The Masthead
- The Great Depression and Manufactured Housing
- Value Destroying Villains = Narcissistic Leaders
- Advancing Manufactured Housing through Education
- Post Show Post
- Live from Louisville: the 2012 Manufactured Housing Show.
- Lovin' La Vida Grande! Plus Iowa upset?
- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and The 2012 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show
- 2012: the Manufactured Housing Industry's Year of the Turnaround?
- Be sure! Make More MH $ale$ in 2012!
- Merry Christmas!
Industry Voices
- Electrifying Event!
- This makes my blood boil...
- MHI and it's varied divisions as compared to MHARR
- Congressman Joe Donnelly Statement for the Record Field Hearing: “The State of Manufactured Housing”
- Response On a Bold Proposal for Moving MHI, MHARR and Manufactured Housing Ahead
- An MH Industry Turn Around Plan, Part II
- Dick Moore's Industry and Finance Perspective
- Open letter to Association Executives on: State Association Dialogue Regarding "STEPS"
- Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee analysis of MHI and MHARR positions
- MH homeowner and MBA's perspective on MH Industry Turn-Around
Inspirations
- How Failure Turns to Success
- Coach Potato Quarterbacks
- Joy and Excellence in Work
- The Wrong Time and the Right Time
- "Oh, Say can you Say!"
- Leadership quote of the day
- "Americans Love a Winner and Will Not Tolerate a Loser"
- Obsession and No Limits
- Creating, Loving, Forgiving and Communicating
- Hold Yourself to a Higher Standard
Words of Wisdom
- What Keeps the World Alive
- Thinking leads to Doing
- Learn to see the world in its true light
- How a person's life can change from one minute to the next
- What will 2012 be like for you?
- Mountain Top Inspirations
- Making Good Things Happen
- What reason demands
- It has nothing to do with you
- Controlling pain life's outcomes
Newsletter Archive
- Great Depression, FEMA funding, New MHC opens, Top 2 REITs dividends, MODs for flood relief, CFPB's Cordray's effort, Failure to Success, Green's tips on Fair Housing, more! - 01/26/2012
- Narcissists, Value Destroying Villains, Electrifying Event! That's REMARKABLE! UMH Dividend, UFPI upgraded, Mt Vernon limits MHs, MHC CA Rent Control, Kelly on MHC Utilities, Economic outlook, more! - 01/23/2012
- Advancing MH via Education, ELS tagged, MHI Sluggers, Mortgage Aps Up, Wells Fargo Leads, Homesteading Lives, Clayton Cleans Air, Modular Habitats for Humanity, QR Codes, More! - 01/19/2012
- Louisville Wrap Up & Lessons, Blood Boils so Ken Spanks, ARA closes 16 MHCs, Sun raising 142M, Buy Buffet's Brain, Facts About MHLiving, CFPB to target non-depository lenders, more! - 01/16/2012
- Live from Louisville! U.S. Home Prices Declined, NAHB Teams up With NFLPA, NAHB: Housing Markets Improve, Modular Hotel Erected, Louisville Pre-Show Video Report! Builder Moves to Modular, more! - 01/12/2012
- Lovin' La Vida Grande! CEO optimism up, Residents buy MHC, Trade Show Marketing and You, Shock resistant homes, home sales rising, new January feature articles, more! - 1/09/2012
- Iowa caucauses and MH opportunity, Zell Hunts in SA, Obama appoints Cordray CFPB, pent up demand to drive housing, Sun Stocks Shine, Freddie says housing to rise, New Jan articles, more! - 01/05/2012
- Happy New Year! Shipments Rising, More MH Financing, Insider trades UMH, DJ sounds off, MLS 4 MH, What's Working in MH Retail, MHC Rent Control, Show time! More! - 01/02/2012
- Be sure! Make More MH $ale$ in 2012!, Latest news about Sears, Santa's Rally Takes a U-Turn, Australia Gets New MH Community, Looking Back, Article About Christmas Fire, more! - 12/29/2011
- Merry Christmas, New Home Sales Up, Environment Improving, Commercial Modular Facility Opens, Foreclosures, Flood Victims Receive Modular Homes, Site-Built Homes Replaced, more! - 12/25/2011
The Cutting Edge
- Now That’s REMARKABLE!
- Louisville Show Marketing and Sales Lessons
- Trade Show Marketing and You, Louisville and Beyond
- Does the latest news about Sears have a message for Manufactured Housing retailing?
- Lazy vs. Professional Sales People
- What comes before marketing and selling?
- The Art of Persuasion
- SIB-KIS and Your Manufactured Housing Sales Operation
- Advertising and marketing during tough economic times.
- Learn what Black Friday means in business
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Daily Business News Briefs
MH Stocks Gain, Dow Drops on Slow Growth
The Dow finished the last day of the week 74 points lower, on news that the U.S. grew at a slower pace than expected in the fourth quarter. The Yahoo Manufactured Housing Composite Index added one percent, and most watched stocks fell in line. Among those manufactured housing and related stocks logging gains for the [...]...
27 Jan 2012
Read moreShipping Container Complex Could Rise in Just 11 Days
From Ontario and the Daily Commercial News, MHProNews.com learns about a new modular housing complex utilizing shipping containers. Unlike many projects, the units here do not look like shipping containers. Toronto developer InvestorCentric Inc. used the containers as the basis for two multi-family buildings. According to the report, the...
27 Jan 2012
Read moreRezoning Denial Puts MH Community in Jeopardy
From the Telegraph in Alton, Illinois, MHProNews.com learns that rezoning of a mobile home community there has been denied. According to the report, proponents said rezoning Stone Meadows Mobile Home Park from B-3 (highway business) to R-6 (manufactured home district) would have allowed developer USA Wealth Partners to make improvements and bring...
27 Jan 2012
Read moreSurvey Provides Insight into Views on Homebuying
A recent survey from MetLife provides some insight into generational views on housing and finance. According to the survey, Multi-Generational Views on Family Financial Obligations, most do not believe parents have a fiscal responsibility to help their adult children buy a home. Just 12 percent of Baby Boomer parents say they have provided money...
27 Jan 2012
Read moreNY May End MH Replacement Program
According to the Chronicle-Express, New York’s Neighborhood and Rural Preservation Program that helps people replace aging mobile homes with energy-efficient manufactured homes may be eliminated. MHProNews.com has learned Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it will save the state $12 million. The Keuka Housing Council (KHC) in Yates County has been...
27 Jan 2012
Read moreCavco to Release Earnings Report
Yahoo! Finance tells MHProNews.com that Cavco Industries, Inc., will release its Q3 2012 earnings report Thursday, Feb 2, 2012 after the market closes. Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, senior management will host a live webcast at 11 AM eastern time to discuss those results. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Cavco is the second largest producer of HUD [...]...
27 Jan 2012
Read moreDow Jones Waffles Down, Tracked Stocks Close Mixed
Less than spectacular domestic economic data and ongoing concerns about the debt crisis in Greece kept investors shy, as CNNMoney the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.33 points, -0.18 percent, to close at 12,734.63. The NASDAQ fell -0.46%, while the S&P lost -0.57%. Similarly, the Yahoo! Finance Manufactured Housing Composite slid -0.76...
26 Jan 2012
Read moreNew Home Sales Fall in December; Economists See Growth in 2012
NationalMortgageNews tells MHProNews.com the U.S. Census Bureau reports new home purchases last year totaled 303,000, declining 6.5 percent in 2011, the lowest number since the 1960′s. Sales of newly-built homes fell to a seasonally adjusted rate (SAAR) of 307,000 from 314,000 in November, a 2.2 percent slide after rising three consecutive...
26 Jan 2012
Read moreBoston Market Rents are Cooking!
MHProNews.com has learned the housing downturn pushed rents to record highs in the metropolitan Boston area in the last quarter of 2011, while the vacancy rate dropped to four percent, a nine year low. Average monthly rents went from $1,600 in 2009 to $1,686 Dec. 2011. TheBostonGlobe reports economists expect rental rates to continue increasing...
26 Jan 2012
Read moreProgram Replaces pre-HUD Code Homes with New MH
MHProNews.com has learned of a program in Montana to replace pre-HUD Code mobile homes with new, Energy Star-rated manufactured homes in the Great Falls area. The Sun Prairie subdivision outside Great Falls has 240 factory-built homes, many of them older models, where NeighborWorks Montana conducted an open house displaying a new manufactured...
26 Jan 2012
Read moreCalifornia Ordinance Requires Sprinklers in MH
RedBluffDailyNews of Tehema County in north central California tells MHPronews.com an ordinance passed by the Tehema County Supervisors requires all manufactured homes produced after Jan. 1 to have a sprinkler system installed. The measure does not apply to existing manufactured homes. The ordinance also applies to multifamily homes with two or...
26 Jan 2012
Read moreLatest Daily Business News
- MH Stocks Gain, Dow Drops on Slow Growth
- Shipping Container Complex Could Rise in Just 11 Days
- Rezoning Denial Puts MH Community in Jeopardy
- Survey Provides Insight into Views on Homebuying
- NY May End MH Replacement Program
- Cavco to Release Earnings Report
- Dow Jones Waffles Down, Tracked Stocks Close Mixed
- New Home Sales Fall in December; Economists See Growth in 2012
- Boston Market Rents are Cooking!
- Program Replaces pre-HUD Code Homes with New MH
- California Ordinance Requires Sprinklers in MH
- Stop Work Orders Making Home Lifts Costly
- REO Rental Program in the Pipeline
- Dow/MH Stocks Rise Wednesday
- President Proposes Mortgage Refinance Program
- Program Seeks to Clear Inventory in LA, Atlanta
- Funding Announced for Office at FEMA Communities
Featured Articles and Reports - January 2012 Vol. 3 No. 4
Content Area of Guidelines for Living: Refuse Removal through Rights of Ma…
by Chrissy Jackson Happy New year! In December's article on the guidelines for living in manufactured home land lease communities, we covered the topics of Number of Residents to Recreational Vehicles,... Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
A New Year's Possibilities
by Eddie Hicks Starting the new year brings possibilities for land lease community (LLCommunity) refinance and development opportunities. With all the site built home foreclosures, many families have turned to apartments, resulting... Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
Do You Hear What I Hear? Do You See What I See?
by Nadeen Green Aha! Now that Christmas carol is going to be an ear worm for those of you in manufactured home community management! Memory devices are great, and maybe this... Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
What About Your Utility Systems?
by Kurt Kelly, JD When purchasing a manufactured home community, experienced investors focus considerable pre-purchase due diligence on the community’s utility systems. This infrastructure is a large part of the value... Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
Rent Control Out at Surf and Sand
by Eric Miller Rent control isn't such a hot topic in California anymore, except when it comes to 'mobile home' and manufactured housing communities. That's because most communities in the state... Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
The Texas Playbook
by D. J. Pendleton, J.D. I had met Tony several times previously at various national events. However, it wasn’t until Tony was kind enough to attend the Texas Manufactured Housing Association's... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
You Can't Fix It Till You Know It's Broken
by George Porter This month's topic can apply to a lot of things in the installation and repair of manufactured housing. The bottom line is you have to know what is... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
“It's Show Time” in Louisville!
by Ron Thomas, Sr. It's show time in Louisville at the Kentucky Exhibition Center (KEC). The annual Louisville Manufactured Housing Show (Louisville MH Show) will run January 11-13th, and this year's... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
MLS…Multiple Listing Service for Manufactured Housing
by Boe Davis For almost 30 years we ran what may have been the only true Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for manufactured home sales in communities. Initially called the Mobile Home... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
Model Homes or Not!
by Katy Weldon For the past several decades Model Homes have been an important part of the housing industry, including manufactured and modular homes. A model home complex was considered a... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
What I Learned From Santa
by Suzanne Felber The holidays this year were very special - I was able to do an early Christmas with my amazing new grandson in Florida. My son and his family... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
QR Codes—What are they and how can your business use them?
by Beth Monicatti Blank You have probably seen Quick Response (QR) codes printed in an advertisement, on a product or even online. They are small black and white square boxes with... Read more
MARKETING
Plan for Success in 2012
by Chris Nicely The holidays always allow us time to reflect on what is important in our lives and can lead us to consider necessary changes. We consider those things that... Read more
MARKETING
Use Systems and Discipline for Successful Campaigns
by Jeff Templeton I was speaking with a respected member of our industry the other day and he said something very obvious, but also very intuitive. What he said to me... Read more
MARKETING
Improving Corporate Communications
by Tim Connor, CSP Every corporate client I have worked with for over 40 years has had communication problems or challenges throughout their organization to a lesser or greater degree. Some... Read more
MANAGEMENT
Get out of Auto-pilot
by Tim Connor, CSP Are you going through your life in auto-pilot? Are you letting your responses and reactions to life’s circumstances and events be dictated by your previous values, attitudes... Read more
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION
Zig On The Next Hill to Climb
by Zig Ziglar I recently received an interesting letter from one of our subscribers, quite complimentary. He pointed out that he particularly enjoyed an article having to do with success. Then... Read more
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION
Marketing & Sales – The Current State of Affairs And The Strategic Blendin…
by Tim Connor, CSP If you are paying attention, the social media folks would have you believe that all you need to do to be successful in your business or career... Read more
SALES
What's Working in Manufactured Housing Retail
by Chad Carr On November 13th – 15th, Rainmaker Consulting hosted what turned out to be one of the most exciting, positive and productive events of the year for the Manufactured... Read more
SALES
Financing more manufactured homes, getting inventory and community financin…
by L. A. 'Tony' Kovach One of the challenges of doing a trade journal is putting an article in a category that makes sense. Some articles could well be in more... Read more
FINANCING
