August. Back to school sales. People in a rush to get their manufactured home before winter sets in. Those end of the summer vacations. Baseball is starting its wind up, while football season is ready to launch. There are plenty of reasons why August is simply AMAZING! Let’s review a few in rapid fire …
Let's begin by stating that those who favor subsidized housing, or other programs for lower income households, routinely do so with “good intentions.” The questions that ought to be asked are many, but we will focus on why manufactured housing professionals ought to sit up and take notice of facts, challenges and “opportunities in disguise” …
Our focus for this column will be facts, opportunities and challenges, so if you want some 4th of July weekend inspiration, you'll find that with: Taking Chance and John Adams on the 4th of July. Let's press onto some eye-opening insights. Just the Facts > The total number of new RVs expected to be sold …
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Three short topics today – the water's fine! – let's dive in and get started. Home of The Brave… "…Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave? O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave…" Memorial Day is the unofficial start to the summer in the U.S.A.. It is also …
There are promising developments in manufactured housing and more in the making. We will review in rapid sequence a few of these, such as the industry's political efforts, Louisville and others in the paragraphs that follow. We've hinted for weeks, and now can openly spotlight, that MHI has been working with 3 consumer groups in …
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 …
Snow at various airports and roadways did not keep 970 attendees from coming to the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show this past Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. In fact, at least two more people reportedly arrived after the registration booth had closed Friday, there specifically to see homes. Reports indicated that factories wrote orders; exhibitors and attendees …
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I was reading something George Allen penned recently, and it referred to a saying we all know well: If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Then, I read an item that Don Westphal sent me. It was an article by Lawrence W. Reed, entitled Ideas and Consequences: Businessmen …
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