It is unlikely that anyone one else will provide this post-election MH perspective. What did this election prove? There are many take-aways, we will focus on one. It is this. Manufactured housing could have decided this race in either direction. Let's see how. There are approximately 4 million residents of HUD Code manufactured homes and …
If you had a chance to 'vote' for the healthy return of our industry, would you do it? For 13 years after our industry's most recent peak in 1998, we have suffered a long down turn. We are now in month 13 of our MHIndustry upturn or recovery. We clearly have a long way to …
How do you build? Back in the days before factory-built HUDs and MODs, wasn't one way brick by brick? Well that is the way that the RV/MH Hall of Fame is still building. Brick by Brick. Dynamic Darryl Searer has earned this monicker! He has done wonders for the Hall of Fame in the short …
October will be a busy month for most of us. Fall meetings – such as the upcoming MHI annual meeting – all the business pros want to book in advance of winter and budgeting are among the items which keep us busy. With national, state and local elections upon us, many are busier still. Let’s …
We often hear the term 'status quo,' but in fact on almost any topic you can imagine, there is movement either backward or forward. The quality of a school, college, or business, the polling data on a political candidate or the status of a career or industry are typically advancing forward or slipping backwards. The …
Please repeat after me. Boulevard locations, developers and most land lease communities are or ought to be Manufactured Home Retailers. Retailers today come in all shapes and sizes. What was true yesterday is there for us to learn from. But the world we live in today is very different than 5, 10 or 15 years …
William Shakespeare dramatically asked, "What light through yonder window breaks?" Have you been looking for the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel? Or even the light from behind a dark shade covered window? Then take heart. When word came that U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban …
Summer time seems to be heating up on the Industry Voices guest blog. The latest one is from Ronnie Richards, the Chairman of the Board at the Texas Manufactured Housing Association and a senior VP at factory home builder, American Homestar. Jefferson Lilly, investor and MHC owner, has an eye opening column that every property …
Our new issue for June will go live by the end of this week. So you still have time to catch up on all the great May Featured Articles, before they go into the archive. It looks like we may nudge past the April record in readership in May. With thousands of new visitors (industry …
First of two topics: We’d like to welcome a new advertiser/sponsor to the MHProNews.com (MHMSM.com) family. AIA – American Insurance Alliance “is the largest insurer of parks, dealers, transporters and installers.” And much more! Learn more by clicking on AIA’s information here. AIA joins other notable firms such as: > Green Courte Partners > ROC …
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