Industry Voices
- Getting Results
- Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing
- Re-assessing the Stabenow Amendment to Extend Energy Star Tax Credits
- Post 2012 Tunica Show Industry Perspective
- Community Owner to Community Owners and others in Manufactured Housing Business
- Ben Bernanke Addresses Members of The National Association of Home Builders
- Testimony of Ishbel Dickens, Executive Director, Manufactured Home Owners Association of America (MHOAA)
- What is the latest on SAFE ACT, DODD-FRANK, CFPB (Consumer Finance Protection Bureau) and as an MHC owner, should I care?
- Hall of Fame Announces 2012 Inductees
- Electrifying Event!
Words of Wisdom
- The Five Keys to Turning your Business Around in a Sluggish Economy
- Are you playing the wait and see Game?
- Assumptions, Misunderstanding & Mixed Messages
- What Defines You and Your Future
- Imagination - what's possible for you?
- Do you really think you are secure in any area of your life? - Motivation Booster from Tim
- Read any books lately that set you on fire?
- Expectations, Illusions and Outcomes
- Maintaining Balance in Life
- What Keeps the World Alive
Newsletter Archive
- Go Deep in the Heart of Texas. Progress, Status Quo and Failure. New MHC for VA. Sons of Somerled. Clayton Honored. MH Dollars Double. Mod Starts Up. Kit Homes, May articles, more! - 5/24/2012
- Oh, the Pain. UMH CEO Sam Landy. MHI Staff Change. Pinterest. MHCC Suspended for non-payment. Committee re-examines Dodd-Frank. UMH adds Board Feet. May Feature Articles, more! - 5/21/2012
- Pinterest. The Case for Free Enterprise. Triad's Glisson Appointed. Getting Results. Housing Starts Edge Up in April. Are you playing the wait and see Game? House Committee Examining Dodd-Frank, New May Articles and More! - 5/17/2012
- Power of Moms. Getting Results. HUD Yields. Vanderbilt Offering. Elements for MH Breakthrough. UMH Announces Financials. Rent Control. Patience and Success. Terms of Engagement, New May Articles and More! - 05/14/2012
- Getting Results. Election Tea Leaves. Cavco, Deer Valley and Skyline gains. The View. Hall of Fame Hunting. Wood Import Law Needs Amendment. English MODs. Canadian MHC Reports Gains. FL Insurer Wants to Trim. Mobile Homes and Tornadoes. Terms of Engagement. New May Articles, much more! - 05/10/2012
- Another New Chattel Lender? The View. Another Industry Arrest. Making Education Richly Pay. Co-ops in DC. HUD Rehab funds. MH destroyed in AL Storms Low. Rising Star of Texas. Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party and Manufactured Home Professionals. New May Feature Articles, Much more! - 05/07/2012
- Shopping Malls and Manufactured Housing. Rising Star of Texas. Making Manufactured Housing SAFE from Dodd-Frank. Deer Valley leaps up. MOD Scam. New May Issue Featured Articles! Augusta Lawsuit. Much more. - 05/03/2012
- Manufactured Housing's Oxygen Supply. Patrick Skyrockets. Sun Shines. Community Closed. Winning the War. MOD Shipments rising. Grocery Stores, Shopping Malls & Manufactured Housing. Read those April Feature articles now, May issue goes live soon! - 4/30/2012
- MHI's Dick Jennison update. Grant $ to replace mobiles. Preserving Access to MH. Romney on HUD. Class Action Settled. Rent Control vs. Decontrol. Wholesale MODs in ND. Congress on HUD. CFOs say revenues will rise. April Featured Articles, More! - 04/26/2012
- Manufactured Housing Rebirth. ReAssessing Energy Star Credits. MH-AP. MOD Plant ReOpens. UFPI a Buy. Record Mod Hospital. IRA as MH Lender. Marketing Game. Art & Science of Selling. Working too much? Ouch, that Burns! They’re Heeeerrrrrrree! April articles and more! - 04/23/2012
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November 2011 Vol. 3 No. 2
Featured Articles and Reports
for Vol. 3, No. 2, 2011
Alphabetically by Category
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
• Did you hear "Hoarding" or "Whoring" as a possible manufactured home community issue?
Nadeen Green
• Content area of Guidelines for Living – From Health Codes to Insurance
Chrissy Jackson
• 10 Mistakes that Park Owners Make that results in Avoidable Liability Losses
Kurt Kelly
• Wrap up Report on the IMHA 2011 Power Symposium for Community Owners
L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach
FINANCING
• Get Legal Zero Down Financing for Manufactured Homes Today! Plus 3 Other Up Minute Financing Resources!
L. A. 'Tony' Kovach
• Stampede of Buyers
Dave Shanklin
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
• Louisville Manufactured Housing Show Chronicle: Countdown to 2012
Dennis Hill and Ron Thomas
MANAGEMENT
• Whatever Happened to good ole Common Sense
Tim Connor
• Humidity is No Sweat
George Porter
MARKETING
• 4 P's of Marketing
Chris Nicely
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION
• Expect the Best Prepare for the Worst
Tim Connor
• Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Tim Connor
• Paying for College
McClanahan
• Training Lessons
Zig Ziglar
SALES
• Are We selling or Letting them Buy
Mark Hunter
• Seven Reasons People Stall
Tim Connor
• The Sales Journey: You have to be Their Chosen Guide
Mike Moore
No one knows when adversity will strike – their career, a relationship, your health, finances or just life in general. This isn't just true in managing in manufactured housing, although it certainly applies. What follows is true about any field and any aspect of your life.
I recently presented at a large conference and was pleased at the attendance at one of my sessions (the competition was fierce – great speakers!). But I wondered if the good attendance was because I was misunderstood, as I had previously mentioned that I would be touching on a particular topic in that class. Someone asked me, "Whoring – is that a fair housing topic?" While a few attendees may have been disappointed because the topic of whoring was not actually on the agenda, I suspect many of them came to the class because they understood that the topic was "hoarding".
Yes, this year's Louisville Manufactured Housing Show is back again, bigger and better than ever! See why dozens of homes and many times more exhibitors will join with hundreds of attendees (we had 970 last year!, plus the exhibitors!) to make this the come back story of 2011.
Stop and ask yourself this question, “Are you selling to your customers or are they choosing to buy from you?” This question applies to those selling business to business or business to consumer in the manufactured housing and modular home spaces.
If you missed the previous article in this series on the Guidelines for Living for your manufactured home cland lease community, 
1.) Failing to consistently and respectfully enforce all park rules. Clean, well managed parks with consistent rules stay fuller. You might make Bubba unhappy when he has to remove his junker car, but you made your other residents happier;
"Knowledge" is Power. Develop more strength to deal with our tough economy at the 2011 Power Symposium. It's a full day of marketing ideas, regulatory education, legal answers and financing options — all ways to help you make and keep more money in this continually changing industry.” - Mark Bowersox, Executive Director, Indiana Manufactured Housing Association (IMHA).
I’ve been thinking about the importance of “Focus” lately. We become so busy at times that we can be distracted doing good things and fail to focus on the best things. As an introduction to this topic, please click on the following link to watch an insightful 1 minute video from 'The Foundation for a Better Life' 
I received a question today from one of the attendees at a Making Customer ’The Sales Journey’ event and thought it would help many of you who are struggling to make the transition to selling in the ‘new economy’.
Everyone should have a working understanding of the 4 "P’s" of marketing – Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. Sometimes people even sneak in a fifth "P" – People – also very important.
Winter is almost here once again and we are confronted with the problem of having colder outside weather meeting the warm heated air inside a manufactured home, resulting in condensation.
