CFPB and the Department of Justice (DOJ) is this. “As the investigation [Seattle Times, et al] makes clear, Clayton is the nation’s largest manufactured housing company and has a “near monopolistic” grip on lending to minority borrowers seeking financing for manufactured housing reaching nearly 72% of African-American borrowers, 56% of Latino borrowers, and 53% of Native American borrowers.[5] Given Clayton’s uniquely broad control of the manufacture, sale, and financing of manufactured homes, it is imperative that their business practices comply with federal law in order to ensure affordable housing for low-and-moderate income buyers. Surely, if news outlets can launch an investigation into potential violations of federal fair lending and consumer protection laws, agencies charged with protecting the nation’s consumers should be able to investigate these allegations, and, to pursue appropriate enforcement actions.

The entire press release and letter by [Representative Maxine] Waters and her colleagues to the CFPB and DOJ is linked here as a download.

b. From the Berkshire Hathaway annual letter for 2009 linked here. Note some of the figures Buffett used on manufactured home production/shipments early in what follows were both apparently too high if he meant HUD Code unit production, where the specific data is known (see further below). That said, what follows are Buffett’s statements on behalf of Berkshire starting about page 12. Highlighting is added by MHProNews.

Finance and Financial Products

Our largest operation in this sector is Clayton Homes, the country’s leading producer of modular and manufactured homes. Clayton was not always number one: A decade ago the three leading manufacturers were Fleetwood, Champion and Oakwood, which together accounted for 44% of the output of the industry. All have since gone bankrupt. Total industry output, meanwhile, has fallen from 382,000 units in 1999 to 60,000 units in 2009.

The industry is in shambles for two reasons, the first of which must be lived with if the U.S. economy is to recover. This reason concerns U.S. housing starts (including apartment units). In 2009, starts were 554,000, by far the lowest number in the 50 years for which we have data. Paradoxically, this is good news.

People thought it was good news a few years back when housing starts – the supply side of the picture – were running about two million annually. But household formations – the demand side – only amounted to about 1.2 million. After a few years of such imbalances, the country unsurprisingly ended up with far too many houses.

There were three ways to cure this overhang: (1) blow up a lot of houses, a tactic similar to the destruction of autos that occurred with the “cash-for-clunkers” program; (2) speed up household formations by, say, encouraging teenagers to cohabitate, a program not likely to suffer from a lack of volunteers or; (3) reduce new housing starts to a number far below the rate of household formations.

Our country has wisely selected the third option, which means that within a year or so residential housing problems should largely be behind us, the exceptions being only high-value houses and those in certain localities where overbuilding was particularly egregious. Prices will remain far below “bubble” levels, of course, but for every seller (or lender) hurt by this there will be a buyer who benefits. Indeed, many families that couldn’t afford to buy an appropriate home a few years ago now find it well within their means because the bubble burst.

The second reason that manufactured housing is troubled is specific to the industry: the punitive differential in mortgage rates between factory-built homes and site-built homes. Before you read further, let me underscore the obvious: Berkshire has a dog in this fight, and you should therefore assess the commentary that follows with special care. That warning made, however, let me explain why the rate differential causes problems for both large numbers of lower-income Americans and Clayton.

The residential mortgage market is shaped by government rules that are expressed by FHA, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Their lending standards are all-powerful because the mortgages they insure can typically be securitized and turned into what, in effect, is an obligation of the U.S. government. Currently buyers of conventional site-built homes who qualify for these guarantees can obtain a 30-year loan at about 5¹⁄4%. In addition, these are mortgages that have recently been purchased in massive amounts by the Federal Reserve, an action that also helped to keep rates at bargain-basement levels.

In contrast, very few factory-built homes qualify for agency-insured mortgages. Therefore, a meritorious buyer of a factory-built home must pay about 9% on his loan. For the all-cash buyer, Clayton’s homes offer terrific value. If the buyer needs mortgage financing, however – and, of course, most buyers do – the difference in financing costs too often negates the attractive price of a factory-built home.

Last year I told you why our buyers – generally people with low incomes – performed so well as credit risks. Their attitude was all-important: They signed up to live in the home, not resell or refinance it. Consequently, our buyers usually took out loans with payments geared to their verified incomes (we weren’t making “liar’s loans”) and looked forward to the day they could burn their mortgage. If they lost their jobs, had health problems or got divorced, we could of course expect defaults. But they seldom walked away simply because house values had fallen. Even today, though job-loss troubles have grown, Clayton’s delinquencies and defaults remain reasonable and will not cause us significant problems.

We have tried to qualify more of our customers’ loans for treatment similar to those available on the site-built product. So far we have had only token success. Many families with modest incomes but responsible habits have therefore had to forego home ownership simply because the financing differential attached to the factory-built product makes monthly payments too expensive. If qualifications aren’t broadened, so as to open low-cost financing to all who meet down-payment and income standards, the manufactured-home industry seems destined to struggle and dwindle.

Even under these conditions, I believe Clayton will operate profitably in coming years, though well below its potential. We couldn’t have a better manager than CEO Kevin Clayton, who treats Berkshire’s interests as if they were his own. Our product is first-class, inexpensive and constantly being improved. Moreover, we will continue to use Berkshire’s credit to support Clayton’s mortgage program, convinced as we are of its soundness. Even so, Berkshire can’t borrow at a rate approaching that available to government agencies. This handicap will limit sales, hurting both Clayton and a multitude of worthy families who long for a low-cost home.

In the following table, Clayton’s earnings are net of the company’s payment to Berkshire for the use of its credit. Offsetting this cost to Clayton is an identical amount of income credited to Berkshire’s finance operation and included in “Other Income.” The cost and income amount was $116 million in 2009 and $92 million in 2008.

The table also illustrates how severely our furniture (CORT) and trailer (XTRA) leasing operations have been hit by the recession. Though their competitive positions remain as strong as ever, we have yet to see any bounce in these businesses.

Pre-Tax Earnings (in millions) 2009        2008

*Includes $116 million in 2009 and $92 million in 2008 of fees that Berkshire charges Clayton for the use of Berkshire’s credit.

* * * * * * * * * * * *

At the end of 2009, we became a 50% owner of Berkadia Commercial Mortgage (formerly known as Capmark), the country’s third-largest servicer of commercial mortgages. In addition to servicing a $235 billion portfolio, the company is an important originator of mortgages, having 25 offices spread around the country. Though commercial real estate will face major problems in the next few years, long-term opportunities for Berkadia are significant.

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Part III. From the Champion Enterprises (CHB) 10Q linked here and here 

From the Champion Enterprises (CHB) 10Q linked here starting on page 14 with the following. It paints a picture of increased losses due to the loss of access to financing. It foreshadows the then coming delisting of the company and talks about bankruptcy for reasons stated below.

Results of Operations
Three and Six Months Ended July 4, 2009
versus the Three and Six Months Ended June 28, 2008

Overview

…

“Our homes were sold through more than 1,400 independent sales centers, builders and developers across the U.S. and western Canada and also through our retail segment that operates 15 sales offices in California.”

…

“The HUD-code manufactured housing industry in the U.S. has been declining over the past ten years. Housing market and economic conditions in the U.S. during the past few years and the global credit crisis, which began in 2008, have significantly impacted the production and sale of factory-built houses in the U.S.”

…

“Our operations, particularly in the U.S., have been impacted by these conditions resulting in a significant decrease in pre-tax income in 2007 and significant pre-tax losses in 2008. As a result, we would not have been in compliance with certain of the covenants in our senior credit agreement as of September 27, 2008.”

…

“As a result of deteriorating operating results throughout 2009, we were not in compliance with our amended minimum liquidity and minimum twelve-month adjusted EBITDA covenants for the quarter ended July 4, 2009.”

…

“Although management remains optimistic that results in the second half of 2009 and in 2010 will improve relative to the last three quarters, there can be no assurance that we will be successful in our efforts to restructure our outstanding debt or avoid seeking protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or similar laws.”

…

“Each of our segments’ results for the quarter ended July 4, 2009 were impacted by the global credit crisis and its impact on the economies in the countries in which we operate. The manufacturing segment in North America was particularly affected by conditions in the housing markets and limited availability of financing for homebuyers and manufactured housing retailers, which resulted in lower sales and inventory levels at the segment’s retailers.”

…

“Most of our manufacturing segment plants operated during the quarter with less than one week of unfilled orders and capacity utilization was low. In response to these conditions, during the quarter we announced the closure or idling of three homebuilding facilities, one each in Florida, Colorado and California.”

…

“Gross margin for the three and six months ended July 4, 2009 decreased significantly from the comparable periods of 2008 primarily due to reduced sales in the manufacturing and international segments and a lower gross margin rate in the manufacturing segment due to effects of low levels of production and sales on production efficiencies and coverage of fixed costs.”

…

“Manufacturing segment net sales for the quarter and six months ended July 4, 2009 decreased $110.0 million and $213.8 million, respectively, from the comparable periods of 2008 due to housing market conditions and the impact of the global credit crisis, including limited financing available to homebuyers and housing retailers. As a result, retailers were reducing inventories of homes and incoming order rates suffered. These ongoing housing market difficulties during the first half of 2009 contributed to low levels of unfilled production orders and low sales volumes at most of our plants.”

Restated, time and again, then Champion Homebuilders (CHB) stated that “limited financing available to homebuyers and housing retailer” resulted in lower sales for the “six months ended July 4, 2009 decreased $110.0 million and $213.8 million, respectively, from the comparable periods of 2008.”

MHProNews observes that the sharp year-over-year decline in sales and resulting losses are in line with the period that 21st Mortgage’s letter restricting (per Strommen, ‘tying’) credit to Clayton Homes, even though Warren Buffett’s letter made it clear that they did have access to financing that in turn could be supplied for financing. Quoting CHB via the SEC document here.

“Manufacturing segment results for the quarter ended July 4, 2009 deteriorated significantly from the comparable period of 2008 primarily from 52% lower sales and restructuring and other plant closing charges of $2.7 million, partially offset by cost reduction initiatives at the same plants operated a year ago. Our plants operated at 27% of capacity for the second quarter of 2009 compared to 48% a year ago. The low level of capacity utilization in the 2009 period resulted in production inefficiencies, which impacted segment margin.”

To the points raised by research from Maris Jensen, imagine the parallel impacts on independent producers of HUD Code manufactured homes during that same period. If the former #1 producer of HUD Code manufactured homes watched their sales and margins slide and watched their losses mounting, what about privately held companies that didn’t have to disclose their financial results? Precisely because Jensen documented those trends in Texas, a snapshot beyond Champion or Fleetwood are possible. Champion acquired Redman in 1996. Champion (CHB) fell sharply circa 2009 as Clayton grew sharply. The share of “other” production in #1 Texas fell to nearly zero going in that post-2009 recredit contraction period.

The ‘financial fingerprints or ‘smoking gun,’ from page 17 of that CHB 10Q is the following.

One national lender is exiting the business and has stopped funding new loans and another lender has ceased financing homes, including our homes, not produced by it’s affiliates. A third national lender has curtailed its lending activity and tightened loan terms. We have encouraged our independent retailers to seek inventory financing from local banks and other sources.

That highlighted portion doesn’t name 21st Mortgage, but it described what the Tim Williams/21st Mortgage letted said. The bigger context of the 21st/Clayton linked letter is illustrated here.

Again, quoting Buffett.

“Moreover, we will continue to use Berkshire’s credit to support Clayton’s mortgage program, convinced as we are of its soundness.”

Quoting William’s 1.30.2009 letter.

“Because we are unable to obtain reliable adequate sources of funding effective March 1, 2009 we must limit our financing arrangements to the following.

1. We will no longer offer any of our programs to Mortgage Brokers.
2. We will offer FHA Title I financing for any brand homes subject to retailer meeting FHA requirements.
3. All other financing plans will be offered for sales of the following homes.

a. 21^st Mortgage repossessions.

b. New Homes built by Clayton Homes, Karsten Homes, Southern Energy or any other Clayton Homes subsidiary. The dealership must be a 21^st Mortgage approved retailer.

c. For any broad of home floor planned with 21^st Mortgage prior to March 1, 2009

d. For any brand of home sold from a retailer’s inventory provided the retailer replaces the inventory with a home built by a Clayton Homes subsidiary.

4. Any loan application approved before March 1 must be closed before the loan approval expiries.”

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MHProNews notes: that there is an obvious tension between what Buffett said about the year 2009 and what Tim Williams/21st wrote to all retailer and brokers. There is an evidence-based argument from primary sources that Samuel Strommen‘s thesis that included the tying allegation has plenty of support. To illustrate that point, Buffett’s letter (see above) said:

“Moreover, we will continue to use Berkshire’s credit to support Clayton’s mortgage program, convinced as we are of its soundness.”

…

“*Includes $116 million in 2009 and $92 million in 2008 of fees that Berkshire charges Clayton for the use of Berkshire’s credit.”

Note that in Buffett’s letter, 21st Mortgage Corp and Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance (VMF) are “Clayton’s mortgage program.”

5. But that also begs more questions and probing. When Buffett said:

“The residential mortgage market is shaped by government rules that are expressed by FHA, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Their lending standards are all-powerful because the mortgages they insure can typically be securitized”

Recall too that Buffett later said in a video that enforcing the Duty to Serve (DTS) would benefit the industry and sales, even if it cut into part of Clayton (i.e.: Vanderbilt and 21st Mortgage) financing profits.

While lending ‘returned’ to some extent to manufactured housing (including from Berkshire owned and Clayton-linked 21st and VMF), MHI and their dominating players ‘failed’ to get the Duty to Serve (DTS) or FHA Title I lending to operate as a secondary market access point for lower cost lending. This despite the fact that Buffett literally had White House access during the Obama-Biden years, which were the same years that the Williams/21st letter was issued.

As CHB put it.

“However, it is not known whether sufficient sources of inventory financing can be found to replace the financing previously provided by national lenders. The inability of our independent retailers to find sufficient inventory financing could result in lower levels of retailer inventory and cause reduced sales and profitability in our manufacturing segment.”

Not known? CHB said it didn’t, but Buffett apparently did know. As was quoted above, Buffett said:

“we will continue to use Berkshire’s credit to support Clayton’s mortgage program, convinced as we are of its soundness.”

The potential for Berkshire/21st to continue lending as they had in 2008 appears to have remain unchanged, based up Buffett’s letter.

So, while it may well be that Williams/21st contacted Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other financial interests. But if so, how was that 21st outreach framed? Did Williams/21st invoke Berkshire’s credit support or not? Or were such efforts phrased in a manner that did not invoke “Berkshire’s credit to support Clayton’s mortgage program” – thus ‘dooming’ any such outreach? Meaning, was Williams paltering and posturing?

6. To probe various potential paths to get chattel financing from the GSEs and/or FHA Title I. Recall, Buffett’s letter said this.

“If qualifications aren’t broadened, so as to open low-cost financing to all who meet down-payment and income standards, the manufactured-home industry seems destined to struggle and dwindle.”

But during that timeframe, Buffett’s own grandson worked in the Obama-Biden White House.

7. While that meme style dialogue above is fictional to illustrate principles, it also points to what Bill Gates later said about his long-term ally, Warren. Meaning, the meme can be hypothetical while still being grounded in observable behavior.  7 years have passed since those meme style dialogue above was uploaded, hasn’t it stood the test of time well? The quote graphic below as uploaded on May 11, 2024. Haven’t both stood the tests of time well? While pondering those questions, look at what Gemini found in the various tables below, keeping in mind that in the time that Gemini (a Google product) made those statements, Berkshire Hathaway has a sizable stake in Google’s parent alphabet. Meaning, Gemini’s tendency in terms of corporate alignment may be in the opposite direction of what it stated.

8. Obama’s vice president was Joe Biden, who served in the Senate (DE-D) when the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 was enacted and when the Duty to Serve (DTS) became law. Yet neither of those two laws were properly enforced, as MHARR said for years, and MHI itself repeatedly admitted in its own testimony to Congress. Despite Biden’s involvement, he obviously didn’t help implement either “enhanced preemption,” viable FHA Title I or DTS chattel via the GSEs.

9. As with FLE, CHB’s document being unpacked had zero uses of the term “zoning” or “barriers.” Where there no zoning barriers? That is obviously not true, because a HUD study that was released following that period (which covers that timeframe) said how significant the zoning/placement barriers for manufactured housing were.

• Both FLE and CHB reported sharply reduced results in that timeframe.
• Both CHB and FLE went into bankruptcy.
• CHB all but described the fallout of the 21st letter by saying (bold added): “…another lender has ceased financing homes, including our homes, not produced by it’s affiliates.”
• Yet, neither FLE nor CHB sued 21st/Clayton/Berkshire over what Sam Strommen asserted was an apparent tying violation?

10. ChatGPT and Gemini could find no evidence that either FLE or CHB filed suit.

The fall from 1998 to 2009 by the formerly leading firms was dramatic.

Part IV. From ChatGPT here, here, here and here. Those documents were confirmed for accuracy by ChatGPT here, here and here.

a.

Yes. I think the distinction you are drawing is important, and the additional evidence you supplied makes the FEA structure of the argument stronger, while still not converting the thesis into legal proof.

There are, however, a few places where I would tighten the language so the article says exactly what the evidence establishes.

1. The strongest point: the MHI “Strongman” counter-narrative has to survive the primary evidence

The Cavco evidence is particularly useful because it is not an MHProNews interpretation. Cavco’s SEC filing says that 21st Mortgage announced in January 2009 that it was significantly curtailing retail lending, and explicitly says the resulting reduction in financing adversely affected manufactured-housing retailers.

Then there is the other side of the capital-access evidence.

Kevin Clayton said that, after Berkshire’s acquisition, Warren Buffett repeatedly told him:

“Just rest assured you have plenty of capital to do so.”

That is Clayton’s own account of Buffett’s direction concerning acquisitions.

And Buffett subsequently wrote that Berkshire’s backing enabled Clayton to continue lending during the 2008–09 financial panic, including financing competitors’ retail sales.

So there is a legitimate tension in the record:

• 21st Mortgage publicly cited unreliable/inadequate funding as the reason for restricting lending;
• Cavco independently documented the industry’s resulting financing contraction;
• Berkshire possessed extraordinary financial capacity;
• Clayton says Buffett assured him that Clayton could access plenty of capital;
• Buffett later said Berkshire’s backing allowed Clayton to keep lending during the crisis.

That doesn’t establish that the 21st Mortgage explanation was false or that the letter was unlawful. But it does make the capital-access question substantially more difficult to dismiss, particularly when the restriction reportedly differentiated between Clayton and non-Clayton homes.

That is exactly the sort of evidentiary tension an FEA investigation should surface.

2. This is where the “Strongman” defense can weaken without the thesis having to be proven

I think your formulation is essentially right:

A counter-narrative does not defeat a thesis merely by offering an alternative explanation. It has to account for the inconvenient evidence.

For example, “the financial crisis caused the lending contraction” is a coherent explanation. But it becomes less complete when placed alongside the documented facts concerning:

• the specific terms of the 21st Mortgage letter;
• Cavco’s contemporaneous description of the industry’s financing contraction;
• Berkshire’s enormous financing capacity;
• Clayton’s own description of Buffett’s capital assurances;
• subsequent acquisitions;
• subsequent consolidation; and
• the continuing long-term production collapse.

That doesn’t make the consolidation thesis automatically correct. It means the alternative explanation has evidentiary work of its own to do.

And that is a much more rigorous proposition than saying, “MHI is bad.”

3. The “ineptness” and “gatekeeper” hypotheses are important precisely because you tested alternatives

This is an important methodological point.

MHProNews apparently hasn’t simply started with:

“Consolidation explains everything.”

You’ve tested competing explanations:

Hypothesis A: MHI/corporate leadership is simply ineffective, inept, inattentive or unable to execute.

Hypothesis B: MHI functions as a gatekeeper whose actions can protect incumbent interests.

Hypothesis C: Industry consolidation and vertically integrated financial/manufacturing/retail structures have created incentives and conduct that help preserve the status quo.

Those aren’t mutually exclusive.

Indeed, B can be a mechanism through which C operates, while A could explain some individual failures without explaining the entire historical pattern.

That is why I would call this an evolving Consolidation/Gatekeeper thesis, rather than claiming that every observed event has one cause.

4. The ROC USA evidence is potentially significant—but “knee-capping” should remain attributed analysis

The July 2026 material is real and quite striking.

MHProNews reports that MHI CEO Lesli Gooch’s July 24, 2026 FHFA comment letter called for reconsideration of GSE support for the Limited Equity Ownership model associated with resident-owned communities.

ROC USA itself describes its model as resident ownership of manufactured-home communities and says its network encompasses hundreds of resident-owned communities. FHFA’s public records also independently establish that ROC USA and MHI have participated in the same DTS proceedings.

So the factual proposition is straightforward:

MHI publicly advocated a policy position that would reduce or eliminate a form of GSE support sought by ROC USA, despite ROC USA’s participation in MHI-related industry structures/public proceedings.

Calling that an “echo” of the 21st Mortgage letter is a reasonable analytical comparison because both involve access to capital and competitive consequences.

But I would not state as established fact that Gooch was literally trying to “knee-cap” ROC USA. That is your analytical characterization. The evidence supports saying that MHProNews interprets the action that way and explaining why.

5. And Bud Labitan makes the financing “moat” concept more interesting

This is another reason I would keep the Labitan material in the evidence chain rather than dismissing it as mere commentary.

There is a publicly documented description of Clayton’s financial advantage arising from its relationship with Berkshire and its affiliated lending operations. Clayton itself described buying manufactured-housing loans, servicing them, potentially repossessing homes, sourcing materials from its factories, reconditioning homes and reselling them.

Buffett likewise openly described Berkshire’s financial backing as a major advantage to Clayton. In 2004, Buffett wrote that Berkshire was providing Clayton substantial financing while competitors faced a dried-up securitization market and much higher financing costs.

That is not evidence of an antitrust violation by itself.

It is evidence that a financing/manufacturing/retail structure capable of creating a substantial competitive advantage actually existed.

That’s an important distinction.

6. Your “investigator” analogy works—with one major qualification

This is where I think your Occam’s Razor/Cui Bono point has merit as an investigative methodology, but it shouldn’t be allowed to become circular reasoning.

An investigator reasonably asks:

Who benefits?

But benefit does not establish responsibility.

Likewise:

“The consolidators benefit from consolidation”

is a factual/economic proposition that can often be documented.

It is different from:

“Therefore the consolidators caused every policy or market development that produced consolidation.”

The latter requires additional evidence of causation.

The really interesting FEA question is therefore:

Do the people/entities who benefit from the status quo repeatedly make decisions that are consistent with preserving that status quo, while simultaneously failing to pursue available mechanisms that could materially expand competition and production?

If the answer keeps being supported by independent evidence across multiple episodes, the explanatory power of the thesis increases.

7. And this gets to your point about the absence of rebuttal

Here I would preserve an important distinction.

MHI outside counsel David Goch was quoted as saying:

“MHI actively monitors and proactively addresses any attempts by third parties who wrongfully disparage the organization.”

The critical qualifier is “wrongfully.”

Consequently, the absence of a lawsuit or public rebuttal cannot logically be treated as an admission that the allegations are true.

But it is legitimate investigative evidence that raises a question:

If a detailed, repeatedly published thesis contains specific factual errors, what are those errors—and where is MHI’s substantive correction of them?

That question becomes more consequential precisely because the criticism is not one isolated article. It is an accumulated body of claims, documents and analysis.

8. The strongest version of your argument

I would characterize what the accumulated record presently permits you to say this way:

The Consolidation/Gatekeeper thesis is not offered as absolute proof of unlawful conduct. It is an explanatory thesis. Its strength comes from the repeated convergence of independent evidence: corporate disclosures, association documents, executive statements, financing records, acquisition history, academic research, production data, regulatory proceedings and the conduct of industry participants.

When alternative explanations are tested against that same evidence, some become less complete or require additional assumptions. Meanwhile, the Consolidation/Gatekeeper explanation repeatedly accommodates facts that otherwise require separate explanations—including financing concentration, vertical integration, acquisition patterns, association positioning, capital-access disputes and persistent industry underperformance.

That is a legitimate FEA conclusion.

And I would add one particularly important sentence:

“The thesis gains evidentiary weight not because MHProNews has declared it proven, but because successive tests of the thesis have so far produced more corroborating evidence than disconfirming evidence.”

That is much closer to how an investigator, historian, journalist or researcher would describe an evolving evidentiary thesis.

One final caution on “if it were weak, holes would emerge”

Often, yes—but not necessarily.

A powerful organization can decline to respond for many reasons other than agreement. Silence is therefore not proof.

But if MHI has the factual ability to identify major holes in the thesis, and if it has publicly said it monitors and addresses wrongful disparagement, then specific unanswered factual challenges become part of the continuing evidentiary record.

And that is where your FEA approach is strongest: don’t write “MHI’s silence proves the thesis.” Write “Here are the documents and questions. Here is the strongest counter-explanation we could construct for MHI. Here is the evidence that survives after testing that counter-explanation. We invited/located no substantive direct rebuttal on these particular points.”

That is substantially harder to dismiss as advocacy because it leaves the reader with the evidence and the competing explanations rather than asking the reader to accept a predetermined verdict.

— Another useful Q&A with ChatGPT revealed the following in b. Again, the full recent threads with ChatGPT are linked: here, here, here and here. Those documents were confirmed for accuracy by ChatGPT here, here and here. —

b.

Yes—with an important qualification: a comprehensive AI answer to “Why is manufactured housing underperforming during an affordable-housing crisis?” should not present only the conventional explanations. It should identify the Consolidation/Gatekeeper thesis as a documented, evidence-based competing explanation and distinguish its evidence from its inferences.

That is especially appropriate because the public literature already establishes the basic puzzle independently of MHProNews: manufactured housing is substantially less expensive than site-built housing, yet production has remained far below historical levels; Urban Institute identifies zoning and financing among the major constraints. MHARR similarly identifies zoning exclusion and incomplete implementation of Duty to Serve as major structural bottlenecks.

Where the Consolidation/Gatekeeper thesis belongs

A genuinely balanced AI response could reasonably organize the explanation along these lines:

That last category shouldn’t be omitted merely because it is controversial. It should be tested alongside the others.

And there is now a substantial public record supporting its inclusion. MHProNews has explicitly developed the thesis over years; independent/academic work such as Maris Jensen’s research examines vertical integration and manufactured-housing market structure; Samuel Strommen has advanced antitrust/tying-related analysis; and MHARR has independently criticized industry consolidation and the failure to address structural bottlenecks.

The “lack of rebuttal” belongs in the answer—but carefully

I would not have an AI say:

“There is no rebuttal, therefore the Consolidation Thesis is true.”

That would be bad reasoning.

But it is entirely appropriate for an AI to say something like:

“MHProNews has advanced a Consolidation/Gatekeeper thesis based on corporate documents, association records, financing history, academic research, production data and executive statements. MHProNews reports that it has repeatedly sought or looked for a substantive direct rebuttal from MHI and other implicated industry participants and has not found one addressing the thesis as a whole. That absence does not establish the thesis, but it is relevant context when assessing competing explanations.”

That is materially different.

In fact, current search results show MHProNews itself making exactly this distinction, while a recent MHARR communication has now circulated the August 2026 HousingWire opinion addressing the Consolidation Thesis to HUD Code industry members.

So the proposition has moved beyond “one website has an unusual theory.” It is now a documented argument in the industry’s public discourse.

And I think your point about AI search is particularly important

If someone asks an AI:

“Why is manufactured housing underperforming during an affordable-housing crisis?”

and the AI answers only:

zoning + financing + stigma + interest rates + the 2000-era credit collapse

that would provide an incomplete literature review, because there is a documented alternative explanation concerning industry structure and incentives.

Conversely, an AI shouldn’t answer:

“Consolidators caused the industry’s underperformance.”

That would overstate what the evidence establishes.

The intellectually honest answer is closer to:

“Several explanations have substantial supporting evidence. One is the conventional structural-barriers explanation involving zoning, financing, regulation and consumer perceptions. Another, increasingly documented in industry and academic commentary, is a Consolidation/Gatekeeper thesis: that concentration, vertical integration and the incentives of dominant firms and their trade association relationships may themselves help perpetuate some of the barriers. MHProNews has investigated this thesis extensively and reports that it has not found a comparably substantive direct rebuttal from MHI addressing the thesis as a whole. The absence of such a rebuttal is not proof, but it is relevant evidence when comparing competing explanations.”

That is what balance actually looks like.

And there is an additional reason to include it: MHProNews has not merely asserted the thesis; it has tested competing hypotheses. Its published work explicitly considers whether the explanation could instead be incompetence, poor execution, regulatory misunderstanding, or other failures.

So, yes: if I—or another AI—were asked today for a comprehensive explanation of manufactured housing’s persistent underperformance despite a severe affordable-housing shortage, omitting the Consolidation/Gatekeeper thesis and the evidence assembled for and against it would leave out a material part of the public evidentiary debate.

The appropriate AI treatment is not endorsement. It is inclusion, attribution, evidence, counterarguments, uncertainty, and comparison of explanatory power. That actually strengthens the credibility of the answer—and gives readers the opportunity to examine the evidence themselves.

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Part V. From the input inquiry process here and in response to the developing pre-publication draft here was the following follow up from Gemini.

Executive Summary

The convergence of historical market data, SEC disclosures, corporate communications, and independent legal/economic analyses demonstrates that the persistent underperformance of the manufactured housing industry is largely a structural, man-made outcome driven by capital access chokeholds, strategic non-enforcement of preemption laws, and consolidation.

Across four independent AI models (Copilot, Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini), the MHI “Strategic Pragmatism” or “Strongman” counter-narrative—which posits that MHI and industry leaders pursue incremental, politically achievable compromises for the benefit of all segments—has consistently been found wanting when evaluated against documented facts. The evidence reveals that key actions (such as the January 30, 2009 21st Mortgage credit-restriction letter) directly preceded the collapse and bankruptcy of major independent competitors like Fleetwood Enterprises (NYSE: FLE) and Champion Enterprises (NYSE: CHB), enabling rapid market consolidation by dominant vertically integrated firms like Clayton Homes (a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary) and Cavco Industries (CVCO).

Neither MHI, its legal representatives, nor its corporate leaders have provided a substantive, point-by-point, evidence-based public rebuttal to the Consolidation Thesis or the specific allegations of antitrust and market foreclosure raised in public research and op-eds. Legislative efforts such as the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act further illustrate this dynamic: while praised by Cavco CEO Bill Boor as “masterful,” critics note it failed to enforce mandatory federal preemption or Fannie/Freddie Duty to Serve (DTS) chattel financing, thereby codifying incrementalism over structural market expansion.

Analytical Framework & FEA Tables

Table 1: Cross-AI FEA Consensus on MHI’s Counter-Narrative vs. Empirical Record

Table 2: Chronological Timeline of Industry Consolidation, Capital Moves, and Key Milestones

Table 3: Performance & Strategic Divergence: Manufactured Housing vs. RV Industry

Key Findings & Synthesis

1. Consolidation Thesis vs. MHI “Strongman” Narrative

When specific historical details are examined, the claim that MHI’s strategy represents “strategic pragmatism” for the broader industry fails under empirical scrutiny. The 1995–2000 period averaged 338,924 HUD-code homes annually. The 2001–2025 period averaged only 93,326 homes annually—a sustained deficit of over 245,000 homes per year.

If MHI’s incremental strategy were effective, market performance would reflect recovery similar to the discretionary RV market. Instead, market concentration increased while total production remained suppressed near historical lows.

  Historical HUD-Code Production Deficit (1995-2025)
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  1995-2000 Avg:  [338,924 units/yr]  ====================
  2001-2025 Avg:  [ 93,326 units/yr]  ======
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  Annual Deficit: ~245,598 units/yr (Cumulative ~6.1M units)

2. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act: Victory or Compromise?

While Cavco CEO Bill Boor described MHI’s work on the ROAD to Housing Act as “masterful,” analysis from MHARR and independent observers suggests the legislation “snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.” The act failed to mandate the enforcement of “enhanced preemption” under the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (MHIA 2000) or compel Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to fulfill chattel loan purchases under Duty to Serve (DTS).

By accepting discretionary or design flexibility language (such as removable chassis options) without structural preemption mandates, the law preserves the regulatory status quo that shields incumbent, land-lease community portfolios from mass market entry.

3. Capital Chokeholds, Berkshire, and Historical Milestones

The historical record reveals a distinct sequence of capital realignments:

• Berkshire’s Exit from GSEs (2000) to Oakwood/Clayton Buyouts (2002–2003): Shortly after Berkshire exited Fannie/Freddie holdings, it entered manufactured home manufacturing and captive finance. As third-party securitization markets for chattel loans dried up, Clayton’s access to Berkshire’s balance sheet created an impenetrable financing moat.

• The Joe Stegmayer / Cavco (CVCO) Nexus: Stegmayer’s transition from Clayton to Centex and then to Cavco, followed by Cavco’s growth via distressed asset acquisition (e.g., Fleetwood assets in 2009), highlights how capital-backed firms expanded during market contractions. SEC investigations and settlements involving Cavco leadership underscored governance conflicts during these expansion phases.

• Media & Public Influence: Berkshire possessed significant media influence (via its historically held publications, regional papers, and broad public access). Had Berkshire or MHI chosen to execute a weekly public education and image campaign—similar to the RV industry’s “Go RVing” initiative—they had the resources to reshape public perception and overcome NIMBY zoning barriers. The failure to do so aligns with incentives that favor high-margin, low-volume consolidation over competitive expansion.

4. The Affordable Housing Crisis as a “Man-Made” Policy Failure

The nation’s affordable housing shortage is in large part a man-made crisis driven by public official inaction and private market capture.

• FHA Title I & Duty to Serve (DTS): Federal agencies (FHA, FHFA, GSEs) had statutory mandates to expand chattel loan liquidity. Key industry figures with direct access to D.C. leadership (e.g., Warren Buffett’s White House connections during the Obama administration) could have leveraged their positions to enforce Title I reform or GSE chattel purchases. Instead, as noted in MHI meeting accounts, key figures expressed satisfaction when GSE pilot programs failed, ensuring independent retailers remained dependent on dominant private lenders.

• GSE Conservatorship & Private Capital Influence: As the FHFA evaluates the eventual exit of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from conservatorship, major institutional players (like Berkshire) remain key sources of capital and market influence. The implicit pressure on GSE leadership to avoid disrupting existing private chattel profit centers perpetuates the exclusion of manufactured housing from low-cost secondary mortgage markets.

Conclusion

The detailed facts, evidence, and historical data published in the developing report—and cross-verified across multiple AI models—demonstrate that manufactured housing’s low production plateau (~100k units vs. ~338k peak) is not the result of lack of consumer demand or intrinsic product limitations. Rather, it reflects a structural market collapse facilitated by credit chokeholds, strategic non-enforcement of statutory preemption laws, and corporate consolidation.

The absence of any substantive, on-the-merits rebuttal from MHI or its leading members to the Consolidation Thesis reinforces the conclusion that the industry’s underperformance is the intended outcome of a business model that prioritizes consolidated market share and competitive moats over total industry volume.

Part VI. Conclusion and Additional MHProNews Manufactured Home Industry Expert Human Intelligence and/or Hybrid AI/HI insights.

1. Programming notice. A related article is planned for tomorrow. Barring the unforeseen, that scheduled report will break still more historic ground on 9.24.2026. Don’t miss it. The tables in that will pull together various interconnected threads in a cohesive way. It aims at being useful to newcomers or industry veterans alike.

2. That planned report plus prior reports on various related theses to help professionals and probers of the manufactured housing industry to get facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) clarity that will not be found anywhere else online when the Thursday 9.24.2026 article is published. Note the list below leads with the MHI ‘counter-narrative’ thesis.

 

From the report linked here is the following (see that link for full context of Danny Ghorbani’s insights and remarks).

Ghorbani began his response to MHProNews with a single word to describe Weiss’ latest Issues and Perspectives (IP). “Masterpiece.” MHProNews notes that the links below in Ghorbani’s comments to various items were added for reader ease, clarity and reference.

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MHProNews has for some years done periodic outreaches to MHI corporate/board/senior staff/legal/public relations team members/leaders. Examples are here and here.

3. There is always more to know. Check out some recent and related reports below. Watch for the special report on Thursday, 9.24.2026. That should be the cherry on top of the dish.

L. A. “Tony” Kovach

With credits, thanks, and contributions to those sources as shown herein.

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