The deadline for entering the 2011 Manufactured Housing Institute’s Community and Retail Sales Center and Manufactured and Modular New Home Design competition is Feb 18. Materials for judging must be received by March 4. The awards will be presented at a luncheon at the National Congress & Expo for Manufactured […]
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On 6.19.2025, the financial news site TipRanks published an artificial intelligence (AI) generated report under this headline: “Flagship Communities REIT Earns Top Honor for Derby Hills Pointe.” But without proper and often expert human guidance, that story could be a case study on how artificial intelligence (AI) can produce a
A well-known and longtime Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) member company has become the focus of a new controversy related to that trade group giving them three “awards” during their recent Congress and Expo (C&E) revenue generating and networking event for 2023. Flagship Communities, formerly known as SSK Communities, along with
Awards are often a thinly veiled marketing tool for those who give an award and for those who accept it. When the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) gives awards, it often gets them nearly free media coverage. When some company brags that they got an MHI award, it gets MHI’s name
News, analysis and commentary are serious issues. The root causes of the manufactured housing industry’s underperformance are important to business, investors, affordable housing seekers and the general public. Often acknowledged by lawmakers as the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in America, the issues connected to the manufactured housing industry’s
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) elected a new slate of officers at the 2015 MHI annual meeting, and awards were presented to those honored for outstanding achievement, according to a report from our MHProNews person in attendance. Tim Williams, of 21st Mortgage Corporation, was elected Chairman of the Board, replacing
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“Follow the money.” “Because what you’re about to read is HUD, the very agency charged with regulating manufactured housing, essentially writing the instructions for how to hand the keys of the industry over to the ICC/NIBS machine. In it’s [i.e.: HUD’s] own words.” “Replacing the HUD Code” and “ICC is vying
“President and chief executive officer Kurt Keeney co-founded Flagship with chief investment officer Nathan Smith in 1995 with the development of a 152-lot MHC in Warsaw, Ky. They quickly purchased an income-generating, value-add MHC to help pay for the first property and have continued adding to their portfolio ever since,”
In reverse order from the headline, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) information on the Federal Register notice on a planned revision by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on the Duty to Serve (DTS) is linked here. More on that in Part III, but for now MHProNews observes and documented
It may seem surprising at first, but the following is statistically well supported and confirmed by multiple human intelligence (HI) plus third-party artificial intelligence (AI) checks. If you hypothetically happen to go to the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) website, odds are excellent that you would be the only one on
