Here’s the paraphrase. “Tony, there are two kinds of real estate agents. Those who do a lot of deals, and those who only do a few every year. We can’t get those upper tier real estate agents to work with us. We’ve tried it, and it doesn’t work.” First of all, let’s admit there IS …
Few of us like a smart aleck, the “know it all” or those who tell us “I told you so.” Having hereby inoculated you with the vaccine of said perspective, please forgive me for reminding you that we stated weeks ago that it was too soon to call for the demise or decline of the …
Before describing the allegedly pending billion-dollar MHC deal, let me express the reason to discuss this at all. Manufactured housing is on a four year new home shipment incline, but we are still at historically low levels. As the Wisconsin Housing Alliance (WHA) Executive Director, Ross Kinzler, noted near the close of the Federated States …
Is a Billion Dollar + Manufactured Home Community US-Canadian deal hanging fire? Read More »
Their headline was a strong tease. Indeed, there were two Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) representatives at the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Congress and Expo (C&E) event last week in Las Vegas. It was hardly an 'invasion.' Indeed, we knew the week prior to Congress and Expo that the pair had registered and paid to …
CFPB, MHI and MH Captive Finance Lending? Like “Screen Doors on a Submarine.” Read More »
In reviewing the Jim Clayton video interview we'll Feature in May, one of the many pearls was his contrasting the doom and gloom of the not-too-distant past, to the more upbeat mood of the present. A comment from another party shared recently ties into the opposite of that perspective. Namely, those in our ranks who …
Perhaps you are a manufactured home (MH) retailer, and you want to compare the latest homes, loans, products and services available in your market. Maybe you are an MHCommunity operator, and you are tired of chasing aging used homes and those repos that still need thousands in updates, and then have no warranty when you …
There is a great column by Zig Ziglar this month, that provides a true to life story about "adding zeroes" that thousands of pros in a Manufactured Housing need to read and heed. Why are we at 60,000 new homes shipped in 2013? Could – and more important, should – we add a zero to …
Adding Zeroes and Fact based Challenges to the MH Status Quo Read More »
After an in depth report published yesterday, there won't be a lot of commentary today about Danny Ghorbani, his recent relationship with George Allen and related. We will first pose a question, then state an obvious fact and then follow up with a few more simple questions before moving on to other manufactured housing topics. …
MHARR after Danny Ghorbani and more Manufactured Housing Issues Read More »
Let me start with a program note, before diving into MHCommunities, MHRetailers and You. For about two years, Marty and Pat Lavin have been suggesting we visit them on their boat at Miami Beach. My family and I have longed to go, but busy schedules kept that at bay, until now. We've set aside this next …
"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees." – Zapata “As the industry winds down, cornfields which became MHCs, will revert to cornfields. I predicted that years ago. How hard is it to understand that if one goes from 350,000 shipments to 50,000 annual shipments, rampant vacancy will be the …
