The Masthead
- Getting It Up
- The 2012 Presidential Elections and Manufactured Housing
- If it isn't broken, let's not break it
- Rising Shipments, can we fuel an ever Rising Sales Tide?
- Asking Questions?
- First Down!
- Leap Year 2012
- Fan Mail and the Ego
- The Great Depression and Manufactured Housing
- Value Destroying Villains = Narcissistic Leaders
Industry Voices
- 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!
- 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
The Cutting Edge
- Deodorant
- Learning from Con Artists
- Who Cares?
- Super Marketing
- 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?
Inspirations
- Dieting and Selling
- 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
Words of Wisdom
- Expectations, Illusions and Outcomes
- Maintaining Balance in Life
- 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
Newsletter Archive
- New MHI President. 2012 Elections. Deodorant. MHC Owner to MHC Owners. ROC Milestone. Out Back. Kit Homes. FEMA Departs Biz Easy. Actor Inspires MODs. FollettUSA Appointment. DJ to Tulsa Show February Features, More! - 02/20/2012
- Mitt with MODs. If it isn't broken, don't break it. Furnace Recall, Learn from Con artists? New HUD Regs. More Lending Regs. Model Homes or Not. Fair Housing 2012 and more! - 02/16/2012
- Learning from Con Artists. Exclusive Bernanke to NAHB! Zell Sounds off! Rising Shipments. MHOAA disses MHCs. Canada debates MODs The Tribe. White listing Email. Sales Super Stars. Healthy Fear. Much More! - 02/13/2012
- Asking Questions? UMH Refi. Congressional MH Hearing. MHShipments rising! Champion booms, ditto Deer Valley and Nobility. Cordray Challenged. MH Grants. State MH Financing? Gunner with Mitt. Who Cares? February feature articles, more! - 02/09/2012
- First Down! Selling your MHC. Who Cares? Cavco Skyrockets. Polymer MODs. Hall of Fame. Fannie finances $535M in MHCs. Congressional MH Action! Show Time. Sales Super Stars. MLS. Fixing Email Errors, More! - 02/06/2012
- Governor appoints KMHI's Whitaker, New Hall of Fame Inductees, Canadian entry level MOD program, CA MHC wins on Rent Control, Super Marketing, Leap Year 2012, Fair Housing 2012, more! - 02/02/2012
- Super marketing, Mancamp MODs, NY ending MH program? Fan Mail, Solar MODs, zoning endangers MHC, MLS for MH, more! - 01/30/2012
- 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
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Daily Business News Briefs
Stocks Decline Wednesday
Stocks declined Wednesday in response to economic reports and while one of those reports showed gains in home sales, several prominent site builders including Toll Brothers and KB Homes saw share price declines. The Yahoo Finance Manufactured Housing Composite Value lost more than four percent. Losing ground Wednesday were Affiliated Managers...
22 Feb 2012
Read moreMortgage Applications Decrease
Mortgage applications decreased 4.5 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending February 17. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 4.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week e...
22 Feb 2012
Read moreAffordable Modulars Come to Sudbury, Massachusetts
From Massachusetts and Metro West Daily News, MHProNews.com learns that an affordable housing project long underway will soon bear the fruit in the form of new modular homes. Undertaken by the Sudbury Housing Authority, the project adds affordable housing units without the expensive proposition of buying new land. The project will create six new...
22 Feb 2012
Read moreExisting-Home Sales Rise Again
Realtors report existing-home sales rose again in January, marking three gains in the past four months, while inventories continued to dwindle. Total existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, increased 4.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.57 million...
22 Feb 2012
Read moreArticle Highlights Aging Population in Appalachia
A recent Associated Press story featured manufactured home owner and Appalachia resident Donna Robirds of Mount Orab, Ohio. The focus of the story is on the aging population in the region. Robirds is 67 and lives on a fixed-income. Nationally, the article notes, people 65 and over are expected to account for one of every [...]...
22 Feb 2012
Read moreAustralian Modular Maker Sees Profit
NineMSN of Australia tells MHProNews.com the Fleetwood Corporation, a producer of RVs and modular accommodations for residential and commercial applications, announced its profit for the six months ending Dec. 31, 2011 rose ten percent to $26.89 million. CEO Steven Price attributes the earnings report to increased demand for temporary...
22 Feb 2012
Read moreModular Modern in Texas
This 1,400 square foot modular home in Wimberley, Texas,has three bedrooms, two baths, and lots of deck space. Produced by Ma Modular of Austin, TX the home has Energy Star appliances and HVAC, 2X6 exterior wall studs, a Galvalume double-lock standing-seam metal roof, Gerkin windows, and other energy efficient features. JetsonGreen tells...
22 Feb 2012
Read moreG-Fee Increase Dropped
Congress passed a $150 billion bill that extends the payroll tax reduction and unemployment benefits for ten months without increasing the guarantee fees (g-fees) on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Consideration was at first given to raising the fees as a means to pay for the extension but then dropped. In December congress passed a [...]...
21 Feb 2012
Read moreGreece Bailout Shoots Dow over 13,000, then Investors Pull Back
CNNMoney tells MHProNews.com the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the 13,000 mark for the first time in almost four years, but then fell back to close at 12,965.77, gaining only 15.9 points, +0.02 percent. The Nasdaq lost -0.11 percent, -3.21, to end the day at 2,948.57, while the S&P rose 0.98, +0.07 percent to close [...]...
21 Feb 2012
Read moreCordray Ticks off Achievements to Ticked-off Senators
NationalMortgageNews tells MHProNews.com Richard Cordray, the recess-appointed head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), made his first appearance on Capitol Hill at a meeting with members of the Senate Banking Committee, some of whom want budget oversight and structural changes to the agency. Cordray says the CFPB is similar to...
21 Feb 2012
Read moreLittle Change in Number of Pre-sale Foreclosure Homes
According to HousingWire, the mortgage delinquency rate fell 2.2 percent from Dec. 2011 to Jan. 2012. Based on its data of nearly 40 million loans, Lender Processing Services says the Jan. 2012 delinquency rate dropped to 7.97 percent, which represents a 10.5 percent annual decline. There are 1.77 million properties with loans at least 90 [...]...
21 Feb 2012
Read moreLatest Daily Business News
- Stocks Decline Wednesday
- Mortgage Applications Decrease
- Affordable Modulars Come to Sudbury, Massachusetts
- Existing-Home Sales Rise Again
- Article Highlights Aging Population in Appalachia
- Australian Modular Maker Sees Profit
- Modular Modern in Texas
- G-Fee Increase Dropped
- Greece Bailout Shoots Dow over 13,000, then Investors Pull Back
- Cordray Ticks off Achievements to Ticked-off Senators
- Little Change in Number of Pre-sale Foreclosure Homes
- Storm Shelters Stymied: Red Tape or Money?
- A Crushing Opportunity for Manufactured Housing
- Modular Housing Rises for Canadian Seniors
- Homes for Sale Inventory and Median Price both Fall
- Nobility in Non-Compliance
- Holiday for Stock Markets
Featured Articles and Reports - February 2012 Vol. 3 No. 5
Fair Housing 2012 – The Two Most Important Words!
by Nadeen Green I thought about holding a contest to see who might be able to come up with what I believe may be the two most important words for fair... Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
Where to Build
by Eddie Hicks To build or not to build. That's the question. To "take up arms against a sea of trouble." Perchance to "dream"? Is that the rub? Sorry, Bill. I... Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
Content Area of Guidelines for Living: Security and Protection through Stor…
by Chrissy Jackson In our last column, we covered Manufactured Home Community “Guidelines for Living” topics ranging from Refuse Removal through Rights of Management. This month, we will explore Security and... Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
Community Management: The $20,000 Dog
by Kurt D. Kelley, JD It’s exciting. You just purchased a manufactured home community. It has fifty (50) sites, forty eight (48) of which are occupied by home owning tenants paying... Read more
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT & FAIR HOUSING (LEGAL)
Multiple Listing Service… It is all about the Listings
by Boe Davis This is our second installment about how a Multiple Listing Service (MLS) functions and how it could help manufactured home sales throughout the country. In this article we... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
It's Show Time in Tulsa!
by Deanna Fields March 1-2 will be here before you know it! Do you want access to more financing? Do you need new sources for inventory, services or just want to... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
When Emails Aren't Where They Should Be, Whitelist
by Joe Geller Many of us have gone through the frustration of not receiving an email, even after we verify the sender has sent the email, and he or she has... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
How Long Will an Anchor Last? Anchor Rust
by George Porter Have you ever heard of anyone replacing anchors because they were worn out or not good anymore? I know I haven't and it worries me. Have you ever... Read more
GENERAL MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY TOPICS
It Is - What it Is
by Tim Connor, CSP One of my daughter’s favorite lines is, it is what it is. Every time I hear that from her it makes me stop and think – why... Read more
MANAGEMENT
ZigOn Healthy Fear
by Zig Ziglar In recent years, in manufactured housing and in other industries too, we've seen fear take a toll. There really is "healthy fear." For example, it's very healthy to... Read more
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS, MOTIVATION and INSPIRATION
Sales Super Stars – Got any?
by Tim Connor, CSP Creating a team of super-stars is manufactured housing – business to business or business to consumers – is not as difficult as many managers or trainers would... Read more
SALES
What are you prepared to do?
by 'L. A.' Tony Kovach As we have noted before, at the heart of any successful career or business, there are certain basics or fundamentals. Being on the Cutting Edge of... Read more
SALES
Manufactured Housing Financing Alert
by 'L. A.' Tony Kovach With approaching half a year of increasing shipment levels, we are seeing what could be the start of an industry turn around. This is not the... Read more
FINANCING
Six Ways to Make your Manufactured Home Loan a Smooth Transaction
by Dave Shanklin Over the years, I have noted several helpful procedures that make our loan processing smoother. In the past I have written on this topic. Here are some new... Read more
FINANCING
The Tribe is Here
by Jeff Templeton I try to listen and learn about marketing and business from as many experts as possible. I believe that their insights will make myself and those that I... Read more
MARKETING
Model Homes…..or NOT Part 2
by Katie Weldon Whether the term is model home or staged home, the definition is the same. It is the detailed and creative preparation of a house to be sold. If... Read more
MARKETING
