I just reviewed a housing news item for our Daily Business News blog. In the next decade, we need 16 million new housing units in the U.S. So, even though we are in the midst of this great foreclosure and housing finance debacle, we are on the brink of a boom driven by what every …
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.” ~ Mark Twain So said the great American author and humorist after reading his own obituary on June 2, 1897. Well, the IBISWorld Report was something like that for the manufactured housing industry. Politics, financial log jams and poor industry image, added in to the low ebb …
Mark Twain and the Manufactured Housing Industry Read More »
Last year for Memorial Day weekend, we served you a helping of Beyond Burgers, Brats and Buns. This year we bring you this timely Memorial Day column by Michael Barnabas: We the People – Memorial Day 2011 – Not on My Watch. We also have a fine pictorial reminder sent in by a friend for …
Memorial Day 2011 and the Manufactured Housing Industry Read More »
May is traditionally thought the merriest of months when the promise of spring is kept and summer is just around the corner. May 1 is celebrated as International Workers’ Day in over 80 countries across the world. So let’s hear it for all workers, but especially – in our context – for the hands-on folks …
‘In the Merry Month of May…’ and Manufactured Housing Read More »
March Madness is history and UConn fans revel in their team’s win over favored Butler. Now the NBA playoffs begin April 16. A more brilliant history has been made in Louisville… Tunica… and is coming up in York… Tulsa… the venues of this year’s great manufactured home shows. Irving Berlin said it first about the …
1. March Madness Have you seen our burgeoning Calendar of Events? ? There are Industry Shows galore in March and April as state and national associations across the country sponsor Home Shows and Expos with Trade and Public Days. In 2010, it would have seemed madness to think that some Shows, cancelled because of the …
March Madness, Manufactured Housing Associations and You Read More »
Protest all you will that Valentine’s Day is simply a Hallmark construct and not a national celebration, but it colors the month red without a doubt for men and women of all ages across the country. Whether the relationship is newly budding or long established, close up or across the miles, we take time to …
What Do You Love About The Manufactured Housing Industry? Read More »
On a regular basis, calls and messages come in from across the country – and internationally as well – regarding some comment, idea, content, a question, thank you or critique. We tend to get more high fives than pans in these messages, but let me stress that all are welcome and encouraged. For a few …
Being Heard: Manufactured Housing and Factory Built Construction Media Read More »
Here in the Western World, we follow the Gregorian calendar and call this year 2011. In the Hebrew calendar, this is 5771. In the Islamic calendar it is 1432. In the Persian, it is 1389. And there are more calendars, Mayan and Chinese, and even PC and Mac dating systems! Some calendars are based on …
Holiday Reflections for Manufactured Housing Professionals
Thanksgiving. Christmas. New Year’s. These are times that we gather with friends, family and associates. We celebrate, party and feast! We eat (and sometimes drink ;-) too much! To those distant, we send warm greetings by phone, mail, text, via Facebook, Twitter or email. FedEx and UPS certainly celebrate all the packages that reflect the love and caring that this season brings. These are for most of us bright, grand days during the seasonal darkness where we Americans live.
