“You can’t please all of the people, all of the time,” is more than a maxim, it’s reality. Once you’ve published person A, person B asks, “why not Me?” Cover topic X, someone wonders, “why not Y and Z?” Let’s talk tempests, teapots, transparency and transcendence in Manufactured Housing (MH) news and commentary. Tempest in …
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The Appleton, WI Post-Crescent pointed out a state issue with national MH Industry implications. Pittsville Homes shut down operations this summer after 40 years of building modular homes. The steep drop in manufactured and modular home sales in WI was the theme of the Post-Crescent report. The Wisconsin Housing Alliance’s (WHA) Amy Bliss nobly put …
Post Crescent – Factory-Built Home Industry Struggles, and National Concerns Read More »
It isn’t perfect and the challenges are far from easy, but America is a good place. Something similar can be said about the manufactured housing (MH) industry. Not perfect, numerous challenges, solid opportunities and MH is the best value in new home construction. Warren Buffett doesn’t skim, he reads. He reportedly reads a lot! Setting …
Warren Buffett, financing, #6 – dropping a dime – to FEDs on a Big One? Read More »
We wrap up some tests and this month with some off the record quotes about some of the news stories that we covered the week ending 8.30.2014. About the story of LandSea, a reportedly green Chinese industrialized housing firm coming to the U.S. with plans to invest $1 billion here in housing projects, this comment …
While good or helpful MH news stories are growing in number, why are we still so often the housing of last resort? Ignorance and poor experiences are “the Twins” holding factory-crafted home builders, retailers, developers, communities and all who service and supply them from reaching new record sales levels. These “Negative MH Twins” exist among …
Don’t miss out on opportunitie$ all around you! We hear from a variety of manufactured housing professionals, that too many MHPros are under-informed about the multi-billion dollar potential implications of the local, regional or national news we see or hear daily. So for the next week – 8 days – while Matthew Silver is …
Eye Opening, 8 day Manufactured Housing “Opportunitie$ in the News” Test Read More »
There are times when industry veterans understandably ask us one or more elements of the following, given the: U.S./Mexico border crisis, the “recession,” the FEDs pumping dollars into the system to keep stocks and the economy going, Ferguson – MO, China, Russia, ISIS and radical Isalmists, drug wars, the war on coal, DC gridlock, an …
The Big Picture, MH Puzzle Pieces and More New Manufactured Housing Home Shows? Read More »
The following 7 bullets are all actual headlines, a small sampling of their kind from this week. Suspected arsonist charged in car, mobile home fire HEMET: Son charged in parents’ deaths at mobile home park Armed woman barricaded at Castaic mobile home park Boy struck after trio flees mobile home park Des Moines trailer fire …
MH Death and Disaster, It’s The Other Image Campaign Read More »
We all do it. Mistakes have been, are and will be made daily. Even billionaires make them, but what sets them apart from us (besides their account balances) is the fact they strive to learn from mistakes. It’s obvious from our eMail bag and calls that some of you love Marty Lavin and his witty …
The Panama Canal impacts your life on a routine basis, even when you don’t realize it. Wikipedia says that in 2008, 14,702 vessels went through the canal, carrying a total of 309.6 million tons of cargo. That cargo includes the clothes, electronics, coffee, tea and others products in grocery, department stores or sold online. No …
