DJ Pendleton is an award-winning state exec and attorney who is deeply committed to advancing the cause of his members and manufactured housing in general. DJ has the notion that we all have a duty beyond ourselves and our own immediate, personal or professional interests. Texas has a lot going for it, has for years …
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Right or wrong – left, center or right – we are all influenced by the media. We may like or dislike someone in part because of how the media portrayal of that person has ‘shaped’ them in our minds. The same thing happens with housing. The public may like or dislike something or someone based …
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I think it was Bob Dylan’s third album that had the lyrics, Oh The Times They Are a-Changin‘. This is as true today as it was when Dylan first sang it. I’ve spoken this past week with 4 well placed manufactured housing finance pros, not counting emails from others. While each had a unique take, …
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In recent weeks, we’ve had Marty Lavin, Al Cole and Pat Curran among others sounding off on Industry related issues via our popular Industry Voices Guest Blog. For those who have not followed that blog, shame on you! if you aren’t a regular reader, you are missing out on some often bright minds sharing keen …
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What do: • Government officials, contractors and lobbyists • MH Business Owners • Associations • MH ‘rank and file,’ managers and executives • Experts interested in manufactured housing all have in common? The answer may surprise you! Each of these groups represents numerous individuals from across the nation that are sources for our MHMSM.com news …
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“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 …
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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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Odds. English is an incredibly versatile language! We have so many ways of expressing ourselves, many of them quite polite. A word like ‘Odds’ can jump to mind for many possible uses: fighting the odds, being at odds (with someone, some group, etc.) odds and evens (as in numbers 1, 3, 5 being ‘odds’) being …
The Business Insider headline “Don’t Show this to Warren Buffett…” was just one of many private or public messages that came into my email in the days following the IBISWorld Report that forecast the manufactured housing dealer as a ‘dying industry.’ Many calls came in on this and related topics in recent days as well. …
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