Stimulus Spur Response to date? NO, but look what’s coming… At this writing (8 January 2012), it’s been 2 ½ weeks since identical Letters of Inquiry were mailed to the elected respective chairmen of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (‘MHARR’) & Manufactured Housing Institute (‘MHI’), our two national MHAdvocacy bodies, domiciled in or […]
2012. A Year of New Beginnings? Let’s Plan It So… I. Manufactured Housing Wisdom Honed by Experience The following vignette (‘a short literary essay’) was penned at my request, by a 40 year successful business owner veteran of the manufactured housing industry and landlease community real estate asset class. I requested it for my education […]
‘God Forgive Me When I Whine’ A Inspiring Message from the Telephone Doctor, Nancy Friedman Quoted from her ‘Monthly Communications Article’ for December 2012. This is the poem with which Nancy closes every keynote address: Today, upon a bus, I saw a lovely girl with golden hair, I envied her, she seemed so gay and […]
‘God Forgive Me When I Whine’ A Inspiring Message from the Telephone Doctor, Nancy Friedman Quoted from her ‘Monthly Communications Article’ for December 2012. This is the poem with which Nancy closes every keynote address: Today, upon a bus, I saw a lovely girl with golden hair, I envied her, she seemed so gay and […]
My Gift to Every Combat Veteran & Their Family & Friends “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”*1 Recently came across some searing quotes in a true story, describing the combat experiences of Sergeant Dakota Meyer, the first living Marine recipient of the Congressional Medal […]
Valuing the Income Stream of Your Landlease Community & The Higher the Site Rent, the Less Home Buyers Can Buy & No More on Radical Change for Now; Maybe Next Week! I. Two Ways to Estimate the Value of Your LLCommunity’s Income Stream There’s a longhand way to estimate the capitalized annual net rental income […]
More Than One Way to Implement Radical Change… I. As a Major Paradigm Shift, Belatedly Effecting National Advocacy Change, & Now’s time for this 60 year ‘double dual industry’, broadly comprised of 1) manufactured housing fabrication & distribution segments, and 2) landlease community developers, investors & managers, to maybe ‘leave the MHI home’ and go […]
Two New Trends; & a Watershed Year for MHAdvocacy? I. Two New Trends to Watch…. The manufactured housing industry and its’ counterpart, the landlease community real estate asset class, have been awash in new tends and retread trends, for much of the past decade. Why? HUD Code annual shipment levels of new homes have slipped […]
Bound & Determined to Begin This Blog with Fun Information! This may not be the newsiest summary you read this week, but there’s ‘takeaway’ value here to apply to your unique business interests; before we return to ‘What’s happening & Not been happening’ in the MHIndustry. I. Earlier this year I was hired by Marcus […]
Top Ten Tongue – in – Cheek Reasons NOT to Effect Radical Change at the Manufactured Housing Institute! & Who Might Lead the New MHI Partnership Team? & Commentator Paul Harvey & MHI’s ‘water sprinkler’ Proposal & Beware the Uniform Law Commission’s Ousting of MHTitles! The lead story in this week’s blog won’t make sense […]
Time for Radical Change at the Manufactured Housing Institute This won’t take long or much space to describe here, so let’s get started… First. With annual new home shipment volume at a 60 year nadir for three consecutive years thru 2011; and, only cherry picking independent third party chattel financing available for new HUD Code […]
MHIndustry needs a good muckraking* journalist…. Why? (And it’s not going to be me!) Why? Well there are indeed answers, of sorts, to both questions. * What’s muckraking? According to our handy Webster’s Dictionary, “…to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like….” Now for a response to the first ‘Why?’ […]
