Blaise Pascal, who penned the original Pensées (French for 'thoughts'), would likely be disappointed in part of what follows; for that this scribe takes full responsibility. As we approach the 2014 MHI Summer Meeting Sunday-Tuesday, what should we expect? What should be our hopes following the event? What should we be talking about while there? …
Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) 2014 Summer Meeting Pensées Read More »
The Manufactured Housing Industry is waking up to the fact that CBS News has given overall positive coverage to our industry, in the form of a Sunday show video report. MHProNews' Matthew Silver's Daily Business News (DBN for short) article on that topic is found at the link below. Please read it, watch the video …
CBS Reports on good Manufactured Housing news, Plus! Read More »
Incoming calls and messages from pros like you are invaluable to our MH Industry supporting mission. This week is a great case in point. ELS and that huge judgment ought to be front page news for almost all in our industry. Why is it that it has been only a whimper in MH publishing – …
Suits, ELS Judgment, “Lost Wages,” Manufactured Housing’s Greenback Boogie Read More »
Let's sandwich considerable good news at the start and end of today's Pensées (thoughts) between a pretty challenging – or some would say – an ugly reality. The good news? New manufactured home shipments continued to rise, in spite of all the legal head winds and the worst U.S. winter in decades. New Capital is …
Eli Wiesel vs. The Manufactured Housing Enemies List Read More »
Perhaps you are a manufactured home (MH) retailer, and you want to compare the latest homes, loans, products and services available in your market. Maybe you are an MHCommunity operator, and you are tired of chasing aging used homes and those repos that still need thousands in updates, and then have no warranty when you …
The truth be told (and such is my intent), it was NOT my plan to write about the time shared with Marty Lavin, JD. Yes, I wanted to take some photos that might be used later on for something. But going to see Marty and Pat Lavin to relax on their handsome new craft, the …
On the Boat with Manufactured Housing’s Marty Lavin Read More »
When you talk to a truly good MD, they are interested in your symptoms, but mainly so they can get to the root cause of the problem. Radix comes from the Latin, here is what Google provided among the definitions. When we go to a meeting like the recent one MHI held in advance of …
The planned midweek Masthead blog post topic changed rapidly, here are one of the reasons. In a non-MH LinkedIn group, the following image was posted. I posted in part the following: "Mindful that thousands in this field of affordable housing are tied to gov't programs, shouldn't we ask ourselves what causes the lack of affordable …
"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees." – Zapata “As the industry winds down, cornfields which became MHCs, will revert to cornfields. I predicted that years ago. How hard is it to understand that if one goes from 350,000 shipments to 50,000 annual shipments, rampant vacancy will be the …
Let's have some common sense reign in the four following points. 1) To sell a volume of manufactured homes, you need financing. 2) To sell homes that conform to the current regulatory environment, you will need to reach and sell more homes to people who have cash or good credit. 3) The lessons of successful …
