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Industry News Sources:
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Contributing writers for current or previous issues (alphabetically by last name):

Joe Adams
Faith Barr
Linda Beem
Jerry Bennett
Rachael Biermann
Beth Monicatti Blank
Amy Bliss
Chad Carr
Douglas D. Chasick, CPM
Tim Connor
Mike DuPure
Suzanne S. Felber
Sherrie Franklin
Susan Frost
Joe Geller
Nadeen Green
Danny Ghorbani - MHARR
Jamie Hammons
Scott Jones
Greg Katanick
Susan Knowles
Kurt Kelly
L. A. 'Tony' Kovach
Marty Lavin
Steven Lefler
Thayer Long - MHI
Greg McClanahan
John Merchant
Ricardo Morganti
Shawn Mullins
Michelle Nichols
Chris Olvera
Dennis Peters
George Porter
Dave Reynolds
Dan Rinzema
Michael Sater
Tim Saville
Kent Stichter
Ray Schmitt
Dave Shanklin
Bob Stovall
Joe Summers
James J. Talerico, Jr.
Jeff Templeton
John Underwood
Heather Vela
Katy Weldon
Donald Westphal
Stephen Wheeler and Marilyn Kuntemeyer
Tom Zagorski
Zig Ziglar


1. Featured Articles Writer's Submission Guidelines:

There are no word limits, we have authors who do articles from 300 to 3000 words. They first key is to keep the content industry relevant. Good, well written copy for our readers = Good PR for you and your firm. We believe in a 'win-win' approach! We also believe in a solution orientation to problems, if you see an issue or challenge you want to address, please propose a reasonable solution and your thinking for that solution.

Please put Attention Editor and Featured Article Submission n the subject line of your email. All articles must be received via email, electronically, for our mutual ease of handling. Please submit your articles to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

We do welcome and encourage the following:

  • Head and shoulder photo of the author - readers like to 'see' who wrote the article.

  • When appropriate, we welcome photos, graphics and charts that illustrate the article. One of the tremendous advantages of an Online Trade Journal (Ezine) like ours is that photos and graphics can be freely used.

  • When using photos or graphs, please send them individually as attachments, as well as embedded into your article. If your software allows you to output your article in both Word format and as a PDF, please do both when submitting a graphic/photos in your articles, as Word displays differently from computer to computer. The PDF version will let us see more precisely what you had in mind.
  • Please provide a suggested Title and your name will be on the by line under the title. At the end of the article, provide a brief bio. Your company's name, website and your contact info are welcome (including phone and email, as you wish). Do not use all caps in the article title or headline.
  • Please submit your articles using a 10 point Tahoma font, and in Word document format.
  • Please provide 'resource box' information. All authors who are also advertisers can have hot links to their jump pages or other online content in their resource box at the end of the article, along with their photo and content information.
  • Please see a few of our Featured Articles to get actual examples of the points above.
  • All articles must offer genuine information, case studies, etc. they can't be 'Advertising.'

We welcome and encourage a variety of viewpoints on a wide range of manufactured housing, modular, pre-fab, panelized or other factory-built home related topics. Avoid profanity or any remark that might appear disparaging of another firm, person, product etc. that is part of the factory built housing Industry. As the old saying goes, "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar." This policy will help you win more people to your viewpoint.

Naturally, we reserve the right to edit content.

Feature articles should be submitted 10 days or more prior to the next issue. Our issues 'go live' on the evening prior or near the first of the month. Our normal cut off time for an issue is 1 week prior to 'going live' on our site.

Please be sure that "Proposed Article for MHMSM.com" appears in the subject line.


2. Industry Voices Blog Submission Guidelines

  • The same guidelines as for Featured Articles applies to submissions for the Industry Voices blog. The Industry Voices blog is a place for your opinions as well as news.

  • Think of this column as an online "Letters to the Editor" - your Op-Ed column - often for 'time sensitive' issues and doesn't have to wait for our monthly issue. Well written Industry Voices posts can be posted within 48 hours may be highlighted in our emailed news updates to thousands of professional readers weekly.

  • While our Industry Voices writers are allowed to share their company name and some basic contact info, the proposed post must be a news or opinion type item of industry relevance, not an advertisement.

  • Please Visit the Industry Voices blog for an idea of what we have published and what type of items we are looking for.

Please submit your Industry Voices posts to BOTH This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please be sure that "Proposed Industry Voices post for MHMSM.com" appears in the subject line.


3. "Cup of Coffee" Submission Guidelines

  • A "Cup of Coffee with…" is a great opportunity for industry professionals to introduce themselves to a wider audience of colleagues and have their voices heard on a few issues of importance.

  • A "Cup of Coffee with…" interview uses a format of a series of questions about you and the industry that you answer.

  • These interviews are then published (subject to editorial approval) in a regular feature article issue of MHMSM.com.

  • A few examples of these interviews are ones we've published by Thayer Long, Jamie Hammons and Doug Gorman.

If you want to be considered for a Cup of Coffee with… interview, please email editor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and put 'My Cup of Coffee' in the subject line. Then share a bit about yourself, like your Linkedin connection, brief bio on your website, etc. and we can create your interview from there.


4. Press Corporate Press Release Submission Guidelines

  • Must be a "news" type item, not an advertisement. The news may, however, be product, service or announcement related.

  • Should be submitted in "Press Release" format. For an example of how a Press Release should be formatted, see Formatting Press Releases.

  • There is a $75 charge for a Press Release. Some associations press releases are done for free. Press releases are also included for our sponsors at no charge. See our advertising section for contact information.

  • Please be sure that "Proposed Press Release for MHProNews.com" appears in the subject line.


5. People and Promotions Submission Guidelines

  • For for information about submitting your company's People and Promotions news, please visit the People and Promotions page on this website, where you can download a form to make your submission easier.

  • The same guidelines apply as a Corporate Press Release, see above.


6. If you want to submit an item for our INspirations Blog (photo, video, quotations or other written or multi-media items), please keep the following in mind:

  • Give proper credits for photos, videos, quotations, etc.

  • Don't just send some internet item without checking it out. Please send the link to an item such as the Iwo Jima item and make sure it is a real source. Even if an item is inspirational, we want it to be accurate not junk. Please send the link to any proof of authenticity that may be available.

  • Provide your name, company name or website, and if you like, your title.

  • If you are on Linkedin, we recommend you include your Linkedin.com profile link. Example: http://www.linkedin.com/in/latonykovach

  • Please email a submission like those you see into: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with INspirations Blog Submission in the subject line.

  • Thank you and please spread the good word to others!


7. Advertising. Please go to the Advertising page for details. We offer Classified Ads and Jobs Ads for a fee, but our Sponsors get classifieds and jobs ads free with certain limits. Sponsors also get jump pages, can be included in our emailed newsletters and much more. Please contact us via our Advertise page for details.

  • Our advertisers have the benefit of being showcased on the single largest business to business platform in the Factory-Built Housing Industry’s history. No other trade publication or 'similar' website comes close to our traffic, so our rates are the best value in the Industry.

8. For all other statements, submissions or inquiries, as President Harry Truman said, "The buck stops here" ---> Tony Kovach - at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it


We thank you for your interest in writing for the largest and fastest growing factory built housing publication! Good writing here is popular and it is a victory for our great INdustry!

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Daily Business News Briefs

New Homes Sales Rose in April

New Homes Sales Rose in April

OriginationNews says the Census Bureau reports new home sales rose 3.3 percent in April following a 7.3 percent drop in March. MHProNews.com has learned sales of new single-family homes rose to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 343,000 in April from a 332,000 mark in March, besting Wall Street analysts who had predicted 330,000 to [...]...

23 May 2012

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Housing Stocks Close Mixed, but Skyline Justifies its Name

Housing Stocks Close Mixed, but Skyline Justifies its Name

CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average, after brushing with 12,325.00 during the day, climbed back in the last half hour to close at 12,496.15, losing a mere 6.66 points, -0.05%. The weakness in tech stocks and fears of Greece leaving the Eurozone fueled investors’ fears. The Nasdaq gained +0.39 percent to 2,850.12, while the [...]...

23 May 2012

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Kit Homes Takes Up where Sears Stopped

Kit Homes Takes Up where Sears Stopped

In 1970, 30 years after Sears ceased offering prefabricated housing, Shelter-Kit of Tilton, New Hampshire began offering small homes and cabins that could be assembled by aspiring homeowners with no construction experience. MarketWatch tells MHProNews.com customers can choose from a wide variety of options in designing their home, including...

23 May 2012

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UFPI Surprises Zacks

UFPI Surprises Zacks

Forbes reports on the heels of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (UFPI) strong first quarter 2012 results, whereby Q1 2011 showed a loss of -0.19 per share to first quarter 2012 return of +0.21 per share, and the recent acquisition of MSR Forest Products LLC, Zacks issued a #1 Rank (Strong Buy) for the stock. Zacks [...]...

23 May 2012

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New MHC Proposed for Virginia

New MHC Proposed for Virginia

BellehavenPatch tells MHProNews.com Fairfax County, Virginia is considering developing the North Hill site in Hybla Valley into an MHC for 67 homes and a greenspace. Meanwhile, AHP Virginia LLC has a counter proposal that would involve building apartments on the site, housing 204 families, nine percent of which would be targeted to low-income...

23 May 2012

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Philadelphia Airport Building Modular Housing

Philadelphia Airport Building Modular Housing

DelcoNewsNetwork tells MHProNews.com Tinicum Township officials, as part of a $23 million efficiency upgrade at Philadelphia International Airport, approved a land waiver request to build a 791 square foot modular building near the UPS facility on Hog Island Road. The building would house UPS workers moving from a facility at Ridley Park. The...

23 May 2012

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Sale of Previously Occupied Homes Rise

Sale of Previously Occupied Homes Rise

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) says reports from across the country show existing home sales edged up 3.4 percent April over March, 2012 for every region of the country. While the increase is a positive sign, the seasonally-adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 4.62 million home sales, just below January’s pace of 4.63 million, remains...

23 May 2012

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Improved Housing Market Bolsters Many U.S. Stocks

Improved Housing Market Bolsters Many U.S. Stocks

CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 12,575.00 during the day but settled down to 12,502.81, -0.01%, -1.67 points as the day’s trading ended. The rise of sales of existing homes boosted the market, but a downgrade of Japan and a weak global market tempered that news. The Nasdaq dropped -0.29 percent to 2,839.08, [...]...

22 May 2012

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Home Sales Rise in the Heartland

Home Sales Rise in the Heartland

The 13 county Indianapolis metropolitan area marked an 18 percent rise in existing home sales in April from one year ago. As the IndyStar tells MHProNews.com, the Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors (MIBOR) says 2,215 homes were sold in April, an increase over the 1,877 sold in April 2011. The median sales price rose to [...]...

22 May 2012

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New Modular Builder on the Block

New Modular Builder on the Block

The Chronicle tells us another modular player has entered the housing game in the oil boom of North Dakota. Colorado-based Confluence has already set the first of ten units of apartments called Confluence at Harvest Hills, as the initial 12 modules were sited May 15. Occupancy of the first unit is set for Aug. 1, [...]...

22 May 2012

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MOD to House Mental Health Patients

MOD to House Mental Health Patients

VTDigger says Tropical Storm Irene flooded portions of the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury, Vermont, and since then some of the patients are being held in state prisons. Now the state is looking into a modular high-security unit in Waterbury to house mental patients being held under court order. Noting that it’s more expensive to [...]...

22 May 2012

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Featured Articles and Reports - May 2012 Vol. 3 No. 8

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Everything Old is New Again

Everything Old is New Again

by Katy Weldon Something amazing is happening to older mobile and manufactured homes in certain areas of California. They are in demand! Mobile and manufactured homes built in the 1970’s and 1980’s... Read more

MARKETING

Your Attention Please

Your Attention Please

by Jeff Templeton A recent study found that the average American sees approximately 1600 advertisements a day. In a single day! Those ads are seen online, in newspapers, magazines, billboards, TV,... Read more

MARKETING

Featured Articles May 2012

 Featured Articles May 2012

Featured Articles and Reports for Vol. 3, No. 8, 2012 Alphabetically by Category COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL) • “What’s in a Name?” by Nadeen Green, JD The fact that you are reading MHProNews.com to... Read more

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Creating a Budget

Creating a Budget

by Chrissy Jackson Simply put, a budget is a tool. When effectively used, this tool can enable you to have a manufactured home land lease community that is financially sound. A... Read more

COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)

“What’s in a Name?”

“What’s in a Name?”

by Nadeen Green, JD The fact that you are reading MHProNews.com to gain insight into the manufactured housing industry shows that you are engaged and embracing the world of online information... Read more

COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)

Terms of Engagement

Terms of Engagement

by Andrew Peters It’s easy for professionals in the housing industry to forget just how extensive the language of mortgage lending can be. We’re often quickly reminded, however, when we try... Read more

FINANCING

Promissory Notes How to take, buy or create a Note, then sell it for cash

Promissory Notes  How to take, buy or create a Note, then sell it for cash

by John Merchant, JD Many manufactured home communities and some MH retailers have – over the years – created their own notes. The following is an outline of the things and... Read more

FINANCING

While Waiting on The Supreme Court: What is happening to Health Care Cost…

While Waiting on The Supreme Court:  What is happening  to Health Care Costs and Insurance?

by Kurt D. Kelley, J.D. For the last six months, I’ve served on The Woodlands, Texas Chamber of Commerce Health Care Program Committee. These efforts culminated on April 27th with a... Read more

GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS

Frames

Frames

by George Porter A Manufactured Home is a more complicated piece of engineering than most other homes. Our building code makes us have a multi-purpose chassis. Strangely, we don’t move all... Read more

GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS

“Mobile Homes” and Tornadoes

“Mobile Homes” and Tornadoes

by Margaret Clark (Editor's Intro: The following is a letter written by manufactured home community owner Margaret Clark to KWWL-TV reporter, Kera Mashek. Ms. Clark was writing in response to a... Read more

GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS

The Industry's Need to Profitably Communicate

The Industry's Need to Profitably Communicate

by L. A. 'Tony' Kovach Trade media exists because there is a need to communicate facts and ideas relative to the industry being served. A robust online trade journal (e-zine) complements... Read more

GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS

Manufactured Housing Institute and National Communities Council 2012 Congr…

Manufactured Housing Institute and National Communities Council  2012 Congress and Expo Photo Report

by L. A. 'Tony' Kovach If a picture is worth a thousand words, then there are tens of thousands of words captured in the photos that follow. The Manufactured Housing Institute... Read more

GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS

National Industry Awards Presented at 2012 National Congress & Expo

National Industry Awards Presented at 2012 National Congress & Expo

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, NV - April 11, 2012. Members of the manufactured and modular housing industries gathered today at an awards luncheon to recognize individuals and companies for outstanding... Read more

GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS

Manufactured Home Shows - Touring a Model Home at Tunica 2012

Manufactured Home Shows - Touring a Model Home at Tunica 2012

by L. A. 'Tony' Kovach Manufactured home trade shows are a wonderful way to bring products and professionals together in one place. The home shown in this photo gallery carousel below... Read more

GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS

Do you know the single factor that determines; employee productivity, profi…

Do you know the single factor that determines; employee productivity, profits and sustained success?

by Tim Connor OK, have you figured it out or are you just waiting for my take on this topic? Come on – give it some thought – it might prove... Read more

MANAGEMENT

Is there Anything New under the Sun? Getting Bottom line Results for Manufa…

Is there Anything New under the Sun? Getting Bottom line Results for Manufactured Housing.

by L. A. 'Tony' Kovach If you are holding a smartphone, an iPad or are looking at a laptop, etc. you already know the answer to this article's headline's question. But... Read more

MANAGEMENT

Fear, worry, and stress – are you a victim?

Fear, worry, and stress – are you a victim?

by Tim Connor, CSP If you are not aware of the simple fact that fear is the major contributor to stress, illness, failure, worry and a whole host of other negative... Read more

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION

Zig On Doing Things Poorly

Zig On Doing Things Poorly

by Zig Ziglar Several years ago I was teaching a Sunday school class at First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.Recalling G. K. Chesterton's paradoxical “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly,”... Read more

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION

Patience – The secret tool for sales success

Patience – The secret tool for sales success

by Tim Connor I just finished reading for the fourth time - one of my favorite books, The Power of Patience by M. J. Ryan. As I was reading, it struck... Read more

SALES

Sales Tips 101 – Objection Handling; Isolating the Objection

Sales Tips 101 – Objection Handling; Isolating the Objection

by L. A. 'Tony' Kovach Let's begin a periodic series of articles on some classic – but often unused or overlooked – sales tips and strategies. We will begin with the... Read more

SALES

US and Canadian Manufactured Homes Directory Locations

US and Canadian Manufactured Homes Directory