“The report of my death was an exaggeration.” ~ Mark Twain So said the great American author and humorist after reading his own obituary on June 2, 1897. Well, the IBISWorld Report was something like that for the manufactured housing industry. Politics, financial log jams and poor industry image, added in to the low ebb …
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Industry politics and costs have arguably kept an image campaign to boost sales of manufactured homes from taking place. But let’s imagine, for discussion’s sake, that one or more ‘angels’ raised their hands and offered to fund an image/PR/marketing campaign for factory built homes… …should the campaign be state based (example: each unique market has …
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Last year for Memorial Day weekend, we served you a helping of Beyond Burgers, Brats and Buns. This year we bring you this timely Memorial Day column by Michael Barnabas: We the People – Memorial Day 2011 – Not on My Watch. We also have a fine pictorial reminder sent in by a friend for …
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Taking care of business (every day) Taking care of business (every way) I’ve been taking care of business (it’s all mine) Taking care of business and working overtime These are the lyrics from the refrain of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Takin’ Care of Business. Tens of thousands of manufactured housing owners and professionals get up every …
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Are Manufactured Home chattel finance clouds getting darker still? Attorney and Industry Expert Marty Lavin has sounded off on what ails MH personal property (chattel) lending with this article entitled The Train to Oblivion. A response from an MH chattel lender was made with an article entitled If you don’t go forward, you’re not going …
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Two topics today. The second one is an industry pro’s painful experience with local/state officials. But we will start with… Topic 1: Marty Lavin’s The Train to Oblivion Attorney, manufactured home community owner and industry expert Marty Lavin has shared a wake-up call in his Industry Voices guest column post, The Train To Oblivion Numerous …
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“What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.” – G. K. Chesterton
We continue to track – and encourage! – a developing news story in the South. Two Manufactured Home Community (MHC) owners, David Roden and Spencer Roane are devoting considerable time and effort in reaching out to federal and state emergency management officials. Their basic message? FEMA, GEMA or others can use vacant MHC home sites …
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Odds. English is an incredibly versatile language! We have so many ways of expressing ourselves, many of them quite polite. A word like ‘Odds’ can jump to mind for many possible uses: fighting the odds, being at odds (with someone, some group, etc.) odds and evens (as in numbers 1, 3, 5 being ‘odds’) being …
As our faithful readers know, we are all about improvement for the Manufactured Housing Industry. For about six months, we have been discussing internally at Manufactured Home Marketing Sales Management (MHMSM.com) what would be a new and improved site for our readers. How can we improve navigation? What new look and feel would work best? …
