Axioms and pithy quotes are useful precisely because they convey much in a few words. “It is always darkest before the dawn.” “When I slow down, I go faster.” – Ken Blanchard. “Remember that time is money.” – Ben Franklin, in his Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748). I spoke earlier this week with …
The truth can be painful. Few adults have lived such a trouble-free life. Most of us have personally known – or at least know of others through friends or family – the anguish of betrayal by a spouse or partner, an unexpected reversal of health, broken faith in a personal or professional relationship, or some …
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For Want of a Nail For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the message was lost. For want of a message the battle was lost. For want of a …
They are industry professionals that currently hail from primarily south-central or southern states. They may hunt, fish, go to the honky-tonk, or go four wheeling in the mud for fun. They’re routinely patriots – people of faith, flag, and family, who love the constitution and their second amendment protected guns. They sell, build pads, …
The year was 1998. It happened to be the year that manufactured housing hit its last peak, but it was also the year that Simon Reynolds compiled and published “Thoughts of Chairman Buffett – Thirty Years of Unconventional Wisdom from the Sage of Omaha.” Until you turn to the back of Reynold’s book, not many …
What’s wrong is that enough people don’t ask what’s right – that’s a faithful paraphrase of the brilliant writer and believer, G.K. Chesterton. One need not look far to discover that the Creator of all has a healthy sense of humor. Warren Buffett, Kevin Clayton, Tim Williams – among their allies, pawns, lackeys, and stooges …
“Tony…as I think you know, it’s ALWAYS been my position that lease option and rent to own are illegal if they are a “workaround” for chattel financing, which is what most such schemes are…” – MH Industry attorney, not an association exec, in off-the-record comment about his legal perspective about the issue that follows. George …
If you look around the world, Americans have much to be grateful for, and so too does our once far greater industry. But as one carefully peers and ponders the details, one begins to sees that there’s so much more that could be accomplished in our nation. The same holds true for manufactured housing …
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“…Tony, these guys have long knives…” read part of a message from a former, high ranking, MHI member. Here’s a longer quote from another company president. “…See you in Louisville. I just finished a book on [name of book withheld]. One of the sayings from that…comes to mind: “Don’t give up the ship!” Tony, You …
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Depending on who’s estimate we accept, there’s some 550,000 to 660,000 homeless in the richest nation on earth, the U.S.A. As rents rise, so does homelessness, says Zillow’s research, which supplied the higher homeless count. With some $22 trillion dollars spent on “Great Society” programs as of a 2014 Heritage Foundation report, one must ask …
Affordable Housing – Fleetwood, Champion, Clayton – Genius of the Christmas Story Read More »
