The rear view mirror isn't our focus when we drive. But danger may lurk from behind when driving, so we ignore the rear view mirror at our own peril. Or as historian philosopher George Santayana said: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana A variation on Santayna's gem is this: Those who …
Multiple topics today, let's start with manufactured home financing, and move on from there. Financing An association executive thoughtfully updated me on the percentage of manufactured home loans being made via chattel financing. Personal property (chattel, home only) loans are now hovering in the 70-75% range of all manufactured home financing. This is up from …
When you promote the value and durability of our product, you are protecting and promoting yourself and our manufactured and modular home industry. Let's start the day with some quotes from Industry personalities you may know, and then wrap up with a few rapid fired points on protecting and promoting yourself in an enlightened fashion. …
Perhaps 'dual track' would be a better phrasing here than 'two step,' but sometimes you just have to have the headline that makes you smile, look and read. There has been behind the scenes whispers and words in the weeks since the late February MHI Legislative Session. Those whispers have been about an effort to …
Texas sells 1 out of 5 every new manufactured homes shipped in the United States. If you ask D. J. Pendleton why, he might modestly say that they are blessed with a better economy. That they have significant oil field activity. That the relationship with regulators is a good, professional one. All of this would …
I was speaking with a very successful manufactured home community owner and MH Retailer. We spent about an hour discussing a plan to advance home sales and profits. Near the end of the conversation, the owner said, “Tony, this means a change in the way that we do business.” I agreed, but asked, do you …
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Manufactured Home Community Operators! Manufactured Housing Retailers! Manufactured and Modular Builder/Developers! If there is only 1 event you can attend in 2012, make that one the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show. Why? It will provide you with THE Tools and Methods that will yield MORE home $ale$ in 2012. Learn more and read all about …
You don't have to be an economist to realize that the Christmas shopping season is off to a good start. My wife and I were among those millions who came to the pre-dawn (okay, midnight) Black Friday door buster blowouts. The line of shoppers waiting to check out in the middle of the …
If your bank account’s tummy is rumbling. If your accountant is telling you tis time to stop tumbling. If your significant other and team members say, things are not quite okay. Or if you simply want to grow and improve, come to where the action will be to start 2012 – In Louisville Kentucky! …
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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