Happy New Year, 2012! When you look at: the recent rising trend in manufactured housing shipment reports, when you look at the fact that the 2012 Louisville Show could shatter last year's attendance record and you realize that home and other financing options are available or coming online that most would not have dreamed about in …
2012: the Manufactured Housing Industry’s Year of the Turnaround? Read More »
The buzz has begun. If you haven't seen this past weekend's blog post, you may want to check it out. There is more buzz going on, about: – 3 months of shipment increases, with the most recent being significant. – Louisville, where Clayton Homes has jumped in, and where pre-registrations indicate we will be up …
We started the adventure of MHProNews.com and MHMSM.com with the idea that properly used, Knowledge is Power. You and thousands of Industry Pros like you responded: Original image credit: Flickr creative commons When we made the transition a little over a month ago to our new MHProNews format, your response was so positive, …
Congress, GAO PLus Working Hard for your Success Read More »
National MH Issues, including Meeting of Successful Retailer's, focus on enhancing Business Growth We have two national manufactured and modular home topics to look at, and they are very much inter-related! The historic Drake Hotel in downtown Chicago is the source for one manufactured housing industry news item below, and Phoenix, AZ is …
In case you missed the previous Masthead blog post, I hope to see many of you this Sunday through Tuesday, as we do our Texas Two step. Catch more info at the link below. Texas Sized Tid-Bits The second of our pair of two steps will be moving our MHProNews.com (MHMSM.com) website next weekend …
A pair of Two Steps, first Texas and then Internet Style! Read More »
We will know in the coming months (14 or less) if Texas will be home to the next President of the United States. We know already that CEO Magazine rates Texas as a top “business friendly” state. Unemployment in Texas is lower than the national average. Of keen importance to us in manufactured housing, Texas …
The number of sign ups for Tweets, Connections (Facebook and/or LinkedIn) for our twice weekly e-mailed news updates grows steadily. These are all great ways to stay up to date with what is happening in manufactured and modular housing, as we Tweet updates and have these other tools to help you ‘stay connected.’ Sign up …
Mail Bag, Calls, Tweets, Connections, Glitches and MH News Read More »
It would be nice if we could share a manufactured housing news headline at MHMSM.com that read like this: MHI and MHARR Cooperate on Dodd-Frank with their Capitol Hill Resources We can’t give you that headline, which is the motivation for this column today. But we do need a truce between the Manufactured Housing Institute …
Can MHI and MHARR Join Hands on Dodd-Frank for Manufactured Housing’s Future? Read More »
We have read of late from Marty Lavin, Doug Gorman, industry lender Al Cole and here on this blog about the impact of Dodd-Frank on our Industry. Clearly we are not alone, as JPMorgan Chase’s leader recently sounded off on the negative economic impact Dodd Frank will have to the U.S. with Fed Chairman Ben …
Deal Making in Dodd-Frank’s Shadows over Manufactured Housing News Read More »
One of the advantages of publishing an electronic trade journal like www.MHMSM.com (aka www.MHProNews.com) is that over time, you built a list of experts as go-to resources on key topics. Some experts are writing columns for us monthly or periodically. Some you can see on my LinkedIn profile, but other experts and professionals are entirely …
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