End of an Era & Beginning of Another; In Search of a Formula That Works If you manufacture homes & or own one or more landlease communities, listen up! I Here’s a sampling of responses to last week’s blog, ‘PRO & CON, & Not Much Else!’, describing the public distancing by GSEs, and federal regulators, […]
PROS & CONS, & NOT MUCH ELSE! Well attended, lousy room; common focus, many tangents; informative start, weak ending 60 executives from business, government, and federal regulatory agencies – but NO GSEs, gathered, 2 June 2010, in the second story , acoustically challenged, stuffy Athenian Ballroom of a 100 year old downtown Elkhart, Indiana, building […]
June 2010 National (Manufactured Housing) Month & Much More! I. No, there won’t be any fireworks or banners flying, in celebration of National (Manufactured) Housing Month. But, for the first time in a long time, corporate, regulatory and political interests will be collectively focused on factory-built housing at its’ birthplace, in a very public – […]
June 2010 National (Manufactured Housing) Month & Much More! I. No, there won’t be any fireworks or banners flying, in celebration of National (Manufactured) Housing Month. But, for the first time in a long time, corporate, regulatory and political interests will be collectively focused on factory-built housing at its’ birthplace, in a very public – […]
MHI’s Three Point Plan; CONSPIRACY vs. Suicide, & Overlooked Opportunities! I No one was more pleased than this blogger, to read Manufactured Housing Institute’s ‘Three Point Plan to Move the Manufactured Housing Industry Forward’! It appears, around the same time I was penning the blog: ‘Recent MHCC Meeting Presents Unique Opportunity to Juxtapose MHARR & […]
Mid – Year ALLEN REPORT Announces New # 1 Owner/operator! *1 ELS, Inc. president, Joe McAdams proclaims: “…we have shifted our business from being a trailer park company to being an RV company – a lifestyle company.” (Before sharing this interesting story, here’re three IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS! Subsequent to last week’s ‘Recent MHCC Meeting’ (& contrasted […]
MHCC Meeting Summaries Present Opportunity to Juxtapose MHARR & MHI Views on Critical & Timely MHIndustry Issues! & Predict Future of the HUD Code Manufactured Housing Idustry! If, like me, you were unable to attend the April 2010 meeting of the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (‘MHCC’), in Tulsa, OK, know the Manufactured Housing Association for […]
CONSORTIUM of PRINT & ONLINE TRADE MEDIA PUBLICATIONS Serving Factory – built Housing Manufacturers, Retailers, Financiers & the Landlease Community Real Estate Asset Class! All segments of the U.S. housing industry have experienced major economic hits since the dawn of the New Millennium. First it was the HUD Code manufactured housing industry, at the turn […]
MANUFACTURED HOUSING’S 2010 TRIUMVIRATE Housing Production & Sales, the Trade Press, & Landlease Communities Preparing a weekly blog affirms a pithy observation by Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial WALL in Washington, DC: “Sometimes I think creativity is magic, it’s not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find […]
Numbers, Attitudes, Books & Errors, all ‘UP’ AT MHCongress! Just about ‘anyone who’s anybody’ in the MH business was in Las Vegas I. First the numbers! According to Manufactured Housing Institute (‘MHI’) exec Thayer Long, overall attendance at the recently concluded 2010 Manufactured Housing Congress, in Las Vegas, NV. was up from 690 in 2009, […]
Welcome to a Little Bit of Manufactured Housing History! ‘How many books have been penned describing MHIndustry chattel finance?’ Answer: ‘None before today!’ Manufactured Housing Primer debuts at the Manufactured Housing Institute’s annual Manufactured Housing Congress, this week in Las Vegas, NV. The eight chapter, 100 page, spiral bound reference resource answers ‘Almost everything you’ve […]
SAVE YOURSELF; NO ONE ELSE WILL! – a simple but serious Four Step Plan for owners/operators of landlease (nee manufactured home) communities during these economically trying times – It occurred to me, while Mystery Shopping landlease communities (‘LLCommunities’), engaging in some expert witness introspection, and attending a Super Symposium & Showcase of Homes, we – […]
