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On Tuesday 9.15.2020, President Trump touted the “dawn of the new Middle East” said left-of-center Yahoo News about a signing ceremony for peace accords between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “We’re here this afternoon to change the course of history,” President Trump told attendees at the White …
“Republican candidate for Michigan Senator, John James, held a rally Wednesday in Pontiac, and it was attended by a host of celebrity guests,” said WXYZ-TV Detroit Channel 7. Some of President Trump’s and Republican Senate nominee John James’ enthusiastic supporters are interviewed in the local news video below. …
“For many years, SSK[Communities] carried out a plot designed to force its mobile home park residents to lose their homes.” So reads a court document found at this link here that was provided to MHProNews earlier today. Since the report linked about co-founders Nathan Smith and Kurt Kenney was published …
“We don’t want the small business people who own most of the apartment buildings and single-family rentals in the country to go out of business.” – said David Dworkin, President and CEO of the National Housing Conference (NHC), per CBN News. In spotlighting several sobering points of concern impacting thousands …
Best-selling historical writer Bill O’Reilly said in his book, Killing Reagan, that then President Ronald Reagan (Republican) was suffering from Alzheimer’s while in office. It is denied by some, but if it were so, it’s not the first time that a president suffered limiting or even incapacitating issues. There are …
Who is “Drinking the Kool-Aid” – Sunday Weekly Headline Review Read More
A message was sent to MHProNews that included these words, “…this sheds serious light supporting the thesis that MHI [Manufactured Housing Institute]thwarts enhanced preemption as well as diverts DTS [Duty to Serve] in order to benefit the consolidators. That in turn hurts consumers, [manufactured home industry] independents, and taxpayers too.” …
The left-of-center Associated Press (AP) and USA Today recently reported that there are two significantly different versions of reality being projected by the Trump-Pence ticket vs. the Biden Harris ticket. “Competing Versions of Reality, is how the AP summed it up. While one can certainly reasonably critique how AP and …
The following is an email to MHProNews this morning from the Heritage Foundation’s President, Kay C. James. It is an apt reminder of the tragedy and also of the way that for a time, it brought our nation together. This will be followed by additional information, MHProNews analysis and commentary. …
We Pause and Remember 9.11 – Heritage’s Kay C. James on Patriots Day Read More
“Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to discuss Judicial Watch filing an opposition to a request to dismiss the civil rights lawsuit against Mayor Bowser…” So says the Judicial Watch YouTube page. Among the topics in this video right-of-center Fox Business interview are the following. Attorney …
The TRD national weekend edition reported on 9.5.2020: “Hot commodity: Investors bet on mobile home parks [SIC] Sales volume increased 23% in the second quarter, year-over-year.” Citing left-of-center Bloomberg, they said: “More than $800 million worth of mobile home parks traded during the second quarter, according to Bloomberg. That’s 23 percent …
Big Surge in Manufactured Home Community Deals, Insider Details Others Missed Read More
Last week, MHProNews was contacted by email from various sources in the Skyline Champion (NYSE:SKY) retailer (a.k.a. ‘dealer’) network, as well as by rivals and other industry professionals regarding allegations of price gouging and other irregularities that purportedly violated written agreements. Following those reports, per insider information, Skyline Champion’s leadership …
The Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) President and CEO, Mark Weiss has issued a blistering array of facts, analysis, and wry sarcasm in his latest “MHARR Issues and Perspectives” for September, 2020. Their report is below. Lest some think that the slice and dice …
Tonight’s topic is the latest 5 year data set from the U.S. Census Bureau obtained by MHProNews. While others in manufactured housing trade media – including those who publish as well as blog – routinely continue to ‘cheer lead’ for the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and their ‘big boy’ backers, …
It’s not a joke or a metaphor. Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway explained the church they created and their historic reason for doing so. “Warren [Buffett] and I [Charlie Munger] were revolutionaries. We created a church that was used as an underground railroad. We supported the Clergy Counseling …
“Revolutionaries” Warren Buffett Partner Charlie Munger Explains a Church They Created Read More
“A rising China is a positive development, not only for the people of China but for the United States and the world as a whole,” U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden said recently when giving a speech on U.S.-China relations in Chengdu, China.’” So said a Voice of America editorial that …
“The more things change the more they stay the same.” That’s the common translation of what French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote in 1849, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” per Wikipedia and Quora. What follows from the National Housing Conference (NHC), which has the Manufactured Housing Institute …
The left-of-center USA Today recently and then the left-of-center Associated Press (AP) did Americans a favor last week. They aptly reported that there are two competing narratives for Americans to ponder this election cycle. More on that after noting that several news outlets are reporting a looming antitrust case against …
Total transparency is technically impossible as well as often being inadvisable. Not many want to drop their pants in public, literally or figuratively. Even Scripture says that there are times to keep a secret. But ‘evil secrets’ that seek to cover dark deeds will ultimate come out. “For nothing is hidden that …
The general election is 2 months away. Falling unemployment rates and rising presidential job approvals both are promising signs for the incumbent president. Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking poll – dissed by some, but more accurate than many in the 2016 election cycle – shows President Trump at 52 percent approval …
Manufactured housing performance needs to be contrasted with mainstream housing or other U.S. economic sectors in order to obtain a reasonably objective understanding of how HUD Code manufactured home production and shipment levels year-to-date performance in 2020 should be viewed. In a report published this week on JD Supra, a …
