Protecting yourself, promoting yourself

When you promote the value and durability of our product, you are protecting and promoting yourself and our manufactured and modular home industry. Let's start
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Fear Mongering and Fearful Motivation

I was talking today with a respected industry leader. Part of the discussion was about fear mongering. There are voices in our great Industry that
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The Boomers

Let me start by inviting you to take a good look at this Industry Voices guest blog post by a seasoned West Coast MH Business
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Happy 36th Birthday Cartoons

No, I've not turned 36 (again…and again and, okay, you get the picture). But the HUD Code went into effect 36 years ago, on this
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What’s up at MHI? “Busy, Busy!”

The Center For Responsive Politics has provided us with the following insights as to the lobbying activities of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). Bill Number
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What Apartment Pros Do to Enhance Retention; Implications for Manufactured Housing

We've all heard from the media that apartments have high occupancy since the conventional mortgage/housing bubble burst. The area of construction that often dominates the
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The Wisconsin Recall, The Map and MH Future

Make no mistake about it, this column will be all about manufactured housing and how we can advance our Industry's cause. The logical route for
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Jumpin’ June 2012!

Welcome to our new June 2012 Featured Articles issue! You will see below writers from the past and many of our regular experts too. A
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Take the Tour

Our new issue for June will go live by the end of this week. So you still have time to catch up on all the
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MHI and Texas Two Steps

Perhaps 'dual track' would be a better phrasing here than 'two step,' but sometimes you just have to have the headline that makes you smile,
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Go Deep in the Heart of Texas!

Texas sells 1 out of 5 every new manufactured homes shipped in the United States. If you ask D. J. Pendleton why, he might modestly
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Oh, the Pain

What follows may seem counter-intuitive at first. Pain is natural, necessary and can be good. Pain is a signal in the body or mind that
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The Case for Free Enterprise

As full disclosure, I've not (yet) read the book that the World Over Live discussion I am about to share introduced me to recently. But
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Elements for Manufactured Home Industry Breakthrough

I was speaking with a very successful manufactured home community owner and MH Retailer. We spent about an hour discussing a plan to advance home
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Election Tea Leaves

The nomination process on the Republican side seems all but resolved with Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich out of the race and both formally backing
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Another new chattel lender?

I had a call followed by a series of messages. It was from a man ready to invest his money in MH paper. But Dodd-Frank
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My, oh, my it’s May

1/3 of 2012 is already in the history books. Manufactured home shipments have continued on an upward trend. The political and business climate continues to
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Manufactured Housing’s Oxygen Supply

The human body needs oxygen. Cut oxygen off, and the body suffers, then dies. Imagine for a few moments how you would respond if the
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MHI’s Richard “Dick” Jennison

The Manufactured Housing Institute's (MHI) new president and CEO, Richard A. "Dick" Jennison, is now more than half way through the customary 100 day honeymoon
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Manufactured Housing Re-Birth

For anyone who has been in a delivery room, you already know what the final stage of the birthing process is like. Birth involves pain.
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The Road Ahead

One of the great parts about last week's Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) 2012 Congress and Expo or the Louisville, Tulsa and other manufactured housing shows
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Post 2012 MHI Congress and Expo Post

Before going into our headline topic, let me invite you to check out our latest OpEd column from the trenches of manufactured housing retailing in
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David Booth, Kevin Clayton, Warren Buffett, Barack Obama and Associations

David Booth's lengthy tenure at the head of Clayton Homes retail division came to an official close at the 2012 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show. David
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Who’s Who In Manufactured Housing

I was looking at a list of some of our readers on MHProNews.com's twice weekly emailed 'newsletter' update. The thousands of names reads like a
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Tunica retro and Texas event look-ahead

Let's start with a quick numbers look at the Tunica Manufactured Housing Show. Tunica was well attended, and most of those I spoke with during
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Tunica Manufactured Housing Show 2012 Photo Gallery

As I write this, after returning home via Amtrack's "City of New Orleans", the 2012 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show is now history. 1178 attendees, 331
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“All Aboard!”

Most of us who fly or go to a city like Las Vegas or DC  will end up riding a light – sometimes automated –
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Reforming and Countering SAFE and Dodd-Frank

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has begun to line up support for HR 3849, dubbed "Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act.”  The bill would amend
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Manzullo, Rick, Romney and Manufactured Housing

VIEW 1,144 delegates needed to win. Source: Associated Press   What the chart above indirectly suggests is that any of the candidates could – in
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Well done, Dick Jennison

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) new president, Richard A. "Dick" Jennison has done well on his response to USA today about tornadoes. Let me quote
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The Winter of Our Discontent

"Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York." – William Shakespeare, in Richard III The meaning of this
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First do no harm

A classic part of the MD's Hippocratic Oath states, "first do no harm." This arguably should be a part of any professional's or organization's commitment
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Off the Record

There are many advantages to being a well read publisher in the factory built housing world. For a few moments, let me focus on one
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Busy Manufactured Housing News Week!

Thanks to the wonders of iPads, iPhones and the wireless web world, I'm able to stop at a Subway outside of Joplin, MO to write
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Changing of the Guard

The guard is changing. How so? As I write this, the 2012 MHI Legislative Session has just ended and the Great Southwest Home Show in
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Live From Washington, D.C. 2012

We are starting a series of videos and photos here on The Masthead blog, entitled "Live from Washington, D.C. 2012" 2/26/2012 2/26/2012 Opening statement of
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Live from Tulsa: the 2012 Great Southwest Home Show

The vast majority of manufactured housing industry pros have never seen the set up of homes and exhibits at a Trade Show. You can get
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The Business End of Government and the Manufactured Housing Institute’s Winter Legislative Session

The business end of a pen is the point, which when pressed against paper or another surface, releases the ink.   The business end of
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Getting It Up

After a slip, fall or getting knocked down, the most basic choices are staying down or getting up. Most of us – and certainly regular
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The 2012 Presidential Elections and Manufactured Housing

I listened recently to the Obama/Democratic operative David Axelrod introduce what he dubbed a 'dream panel' of mostly left-of-center pundits in Chicago, IL. Chicago Mayor
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