The first time a lady listens to a man's 'sales pitch' at a bar, she may be beguiled. But after four years of hearing that same pitch from the same person, she ought to know if it rings true or if it rings hollow. My wife and I love our five and a half year …
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 …
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 …
A nice snapshot of the hospitality and class shown during my trip last week to New York would start at the airport. A limo from the resort was arranged for my pick up. The resort’s room was great, as was the view and the meeting facilities. At each stage, with each meal or meeting …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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This blog post will be somewhat like pieces for a jig saw puzzle; each piece can stand alone, but together it will form a picture. Let’s take piece one, a true tornado survival story. 1. They went into the bathroom of the partially underground lower level of their house. The tornado that hit the Merrill …
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The Business Insider headline “Don’t Show this to Warren Buffett…” was just one of many private or public messages that came into my email in the days following the IBISWorld Report that forecast the manufactured housing dealer as a ‘dying industry.’ Many calls came in on this and related topics in recent days as well. …
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I heard an interesting fact yesterday. In 1900 there were some 1800 carriage builders in the U.S. Today, only one of those firms survived – Fisher – and they did so by adapting, by changing with the times. Body by Fisher, now a branch of General Motors (GM), became famous and wealth followed. The horse-drawn …
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