Multiple topics today, let's start with manufactured home financing, and move on from there. Financing An association executive thoughtfully updated me on the percentage of manufactured home loans being made via chattel financing. Personal property (chattel, home only) loans are now hovering in the 70-75% range of all manufactured home financing. This is up from …
We are well into campaign season and I believe our professional lives are ideally not compartments but part of a whole range of who we are; but this column is not about politics. Some practices used by political, religious and service organizations are strongly applicable to our manufactured home industry, it's opportunities, challenges and needs. …
July is jumping at manufactured home communities and sales centers in many parts of the country. Some factories are reporting production orders a few weeks out. Lenders, insurances companies, suppliers, installers, transporters, support and service pros are glad to see the 9 month upturn in new orders. We all await the latest numbers to see …
When you promote the value and durability of our product, you are protecting and promoting yourself and our manufactured and modular home industry. Let's start the day with some quotes from Industry personalities you may know, and then wrap up with a few rapid fired points on protecting and promoting yourself in an enlightened fashion. …
I was talking today with a respected industry leader. Part of the discussion was about fear mongering. There are voices in our great Industry that have and will sound the alarm on a topic, often offering a solution that is profitable to the voice doing the advocacy. While the warning (say for example, on Dodd-Frank …
Let me start by inviting you to take a good look at this Industry Voices guest blog post by a seasoned West Coast MH Business owner, entitled, Will we catch the Tsunami? If you haven’t read it yet, please do. Yes, now, before proceeding. Done? Glad to have you back. As you can see John …
No, I've not turned 36 (again…and again and, okay, you get the picture). But the HUD Code went into effect 36 years ago, on this date! How many of you are ready to celebrate this industry birthday…or anniversary…of manufactured housing? Reader's Digest has run a department in their magazine for years, using the theme …
The Center For Responsive Politics has provided us with the following insights as to the lobbying activities of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). Bill Number Congress Bill Title No. of Reports & Specific Issues* H.R.3849 112 Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act 2 S.1813 112 …
We've all heard from the media that apartments have high occupancy since the conventional mortgage/housing bubble burst. The area of construction that often dominates the conventional housing news is multi-family rentals, ie: apartments. Still, apartments experience turn-over, and the multi-family pros have a strategy they are using to enhance retention and increase referrals. When this …
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Make no mistake about it, this column will be all about manufactured housing and how we can advance our Industry's cause. The logical route for that may seem a bit of a curved road, but hang in there and this will make sense. Knowing how fractured our industry can be, please indulge a few disclaimers, …
