Manufactured Home outperforms conventional site-built house in hurricane wind...
NBC's Today Show aired a report this morning of an IBHS Research Center wind test done in a South Carolina facility on manufactured homes; one showing a properly installed carport and the other view...
View ArticleConventional On-Site Construction vs. Manufactured Home Wind Test Follow Up
If you missed the report in the prior Masthead blog post on this week's IBHS hurricane wind test on houses, please read that now, before proceeding....
View ArticleReal Estate Agents and MH, “…it doesn’t work.”
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...
View ArticleThe Big Picture, MH Puzzle Pieces and More New Manufactured Housing Home Shows?
There are times when industry veterans understandably ask us one or more elements of the following, given the: U.S./Mexico border crisis, the “recession,” the FEDs pumping dollars into the system to...
View ArticleAgonizing, Insightful August Ending
We wrap up some tests and this month with some off the record quotes about some of the news stories that we covered the week ending 8.30.2014. About the story of LandSea, a reportedly green Chinese...
View ArticleManufactured Housing Pros – Do You Like What Your Getting?
Pithy quotations from great minds have the power to cut-to-the-chase and may force us to think in new ways. Let’s look at this quote from George Bernard Shaw, and apply it to manufactured housing...
View ArticleOutstanding October, Trending Turbulence and Re-energizing Manufactured Housing!
Years ago, a speaker said that without positive and negative polarity, you have no (…electric…) power. The truth is what it is. Some is good, some not good, or even ‘negative.’ When a commercial...
View ArticleWhat is MHI’s and the Manufactured Housing Industry’s Leadership’s Strategy?
There are leaders of companies of all sizes involved in the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). Some are huge in MH, others as small as one person and all sizes in between. We routinely get questions...
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Bank Vault Door Closes on Manufactured Housing Lender
We’ve heard for some time the whispers about the now announced closure of U.S. Bank’s indirect manufactured housing lending program. To protect sources, we’ve been unable to do more than hint before...
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Where there is Smoke…is there Manufactured Housing Institute Fire?
Some of the hardest working, savviest professionals in manufactured housing bear the title ‘state association executive director’ – or in some cases – ‘state association president,’ etc.. State...
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