{"id":14889,"date":"2018-08-09T07:33:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com\/blogs\/tonykovach\/?p=14889"},"modified":"2019-01-31T21:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T03:58:30","slug":"feds-mhi-buffetts-berkshires-clayton-homes-moat-affordable-housing-and-billion-in-manufactured-home-market-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/feds-mhi-buffetts-berkshires-clayton-homes-moat-affordable-housing-and-billion-in-manufactured-home-market-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"FEDs, MHI, Buffett\u2019s Berkshire\u2019s Clayton Homes Moat, Affordable Housing, and Billion$ in Manufactured Home Market Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div id=\"manuf-2029972622\" class=\"manuf-content manuf-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3870480136270376\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3870480136270376\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14892\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FEDsBuffettsBerkshireClaytonHomesMoatManufacturedHousingInstituteMHIBillionsMarketManipulationAllegedMHProNews.jpg\" alt=\"FEDsBuffettsBerkshireClaytonHomesMoatManufacturedHousingInstituteMHIBillionsMarketManipulationAllegedMHProNews\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For billions of souls who believe, since the time Cain killed his brother Able, history records how dark emotions and desires have motivated some to harm or dominate others.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In manufactured housing, Terry Decio with Skyline quipped on camera \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><b>I\u2019m tired of being the best kept secret, I\u2019m ready to help house America<\/b><\/span>.\u201d Terry\u2019s father Art was on the cover of <i>Time Magazine<\/i>, and in a good way. <i>MHProNews<\/i> has reminded readers that American Presidents like Nixon and Ford have at times spoken and acted favorably toward our factory buIlt-home industry. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14367\" style=\"width: 532px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14367\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TimeMagazineTerryDecioManufacturedHomeLivingNews.jpg\" alt=\"TimeMagazineTerryDecioManufacturedHomeLivingNews\" width=\"532\" height=\"339\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> The Decio family had Art on the cover of Time Magazine decades ago, the industry improved, so what happened to the MH Industry since then? <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So how could it be that during a growing affordable housing crisis, that the numbers of manufactured homes (MH) shipped are just a fraction of the glory days when the industry shipped north of 372,000 new homes one year in 1998?\u00a0 Or the even more inflation-adjusted prosperous days when the pre-HUD Code MH industry was selling more than 500,000 new homes in two consecutive years?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14894\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14894\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ScholasticCororatonFigure1MobileManufacturedHomeSalesSHipmentsVsExistingingNewHouseSalesManufacturedHousingiinudstryDataMHProNews-575x232.jpg\" alt=\"ScholasticCororatonFigure1MobileManufacturedHomeSalesSHipmentsVsExistingingNewHouseSalesManufacturedHousingiinudstryDataMHProNews\" width=\"575\" height=\"232\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> Realtor University, Scholastica &#8216;Gay&#8217; Cororaton, CBE. <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14895\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14895 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MostMenAppearnNeverConsideredWhatHouseIsNeedlesslyPoorAllTheirLivesHenryDavidThoreauManufacturedHomeLivingNews-558x430.jpg\" alt=\"MostMenAppearnNeverConsideredWhatHouseIsNeedlesslyPoorAllTheirLivesHenryDavidThoreauManufacturedHomeLivingNews\" width=\"558\" height=\"430\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> Each photo is of a modern manufactured home, which can be some 2400 sq\u00a0 ft or more in size, 1 or 2 levels, set over a basement, or can be as modest as 320 sq ft. These homes are built to federal construction, energy, and safety standards that went into effect on June 15, 1976.\u00a0 They are administered (regulated) primarily by HUD, and are thus known as &#8220;HUD Code Manufactured Homes.&#8221; <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Media, Money, Government, and Market Manipulation <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stephenie Meyer once observed, \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><b>Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that&#8217;s in plain sight<\/b><\/span>,\u201d per <i>Goodreads<\/i>. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s a matter of history and fact that the interaction of media, money, government officials, and market manipulations have occurred in the U.S. &#8211; or any nation you care to mention &#8211; going back several centuries. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Even before the <i>Seattle Times<\/i> reported that federal investigators are probing Clayton Homes and their subsidiarity lenders &#8211; Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, and 21st Mortgage Corp &#8211; those Knoxville metro business units of Warren Buffett\u2019s Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway were known by this publisher to be under federal investigation. We had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/post-charlottesville-cfas-hunts-evidence-of-racism-steering-predatory-lending-against-buffetts-clayton-homes-vanderbilt-mortgage-and-21st-mortgage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already reported federal investigations on the <i>Daily Business News<\/i><\/a> on <i>MHProNews<\/i>. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But it is quite likely that the <i>Seattle Times <\/i>knew of some investigations that we didn\u2019t, and vice-versa. While we\u2019re the most read trade media by far in MHVille, the <i>Seattle Times<\/i> budget and resources blows us away.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That\u2019s reality.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kevin Clayton said in his own fashion that Berkshire\/Clayton likes to use and work with nonprofits. Do certain Google searches, and the video of Kevin Clayton posted below is among what pops up on page one.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The video below edits not a word Kevin spoke, but written commentary was added by <i>MHProNews <\/i>to the video interview originally commissioned\/authorized by Clayton\/Berkshire. So, that video is also the truth hiding in plain sight.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/254350462\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span class=\"mce_SELRES_start\" style=\"width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For a variety of reasons, Harvard\u2019s Eric Belsky predicted that manufactured housing would overtake conventional on-site construction by 2010. Belsky was wrong on that projection, why? Because Warren Buffett is a smart man &#8211; Kevin Clayton said so in the video &#8211; and Buffett reads a lot. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Buffett arguably came to the same conclusion Belsky did. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Would it have been a surprise if Buffett knew what Belsky wrote, before buying Clayton Homes and other parts of the manufactured home industry? Didn\u2019t Kevin Clayton obliquely suggests as much in the video, when he said that \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Warren<\/strong><\/span>\u201d does his homework?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that what Buffett suggests himself, in this next video?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/260479563\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span class=\"mce_SELRES_start\" style=\"width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That\u2019s the truth hiding in plain sight, online, among billions of other items. So, you or any researcher only has to look to find it. Or once found, to cross check the data we provide, and verify the accuracy of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What Harvard\u2019s Belsky likely didn\u2019t count on when he said manufactured housing would overtake conventional housing in new construction by 2010, was that Buffett\u2019s Berkshire would buy Clayton, Oakwood, Vanderbilt and 21st, and use \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>the Moat<\/strong><\/span>\u201d principle discussed and linked from herein to manipulate the market.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As the HUD Code manufactured home industry had been sliding downhill for some 5 years by that time, the new combination made Clayton Homes number one in MHVille, with deep capital pockets Kevin speaks about on camera. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Buffett explains his principle of the strategic \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Moat<\/strong><\/span>\u201d in his own words in the video above. Notice how often Kevin Clayton speaks about the &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Moat<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; in his video too? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That\u2019s the truth hiding in plain sight.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Belsky also noted that credit is the lifeblood of housing. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Presidents Nixon and Ford knew that credit was critical for affordable housing too. They took steps to make more financing available for what was then \u201cmobile home\u201d buyers. That took place prior to the formal dawn of HUD Code manufactured homes, which occurred on June 15,1976. All that\u2019s true, easy to document, and is hiding in plain sight.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14297\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14297 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MultipleReasonsExpectManufacturedHousingDoBetterThanSiteBuiltHousingEricBelskyEecDirJointCenterHousingStudiesHarvardUnivDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews-575x241.jpg\" alt=\"MultipleReasonsExpectManufacturedHousingDoBetterThanSiteBuiltHousingEricBelskyEecDirJointCenterHousingStudiesHarvardUnivDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews\" width=\"575\" height=\"241\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> Why does MHI no longer reference this, as they did prior to Clayton Homes being bought by Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway?\u00a0<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the Record<\/span><\/span><\/b><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\u2019ve previously published numerous examples of what could logically be alleged as market manipulations, carried out by the Arlington, VA based Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). Isn\u2019t that a restraint of trade? An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/MHImanufacturedhousinginstituteANTITRUST-INSTRUCTIONS-WARNINGpostedMHProNewsAnalysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">antitrust violation<\/a>?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Voices within manufactured housing and outside observers alike have concluded that MHI is the association\/nonprofit tool of Omaha. It fits what Kevin said about nonprofits on that video.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are Warren and Kevin, how do you widen your \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Moat<\/strong><\/span>?\u201d Why not do that by cutting off lending to competitors during the aftermath of the drama of the 2008 mortgage housing crisis?<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why not do that by U.S. Mail, fax or other intestate communications? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Need proof? How about this letter below, signed by Tim Williams of 21st, a Berkshire Hathaway sister company to Clayton Homes? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14899\" style=\"width: 532px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/smoking-gun-3-warren-buffett-kevin-clayton-clayton-homes-21st-mortgage-corp-tim-williams-manufactured-home-lending-sales-grab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14899 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/21stMortgageCorpLogoLetterheadJan302009TimWilliamsRetailersBrokersCutSpecifiedLendingMonopolisticConcernManufacturedHome.jpg\" alt=\"21stMortgageCorpLogoLetterheadJan302009TimWilliamsRetailersBrokersCutSpecifiedLendingMonopolisticConcernManufacturedHome\" width=\"532\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> See key parts of the text from Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter that contradicts important elements of what this 21st Mortgage Corp letter claims. Click this link here for those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/smoking-gun-3-warren-buffett-kevin-clayton-clayton-homes-21st-mortgage-corp-tim-williams-manufactured-home-lending-sales-grab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffett quotations, taken in context<\/a>. <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What was the impact and fallout that followed that 21st letter? What did it accomplish in the manufactured home market? <\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read carefully all the facts, and then what MHI\u2019s own document deductively suggests. Isn\u2019t that all the truth, hiding in plain sight?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14593\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/MHI-21stMortgageKevinClaytonClaytonHomesManufacturedHoomeCorporationsPlantsDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews_001-e1533812781833.jpg\" alt=\"MHI-21stMortgageKevinClaytonClaytonHomesManufacturedHoomeCorporationsPlantsDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews_001\" width=\"600\" height=\"577\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14901\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14901\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ClaytonHomesOakwoodHomesBerkshireHathawayMarketShareofManufacturedHousingEndof2003MHanufacturedHousingIndust.png\" alt=\"ClaytonHomesOakwoodHomesBerkshireHathawayMarketShareofManufacturedHousingEndof2003MHanufacturedHousingIndust\" width=\"597\" height=\"298\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Clayton Homes, 2003. After the Buffett Berkshire Buyout. <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These graphics reflect what the facts reveal. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14902\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14902\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ClaytonHomesBerkshireHathawayMarketShareofManufacturedHousingEndof2011MHanufacturedHousingIndustryProNews.png\" alt=\"ClaytonHomesBerkshireHathawayMarketShareofManufacturedHousingEndof2011MHanufacturedHousingIndustryProNews\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> This graphic is a snapshot of the industry at about the time of the Kevin Clayton video, posted on this page. In that video, Kevin says what &#8220;Warren&#8221; teaches about competition and the Moat. <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14904\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14904 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ClaytonHomesBerkshireHathawayMarketShareofManufacturedHousingEnd2017MHanufacturedHousingIndustryProNews.jpg\" alt=\"ClaytonHomesBerkshireHathawayMarketShareofManufacturedHousingEnd2017MHanufacturedHousingIndustryProNews\" width=\"605\" height=\"315\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> While several mainstream media allegations of monoplistic practices have been made against Clayton Homes and Berkshire Hathaway, <b>this trade publication is the only one known to date to have produced documentary evidence.<\/b>\u00a0 The documents, quotes from Buffett, Kevin Clayton and others reveals their own stated practices, and how that plays out in the real world. Neither Berkshire brands in MH, nor MHI has attempted to refute or debate these allegations or concerns, though they&#8217;ve been given the opportunity, as long-time industry readers know<\/i>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\u2019ve shown the above 21st document to investigators. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14906\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14906\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ClaytonHomesSkylineChampionCavcoIndustriesBalanceofIndustryManufacturedHousingIndustryConsolidationGraphicPieChartMHProNews-e.jpg\" alt=\"ClaytonHomesSkylineChampionCavcoIndustriesBalanceofIndustryManufacturedHousingIndustryConsolidationGraphicPieChartMHProNews-e\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> One reason so few are willing to speak out publicly on this issue is that they don&#8217;t want to be the next in line for disappearing as an independent business. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/how-gold-rules-tim-williams-21st-mortgage-mhi-vp-state-execs-conference-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fear is what state association executives and others have told us holds them in check<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We also know that some in the mainstream media are looking into this topic. But the timing of other reports, or investigators on such matters being made public is never a given.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Buffett has said he likes to invest in businesses that make sense.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t what&#8217;s summarized below, one of the reasons manufactured housing made sense to Buffett?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/fresh-facts-figures-future-of-affordable-housing-comparisons-conventional-site-built-v-mobile-manufactured-home-industry-data\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14908\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/SoTheAssociationMHIIsNotThereFortheIndustryUnlesstheinterestsoftheBigBoysJointheIndustrysMartyLavinMHIAwardWinnerQuoteMHProNe-e1533813590112.jpg\" alt=\"SoTheAssociationMHIIsNotThereFortheIndustryUnlesstheinterestsoftheBigBoysJointheIndustrysMartyLavinMHIAwardWinnerQuoteMHProNe\" width=\"600\" height=\"221\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Democrats and Republicans alike are voicing concerns over monopolies, and some are pointing to Clayton and Buffett by name. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/progressive-nation-reports-on-monopolies-cites-buffett-clayton-others-mh-industry-impact\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But they have not yet used these specific \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>smoking gun<\/strong><\/span>\u201d documents &#8211; nor the videos &#8211; shown on this page. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To the mainstream media, these 21st letters are &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>news<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Look carefully at the linked article below, and you will see how Warren Buffett\u2019s own words contradicted 21st\u2019s Tim Williams &#8211; who served several years as the chairman of MHI &#8211; and his letter, shown above. That 21st letter by Williams was at best a half-truth, or debatably, a manipulative lie.\u00a0 Sent in the aftermath of the mortgage credit meltdown, it was plausible to may of those reading it. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The result? \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Consolidation<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 The Berkshire\/Clayton Moat grew. See the graphics above. People arguably have suffered as a direct result.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/smoking-gun-3-warren-buffett-kevin-clayton-clayton-homes-21st-mortgage-corp-tim-williams-manufactured-home-lending-sales-grab\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\u2019ve given Tim Williams, Kevin Clayton, their attorney, and MHI and their inside and outside counsel opportunities to reply, rebut or refute the claims, concerns and allegations of market manipulation that arguably involve them in antitrust and other kinds of illegal activities. So far, silence.\u00a0 if <em>MHProNews<\/em> was wrong, why not refute us?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When MHI\u2019s President, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/busted-failure-bonus-paid-richard-dick-jennison-ceo-manufactured-housing-institute-per-mhi-document\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard \u201cDick\u201d Jennison<\/a> was scheduled to speak at the Louisville Show earlier this year, we emailed to our thousands of industry readers that morning a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/the-top-twelve-questions-for-manufactured-housing-institute-mhi-ceo-richard-dick-jennison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12 questions they should ask Jennison<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jennison abruptly cancelled that long-planned appearance in the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show&#8217;s\u00a0 &#8216;educational&#8217; session. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But MHI&#8217;s president was photographed at the Louisville Show, feverishly speaking on his cell phone with somebody, <strong>during the time he was supposed to be on stage.<\/strong> Who was on the other end of that phone call? Will the Feds do what it takes to find out?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/busted-failure-bonus-paid-richard-dick-jennison-ceo-manufactured-housing-institute-per-mhi-document\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14910\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/RichardDickJennisonManufacturedHousingInstituteMHIPresidentCEOLouisvilleManufacturedHomeShowByClaytonHomesDispalyPhoto2018MHProNews-e1533813810203.jpg\" alt=\"RichardDickJennisonManufacturedHousingInstituteMHIPresidentCEOLouisvilleManufacturedHomeShowByClaytonHomesDispalyPhoto2018MHProNews\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The irony is that MHI and Berkshire Brand team members own behaviors essentially <em>pushed<\/em> this writer into discovering the truth hiding in plain sight. Questions and comments to me from industry members kept piling up, forcing this writer to take another look, a deeper dive. Among those that began to trigger my concerns were these publicly stated points, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/frank-rolfe-bob-crawford-video-comments-on-current-and-new-mh-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linked here<\/a>. Among many others, was this comment shown below, also made publicly to <em>MHProNews<\/em> as part of an interview.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14912\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/KennyLipschutzQuotePoorJobOfLobbyinginMHIndustry-postedMHProNews48thMHINCClist.jpg\" alt=\"KennyLipschutzQuotePoorJobOfLobbyinginMHIndustry-postedMHProNews48thMHINCClist\" width=\"515\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They and others know it took me time to wake up; my apologies for my tardiness.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Because I was slow, I can relate to why others may be slow to accept reality too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/new-manufactured-home-industry-national-association-related-statements\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This helps shed light on the following question. How was it possible that so many outside of MHVille &#8211; HUD Code manufactured housing (MH) land, or the thousands of industry professionals like Terry Decio &#8211; <strong>how could the clear need for manufactured homes become so obscured?\u00a0 <\/strong>Is it because MHI won&#8217;t routinely clear up the record on modern manufactured home realities?\u00a0 The examples of unaddressed issues by MHI are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/insulting-local-news-report-on-mobile-home-fire-underscores-why-terminology-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">numerous<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14913\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/fresh-facts-figures-future-of-affordable-housing-comparisons-conventional-site-built-v-mobile-manufactured-home-industry-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14913\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MobileManufacturedHomeManufacturedHousingIndustryFactsDataResearch-445x768.jpg\" alt=\"MobileManufacturedHomeManufacturedHousingIndustryFactsDataResearch-445x768\" width=\"445\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> Some key manufactured home industry facts at a glance. How is it possible that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/fresh-facts-figures-future-of-affordable-housing-comparisons-conventional-site-built-v-mobile-manufactured-home-industry-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MHI can&#8217;t even get all the basics of the MH data correct<\/a>? <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Presidents Nixon and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/u-s-president-praised-the-mobile-home-industry-manufactured-homes-are-here-to-stay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ford<\/a> knew the pre-HUD Code MH industry, and supported it. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Federal studies, university level research, and insurance reports going back at least twenty years specifically said that manufactured home quality had evolved from the days of &#8216;trailer houses&#8217; and the later &#8216;mobile home&#8217; era.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/why-advocates-need-to-rethink-manufactured-home-quality-harvard-gse-genz-high-satisfaction\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vice Mike Pence knows this industry well, say our sources. Because as Governor of Indiana, Pence knew modern manufactured homes, and RVs, both built in that state.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HUD Secretary Ben Carson says he hears the manufactured home industry, Carson has publicly promised a new era of cooperation. All that and more is the truth hiding in plain sight. Additional details are in the report linked, and heavily cross referenced, found below.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/thou-shall-not-steal-2-trillion-annually-lost-to-lack-of-affordable-homes-making-the-manufactured-home-case\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What that article above, and the one linked below, reveals is the harm that market manipulation has debatably cost everyday Americans, federal, state, and local taxpayers. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/fear-a-solution-to-the-affordable-housing-crisis-and-the-manufactured-home-dilemma\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Secretary Ben Carson, Brian Montgomery, and Dana Wade at HUD are among those that should be aware of the &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>enhanced preemption<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; that\u2019s called for by existing federal law with respect to manufactured housing over local jurisdictions. The <i>Washington Post<\/i> obliquely noted how the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) pushed for an end to regulatory abuses by one Pam Danner at HUD. MHI SVP Lesli Gooch at MHI admitted to the <em>Washington Post<\/em> that they did not make an effort to stop Danner&#8217;s overreaches. Why not? Isn\u2019t that the truth about MHI, now hiding in plain sight?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/greener-stylish-manufactured-homes-hidden-facts-in-the-washington-post-manufactured-housing-narrative\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The applied logic of the two NBER researchers linked below is this. A lack of affordable cost the nation trillions.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Local zoning is the apparent headache.\u00a0 But when 99 percent plus of Americans don&#8217;t know about the enhanced preemption of manufactured homes under federal law, the obvious solution is overlooked. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When millions don&#8217;t realize the quality, they only consider the stereotypes, fear and prejudice kick in.\u00a0 Thus the failure to embrace the reality of manufactured homes vs. the outdated myths and misconceptions of the past costs America some $2 trillion dollars a year in lost GDP.\u00a0 While they aren&#8217;t talking about MH, that\u2019s the NBER researchers logic, when applied to our misunderstood and maligned industry.\u00a0 Put differently, there is no need to pass new laws.\u00a0 The federal laws already needed to cure the affordable housing crisis have been on the books for years.\u00a0 HUD officials surely know about it.\u00a0 When their review of the manufactured housing program is complete, will they apply what they know, and fix these issues?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14914\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/yimby-vs-nimby-obama-admin-concept-could-unlock-1-95-trillion-annually-hud-mh-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14914\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Past25YearsHousingConstraintsChangTaiHsiehUChicagoEnricoMorettiUCBerkely-ManufacturedHomeProNews.jpg\" alt=\"Past25YearsHousingConstraintsChangTaiHsiehUChicagoEnricoMorettiUCBerkely-ManufacturedHomeProNews\" width=\"598\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/yimby-vs-nimby-obama-admin-concept-could-unlock-1-95-trillion-annually-hud-mh-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Business News report on that topic, at this link here<\/a>. <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14916\" style=\"width: 715px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/researchers-shake-up-american-dream-rent-vs-buy-ken-johnson-florida-atlantic-university-exclusive-to-manufacturedhomelivingnews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14916\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IthinkFairSawLowerThePeriodicCostSatisfactoryHousingTheGreaterOnAverageWealthCreation.jpg\" alt=\"IthinkFairSawLowerThePeriodicCostSatisfactoryHousingTheGreaterOnAverageWealthCreation\" width=\"715\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> Ken Johnson provided this as part of his reply when asked about manufactured homes as a path to personal wealth creation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/researchers-shake-up-american-dream-rent-vs-buy-ken-johnson-florida-atlantic-university-exclusive-to-manufacturedhomelivingnews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/researchers-shake-up-american-dream-rent-vs-buy-ken-johnson-florida-atlantic-university-exclusive-to-manufacturedhomelivingnews\/<\/a> <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rephrasing the Truth<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rephrased, if Secretary Carson, VP Mike Pence, and the Trump Administration simply apply existing laws, our nation\u2019s economy will soar. Home ownership will rise.\u00a0 The need for subsidized housing will fall.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That will occur naturally, without artificial stimulation, because the lack of affordable housing is choking off the nation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/239019639\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The future of housing in America, and around the world, is found in factories. Almost everything else we as a nation do is from a production center or factory. Why not housing?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/238597068\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The steady pressure of the truth hiding in plain sight, thanks to the tips and support of the few forward thinkers in this industry, has made it possible for manufactured homes to have a potential breakthrough moment. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14917\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NAR_RU_JournalRealEstateStudiesVol6May2018TheMarketforManufacturedHoumesP48ScholasticaGayDCorroatonCBEDailyBusinessNewsMHProNEws.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14917 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/CompareMobileHomeTrailersPastManufacturedHomesSaferMoreDurableQuoteScholasticiaGayCororationPhotoSmallPercentageDamagedDuring.jpg\" alt=\"CompareMobileHomeTrailersPastManufacturedHomesSaferMoreDurableQuoteScholasticiaGayCororationPhotoSmallPercentageDamagedDuring\" width=\"598\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>Starting at Page 48, see her 30 page report on manufactured homes,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NAR_RU_JournalRealEstateStudiesVol6May2018TheMarketforManufacturedHoumesP48ScholasticaGayDCorroatonCBEDailyBusinessNewsMHProNEws.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> linked here<\/a>. Please watch her footnotes. <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scholastica \u2018Gay\u2019 Cororaton at the National Association of Realtors (R), among others, has made it possible for long-obscured realities to come into sharper focus. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But the truth is that Lisa Tyler, Ph.D., tried to spotlight much of this years before, when she did her doctoral dissertation on manufactured homes. I personally tried to get MHI to spotlight Tyler\u2019s work several times. Tyler&#8217;s was useful research for the industry. Why didn\u2019t MHI give Tyler&#8217;s important work a boost? Or the time of day?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14919\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14919\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DrLisaTylerHousingSolutionInexpensiveEnergyEfficientGreatValueOpportuntiesObsticlesManufacturedHomeIndustryMHLivingNewsDailyB.jpg\" alt=\"DrLisaTylerHousingSolutionInexpensiveEnergyEfficientGreatValueOpportuntiesObsticlesManufacturedHomeIndustryMHLivingNewsDailyB\" width=\"593\" height=\"206\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> See the related report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/pride-and-prejudice-the-truth-about-manufactured-home-communities-and-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linked here<\/a>. <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Open market manipulation can be described as a kind of confidence (con) game. With that thought in mind, the following quote from <i>American Thinker<\/i> seems to apply. \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><b>Never let your con grown stale. Never give up the con<\/b><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"RU\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"> It\u2019s a different topic than ours, and like this next quote from the <i>Tucson Weekly, <\/i>both seem to apply.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><b>Through speaking with his fellow inmates, he distilled the four major aspects of the criminal enterprise: 1, Develop a plan; 2, Recruit; 3, Make the pitch; 4, If caught, always deny, never give up the con<\/b><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Rajin\u2019 Cajun<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d Bill Clinton campaign wizard James Carville obviously demeaned millions of Americans, while using a slur to distract from the sexual-scandal-plagued woes of his boss when he said, \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><b>Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you&#8217;ll find<\/b><\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MHI&#8217;s prior chairman admitted that there were good reasons to defend the industry against such slurs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14649\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TimWilliamsMediaRelationsManufacturedHousingIndustryDailyBuisnessNewsMHProNews-500x277.jpg\" alt=\"TimWilliamsMediaRelationsManufacturedHousingIndustryDailyBuisnessNewsMHProNews-500x277\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But they routinely don&#8217;t defend the industry. It&#8217;s an oblique kind of open manipulation of people and thinking that\u2019s oft repeated. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13826\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/frank-rolfe-blasts-mhi-for-poor-media-engagement-industry-reactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13826\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FrankRolfeNegativeArticlesOnIndustryNoCommentbyManufacturedHousingInstituteMHIRVHorizonsMobleHomeUniversityPostedDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews.png\" alt=\"FrankRolfeNegativeArticlesOnIndustryNoCommentbyManufacturedHousingInstituteMHIRVHorizonsMobleHomeUniversityPostedDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews\" width=\"593\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FrankRolfeNegativeArticlesOnIndustryNoCommentbyManufacturedHousingInstituteMHIRVHorizonsMobleHomeUniversityPostedDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews.png 802w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FrankRolfeNegativeArticlesOnIndustryNoCommentbyManufacturedHousingInstituteMHIRVHorizonsMobleHomeUniversityPostedDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews-150x34.png 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FrankRolfeNegativeArticlesOnIndustryNoCommentbyManufacturedHousingInstituteMHIRVHorizonsMobleHomeUniversityPostedDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews-575x132.png 575w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FrankRolfeNegativeArticlesOnIndustryNoCommentbyManufacturedHousingInstituteMHIRVHorizonsMobleHomeUniversityPostedDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews-768x176.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/frank-rolfe-blasts-mhi-for-poor-media-engagement-industry-reactions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/frank-rolfe-blasts-mhi-for-poor-media-engagement-industry-reactions\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That derogatory prejudicial slur has kept manufactured homes wrongfully in the shadows for so long. So why didn\u2019t MHI address that prejudice over and over, like the NAACP did racism? Surely all those smart people at MHI with all of their degrees know that every once in a while, an advertorial about the industry or social media pages aren\u2019t enough.\u00a0 The irony is that most of the negative stories, about fires and what not, are about older pre-HUD Code mobile homes. Today&#8217;s manufactured homes are statistically as safe as conventional housing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/keeping-the-home-fires-from-burning-fire-safety-and-the-modern-manufactured-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per the NFPA<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The point is that MHI could simply reply, as prior MHI Chairman Williams admitted. But as MHI member Frank Rolfe has repeatedly complained, instead, MHI remains silent. It&#8217;s a subtle way of letting the industry struggle, while Berkshire brands and other &#8216;insiders&#8217; consolidate large parts of the industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14582\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FollowTheMoneyPayMoreAttentionToWhatPeopleDoThanWhatTheySayMartyLavin6MillionYachtManufacturedHousingIndustryDailyBusinessNews600.png\" alt=\"FollowTheMoneyPayMoreAttentionToWhatPeopleDoThanWhatTheySayMartyLavin6MillionYachtManufacturedHousingIndustryDailyBusinessNews600\" width=\"563\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FollowTheMoneyPayMoreAttentionToWhatPeopleDoThanWhatTheySayMartyLavin6MillionYachtManufacturedHousingIndustryDailyBusinessNews600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FollowTheMoneyPayMoreAttentionToWhatPeopleDoThanWhatTheySayMartyLavin6MillionYachtManufacturedHousingIndustryDailyBusinessNews600-150x90.png 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/FollowTheMoneyPayMoreAttentionToWhatPeopleDoThanWhatTheySayMartyLavin6MillionYachtManufacturedHousingIndustryDailyBusinessNews600-575x345.png 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Millions are being denied the American Dream, because of openly used influence, information manipulation, pejoratives that yield prejudice, finance and regulatory abuses.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Couple that\u2019s with years of a failures to apply existing federal laws. Do the $2 trillion dollar math. This tragedy is costing the average American household some 24k in lost GDP annually.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rephrased, monopolistic \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Moat<\/strong><\/span>\u201d manipulations by billionaires and multi-billion dollar entities have cost American trillions a year in lost productivity. These issues ought to be placed on center stage during the next 90 days. They must be kept in the national limelight long after the next election, until the issues are finally fixed. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/seattle-times-federal-investigations-berkshire-hathaways-clayton-homes-gurufocus-spotlights-buffetts-claytons-unethical-monopolistic-moat\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earning an honest buck, I truly admire. Earning billions honestly and ethically is fine too. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But please don\u2019t manipulate hundreds of millions of people, and cost your nation trillions in the process, all to make several billion dollars a year in sales. Once understood, who can abide by that kind of costly white-collar con?\u00a0 Where&#8217;s Equal Justice Under Law?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14923\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14923 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WarrenBuffettTheMoatQuoteMemeManufacturedHousingIndustryDailyBusinessNEwsMHProNEws.jpg\" alt=\"WarrenBuffettTheMoatQuoteMemeManufacturedHousingIndustryDailyBusinessNEwsMHProNEws\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i> Buffett&#8217;s own words, the graphic is by the third party shown at the bottom left. The truth has been hiding in plain sight, but the various threads &#8211; plus the documents and videos above &#8211; had to be pulled together to paint the complete picture. <\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, industry pros should not expect anyone in Arlington, Knoxville, or Omaha to confess. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But we already have what &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Kevin<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Warren<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; have said on videos posted above.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve explained in their own words key parts of the moat and how its used to throttle competition. Marry that up with the balance of the facts and evidence. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The odds are that they will never willingly give up the con of a system they\u2019ve debatably rigged and manipulated. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/the-solution-to-the-affordable-housing-crisis-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solution to the affordable housing crisis,<\/a> it\u2019s the apparent truth hiding in plain sight. We\u2019ve alleged it, we provided the evidence others first gave to us. We&#8217;ve given Berkshire&#8217;s brands and MHI an opportunity to publicly debate it, or refute it. <i>MHProNews<\/i> laid out the logic of evidence and the facts. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now, what will you do with this knowledge? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Because if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/they-did-it-before-sunday-morning-manufactured-home-industry-news-headline-recap-july-aug-5-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they did it before<\/a>, what\u2019s to keep them from doing it again? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cain killed his brother Able out of mere jealousy. Some have scammed others since nearly the beginning of time. May God help us all. \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>We Provide, You Decide<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d <span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a9<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span> ## (News, analysis, and commentary.)<\/p>\n<p>(Third-party images and content are provided under fair use guidelines.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14496 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/FactoryBuiltCarsClothingAppliancesElectronicsCellsSmartPhonesHomesItJustFollowsLATonyKovachC2017MHproNews.jpg\" alt=\"FactoryBuiltCarsClothingAppliancesElectronicsCellsSmartPhonesHomesItJustFollowsLATonyKovachC2017MHproNews\" width=\"466\" height=\"138\" \/>By<a href=\"http:\/\/www.83degreesmedia.com\/features\/mhnews072115.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> L.A. &#8220;Tony&#8221; Kovach<\/a> &#8211; Masthead commentary, for <em>MHProNews<\/em>.com.<\/p>\n<p>Tony is the multiple award-winning managing member of LifeStyle Factory Homes, LLC, the parent company to <em>MHProNews,<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/MHLivingNews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>MHLivingNews.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Office <b>863-213-4090<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> |<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Connect on <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>LinkedIn<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span lang=\"en-US\">http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sign Up Today<\/span>!<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/daiyGn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-75403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/EmailedMHProNewsHeadlineNewsDailyBusinessNews.png\" alt=\"EmailedMHProNewsHeadlineNewsDailyBusinessNews\" width=\"348\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/daiyGn\">here to sign up in 5 seconds for the<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">manufactured<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> home industry&#8217;s leading<\/span> &#8211; and still growing &#8211; emailed headline news updates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Related References<\/strong><\/span>:<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/waste-fraud-and-abuse-fhfa-gse-federal-oversight-announcement\/<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14926\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ManufacturedHousingAssocRegulatoryReformMHARRMarkWeissDTSFHFA-GSEsGoingtoLargestBusinessesCorpAffiliatesDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews-575x268.jpg\" alt=\"ManufacturedHousingAssocRegulatoryReformMHARRMarkWeissDTSFHFA-GSEsGoingtoLargestBusinessesCorpAffiliatesDailyBusinessNewsMHProNews-575x268\" width=\"575\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/duty-to-serve-complete-waste-of-time-per-tim-williams-ceo-21st-mortgage-potus-trump-warren-buffett-insight\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/insulting-local-news-report-on-mobile-home-fire-underscores-why-terminology-matters\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/affordable-housing-focus-group-comparing-housing-options-conventional-houses-condo-rentals-and-manufactured-homes-up-for-growth-national-association-of-realtor-studies\/<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qnvXwXEwPl\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/only-3-options-the-elephant-in-the-room\/\">Only 3 Options &#8211; the Elephant in the Room<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Only 3 Options &#8211; the Elephant in the Room&#8221; &#8212; Masthead L. 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