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From time to time state association executives or their staff send hot links into their members to select members. These are often about mainstream news stories that the executive or an association staffer at times fails to carefully check. We’re human, it happens. But as MHProNews reported last […]
It’s your own personal rights, property, and wealth that are in the crosshairs. If what is described from news accounts that follow hasn’t yet happened to you, odds are that someone at a meeting you or they attended know about just such an incident on some personal level.
This is true storytelling with a manufactured housing (MH) purpose. Relax with your favorite Sunday beverage, as you dive in… Winter up north is obviously quite different than winter in central Florida. Having spent about a decade doing MH business projects from bases in WI and IL, the
Winter 2018-2019 in Manufactured Housing Land Read More
If you were a housing shopper, would you buy a home from a cat killer? Hold that thought, as we’ll deal with the alleged cat-killing manufactured home community (MHC) owner noted in the headline in a few moments. But first, realize that if it isn’t cat killing, the
The Daily Business News on MHProNews has spent weeks first documenting the sound fundamentals of the economy, and then underscoring some of the same – and very cogent points that – this Ph.D. from J.P. Morgan Chase makes in our featured report this evening. If you’re new, already hooked
JP Morgan Guru Says, “Fake News” Shares Blame in Volatile Markets, plus MH Stock Updates Read More
“Deputies investigated…and prosecutors charged Walter Kenneth Baldwin, 69, 1916 Happy Hollow Road North, West Lafayette, with conspiracy to torture or mutilate a vertebrate animal, torture or mutilating a vertebrate animal, conspiracy to killing a domestic animal and killing a domestic animal,” per the JCOnline, part of the USA Today
Teen, Adult Charged in Troubling Tragedy Involving MH Community Read More
Skimmer alert: the subject isn’t a video per se. But we open this Daily Business News on MHProNews with a comment about a new video because it shines a light on broader issues that have drawn comments – also shared below – from a variety of industry personalities. Many are
Judaism, like Christianity or Islam, are not monolithic in their beliefs. There are branches of Jewish belief, not unlike the symbolic branches of the menorah. At dinner with a Jewish friend on the first evening of Hanukkah, among the comments from our guest? “If you have 10 Jews
Hanukkah at the White House, Video, Visuals and Formal Presidential Statement Read More
There is not a syllable about manufactured housing in this report, which is perfect for our purpose in this evening’s report. The markets have been broadly down. Yet most economic, jobs, corporate and other fundamentals are sound. By contrast to the roller coaster of Wall Street, why not
A glance at our manufactured housing watchlist reflects that several of the industry’s tracked stocks are closer to their one-year lows than the one-year highs. As the broader markets have slid, so has manufactured housing, and those firms that have sizable stakes in manufactured housing. The reasons cited are the
Strong Job, Economic Data Contrast with Market Fears, Plus MH Stock Updates Read More
News is a business. Period. News as a business can provide useful, authentic, manipulated, and/or weaponized information. Like any product or service, there are better ones, and worse ones. Manufactured housing professionals have plenty of reasons to properly engage with news media, but also need to be wary
Understanding the News as Business, and Manufactured Housing Read More
From sources: inside the GSEs, from within the ranks of producers of HUD Code manufactured housing, plus association sources – meaning those aligned with the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) – the Daily Business News on MHProNews has received calls, messages, and in-person news tips about the Duty to Serve (DTS)
Explosive Comments on Duty to Serve Manufactured Housing Lending from Well Placed Sources Read More
“Capitalism is not perfect,” said Jordan Rodriguez in response to the video below, “but its the best system we got so far. The attackers of capitalism always fall into the “Nirvana Fallacy”. Just because something doesn’t work 100% of the time, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t work at all.
What’s Necessary for Creating More Wealth? Read More
Facts, evidence, and reason are for mature adults. Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen, because they often use a lack of evidence as if it was evidence. Facts are ignored at the peril of those who – for whatever reasons – ignore them. “Billionaire investor and liberal activist
Foreword: a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) member messaged our publisher, “You seem to have conceptual IQ [and] that is more important than spelling ability.” That there are divisions in manufactured housing ought to be self-evident. That’s true for any industry or large group. But among the many questions
The number of former Conseco, Greentree, and other now defunct industry lenders that are still working in manufactured housing (MH) is not insignificant. Similarly, as MHI bleeds staffers and members on a periodic basis, past or current members and staff are among those who message or call MHProNews
Warren Buffett doesn’t likely lose any sleep thinking about what the Daily Business News on MHProNews publishes. He reportedly leaves sleep loss and heart burn mostly to his company CEOs. With baseball season over, the end of college football’s season in sight, and with the pros season not
An Area of Agreement Between Warren Buffett and MHProNews Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Alexa Fund has invested in factory-home building. Other FAANG stocks have a direct impact on manufactured housing, for marketing and other reasons. Investors ran for cover today for reasons noted in our left-right bullet headlines, below. The drop in FAANG will be our featured report this evening.
FAANG Stocks Drop $140 Billion, Plus Manufactured Housing Industry Markets Read More
Let’s be clear. This post is a simple comparison between the image-defending video Clayton Homes clearly invested several thousand dollars in for their ‘Have it Made’ campaign vs. a video by a purported Clayton Homes home owner, who is slamming their construction and quality. The Clayton-slamming customer
“Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire…” – part of a children’s rhyme to discourage dishonesty. “You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.” – Mark Twain, advice to youth, per Speakola. “Just because something isn’t a lie does not mean that
“Pants on Fire” – Latest New Manufactured Housing Shipment Report Read More
