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 …
Let me start by inviting you to take a good look at this Industry Voices guest blog post by a seasoned West Coast MH Business owner, entitled, Will we catch the Tsunami? If you haven’t read it yet, please do. Yes, now, before proceeding. Done? Glad to have you back. As you can see John …
No, I've not turned 36 (again…and again and, okay, you get the picture). But the HUD Code went into effect 36 years ago, on this date! How many of you are ready to celebrate this industry birthday…or anniversary…of manufactured housing? Reader's Digest has run a department in their magazine for years, using the theme …
We've all heard from the media that apartments have high occupancy since the conventional mortgage/housing bubble burst. The area of construction that often dominates the conventional housing news is multi-family rentals, ie: apartments. Still, apartments experience turn-over, and the multi-family pros have a strategy they are using to enhance retention and increase referrals. When this …
What Apartment Pros Do to Enhance Retention; Implications for Manufactured Housing Read More »
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 …
What follows may seem counter-intuitive at first. Pain is natural, necessary and can be good. Pain is a signal in the body or mind that something is awry. That something needs 'fixing' or attention. We tend to avoid pain and run from it. But in fact, the solution almost always involves embracing the pain. One …
As full disclosure, I've not (yet) read the book that the World Over Live discussion I am about to share introduced me to recently. But the interview plus the Washington Times book review of the new volume by Arthur Brooks, Road to Freedom, How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise, certainly piqued my interest. …
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 …
Elements for Manufactured Home Industry Breakthrough Read More »
For anyone who has been in a delivery room, you already know what the final stage of the birthing process is like. Birth involves pain. New birth is also excitement, joy, fear and a host of other emotions. When one speaks of a re-birth, Nicodemus' famous question "How can a man be born again?" could …
"Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York." – William Shakespeare, in Richard III The meaning of this phrase, the winter of our discontent, is "The time of unhappiness is past." http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/261500.html Shakespeare knew how to create a character that spoke to his audience, and how to fashion a …
