Red Hot Hill on Expanding Manufactured Home Lending

Let’s take 5 to thank the manufactured housing association leaders who have already sounded off in public on The Hill’s Congressional blog’s “read hot” manufactured
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Manufactured Housing Pros, Want More Lending? Ready to Change CFPB Regs? DON’T Miss This…

I’m picturing a manufactured home community owner who was standing at the entry door in the back of an association meeting.  He looked stunned, bewildered
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New CFPB Mandated HPML Appraisal Rule for Manufactured Housing effective July 18, 2015

Our focus for today won’t be the wisdom or merits – pro or con – for the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) imposed Appraisal
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The New Breed? The Next Gen of Manufactured Home Pros?

I finished what was supposed to be an hour call after 100 minutes. The gent on the other end of the call wanted to continue
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How High Can Modern Manufactured Home Sales Go? News, Report, Statistical Analysis

In any profession, successful people do what the unsuccessful can’t, didn’t or won’t do.  The successful see opportunities which those with more limited vision or
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CFPB Imposed Appraisal Rule for Manufactured Housing Looms, July 18, 2015!

Ten days from today, the CFPB imposed appraisal rule for manufactured housing goes into effect. There are those who suggest that this is a consumer
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America’s Political and Business Climate – Losers and Winners – plus the Impact on MH, July 2015

To consider the current business and political climate, let’s reflect during this 4th of July weekend on the path which brought us here. The fight
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America’s and the Manufactured Housing Industry’s Crossroads, July 2015

As regular readers know, the first Masthead  blog post of the month is devoted to ‘introducing’ the Featured Articles on our MHProNews.com home page. Every
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Manufactured Housing’s Struggle for Rebirth, Independence and Interdependence – July 2015

The new July 2015 Featured Articles and Videos will go live in the home page of MHProNews.com under the two center Daily Business News modules
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Manufactured Home Communities – aka ‘Mobile Home Parks’ [sic] – should be 100% Occupied

Investors, take note.  Manufactured Home ‘Street’ Retailers, your report is coming.  But for the next few minutes, we will look at why manufactured home communities
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Pants on Fire and Manufactured Housing

The Wall Street Journal’s recent report on emails that documented Jonathan Gruber’s ‘heroic’ roll in putting together and passing the misnamed Affordable Care Act (ACA,
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President Barack Obama, Dodd-Frank reform and Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing – HR 650/S 682

“A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say,
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Favorite Issues for the Manufactured Housing Industry’s two National Associations

As thousands of MHPros know, the manufactured housing (MH) industry is represented in DC by two different associations. There is MHI – the Manufactured Housing
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Doug Ryan, CFED & CFPB – Conflict of Interest in Lobbying about Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing reforms of Dodd-Frank for Manufactured Housing Financing?

The hot new report linked below on MHLivingNews focuses on what looks like a conflict of interest. Doug Ryan at CFED has admitted that their
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Why the Scott Roberts with Roberts Resorts and Communities Video Interview on Manufactured Housing Communities (aka Mobile Home Parks) Matters

There are lots of places online where you can find articles and videos about people talking about manufactured housing community investing. You can find the
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Manufactured Housing, ‘Mobile Home Parks,’ Industry Reports, Statistics, Investing and News

The Manufactured Housing Industry is poised for renewed greatness, but it’s not without challenges.  In some ways, those challenges – such as image – are
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Justification June 2015 – The State of the Manufactured Housing Industry

The five year recovery is real from the bottom hit by manufactured home producers, yet tepid compared to the MH potential.  We can cheer every
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Painful, Inspiring Realities – Summer 2015 State of the Manufactured Housing Industry

Without both positive and negative polarities, there is no power in electricity. Similarly, while one can focus on the good, it can’t be done so
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Will Manufactured Housing Benefit from Emerging Trends?

In our rapidly approaching June 2015 issue, we will feature an emerging trend of the growth of the U.S. population in more rural areas. Parallel
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Energy Rising, Politics, Image, Education, Media and Manufactured Housing

The facts are routinely on our side. America needs what we have, even if tens of millions don’t know it, oppose or misunderstand our quality,
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Errors – New York Times, AllGov, Seattle Times/Center for Public Integrity – Why Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act benefits Consumers via fixes of Dodd-Frank

AllGov and the New York Times are among those who have leaned on reports by the Seattle Times and the Center for Public Integrity as
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More MH Lending! S 682, Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act, Eric Powell and You

For years, the industry has struggled with this issue. “How do we explain MH chattel lending rates in a way that people can understand and
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Countdown to Conflict Begins?

As always, there is so much going on in Manufactured Housing (MH), picking a topic to focus on tonight is a little like picking from
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“Trailer House Nation” – OZY Media – Failure to Correct the Record?

Executive Summary: ‘news’ accounts – such as OZY Media’s so-called “Trailer House Nation” series – are damaging to the value of manufactured homes owners, to
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Consolidation and Conflict

Skyline Homes has resisted the trend toward consolidation, but this week it was announced that Fairmont Homes has now been bought up by the Avis
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MH’s A.M. in Magnificent May

Social media has changed mainstream journalism. We hear reporters and news anchors routinely talking about someone’s Tweet, or about a post on Facebook. A video
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The War Over MH – It’s Elementary

There are battles ragging all over the world. Some are obvious conflicts with bricks, bullets and bombs; others are less bloody, but can still be
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It’s Axiomatic!

Google defines an axiom as: ax·i·om ˈaksēəm/ noun a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true. “the axiom that
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50 Years in MH and…?

Manufactured Housing Pros, imagine the following. You are part of a business that has been ‘in the MH business’ for 10, 20, 30 or even
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Vincible or Invincible Ignorance and Contemporary Manufactured Housing

I was listening as an educated gentleman explained that contrary to popular opinion, ignorance isn’t bliss. Quite so. Tens of millions today are ignorant of
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Post-HR 650 Passage. New MH Lender? Manufactured Housing Professional Landscape…

The Manufactured Housing (MH) industry has never been monolithic. There has been and always will be various voices and groups within the industry landscape. Part
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Post – BP Oil Spill – Lessons for Manufactured Housing?

A quick Google search on what is being said about BP after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill a few years ago revealed web-news headlines
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Manufactured Home Industry re-Targeted?

  We won’t talk in detail about the 3rd – and most recent – frontal assault by media outlet(s) that have targeted the manufactured housing
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Passover, Good Friday  and Easter

When you tune into cablecast news, it seems that much of the world is in the throes of religious wars.  While we don’t – yet
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MH’s Amazing April 2015 – Navigating Threats, Growing Opportunities

We are getting details ‘out there’ about the recent Tunica MH Show, and they reflect a growing trend of improvements for our factory-built home industry.
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First Glance – 2015 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show – Rear View Mirror

We are waiting word from Dennis Hill on final cross-checked totals. But Dennis at Show Ways Unlimited has already told MHProNews that even with the
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The Future of MH, Scott Roberts and the Tunica Manufactured Home Show!

There are many paths to success in Manufactured Housing. For example, we are seeing more communities doing what we suggested some time ago. Namely, that
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Principles vs Interests and Manufactured Housing Advancement

When you travel the roads of West Virginia, the mountains may at times limit your choices of radio stations. Such was the case this past
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Engaging the Manufactured Home Owner and Resident

There are a variety of ways MH Pros can and should engage MH homeowners and MH Community residents. Clearly, they need to be respected and
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What You Saw, What You Missed and Can Still Experience

When something like 2,500 pros come to an industry event, that tells you there is something ‘there’ to see and experience. For those who haven’t
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