At the end of the day, "the people" decide in so many ways. The powers that be spend time and money getting folks to do this vs. that, why? Because those powers need something from we the people. So it is always interesting to see what the professionals – you and your colleagues! – who …
We did a post a little over a year ago called Failure to Report. In it we outlined items that at the time, in our editorial opinion, it was in the Manufactured Housing Industry's best interests not to comment or report upon. There are often such matters at play, which might – for example – …
In recent years regulatory impact has forced our industry into pretzel-like contortions. Consider the challenges faced by manufactured home communities. When options – such as "buy-here, pay-here" "captive finance" are tried, the ever growing cost of regulatory compliance threatens those methods. While a number of states have de minimus exemptions, not so with the Feds. …
Tom Cruise did a movie a number of years ago, with 'cocktails and dreams' being the theme of a pub the fictional entrepreneurial bar tender wanted to open. While Cruise won't be present, dozens of the leading lights from the RV and Manufactured Housing industries will be at the 2013 induction ceremonies, which will include …
Hot July nights and even hotter days have yielded to August and the frenzy of back to school and so much more. Manufactured housing is still on a general two year uptick in new home shipments. As you will see in some of our August Featured Articles, while there are still plenty of challenges to …
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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