Skyline Homes has resisted the trend toward consolidation, but this week it was announced that Fairmont Homes has now been bought up by the Avis of Manufactured Housing, mighty Cavco Industries. As to conflict, anyone who is in MH leadership is well aware of the media battle raging over big players in MH in specific, …
Social media has changed mainstream journalism. We hear reporters and news anchors routinely talking about someone’s Tweet, or about a post on Facebook. A video on YouTube may be cited in a commentary. There are bloggers who blog, and journalists often blog now too. Welcome to A.M. – the “Alternative Media” – and where it …
There are battles ragging all over the world. Some are obvious conflicts with bricks, bullets and bombs; others are less bloody, but can still be heated. Let there be no mistake. There is a war ranging – a genuine conflict – over MH and housing in general. Are we in manufactured housing (MH) in this …
Google defines an axiom as: ax·i·om ˈaksēəm/ noun a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true. “the axiom that supply equals demand” synonyms: accepted truth, general truth, dictum, truism, principle… The axiom for today is that if you want a different or improved result, we must begin to do …
Manufactured Housing Pros, imagine the following. You are part of a business that has been ‘in the MH business’ for 10, 20, 30 or even 50+ years. You clearly are successful! Not many can say their firm has been around that long. That’s an advantage, right? But is there also a disadvantage to the above …
I was listening as an educated gentleman explained that contrary to popular opinion, ignorance isn’t bliss. Quite so. Tens of millions today are ignorant of the facts about contemporary manufactured housing and its appealing, green, quality affordable living realities. What is the solution? We don’t know what we don’t know. This is true of us …
Vincible or Invincible Ignorance and Contemporary Manufactured Housing Read More »
The Manufactured Housing (MH) industry has never been monolithic. There has been and always will be various voices and groups within the industry landscape. Part of our challenge in getting a bill such as HR 650/Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing passed – great job to all who made it happen! – is that we do …
Post-HR 650 Passage. New MH Lender? Manufactured Housing Professional Landscape… Read More »
A quick Google search on what is being said about BP after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill a few years ago revealed web-news headlines like the ones that follow. Notice the above isn’t a bad headline, if you are BP. What the Huffington Post is saying is that the environment has improved, while BP …
Post – BP Oil Spill – Lessons for Manufactured Housing? Read More »
We won’t talk in detail about the 3rd – and most recent – frontal assault by media outlet(s) that have targeted the manufactured housing sector. I’ll mention the first of the three articles immediately below, because we published a reply that included on-the-record comments from a variety of MH Industry pros. http://www.mhpronews.com/home/industry-news/industry-in-focus/9233-correcting-errors-in-the-hidden-high-costs-of-mobile-homes-lance-george-daily-yonder The question …
When you tune into cablecast news, it seems that much of the world is in the throes of religious wars. While we don’t – yet – have a lot of violence from members of one faith against another here in the U.S., nevertheless we do see things such as the recent uproar over the Indiana …
