A successful and award-winning, retailer/developer we’ve done some work with said that in manufactured housing, “We are our own worse enemy.” He explained that time and again, short-sighted thinking caused the industry to miss out on far greater opportunities. This isn’t the first or last time a seasoned industry pro expressed this thought, is it? …
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” – Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s minister of propaganda.” “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” – Abraham …
Joseph Goebbels – The Big Lie, America and Manufactured Housing Read More »
We’ve told you about this upcoming video. Its about ready to release. This episode of Inside MH features an array of Washington DC metro personas, as well as U.S. based MH Industry home owners and pros from border-to-border. Each says in their own words elements that need to be addressed to get us to the goal …
You’ve heard that the popular definition of insanity is to keep doing the same things, the same way, and then expect a different result. Our industry is past due, and ready for a breakthrough on issues that have been pending for far too many years. At first, we could all give ourselves the excuse: ‘this …
Avoiding Manufactured Housing Insanity – Politically Incorrect & MBO Read More »
Yes, that headline is boldly akin to a well know candidate’s tag line; and just as America is great – but could be much greater, so too – manufactured housing is great and could be enjoying a much greater reputation, resale demand and new home sales than it currently does. How? There are many things …
Making Manufactured Housing Great Again – Curing What Limits MH Now Read More »
Before diving into our main topic today, two quick topics. The first is a reminder that the rapidly approaching 2016 Tunica Show’s professional education day is March 22nd. There’s a hunger for practical, professional Education in manufactured housing, and our panel of Retailers, Community Pros – our Lenders Panel with their hottest plans – and …
As some pundits expected, Warren Buffet’s letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders provided a fact-based, 1.5 page defense in the 30 page annual document. The Clayton Homes and relevant facts on MH Lending – a de facto defense aimed at Mike Baker’s and Daniel Wagner’s year long campaign waged in the Seattle Times, Center for Public …
Having been tamed on his anti-MH chattel lending theme for a few months, Doug Ryan is back at it again with his latest attack on the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). Ryan does so while asserting his support for manufactured homes as an important solution for home ownership for millions of lower income Americans. MHARR’s president …
Friday February 19th was a long, long day – but it went by quickly. We were doing a video shoot at a true mobile home park. I say ‘true,’ because most of the homes there were pre-HUD Code homes – so they were properly called mobile homes – dozens of which have been nicely updated. …
Profitably Shifting the Mobile and Manufactured Home Paradigm Read More »
We’ll keep it short and sweet this evening. If high volume manufactured home retailer Alan Amy is right, then current CFPB regulations are costing manufactured housing about 30% more in MH sales. That means instead of 70,000 new homes in 2015, we’d have more like 91,000+ new MHs for the year. If CMHI’s Jess Maxcy’s …
The High Cost of Apathy & Weakness & Tunica Show Talk Read More »
