'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 the list either, but a good football game (like that amazing finish between Falcons and the Seahawks) may be! Some of our regular factory-built housing readers who are also on …
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 a powerful combo indeed. Imagine this! What if you could legitimately profit from the sale of a “competitors” home? Well, you can! Realtors do it every day. Now MH …
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 done or plan to cover. Last week, BuilderRadio called me to do an interview that is scheduled to air in early January. What's up? Short answer: sincere interest in factory-built …
Yesterday in a conversation with Jenny Hodge, Vice President – National Communities Council (NCC) – Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), the discussion of change and its related pitfalls loomed large. During our conversation, Jenny emailed the item below, which is used with her permission: Observations on Common Errors in Change Efforts •Allowing too much complacency •Failing …
We have read of late from Marty Lavin, Doug Gorman, industry lender Al Cole and here on this blog about the impact of Dodd-Frank on our Industry. Clearly we are not alone, as JPMorgan Chase’s leader recently sounded off on the negative economic impact Dodd Frank will have to the U.S. with Fed Chairman Ben …
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Are Manufactured Home chattel finance clouds getting darker still? Attorney and Industry Expert Marty Lavin has sounded off on what ails MH personal property (chattel) lending with this article entitled The Train to Oblivion. A response from an MH chattel lender was made with an article entitled If you don’t go forward, you’re not going …
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We have a lot of topics to cover, but please let me start with something positive and fun: 1. “OMG your site is unbelievably informative! Just listened to your pod cast while sitting in the doctors office! Loved it! I’ll be sure to spread the news to our members to get on board if they …
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In our Friday edition of the Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon, we featured stories from Canada and the United States, including our daily Market Watch report on manufactured housing stocks. My focus for this post is the part of the News at Noon that recapped the Wall Street Journal’s recent article on the …
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