EducateMHC Blog

I. Whose Responsibility is Housing Affordability? Maybe the time has arrived for a ‘New Way of Thinking’ when it comes to manufactured housing sales in landlease communities & retail salescenters… Think about it! When was the last time, or anytime for that matter, you or your salespersons sold a manufactured home, within or outside a […]

A Sense of Personal Legacy… doesn’t usually blossom overnight, unless you expect to die tomorrow. And, one’s sense of corporate legacy, is another matter altogether…. A sense of personal legacy, if it emerges at all during a lifetime, is generally a multistep process, materializing with little, much or no fanfare at all, as one…. 1. […]

READ it HERE the FIRST Time; LATER, maybe ELSEWHERE! Another Seller – Finance Option; Pithy Blog Responses; Next to New ‘repos for sale’; Saber Rattling again, or finally Throwing Down the Gauntlet?! I. From a veteran MHIndustry exec: “Just printed a few of your recent blog postings to read before the _____game. I’m working on […]

Time for Another Manufactured Housing Industry Paradigm Shift? Status Quo, One Consolidated National Advocacy Body, or reorganized ‘Producer Only’ & ‘Post Production’ Associations dba MHARR & MHI? I. Disclaimer = ‘a statement of disavowal’. Webster. “I have no dog in this fight! OK, maybe three.”*1 However, I have no proclivity to or for any of […]

The CAMPAIGN, Calculating Housing Price Points, & $$$ Talk! HUD Housing CAMPAIGN Continues to Generate Lively Interest, Introducing the ‘Ah Ha! & Uh Oh! Housing Price Points Worksheet’ & How Manufactured Housing Shoots Itself in the Foot, Hand & Head! I. For a second consecutive week, The CAMPAIGN to promote HUD Code manufactured housing, proposed […]

Attention HUD Code Housing Manufacturers! Are You Listening? If NOT; no one to blame but yourselves, if shipments continue to languish! I. Last week, at a Finance Seminar in Springfield, IL., Greg O’Berry, President & COO of Hometown America, and chairman of MHI’s National Communities Council division, during his ‘State of the MHIndustry’ keynote address, […]

The CAMPAIGN There’s a New Team in Town and It Might Have What It Takes to Help the Manufactured Housing Industry Regain Significant National Market Share! I. Labeled ‘New Marketing Tactics for Manufactured Housing: The Wave of the Future?’, a recent presentation by four executives from the Cherry Hill, New Jersey firm creativehaven media + […]

So Obvious An Answer is Rarely So Ignored & Misunderstood! Manufactured Housing & Landlease Community Asset Class’ answer to: Worst Case Housing Needs 2007: A Report to Congress – the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s (‘HUD’) office of Policy Development & Research (‘PD&R’) most recent biennial report. I. ‘ But first, feedback from […]

Time for a Change? MHIndustry Budgets for a Contract Lobbyist! Or, to put it another way: ‘Days of the hammer & velvet glove may be over.’ Disclaimer. In no way should you read what follows as a clarion or veiled call, to form a new, unified, national manufactured housing trade advocacy body. The intent is […]

AFTERGLOW, & ‘MH to Learn From RV Industry?’ Networking Roundtable’s Keynote Challenge to the Manufactured Housing Industry, is echoed the same week, to the RV Industry, in Woodall’s Campground Management newspaper! I. ‘Ah, one has to enjoy the afterglow following a successful annual national venue like the recently concluded 19th annual International Networking Roundtable (‘INR’)!’ […]

‘SHOTGUNS & PICKUP TRUCKS’ 19th Networking Roundtable Dishes Out Tough Love, $20 bills for $10 bills, and Much Much More! Also; researching the ALLEN REPORT, & another National State of the Asset Class (‘NSAC’) Caucus Is Coming Your Way…. I. Facing a record number of landlease (nee manufactured home) community owners/operators from 26 states, and […]

Responses, Observations, & a Reintroduction… ‘Best Kept Affordable Housing Secret’ evokes your response; ‘Networking Roundtable’ awash in idiosyncrasies, & the Grand ‘Once & For All’ Tour! I “Great; you nailed it, George. If the good guys/gals want to win, they must solve the (manufactured housing) perception and financing (issues). Let’s watch to see if they […]