Executive Vice President Lesli Gooch, the “CEO-elect” of the Arlington, VA based Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has submitted comments that should be raising caution – or red – flags for investors in manufactured housing for reasons that will be outlined in tonight’s featured focus. On a day when the markets […]
Following an email to a limited number of manufactured housing professionals this morning, one of them posted the following to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) request for input. The core of the message from our publisher to encourage the FHFA to hold Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to fully
At this time, 4:45 AM ET, there are only 4 comments posted on the Federal Housing Finance Agency website. “The current population of the United States of America is 329,784,810 as of Thursday, November 14, 2019, says WorldoMeters. There are some 22 million Americans living in mobile or manufactured housing, roughly 3/4th of
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This will be a timely fact-check and analysis of a report by Marcus & Millichap Research Services, which periodically cited Datacomp-JLT; CoStar Group, Inc., Institute for Building Technology and Safety; Manufactured Housing Institute; U.S. Census Bureau. Their report concludes with these words. “The information contained in this report was obtained
The so-called Big Three in manufactured housing each put out public statements. Clayton Homes is a subsidiary of publicly traded Berkshire Hathaway. Skyline Champion is well behind Clayton in market share but is in the number 2 spot. Cavco Industries is in third, all according to the most recent data
There was an internal debate at MHProNews (that happens…) as to what the topic would be for our market focus tonight. Senator Elizabeth Warren and comments made by Steve Forbes? We might do that one soon, because it is an interesting look at where they might be right as well
The Request for Input (RFI) comments for the Duty to Serve manufactured housing plans by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were originally set some time back for November 12, but when we checked in yesterday to submit, the date was revised to 11.15.2019. Thus, those industry professionals so motivated
Programming note: ladies, there is a special message just for you in the last paragraph of this report. Please don’t miss it. That said, let’s dive into our headline topic. Snopes has recently done their version of a fact check. First, the topic, then their fact check, our
Tonight’s report will be a bit different than normal. Our format will be the same, but when you get to tonight’s featured focus report, think back a little over a year when Cavco Industries made their last bombshell announcement that sent their stock south. Regular readers please note there
Executive Summary. The Duty to Serve manufactured housing has been twisted into a pretzel in order to give an appearance to the casual observer of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 being followed. But as a careful review of what follows will reflect, voices across the left-right
