WHITE PAPER, MHEW again, & Golfers!
COBA7® via community-investor.com Blog # 309 @ 10 August 2014 Copyright 2014
Perspective. ‘Land-lease-lifestyle communities, a.k.a. manufactured home communities and ‘mobile home parks’, comprise the real estate component of manufactured housing.’
This blog posting ‘is a national advocacy voice, ombudsman press*, statistical research reporter, & online communications resource for all LLLCommunities in North America!’
To input this blog &/or affiliate with Community Owners (7 Part) Business Alliance®, a.k.a. COBA7®, use Official MHIndustry HOTLINE: (877) MFD-HSNG or 633-4764.
*ombudsman press. ‘Manufactured housing’s ronin, fielding inquiries, complaints, etc.’
Introduction to this week’s COBA7® blog posting at community-investor.com website:
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‘The Anticipation is Palpable & Growing’ as each day passes, bringing us closer to 10-12 September 2014, when 250+/- LLLCommunity owners/operators, and their preferred lenders & vendors gather in Peachtree City, GA., for education, networking, deal-making, and this time around, for two history-making National Public Forums! Once registered, watch mail for your copy of the Official WHITE PAPER to read before event!
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‘Manufactured Housing Executive Women’. This is one occasion when it might be high time for history to repeat itself! MHEW was a vibrant, too short lived, reality a decade or so ago. Now there’re more women than ever in the MHIndustry & LLLCommunity asset class. Imagine what they could do if organized and meeting regularly at industry events!
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‘Calling All Golfers & Non-Golfers!’ If you’re in the Midwest and enjoy golf, you’ll want to be in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin on 4 September! If you’re a non-golfer and are frustrated – or enthused, about MHIndustry & LLLCommunity matters, come to the Hawk’s View Golf Club that day, and talk with non-golfing peers between 1 & 4PM.
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The Anticipation is Palpable & Growing!
Even a month out, it’s ‘difficult & exciting’ to believe, manufactured housing and its’ sister business model, land-lease-lifestyle communities (A.k.a. manufactured home communities), will soon take an historic, long, and much needed first step towards eventual economic recovery! How?
By publicly exploring ‘where we’ve been, where we are, & what we need to do today & during days immediately ahead’, to 1) effect a 1998-like, new home shipment redux (resurgence), without the ‘too easily accessible chattel capital trap’; and, 2) effect a concurrent reduction in the number of vacant rental homesites in properties throughout the U.S.!
To that end, the Official WHITE PAPER is being printed, bound, and will be soon mailed to registrants preparing to participate in the 23rd annual International Networking Roundtable, 10-12 September, in Peachtree City, GA. Reading, then recording one’s ideas pursuant to reading and studying said WHITE PAPER, will prepare folk to engage in the two National Public Forums scheduled for the morning of 9/11. And at this point in time it’s anticipated there’ll also be representatives present from HUD, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the FHFA, to round out the collection of MHIndustry leaders and LLLCommunity owners/operators present at this event.
(Interestingly; this is the first networking roundtable in 23 years to attract so much serious attention cum participation by one, let alone several, federal government agencies, all genuinely interested in ‘doing their part’ – whatever that is, to make our unique type ‘affordable housing’ more readily available to prospective homebuyers/site lessees throughout the U.S. No promises, but wouldn’t it be SUPERB if HUD walked away from this gathering, committed to overtly promoting HUD-Code manufactured housing as ‘the practical answer’ to affordable homeownership in the U.S. today? And it wouldn’t cost them a thing to do so!)
So, how will this unique, long-awaited national discussion ‘effect a 1998-like, new home shipment redux’? Well, let’s just say, ‘You’ll have to be present to see how it pencils out’. But here’s a hint for you. The two National Public Forums (i.e. ‘Future of manufactured housing as ‘housing’ vs. ‘trailers’, & Future of LLLCommunities as ‘lifestyle’ & ‘investment’) are the ‘first important step’ in the process. Who’ll ‘take the critical second step, hosting a national Strategic Planning gathering this Winter? Well, there will be two national advocacy bodies in play and one alliance of business owners, represented at this year’s roundtable. Be present to observe how this leadership contingent responds – or doesn’t. If nothing else, it’ll help you decide ‘where & why’ your future loyalties will lie.
And of course that’s not all! Read through the colorful brochure attached to the BEBA (Blast Email Blog Alert) that brought you this week’s blog posting. See, then experience more than 20 educational seminar sessions and panels, eight social networking events, more realty deal-making opportunities than available anywhere else all year long, and a collection of Free Enterprise businessmen and women (including YOU) who can, with proper enlightened and committed leadership, make anything (Reread previous five paragraphs!) worthwhile happen – including an MHIndustry economic recovery (of national housing market share) characterized by a 1998-like home shipment redux, without the chattel capital misstep; and significant reduction in the number of vacant rental homesites throughout the U.S. today!
Use attached Networking Roundtable brochure to register This Week, or simply phone the Official MHIndustry HOTLINE: (877) MFD-HSNG or 633-4764 and register over the phone.
By way of reminder. Everyone who attends this year’s Networking Roundtable, whether affiliated with the Community Owners (7 Part) Business Alliance®, or COBA7®, will receive FREE copies of the two new Signature Series Resource Documents:
• 1st National Directory of HUD-Code Home Manufacturers (A side note. Home manufacturers are as excited about having their firms listed, as LLLCommunity owners/operators are excited, about knowing ‘From whom to buy new homes?’
• 1st National Directory of Real Estate Brokers Specializing in Marketing ‘for sale’ LLLCommunities Nationwide.
These two new print resources join the previously distributed dozen SSRDs that include such titles as: 25th annual ALLEN REPORT (A.k.a. ‘Who’s Who Among LLLCommunity Portfolio Owners/operators Throughout North America!’), 16th annual National Directory of Real Estate-secured & Chattel Capital Lenders!, and more!
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Manufactured Housing Executive Women
A decade ago, several dozen manufactured housing women executives and owners/operators of (then) manufactured home communities met informally at various national venues (e.g. Networking Roundtable & MHCongress), to share information and experiences, as well as to engage in interpersonal networking and encouragement. Unfortunately, that effort waned when one individual attempted to commandeer the fledgling social networking group, and the majority failed to follow or continue the camaraderie.
Well, today is a new day, and may be the opportune time for a new initiative to this same or similar end: sharing information and experiences, and engage in interpersonal networking and encouragement among other women executives and owners/operators of (now) land-lease-lifestyle communities nationwide.
Obviously, it’s not apropos for me to organize this informal effort, but we’re certainly open for ‘it’ to happen during the upcoming 23rd International Networking Roundtable, 10-12 September, in Peachtree City, GA. All it takes is for you, if a woman and registering for said event, to express your interest by stating such when registering (e.g. Pen MHEW somewhere near your name, on the registration form), and we’ll see that you’re made aware of other like-minded women when you arrive at the roundtable event this Fall. Maybe even sit at adjacent tables during one or both luncheons.
What prompted this recollection and suggestion? Recently read a description of The Network for Women Advisors, in a wealth management trade publication. The announcement declared, “We are…a group built by women for women, devoted to helping our peers thrive – both professionally and personally. Our goal is to create an environment that champions excellence by connecting hundreds of women across the country who all want the same thing: to nurture and grow their businesses. We strive to empower and encourage one another – sharing our expertise, expanding our perspectives, and deepening our networks. Together, we uncover opportunities, and we achieve great things.” Pretty impressive, huh? Why shouldn’t the same social networking occur among female MHIndustry executives & LLLCommunity owners/operators? Think about it and decide whether to ‘make a difference’.
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Calling All Golfers & Non-Golfers!
Illinois & Wisconsin Manufactured Housing Alliance/Associations’ hosting a ‘first ever’ joint golf tournament at the picturesque Hawk’s View Golf Club in Lake Geneva, WI., on 4 September 2014. And for the non-golfers? An informal afternoon Open Discussion of MHIndustry & LLLCommunity issues, trends, and more, led by George Allen, CPM® & MHM®. Everyone, golfers and non-golfers alike, attending this exciting dual event will be given a copy of Bruce Savage’s popular book, The First 20 Years!…of national advocacy in behalf of land-lease-lifestyle communities (A.k.a. manufactured home communities) by MHI’s National Communities Council division.
For more information, visit imha.org or phone (217) 528-3423. When Frank Bowman, executive director of IMHA answers, tell him: ‘George sent me!’ And if you own a business in Illinois, ask him to send you an IMHA membership application as well.
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