Best Kept Affordable Housing Secret in the US! Why HUD Code Manufactured Housing & Landlease (nee manufactured home) Communities Continue to be ‘Best Kept Affordable Housing Secret’ I One person’s passion is often another’s piranha, poser, puzzle or problem! Think of KIA brand automobiles. Today, a popular consumer choice; but for combat veterans, the chilling […]
Landlease (nee manufactured home) Community Owner/operator? Consider yourself ‘toasted’, in more ways than one…. I. Monday evening, 23 August, at the famous Rosewood Restaurant in Rosemont, IL., two dozen Chicago area landlease community (‘LLCommunity’) owners/operators gathered to socialize. Think Ed Zeman, Barbara Davis (Jennings Realty), Chuck Fanaro, Rick Camboni, Dennis Ohnstad, Eric Hagen, Ed Biskind, […]
UNBRIDLED OPTIMISM & BOLD INITIATIVES from Chicago to Phoenix, & Austin to Louisville (‘Lou-avul’), & beyond… Is it just me, or do you too feel ‘a – shakin & a – stretchin’ occurring among survivors of the grim, decade – old, Manufactured Housing Reality Show? Must be careful here, not to overplay what I’ve been […]
Fight, Flight or Freeze? + more on, ‘better to lease than be S.A.F.E.d’; MHImage & YOU; Tony’s Musings; CHURN; &, ‘Four 7 Year Cycles for Your Landlease Community! I. My late foundryman Dad was wont to say, “Learn something new every day!” Well, today is one of those days. Heretofore, when teaching Manufactured Housing Manager […]
A Salmagundi of MHIndustry News & Views….*1 I. Just learned Automated Builder magazine, after switching from print to online format (i.e. ezine) recently, now “will take a furlough”, replaced by a monthly online AB newsletter, at an annual subscription rate of $50.00. Phone (805) 642-9735. Many of us ‘in the MHBusiness’, cut our industry baby […]
LLComunities (nee MHCommunities) cum Lendlease Communities! Huh? I. Translation please! First the long version. Back in the 1950s they were ‘trailer camps; morphed to ‘mobile home parks’ in the 1970s; then, with publication of two J. Wiley & Sons development and investment ‘how to’ textbooks, and emergence of several real estate investment trusts (‘REIT’s) during […]
Ongoing Transition from TPL to Property Owner Financing…. I. Turns out, all the while we were talking of a maybe Grand Conspiracy to kill the MHIndustry, and weathering our own Near Perfect Storm, new HUD Code home shipments slipped to a 60 year nadir; another, albeit undercurrent, was also present and building in volume and […]
POINTs & COUNTERPOINTs MHI’s Summer Meeting & MHARR; Super Symposium & new initiatives; Renewed Effort to Unify MHIndustry Voice in Washington & Grand Tour! ‘CAPITALISM Pays For SOCIALISM!’ read the bumper sticker on the rear bumper of a car ahead of me, as I drove into Washington, DC., last week. Later, as I checked into […]
What’s So Hard About Doing This? Part II. Part I? Scroll Back One Week in the Blog Archives at this website! Turns out, not surprisingly, we’re not the only ones who underperform. “I (almost) give up! Guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when the manager of a WAWA Dairy Store in Blakeselle, PA brushed off […]
What’s So Hard About Doing This? 90% of MHRetail Salecenter & LLCommunity Sales/Leasing Consultants Do Not Do What’s Described in the Following Paragraphs, Yet Every One of Them Should! I. Note to regular readers of this weekly blog! No, we’re not turning this timely, informative and widely read communication tool into a tutorial about signage, […]
What MHRetail Salescenter Operators & Landlease Community Owners Owners Should Learn from the Apartment Industry Apartment owners have the job performance of their leasing (sales) consultants Mystery Shopped regularly, landlease community folk rarely do, and MHRetail salescenter managers almost never do! Apartment community leasing consultants are believers! They KNOW their individual job performance, during telephone […]
A Potpourri of Blog Commentary What readers of this weekly blog are saying about it, and what’s ‘going on & not going on’ throughout the MHIndustry & LLCommunity asset class…. One faithful reader (Defined as someone who’s communicated with this blogger several times during the past 90 weeks of blogging), when reflecting upon the alleged […]
