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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reloads Apple, Goldman Sachs, Plus MH Market Updates

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Economy, Election, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks, Trends

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway owns Clayton Homes and numerous other HUD Code manufactured home industry-connected operations. But its reach is so vast, that in direct and indirect ways, it can influence the manufactured housing industry.  With that backdrop, the latest moves by Berkshire Hathaway are posted below. If you’re new, […]

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“We Shouldn’t Fear Our Government,” Feds Pay Out Millions in Case, Plus MH Market Updates

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Economy, Election, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Politics, Stocks, Trends

“We Shouldn’t Fear Our Government,” said True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht in a video in our featured report this evening. The IRS targeting scandal of conservative groups during the Obama Administration may not seem to have anything to do with the markets, or manufactured housing, does it? The recent settlement

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RV/MH Hall of Fame Class of 2018 Inducted in Gala Ceremonies

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Announcements, Association, Awards, Company News, Events, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, Non-Profit, Philanthropy

  The Class of 2018 includes: (Back row left to right) Bill Wilson, Cherry Hill Mobile Home Park and Indian Hill Estates; Roger Faulkner, General Coach Canada; Mike Cirillo, Star Management; John Evans, CMHI. (Front row left to right) Derald Bontrager, Jayco, Inc.; Joan Cohron, accepting for Darrel/Harrel Cohron, Dealer

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Back to Basics Will Boost Manufactured Home Sales, Sunday Morning Manufactured Home Industry Headline News Recap Aug 5 – Aug 12, 2018

By / / Advocacy, Analysis and Commentary, Announcements, Association, Business, Canada, Company News, Economy, Election, Factory-Built Homes, Headlines - Week In Review for Manufactured, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, People, Politics, regulation, Stocks, Trends

Let’s stress again that there are numbers of honorable operators and professionals in manufactured housing.   Some of those honorable souls would see “the basics” in a similar way that we at MHProNews would agree with too. But perhaps in an ironic way, the fact that not everyone understands what

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“It’s A Problem That’s Been Bubbling for Years,” Turkey Tank$, Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Company News, Economy, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Politics, Stocks, Trends

As the United States begins to flex more economic muscle, there are increasing signs in markets from China, Europe to now Turkey that are reflecting weaknesses in markets overseas. Today, Turkey grabbed the headlines, and some experts share their take. It’s a troubling reminder why manufactured housing is a much

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What RV Industry’s 2018, Prior Results Reveal for Manufactured Housing

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, research, RV, Trends

  Executive Summary?  The facts are black and white. Eye-opening.   Some RV vs. MH Shipment Performance Facts: The RV industry shipped more units in March of 2018 than did the entire manufactured housing industry through June of 2018.  Good for them, ouch for our industry. In 1998, when HUD

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Heartland Immigration Raids by ICE Are Targeting Businesses, Owners, Management – Plus Illegals

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, Small Business, Trends

  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) —  “A large federal law enforcement operation conducted Wednesday targeted businesses in Nebraska and Minnesota that officials say knowingly hired — and mistreated — immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally,” reports the Associated Press (AP).   There have been several incidents in various parts of

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“I Admit, I was Wrong,” said Heritage’s Feulner, Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Economy, Election, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, research, Stocks, Trends

Wouldn’t it be refreshing if certain folks in Arlington, VA made an admission like the headline confession Heritage’s Edwin Fuelner made on camera? But, the focus for this evening’s market report isn’t that, rather, it is two-prime points. General economy/jobs, and the under-reported internal struggles in China over the trade

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AG’s Hathaway Lawsuit OK’d

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, People

  “The Consumer Protection Division of the Idaho Attorney General’s Office is now free to pursue a planned lawsuit aimed at banning Paul Hathaway, the former owner of Hathaway Homes Group, from selling mobile and manufactured homes,” per Bryan Clark for the Post Register and Standard Journal   Hathaway Homes

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“All the News That’s Fit to Print,” “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” Affordable Housing, MH Reality Checks

By / / Affordable Housing, Announcements, Association, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry

  Wheat and chaff. Take the best information that a source provides, sift out the chaff, and voila! You have useful information.   The headline two quotes above are from the old tag line of the NYTimes, which brought the industry the sensationalistic “The Cold, Hard Lessons of Mobile Home

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Carson’s Recent Address on HUD, Affordable Housing, and the Manufactured Housing Vantagepoint

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, regulation, Trends

  If you listen to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies video below, the outlook for affordable housing sounds bleak.     By contrast, Mark Weiss, in a soon-to-be-released commentary, told MHProNews that “HUD Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson, as the saying goes, “gets it.”   First, and most fundamentally,

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MHPro Alert: DOE Issues Manufactured Housing Energy Rule RFI

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, regulation, Small Business

“The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a “Notice of Data Availability and Request for Information” (“Notice”) regarding its previously dormant manufactured housing energy conservation standards rulemaking in the August 3, 2018 edition of the Federal Register (see copy attached),” said the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR)  

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“Waste, Fraud, and Abuse” – FHFA, GSE Federal Oversight Announcement

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Homes, Manufactured Housing Industry, regulation, Trends

The House Financial Services Committee announced that there will be an upcoming hearing that will continue their probe into allegations of “waste, fraud, and abuse.”   The Daily Business News on MHProNews has tracked developments over the ongoing drumbeat out of Washington, D.C. over concerns regarding the Federal Housing Finance

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Ready Player One, “Mobile Home Stacks,” and the Manufactured Home Industry Reality Check

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, ignorance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, mobile home, Trends

Culture is often a reflection of entertainment, and entertainment often influences society, and thus culture.   With that in mind, what did the movie Ready Player One  tell the manufactured housing industry? Ready Player One (RP1) featured people living “in “stacks,” which are literally mobile homes piled on top of one

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Stocks Rise Amid Trade Tiffs, Iran Sanctions Take Effect, Plus MH Market Updates

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Economy, Finance, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks, Trends

Don’t look now. The uncertainty over trade, sanctions, tariffs in the first half of the year gave way on Wall Streets to a more recent steady rise in the markets. While there’s plenty of question marks – read, uncertainty – ahead, there seems to be growing confidence that the Trump

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City Settles Case with Community Owner for $1.5 Million

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, regulation, Trends

The City of Chino recently reached a $1.5 million settlement with a manufactured home community owner. The suit originally asked for $34 million, and was filed in July 2010 by Chino MHC, owner of Lamplighter Chino Mobile Home Park,  per the Champion Newspapers. “The settlement agreement resolves long-standing disputes and

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Rising Tide Lifts Millions off Food Stamps, Plus Manufactured Home Market Updates

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Canada, Company News, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks, Trends

The USDA reports that the number of people on food stamps, more properly known as SNAP benefits, has been declining by millions since February of 2017. More jobs, higher wages are clearly contributing to that outcome, which will be our focus spotlight this evening. If you’re new, already hooked on

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