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 …
Why are millions of more autos and trucks, Hundreds of thousands of more conventional houses and some five times the numbers of RVs sold annually than Manufactured Homes? The answer is both simple, and complex. "A man who stops advertising to save money, is like a man who stops the clock to save time." – …
The words 'freedom isn't free' can't be more eloquently expressed than when you see Arlington National Cemetery. In and around DC, dead soldiers and dead presidents are among the many monuments and reminders of the difficult, tumultuous, yet noble tale of our American Republic. Freedom isn't free, and that includes our economic freedom, which …
A nice snapshot of the hospitality and class shown during my trip last week to New York would start at the airport. A limo from the resort was arranged for my pick up. The resort’s room was great, as was the view and the meeting facilities. At each stage, with each meal or meeting …
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This blog post will be somewhat like pieces for a jig saw puzzle; each piece can stand alone, but together it will form a picture. Let’s take piece one, a true tornado survival story. 1. They went into the bathroom of the partially underground lower level of their house. The tornado that hit the Merrill …
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At times many tire of the long string of ‘bad news’ that seems to flow endlessly towards our Industry from Washington DC, our state capital or locally. Many working in our businesses today never knew the glory days of the late 90s, when 372,000+ manufactured homes were sold by HUD Code builders in 1998. Even …
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Are you looking for ways to earn more income this year? Want to drive more business in 2011? Learn the secrets from award-winning companies and recognized pros! Join an estimated 1200 Industry professionals who will attend the Tunica Manufactured Housing Show free. Among the homes and services, you will find the seminars indicated below to …
Success Secrets for Manufactured Housing Communities, Retailers and More! Read More »
Three Manufactured Housing News topics today: 1. Post MHI DC meeting comments 2. Reality Check/Getting Mad, and 3. Business Building in the Spring of 2011 So let’s jump in and get started. 1. Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Winter Meeting and Legislative session Duties here in Chicagoland kept me from attending the Manufactured Housing Institute’s (MHI) …
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The monthly stats are in for Manufactured Housing shipments. They have declined again. A double digit drop. In our premier issue in 2009, we featured the message, “I’m madder than hell and I am not going to take it any more!” That was a famous refrain from the 1976 movie Network. If you do not …
Learning from others. We can learn from those in our Industry, or from those outside of manufactured housing. We can learn from people who ‘do it right’ in our business as well as from those who ‘do it wrong.’ What is needed? A willingness to learn in the first place. This isn’t news. Some people …
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