Official MHIndustry Briefing format @ April 2010 Have you wondered what Wall Street analysts, investment bankers, and major real estate investment portfolio managers pay thousands of dollars to hear and learn? Well here’s one example that’s used frequently and updated monthly… An Overall Perspective of the MHIndustry as a ‘double dual industry & realty asset […]
‘Get Ready, Get Set, LEAP!’ A salmagundi of advice, observations, and opportunities to help you Learn, Earn And Prosper, during these difficult times for manufactured housing!*1 First, for the landlease (nee manufactured home) community owner/operator. 1. Mind your own business like never before! And remember this about your personal and business character: Malcolm Forbes, had […]
NEXUS is US! Some sense ‘Change is in the wind’; not the President Obama type, but pro & con initiatives & measures affecting every segment of HUD Code manufactured housing & the landlease community real estate asset class! NEXUS is US!? Dictionaries list three definitions for this word, each characterizing one or another aspect of […]
The New Old Model for Manufactured Housing Finance! “In 1999, only a few of the 500+/- portfolio owners/operators of landlease (nee manufactured home) communities engaged in on – site marketing, sales and self – finance of resale manufactured homes. Virtually no one sold & self – financed new manufactured homes on – site. However, ten […]
ManuFractured Housing C o n s p i r a c y or Near Perfect Storm Sequel… ‘Hey, shoulda, woulda, coulda, folk, it’s high time to stop making excuses ‘bout your facilitating our industry’s soon demise, & support some practical enabling solutions’ Here’re responses to last week’s blog posting: ‘ManuFractured Housing, circa 2020 or before, […]
ManuFractured Housing, circa 2020 or before, by dint of a Grand C o n s p i r a c y or Near Perfect Storm? …oft whispered but rarely penned, till now… OK, here it is! The grand c o n s p i r a c y or, if you prefer, ‘near perfect storm’, […]
ETAOIN SHRDLU*1 A Potpourri of General, MHIndustry & LLCommunity Signs, Jokes, USPs, Reflections about Data Overload & Excessive Social Networking, and the Presaging of a C o n s p i r a c y Theory Many Believe but None Articulate A (billboard) Sign of the Times’, observed in downtown San Francisco, CA., during the […]
MY EPIPHANY ‘It’s the Issues, Stupid!’ & sadly, more… What’s an epiphany? It’s ‘a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into reality or the essential meaning of something, often initiated by some simple, commonplace occurrence.’ Random House Webster’s College Dictionary First the issues, both macro (‘large, great’) and micro (‘very small’) in size & import. […]
Milking, then & now… goes by several names; avarice, covetousness in Holy writ, and simple old fashioned greed. As Random House Webster’s College Dictionary posits, ‘…to get something from; exploit: The swindler milked her of all her savings.’ It also occurs when a pettifogger bills clients ‘whatever the traffic will bear’, rather than what’s honest, […]
Stealth Starbucks & ManuFractured Housing! Short story how Starbucks is reinventing itself. Lesson for manufractured housing? During mid – 2009, “…Starbucks tried to avoid being judged by its own label by opening its first unbranded coffee shop. The ‘stealth Starbucks’, as the distinct Settle outlet immediately became known, is decorated with ‘one of a kind’ […]
Living & Working Bass – Ackwards! A book review accents use of FORM acronym & value of the Golden Rule David Greene of Greene & Greene, Inc., in Atlanta, sent me Steve Beecham’s book, Bass – Ackward Business: ‘ The Power of Helping Without Hustling’, published in 2009 by Home Town Publishing. I didn’t get […]
Sarah Palin & ManuFractured Housing ‘When Imitation is not a Sincere Form of Flattery!’ plus The Countdown Begins…. Mark Twain, in 1888 wrote, “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” Same can be true with […]
