August 1st Might End MHBusiness Chattel Finance as We Known It & September 14-16 to Celebrate 3 MHBusiness Anniversaries! I. Dodd – Frank Act, as it stands ‘today’, will likely break our MH $ Business!! Huh? That’s right. Letters are already going out to MHRetailers and LLCommunity folk (I’ve seen them), warning of the likely […]
Blog Flogger (reader) Comments: MHIndustry, Home Valuation & finance! & Proofing – Spoofing the 3:1 Ratio for Pegging Rental Homesite Rent Rates & The Triple Anniversary Networking Roundtable, 14 – 16 September in TX. I. “There is no question, we in the MH World have lost the political, economic and social high ground relative to […]
“Where’s Lou Vela?”, More ‘MH’ Questions, & GSE Reform! ‘Do YOU advocate CSH, attend the NCC Forum, MHCongress, & INR?’ I. Community Series Homes or CSH. It’s been two years and two months since a hundred HUD Code housing manufacturers and landlease (nee manufactured home) community owners/operators caucused, for first time in MHIndustry history, at […]
‘Affordable Housing’, America’s Bugbear of Shelter Definition & Measures How Do YOU Describe & Measure Affordable Housing & Housing Affordability? First, the bugbear. Per Webster’s College Dictionary, bugbear is ‘a persistent problem or source of annoyance’. Throughout the U.S. housing market, bugbear is the absence of clear description, and resulting internecine confusion – due to […]
Your Response to ‘CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, GATHER YE ROUND!’ & State of the Manufactured Housing Industry & Landlease Communities…. I. Your response to ‘Conspiracy Theorists, Gather Ye Round!’ last week was overwhelmingly positive. The sole area of disagreement related to my contra view of our industry’s largest advocacy body’s desire to “Eliminate unrealistic methods for appraisal […]
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, GATHER YE AROUND! Great & Greater Conspiracies; State of MHIndustry & LLCommunity Asset Class Let’s get something straight, right up front! Portions of what I pen here will anger a few individuals, but confirm the beliefs of many others. And it’s this type industry news reporting & opinion sharing, that’s prompted a scant […]
Pithy SALMAGUNDI or just some more POTPOURRI? Piggish?, Half Loaf trumps No Loaf, ‘MHParty of the Year!’, More on Rebranding, Super Symposium II Precis’, & Era Ends as Greentree is Sold! I. What a week it was! Nearly 150 convened and confabulated in Albany, NY., at Nancy Geer’s Superb Super Symposium II – including REIT […]
Time to Hunker Down! • MHFinance. Yet another paradigm shift in the way we do $$$? • Your response to last week’s posting regarding muzzling this blog… • New Day a – Coming? Dissolution of GFA Management, Inc., dba PMN Publishing. I. MHFinance. Yet another paradigm shift in the way we do $$$? Here’s an […]
Will Euphemisms Save the Manufactured Housing Industry & Landlease Community Lifestyle? • Wordplay. Euphemisms increasingly used as marketing smokescreen • National Communities Council. Bully pulpit at fork in the road? • Attempts to muzzle this blog…. I. Wordplay. Euphemisms increasing being used as a marketing smokescreen of sorts. ‘Euphemism’ According to The New American Webster […]
YOUR TURN TO VENT & BE TITILLATED! Tales, Opinions & a Lament, from MHIndustry Blog Floggers (readers); &, Allusion to Major Occurring MHIndustry News You’ll Read Nowhere Else! But first. Given the remote possibility you don’t know HUD Code manufactured housing continues to be ‘in the tank’ – ‘an historic nadir’, annual shipment volume – […]
MHIndustry’s Business Prosperity Glass Nearly Empty or Soon Filled? Manufactured Housing’s Title I (chattel) financing. Victim of past abuse, today’s macro economy, uncertain capital markets, & widespread misunderstanding? A Look at the latter Gotta love landlease communities; just don’t abuse their inherent investment strengths Join me in Albany, New York, on 29 & 30 March […]
No One Else Will Tell You Any of This…. To REIT or Not To REIT? Your Response to ‘New Era – New Voice’ Announcement! How Many MHs in LLCommunities Nationwide? And, ‘What’d I tell you?’ I. To REIT or Not to REIT? For a privately held firm to launch an IPO (‘initial public offering’ of […]
