Cheer Leading vs. Factual Analysis?

The two year uptick in manufactured home shipments shows signs of continuing. The Louisville Show, January manufactured housing shipments and more recently the Tunica Show's
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Manufactured Housing’s 2013 Spring Break!

2013 is off to a strong start. Shipments are continuing their two year rise. It seems that Spring Break plus the flurry of March's business
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Tunica Tonight Trumps Twilight

From mom and pops, to rank and file, to some of the biggest names in our industry, are all in Tunica MS tonight because of
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Is it Worth it? Plus Loyal Opposition.

Two topics today. The second, Loyal Opposition. The first, Is it Worth it? An MH Industry colleague reached out privately to ask me this e-question:
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Diversity in Manufactured Housing

Diversity. Beyond Phyllis Knight at Champion Enterprises, quickly name three C-Suite level-national corporate players who are women. There are certainly plenty of ladies among the
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Community Owner/Operators, Sound off!

If they aren't already in a manufactured home community in or near yours, they could very well be coming. If Paul Revere had this much
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Sam Landy’s World; Movers, Shakers and Feeding the Bottom Line

We are pleased to announce that UMH's CEO will join us in the next in our popular, periodic series: A Cup of Coffee with…Sam Landy
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Raising the Bar

If your business is connected with manufactured housing (MH) sales, be prepared to rock and roll in 2013! See the new Looking UP! Industry in
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Painted into a Corner

Do you recall the first time the image of being 'painted into a corned' really hit home for you? Maybe it was a cartoon –
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March-ing On

Fast February raced by and we have march-ed on to March. Legislative efforts, the 2013 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show and the onset of the Spring
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Phenomenal Solution!

Manufactured housing can solve America's affordable housing challenges without federal subsidies. To do that we must have legislative and/or regulatory fixes to laws that choke
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The U.S. Capitol

My parents wanted to take us kids to Washington, DC back when we were living in Upper Darby, PA, just outside of Philly. We made
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CEO’s Anniversary

Richard A. "Dick" Jennison is having his first anniversary as MHI's (Manufactured Housing Institute) President and CEO (Chief Executive Officer). It was just before the
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Over $30 Billion in Opportunities

Thanks to input from a tiny segment of our industry's pros who are thinking about issues like this one, we will focus the spotlight in
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MH Pro? Lucky You!

It seems like some days the 'off the radar' potential topics are far more numerous than the on the radar ones. This is one of
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Liberty’s and the Industry’s Loss

Over the years, I've had the opportunity to sell and or manage the sales of manufactured homes from a variety of factory builders. Included among
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Housing Boom!

Saturday morning, February 2nd, a Forbes on Fox panelist predicted 25% growth in housing stocks in the next six months. One analyst gave a strong
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Fabulous February!

We offer you today – and every day – in the fabulous month of February the widest array of insightful and business building featured articles,
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Warm Up, Thaw and Chill

For those who live near Chicagoland, you know that we've seen temps in the low 60s on Tuesday that melted all the snow. A day
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Screen Pass

As the pro football season approaches its climax, it is easy to think about the long passes that result in big gains or a touchdown.
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Brave New Beginnings

There is a slogan that a few dozen people from Tuesday's INTRO event completely get. "All for One! One for All!" Attendees and presenters alike
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MH Forecasting!

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MH End Game

To win at chess, you have to have strategy, offense, defense and a strong finish; a solid 'end game.' What and how will you and
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Bring it on!

'Championship wrestling' (example, WWF style) has frankly never been my kind of thing. While I love the Rocky series of movies, boxing isn't high on
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After Midnight

As reported in our Daily Business News, the QM rules (Qualifying Mortgage) are expected to be issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) after
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SuperSonic Boom

From Townhall: "Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to the director of Central Intelligence, and vice chairman of the CIA’s
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Your New Year’s Resolution

One of the tremendous honors and privileges of editing and publishing MHProNews.com is being exposed to the wisdom of top professionals from coast to coast.
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Affordable Housing Shortage?

Matthew Silver in our Daily Business News department reported on what ought to be one of the many reasons manufactured housing professionals ought to be
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Literally Tons of Reasons!

As a business owner, executive or professional, there is usually an over-arching reason to do something.  Profits! Combine profits with happy customers and you have
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Homes, Hearths and Hearts

The Holidays are about homes, hearths and hearts. As you sip your favorite beverage, let's think about the days getting longer, hearts growing stronger and
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Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post and the Des Moines Register are among the publications which have called here to talk about stories they have
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Frustrated I’m Sorry

Two of the post powerful words in human relations are the sincerely expressed "I'm sorry." Some say "I'm sorry" with ease and mean it. Others,
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Change Mistakes

Yesterday in a conversation with Jenny Hodge, Vice President – National Communities Council (NCC) – Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), the discussion of change and its
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Leadership and the Manufactured Housing Industry

The manufactured housing industry has seen a significant level of change at the national level. There are new faces at the state association level too.
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Re-Branding

The words 'mobile home' roll off the tongue with greater ease that the words 'manufactured housing.'  Technically, all HUD Code factory-built homes today are manufactured
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Don of December

This is our fourth December issue (where you reading here in December 2009?) and for those who have been around a while – thanks! –
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Legendary passage

Zig Ziglar has graced our pages for almost two years here at MHProNews.com. He died this morning, at the age 86, after a brief battle
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Fools Gold?

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” – Tony Robbins Okay, taking our
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Thanksgiving Coffee

Before getting into some housekeeping items and some serious industry business, let's tarry for a few moments over Thanksgiving. Maybe you want to pick up
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Quacking Up

The beauty of affordable quality home living in a business sense comes in good measure from that first descriptor. Affordable! Because manufactured homes are affordable
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