‘With NPR’s Left-Wing Bias Again Exposed Its Taxpayer Subsidies Draw Renewed Scrutiny’ – Polemics About NPR CEO Katherine Maher-Uri Berliner – Why it Matters to MHVille – Facts and Analysis
‘Which Came First the Chicken or the Egg?’ Unveiled – Science-Reason-Faith-Business-Ethical Behavior Challenges Reveal Keen Insights on Charlie Munger, Sam Zell, Warren Buffett and Many Others
Affordable Housing Crisis Solution Made Easy – 9 Minutes of Facts with Applied Common Sense
‘Grand Canyon Sized Gap’ Between the Elites and Most of Us – Research Reveals What the 1 Percent Think of the 99 Percent – Survey Results, Facts, with Population Manipulation MHVille Analysis
Whitehead: ‘Watched – You’re Likely Already on Govt Watchlist’ – ‘2024 Is the New 1984: The Rise of the Security Industrial Complex’ – Evidence, Claims, Facts, and Analysis
Dr. William Happer Explains Science on CO2 and Climate – Happer, Other Experts on Motivation, Agenda, Psychology and Sociology Behind Agenda Driven Big Lies – Why it Matters to USA-World-MHVille
Life and Death-In Some Ways We Choose Our Own Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory – Exploring Thoughts from Bootcamp for Boomers, Gen Z Concerns, AARP-AMAC-ACRU-Akalue and Joe Biden-Realities Check
Independent Party ID Tied Record High-Democratic ID New Low per Gallup–How that Matters in Affordable Housing-Manufactured Home Advocacy and Manufactured Housing Industry Performance-Reality Checks
Happy Holidays! ‘Outrageous’-In Time for Christmas, New MHI Doc Reveals Apparent Threats to any Who Disagree w/Manufactured Housing Institute as MHI Declares Sweeping New Meeting-Event Powers
Big Picture-Have Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Leaders Defrauded Own Members? Prima Facie Case of Racketeering-Market Manipulating Allegations Based on MHI Members Published Statements
Google-Industry Issues-Trends-Behaviors-THE Witness for Contemporary MHVille Woes – Artificial Intelligence Praise for ‘Manufactured Housing Expertise’ – Experience of L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach and Manufactured Home Pro News
August 2023 Production Data – Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Leaders Should Embrace Responsibility for Continuing Manufactured Home Production Decline – Consolidators Fueled Crisis?!
Lowey Dannenberg Probe Equity LifeStyle (ELS), Hometown America, Lakeshore Communities, Sun Communities, RHP Properties, YES! Communities, Inspire Communities, Kingsley Mgt, Cal-Am Properties
‘If We Keep Doing What We’ve Been Doing We Will Keep Getting What We Got!” – MHIdea-Post-Production Trade Association(s) Status – MHI, MHARR, NAMHCO, Other Examples Considered – Full Transcript plus Analysis
The Trump Arrest – Why it Means ‘Business as Usual is Dead or Dying’ and ‘The Party is Over’ – Malcom X, AI, Orwellian Two Minutes of Hate, and Silver Linings
America and Manufactured Housing are at a Crossroads – Greenwald: ‘It’s Not Left Vs Right Anymore, It’s Anti-Establishment Versus Pro-Establishment’
Outraged MHEC Member – ‘Crucify Gooch!’ – MHARR Says – ‘No One at MHI Should not be “Commending” Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac’ and ‘Bad Faith Excuse’ – Upton Sinclair Rules in Manufactured Housing?
‘Texas Manufactured Housing Expansion Continues, More Growth on the Horizon’ Per TMHA-Texas Real Estate Research Center (TRERC) – But ‘Sentiments’ Misleading per MHARR Data? Facts and Analysis
Historic Faux Pas! New Series Announced Explores American Exceptionalism Through Properly Sourced Research into Affordable Manufactured Housing History – Previewing Fleetwood Homes Dennis Hill Sagas
Steve Hollosi, Rev Emmanuel Akalue, Chuck Norris – True Inspired Tales of Independence Day, USA Fourth of July – Success360 – ‘Fourscore and 7’ and ‘We Hold these Truths to be Self-Evident’ Practical, Uplifting Tips
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Protecting yourself, promoting yourself
June 27, 2012
News Analysis
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
June 22, 2012
News Analysis
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
June 20, 2012
News Analysis
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
June 15, 2012
News Analysis
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!”
June 13, 2012
News Analysis
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
June 8, 2012
News Analysis
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
June 6, 2012
News Analysis
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!
June 1, 2012
News Analysis
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
May 30, 2012
News Analysis
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
May 25, 2012
News Analysis
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!
May 22, 2012
News Analysis
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
May 20, 2012
News Analysis
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
May 16, 2012
News Analysis
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
May 11, 2012
News Analysis
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
May 9, 2012
News Analysis
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?
May 4, 2012
News Analysis
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
May 1, 2012
News Analysis
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
April 27, 2012
News Analysis
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
April 25, 2012
News Analysis
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
April 20, 2012
News Analysis
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
April 18, 2012
News Analysis
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
April 14, 2012
News Analysis
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
April 9, 2012
News Analysis
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
April 6, 2012
News Analysis
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
April 4, 2012
News Analysis
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
April 1, 2012
News Analysis
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!”
March 28, 2012
News Analysis
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
March 23, 2012
News Analysis
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
March 19, 2012
News Analysis
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
March 16, 2012
News Analysis
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
March 14, 2012
News Analysis
"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
March 9, 2012
News Analysis
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
March 7, 2012
News Analysis
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!
March 3, 2012
News Analysis
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
February 29, 2012
News Analysis
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
February 26, 2012
News Analysis
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
February 25, 2012
News Analysis
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
February 25, 2012
News Analysis
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
February 20, 2012
News Analysis
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
February 17, 2012
News Analysis
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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