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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October 2011 Vol. 3 No. 1
CHECK OUT THE GREAT OCTOBER FEATURE ARTICLES!
Nineteen top pros have contributed Feature Articles for you this month. Here are the October articles according to Subject Category, listed alphabetically. Be informed, inspired and encouraged for optimum success!
Featured Articles and Reports for Vol. 3, No. 1, 2011
Alphabetically by Category
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
Nadeen Green
• Fair Housing – It’s for the Birds - part 2
Chrissy Jackson
• Content area of Guidelines for Living – From Health Codes to Insurance
A CUP of COFFEE with…
A Cup of Coffee with…
• A Cup of Coffee with…Chad Carr
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach
• 2011 Louisville Manufactured Home Show Draws Praise as MH Pros look ahead to the 2012
L A 'Tony' Kovach
• (un)Common Sense: How the Manufactured Housing Industry's Long Awaited Turn Around effort can Get Done
Stephen Lefler
• Why build an Energy Efficient Manufactured home?
MARKETING
Beth Monicatti Blank
• Social media jargon
MANAGEMENT
Chad Carr
• Building Your Future by Building Relationships - Part Two: Stop “Waiting On” Customers
Tim Connor, CSP
• Is it ‘who’ or ‘what ’in your Manufactured Housing organization?
George Porter
• Boardroom Manufactured Housing Installation
Vicki Gibbons
• This month fourteen new residents moved into our park
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION
Tim Connor, CSP
• Have you ever wondered?
Tim Connor, CSP
• Having it, Wanting it.
Vicki Gibbons
• Unemployed – Then – An Answer to Prayer
Zig Ziglar
• ZigOn Politicians
SALES
Tim Connor
• So – What’s your excuse?
Mark Hunter
• Using Social Media in Manufactured Housing as a Negotiating Tool
Mark Hunter
• What did you learn from the last sale you lost?
Mike Moore
• The Sales Journey
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Have you ever been confused by what you're reading on social media? With so many companies today using the Internet and social media platforms to promote or advertise their business, understanding the social media jargon is key to success in this technological medium.
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Have you ever wondered how your life might have turned out differently had you made different choices or decisions along the way? If you had made different career decisions or relationships ones? If you had developed a different life philosophy or attitudes as the years passed? Over time you learned to define adversity, failure or success differently?
This month fourteen new residents moved into our manufactured home land-lease community. Located just south of Cleveland, Ohio, I manage the largest 55 + "mobile home park" in the state. Over the past ten year's residency has declined due to the effects of the economy and the death of residents.
"Whooo-is there?" says the Owl. Oh, good, it is you, dear reader, coming back to read Part 2 of 
Social media has blown on to the scene the last couple of years with the popular websites of Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Google + and many others. Nobody can tell for sure what social media will look like five years from now, but what everyone can agree upon is that the concept of using the internet to socially communicate is not going away.
Manufactured Home Community (MHC) operations. The importance of a good set of Guidelines for Living can't be under-estimated for a smooth running land lease community. This is a continuation on this series about the Content portion of the Guidelines for Living, for the previous article, please click here.
Last year when Dennis Hill and I first spoke about the return of the fabled indoor Louisville Manufactured Home Show in 2011, one of the many things that struck me was Dennis and the Showway's team practical, no-nosense approach. Dennis knew the challenges. "Tony, first we have to crawl, then we walk, then can we run. This is our year to crawl." The goal was to attract perhaps 850 or so retailers, community operators and dealer developers to this come back show.
The most important thing you control in a sales engagement is your mindset, not the buyer or conversation. You may be selling to retail customers or perhaps your focus is business to business in manufactured housing. Regardless, there are some basics that remain the same.
You know what a boardroom is don't you? It's the room where all the heads of big companies meet and plan their future. These are the movers and shakers of the industry, the VIP's, CEO's, COO's and generally the board of the corporation. These are the folks that are about as far away from the installation of a manufactured home – the crawling in the mud and stacking concrete blocks - as you can get. To be fair about it, some of them, especially the original owners and founders of the companies and their offspring may have done it but most board members these days have not, and of course they don't need to. Their time is much better spent thinking of the big picture, the stockholders and the next quarterly earnings, that kind of thing.
A "politician" has been described as a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one hand left to pat you on the back and ask for your vote. Yes, as the saying goes, at one time in America we told political jokes and now we elect them.
