{"id":3033,"date":"2017-09-28T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2019-01-05T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T14:58:11","slug":"award-winning-manufactured-home-retailer-on-fema-takeover-impact-on-independents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/award-winning-manufactured-home-retailer-on-fema-takeover-impact-on-independents\/","title":{"rendered":"Award Winning Manufactured Home Retailer on FEMA Takeover, Impact on Independents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">Manufacturers down here were 4 to 6 weeks out before the storms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">Many of us can remember Katrina and tracking down houses that were abandoned at a truck stop or on the side of the highway, en route because the driver could make so much more money pulling for FEMA &#8220;right now.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">There is legitimate reason for concern. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">If they commandeer a large portion of production\/plants, all of us independents are going to feel that hit and, depending on your suppliers, that could be a BIG hit. ##<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">The scale of the loss in TX may lead to legally negating NIMBY as well. That would make the danger much greater for the independents.\u00a0##\u00a0 (<strong>Editor&#8217;s Note<\/strong>: Crawford is responding to the reports about FEMA taking over production lines, and the potential impact on independent retailers, communities and producers.\u00a0 See the most\u00a0 report, <a href=\"manufacturedhomepronews.com\/fema-clayton-growing-threat-to-independent-non-corporate-companies-from-omaha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">linked here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BobCrawfordDickMooreHousingPresidentFacebookIndustryVoicesManufacturedModularHousingProNews.png\" alt=\"BobCrawfordDickMooreHousingPresidentFacebookIndustryVoicesManufacturedModularHousingProNews\" width=\"300\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BobCrawfordDickMooreHousingPresidentFacebookIndustryVoicesManufacturedModularHousingProNews.png 300w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BobCrawfordDickMooreHousingPresidentFacebookIndustryVoicesManufacturedModularHousingProNews-238x430.png 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bob Crawford<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">President<br \/>\nDick Moore Housing<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturers down here were 4 to 6 weeks out before the storms. Many of us can remember Katrina and tracking down houses that were abandoned &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/award-winning-manufactured-home-retailer-on-fema-takeover-impact-on-independents\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Award Winning Manufactured Home Retailer on FEMA Takeover, Impact on Independents<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2286,2188,2189,2455,2220],"tags":[2514,2513,1906,2515,2519,2516,2517,2518,108,1818],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Award Winning Manufactured Home Retailer on FEMA Takeover, Impact on Independents | Industry Voices<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/award-winning-manufactured-home-retailer-on-fema-takeover-impact-on-independents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Award Winning Manufactured Home Retailer on FEMA Takeover, Impact on Independents | Industry Voices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manufacturers down here were 4 to 6 weeks out before the storms. 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