Besides the rapidly approaching Louisville Show, all of our other duties, etc., we are swamped with the upcoming new December issue! The December 2014 featured articles will be live on the home page by close of business December 1, 2014. As always, here on the Masthead, you’ll find a handy, full run-down on the new …
As the headline implies, this brief intro to our monthly line-up of featured articles isn’t about environmental or energy policies, as important as each may be. Rather, we’re using a metaphor of releasing nuclear energy in a way that will be productive, or we risk energy that is destructive instead. Darlington Nuclear Generating Station – …
Nuclear November 2014 – Energy or Explosions for Manufactured Housing? Read More »
There are leaders of companies of all sizes involved in the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). Some are huge in MH, others as small as one person and all sizes in between. We routinely get questions related to MHI’s decisions, communications, actions or the seeming ‘absence of action’ which we’ll explore for the next few minutes. …
What is MHI’s and the Manufactured Housing Industry’s Leadership’s Strategy? Read More »
Before launching this commentary on fatigue, rebellion and resistance to Dodd-Frank, SAFE and their regulators, let’s state the obvious for the record. No where in manufactured housing trade journalism do you find more compliance-focused columns: be it Fair Housing, finance or other legal topics. We don’t have to agree with a law – like Dodd-Frank, …
Dodd-Frank Fatigue, Rebellion and Organized Resistance Read More »
Among the “great calls” was a respected CEO who told me that many issues in MH are so complex, it makes the eyes of lots of industry professionals glaze over. The caller asked me to keep things as simple as possible, so more ‘get it,’ and based upon improved understating, they can act properly. To …
CFPB, GAO, HUD, CFED and Manufactured Housing Industry Professionals Read More »
Years ago, a speaker said that without positive and negative polarity, you have no (…electric…) power. The truth is what it is. Some is good, some not good, or even ‘negative.’ When a commercial airline encounters turbulence, there are a few choices – change course, go higher or descend until it eases up. Here on …
Outstanding October, Trending Turbulence and Re-energizing Manufactured Housing! Read More »
Let’s look at something (1) national in scope that will be surprising to many, and then push on to (2) Manufactured Housing’s own “self-evident” truths. 1) Beginning with a quote: QUESTION: Which President said the following? (HINT: It was during his Second Inaugural Address.) “. . . each time we gather to inaugurate a president, …
The retail stores are already putting Christmas trees and holiday related goodies out. Congress is making their 2 week appearance in DC, to pass the CR (continuing resolution) and get some hearings and light work in, before heading home to campaign for the rapidly approaching November Elections. Manufactured housing pros are being told to expect …
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 …
We all have the right to our own opinions, but we don't have the right to make up our own facts. People sometimes say or do things that can be embarrassing or difficult to walk-back. Rather than 'fess up and try to make things right, at times a smoke screen is rolled out instead. There …
