The Masthead
- Manufactured Housing Professionals, Is Image Everything?
- Manufactured Housing, HR 1779 and the Bigger Issue
- Manufactured Housing Lending, More Financing Available than most Pros Realize
- Manufactured Housing's Who's Who
- The Future of Manufactured Housing Trade Media
- Executive Concerns, plus 4 BIG Manufactured Housing Exclusives!
- Death Toll From Tornadoes Compared to other Risks
- Tornado ravaged Moore, OK
- Manufactured Housing C-Suite Sees Sweet
- Frustration and Gratitude
Industry Voices
- Action Alert: Don't Let Lending for New Homes Dry Up on January 1, 2014!
- Are You Ready to Grow? Ready to Do What it Takes?
- Hearing Explores Government Role in Multifamily and Health Care Facilities
- Manufactured Housing industry businesses along Shields Boulevard in Oklahoma City are still here and intact, as is MH Association of Oklahoma
- Only In America
- Definition of a Manufactured Home
- How About a Cup of Coffee?
- Manufactured Housing Institute CEO Richard Jennison's letter to Princeton's WordNet requesting Definition Correction
- Lisa Tyler - at Walden University – Request for Correction Addressed to Princeton's WordNet
- Georgia Manufactured Housing Association's Executive Director Sounds off on Princeton WordNet's “Definition” of Manufactured Homes
The Cutting Edge
- Getting More Good PR for Manufactured Housing from the Media
- The new Manufactured Home Living Image Campaign
- Explode your manufactured housing results with personality, events and companies marketing!
- Friends and Family
- Scent of a Woman
- In the SM Era, Do I still need a Website?
- Road Signs and Websites
- Slavery!
- How often do you Shower?
- Start YOUR Free Manufactured Housing Image Campaign, Today!
Words of Wisdom
- The ability to move through life’s transitions takes courage and faith
- Whatever Happened to Personal Responsibility?
- The value of pain
- Self-limitations are self-imposed.
- Stress is a performance - killer
- The Ripple Effect
- Tomorrow is Yesterday Before You Know it.
- Struggling with anything today?
- Is your communication grounded in honesty – no matter what?
- Goals, Dreams or just Wishing?
Newsletter Archive
- Is MH Image Everything? UMH CEO Video Interview. AARP Funds ROC. Land Bank Prez Blasts Dodd-Frank. Aps, Rates Rise. Exclusives ELS, Cavco. TC's Call. More! 6/17/2013
- Nathan Smith's Call to Action. HR 1779+Bigger Issue. UMH Rentals Soar. TC's Action Alert. Ready 2 Grow? Formaldehyde. MH Image! Donnelly on HUD post, more! More! 6/13/2013
- More MH Financing Available. Kinzler: Ready to Grow? MHC Rent Control. MH Image Campaign. MHs in OK Tornadoes. Clayton buys supplier. MOD Shipments Rise. More! 6/10/2013
- MH Who's Who. April MH Shipments Rise. Drew Scores. Greatest Generation. Chinese MOD Skyscraper. Millions for Lunch with Buffett? New June Articles! More! 6/6/2013
- ELS CEO, Cavco Chair Exclusives! Congressman tips MH. Future MH Media. CFPB: Cap Excludes Comp. Stick Builder Goes MH. Flying Cars + MH. Cavco=Buy. MicroMODs. More! 6/3/2013
- Executive Concerns. 4 Exclusives! OK MH develop. Pro-MH siting bill. PA Mod Funding? Section 8 Scam? EPC Marketing. MHC Owners, Residents Sue. Metro MODs. More! 5/30/2013
- Tornadoes vs. other risks. Cavco Financials. Zell Execs Gone. Canada First Nation. MHC Execs at Investor forum. Disaster MODs. AG settles with MHC. More! 5/27/2013
- Moore's Tornado. SSK's Sales Rock. Clayton's Duck Call. Immigration Reform Boosts Sales? NY MODs. Marcus Promotes 2. Friends+Family. Israeli MODs. More! 5/23/2013
- C-Suite Sees Suite. UMH A Buy. Zell: stocks will fall. Cordray: QM exception? Starts drop, permits rise. State Farm...MODs. Tribe & FHA boosts loans for HUDs, MODs. More! 5/20/2013
- Frustration and Gratitude. HUD Seeks new MH Contractor. Bahama MODs? SW Draws MH. Hensarling Fundraiser. UFPI Rises. Easy on FHA. Lower MHs for Seniors? More! 5/16/2013
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Green Courte Announces Promotion of Braden Rudolph
Private equity real estate investment firm Green Courte Partners, LLC announces the promotion of Braden Rudolph to Vice President, Asset Management. A 2010 MBA graduate of Northwestern University’s J L. Kellogg School of Management, Rudolph has been active in strategic initiatives at American Land Lease, Inc., an owner/operator of 50...
19 Jun 2013
Read moreBridge Collapse Strands Community Residents
A sinkhole on a bridge at the Pine Haven manufactured housing community in Marietta, GA left residents who relied on the only vehicular access to the community stranded on Monday, June 17. Some residents needing to go to work relied on cabs or friends to take them; others waited for repairs to be completed. While [...]...
19 Jun 2013
Read moreManufactured Home Taxes Now Payable Online
The Vinton County Treasurer’s Office in McArthur, Ohio reports taxpayers can now pay real estate and manufactured home taxes online. “The online payment system offers added convenience for the taxpayer and streamlines the process of collecting taxes. I hope that in time it decreases wait time for those taxpayers who choose to come to the [...
19 Jun 2013
Read more$33,000 in Scholarships Awarded by First State Manufactured Housing Associa…
As follow-up to a story we published June 17 concerning First State Manufactured Housing Association scholarships, MHProNews has learned First State of Delaware has awarded $33,000 in scholarships to 30 recipients since 1999. Eligible candidates are judged on their scholastic record, financial need, an essay and personal/professional...
19 Jun 2013
Read moreCanadian Development may Include Manufactured Housing
A fifteen acre parcel of land in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada has been approved for retail and residential development, as the Kings County Council voted unanimously to give the second and final reading to the rezoning proposal for the property in Kentville. The redevelopment by Kent Building Supplies Limited would include a new retail [...]...
18 Jun 2013
Read moreNew Home Starts Continue their Climb
Housing starts increased 6.8 percent in May to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 914,000 units due to a jump in multifamily construction. Single-family production remained steady at 599,000 homes, but multifamily activity grew 21.6 percent to 315,000 units. Regionally, the South posted a gain of 17.8 percent in combined starts and the West a...
18 Jun 2013
Read moreMost Tracked Housing Stocks Advance, as do the Three Major Indexes
All three indexes advanced, with the Dow moving up over 120 points, as inflation remains low and housing starts increase, despite concerns of what the Federal Reserve may reveal Wed., June 19, about possibly tapering the quantitative easing. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained +0.91 percent, +138.38 points, to end the day at...
18 Jun 2013
Read moreImproving Manufactured Housing’s Image to Increase Sales
With image being a key component to selling more manufactured homes to cash and credit worthy buyers, that may explain the growing daily commentary in favor of the start of the ManufacturedHomeLivingNews.com image campaign. Nancy Geer, Executive Director of the New York Housing Association said: “Manufactured Home Living Website is a great r...
18 Jun 2013
Read morePortfolio of Manufactured Housing Communities Changes Hands
Birmingham, Mich. based Q10 l Lutz Financial Services has arranged $108 million for the acquisition of a portfolio including 47 manufactured housing properties and three apartments. Neither the seller nor the buyer nor the number of homesites were identified by Lutz, a commercial real estate financial services firm. As nreionline tells MHProNews,...
18 Jun 2013
Read moreSales and Use Tax Rises in Virginia
The transportation package that was passed by the Virginia General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Bob McDonnell includes tax increases that go into effect July 1, 2013. The titling tax for manufactured homes remains at $10, but the retail sales and use tax, which covers modular homes, will increase from five percent state [...]...
18 Jun 2013
Read moreEmergency Modular Housing May Go to Oklahoma
MODS International Marketing of Appleton, WI is set to deliver shipping containers converted into modular housing for the tornado victims in OK. MODS (Modular On Demand Structures) specializes in providing emergency housing for long and short term. The units arrive fully furnished, as MHProNews has learned from newson6.com. Costing $40,000 each,...
18 Jun 2013
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- Many Tracked Housing Stocks, Three Major Indexes all Tumble
- Green Courte Announces Promotion of Braden Rudolph
- Bridge Collapse Strands Community Residents
- Manufactured Home Taxes Now Payable Online
- $33,000 in Scholarships Awarded by First State Manufactured Housing Association
- Canadian Development may Include Manufactured Housing
- New Home Starts Continue their Climb
- Most Tracked Housing Stocks Advance, as do the Three Major Indexes
- Improving Manufactured Housing's Image to Increase Sales
- Portfolio of Manufactured Housing Communities Obtains Refinancing
- Sales and Use Tax Rises in Virginia
- Emergency Modular Housing May Go to Oklahoma
- New Executive Director for Alabama Manufactured Housing Association Announced
- Housing Market Index Posts Largest Gain in over Ten Years
- Affordable Modular Homes Available; Applicants' Credit Lacking
- Universal Forest Products, Inc. Spikes; Three Major Indexes Gain
- Home-building Spurring Gross Domestic Product
Featured Articles and Reports - June 2013 Vol. 4 No. 9
Do you Manage by Example?
by Tim Connor Are you a manager or supervisor that needs to update your people skills, management style or your approach to your roles and responsibilities? Why do I ask? Read more
MARKETING
Too Much Information!
by Scott Stroud On the trip back from the MHI conference in Las Vegas last month I shared a flight with a young woman who was studying for her masters degree... Read more
MARKETING
Flying Cars and Manufactured Housing
by L. A. 'Tony' Kovach The number of prototype flying cars has been increasing. Reuters recently reported on a car that will have a 500 mile range, will essentially fly itself... Read more
MARKETING
That Bites!
by Nadeen Green, JD Those of us who teach (and yes, preach) about fair housing are regularly and routinely asked “Do we have to take restricted breeds as service animals?” Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
Mildred!? Is that a Dog Parade?
by Kurt D. Kelley, JD New Court rulings and Federal laws are opening the door to allow a parade of dogs and other animals onto your manufactured home community property(ies). Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
How Not to Apply for a Job
by: C. William Dahlin, JD Manufactured home communities, sometimes simply called “mobile home parks,” or even in some areas “trailer parks,” have a variety of employment needs. Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
Call for Nominations to the RV/MH Hall of Fame
by RV/MH Hall of Fame ELKHART, Ind., -- The RV/MH Hall of Fame Selection Committee has issued a call for nominations for the Class of 2014. Darryl Searer, Hall president, said, "The... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
Next Step: Our Story
by Stacey Epperson My name is Stacey Epperson and I am from rural Kentucky, where manufactured housing has always been part of my landscape. Ever since I left college, having served... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
A Cup of Coffee with…Marguerite Nader
A Cup of Coffee with…Marguerite Nader 1) Who, What and Where: (Your name and your formal title at Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS)).Marguerite Nader, President and Chief Executive Officer. Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
A Cup of Coffee with…Joe Stegmayer
A Cup of Coffee with…Joe Stegmayer 1) Who, What and Where: (Your name and your formal title at Cavco). Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
DC Politics and Manufactured Housing
by L. A. 'Tony' Kovach Your industry issues scribe is not going to pontificate (much) on the topic of DC politics as it relates to manufactured housing, HR 1779 and the... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
Get to Know Your Member of Congress
by The Honorable Paul E. Kanjorski Your Member of Congress wants to hear from you. He or she understands that to represent approximately 800,000 constituents it is essential to hear from... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
When was the last time you SWOT’d?
by Lisa Tyler A SWOT analysis provides information for the development of business strategies. It is a useful tool for identifying and understanding internal and external influences. Read more
MANAGEMENT
ZigOn Improving Your Quality of Life
by Zig Ziglar A Gallup Poll revealed that by a count of ten to one Americans prefer a good relationship with their loved ones above financial gain or corporate position. The... Read more
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION
Who Packed Your Parachute?
by Greg McClanahan My daughter is graduating from high school next week. She is our youngest and that means our nest is nearly empty. With this going on in my life,... Read more
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION
A Few Negotiation Concession Strategies
by Tim Connor In big ticket or repeat business settings as often occurs in an industry such as manufactured housing at the retail or wholesale level, requests for discounts or other... Read more
SALES
