Principles, Cheers and Jeers June 2017 The Manufactured Home Industry could be enjoying its best times ever. That’s what the facts tell us. While our industry is experiencing growth, it’s only a fraction of what is possible. NAHB, NAR, Zillow, Case-Shiller and a host of reports from inside and outside of quality, affordable factory-crafted homebuilding …
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” – Warren Buffett “Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.” ― Matthew Kelly There are both keen truths and potent tensions between the two quotes above. The subject is easy, but we’ll avoid an overly superficial look at the …
40 Years of Manufactured Housing, 240th Birthday for America, July 4, 2016 Read More »
Sometimes, less is more. We’ll take that path today with this video of Frank Rolfe and Bob Crawford, who share their views about: Dodd-Frank CFPB Manufactured Housing Finance Regulations Impact on MH owners and buyers – consumers Impact on MH business A new post-production association for retailers, communities and others MHI State MH Associations What …
Video Viewpoints-Bob Crawford + Frank Rolfe on New, Existing MH Associations Read More »
In literature, phrases and words can have various meanings. In the case of through the looking glass, it may mean a window, or a mirror. Let's talk today about mirrors and a valuable, proven Good to Great concept. When something goes wrong for a person or an organization, Good to Great author Jim Collins says …
The next exclusive “movers and shakers” interview coming up for September in our wildly popular series is, A Cup of Coffee with…Leigh J. Abrams. Drew is a billion dollar plus annual sales company, and their long, steady “ashes to cashes” story may be ideally suited for our industry in the waning days of summer 2013. …
Hot July nights and even hotter days have yielded to August and the frenzy of back to school and so much more. Manufactured housing is still on a general two year uptick in new home shipments. As you will see in some of our August Featured Articles, while there are still plenty of challenges to …
“Yes, Virginia, there is a stocking under the tree for top manufactured housing retailers!” Place your cursor on the image to see the caption The recent national PEAK Retailer’s Summit in Chicago demonstrated that successful manufactured housing retailers are to be found in every region of the nation, …
It would be nice if we could share a manufactured housing news headline at MHMSM.com that read like this: MHI and MHARR Cooperate on Dodd-Frank with their Capitol Hill Resources We can’t give you that headline, which is the motivation for this column today. But we do need a truce between the Manufactured Housing Institute …
Can MHI and MHARR Join Hands on Dodd-Frank for Manufactured Housing’s Future? Read More »
