Tag Archives: manufactured

Avoidable Tragedies! Mobile Home Fires vs. Manufactured Home, and Conventional Housing

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Every unplanned, uncontrolled fire outside of a fireplace, grill or pit is often a story about tragic injuries, deaths and/or property damaged or destroyed. A recent fire reported in Champaign County, Ohio, was no different.  But that blaze and burnt-out mobile home shined a bright light on the differences between mobile homes, manufactured homes, conventional housing and why the proper …

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Site-built, manufactured or modular: What’s the difference and what does it mean?

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When you’re planning to purchase or build a new home, you’ll have to choose what kind of house you want — site-built, manufactured or modular. There are slight differences to each type and all have their own pros and cons. “A newly constructed home may be any of the following three types: manufactured, modular or traditional site-built,” says Kevin Clayton, …

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New Homes for Millennials – Boomers – Inside MH Video – Terry Decio, Skyline Homes

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We caught up with Terry Decio of Skyline Homes in Louisville, KY.  Terry grew up in this industry and comes from legendary stock. Art Decio – who was on the cover of Time Magazine – among numerous other ‘positive media’ attractions. Art would be pleased to see his son Terry and the corporate team re-positioning Skyline to meet the quality, …

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Rich, Poor or in between, Manufactured Homes Done Right Attracts Wall Street Journal, Cleveland-Pittsburgh Federal Reserve and Non-Profits attention

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The Wall Street Journal recently covered the wide array of lifestyle options available to modern manufactured home owners from an upscale perspective, while officials from the Federal Reserve Bank and non-profit leaders focused on a different need for affordable manufactured housing. CFED – the not-for-profit Corporation for Enterprise Development – took a leadership role in organizing of conference with the …

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NBC’s “Today Show” to feature Wind Tests with a Manufactured Home

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ManufacturedHomeLivingNews has been told by informed sources that the NBC “Today Show” will air a special feature on a wind tests involving modern manufactured homes, which were conducted by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS). Image credit, IBHS The Manufactured Housing Institute was invited to be on hand for the test, but they stated they had no …

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Taking a Factory Tour, an Inside Look at the Kit Home Builders West

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As our recent features on tours of manufactured housing production facilities taken by U.S. Congressmen revealed, one of the most powerful ways to see the value of today’s factory built homes is seeing first hand how they are built. Concerns about quality, energy efficiency and appeal all melt away during even a one hour factory tour. With over 120 manufacturing …

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Congressman Bill Flores Tours a Manufactured Home Building Center

“There is no better demonstration of what today’s manufactured home building industry is then walking through a modern production center in full operation!“ exclaimed D. J. Pendleton, Executive Director of the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA). Pendleton was part of a delegation that included Congressman Bill Flores of Texas, who toured a Fleetwood Homes building center near Waco on June …

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CBS News Reports on “Mobile homes: More than just a box on wheels” A look back and the Modern Realities

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CBS News’ recent Sunday morning show report on “Mobile homes: More than just a box on wheels” was a remarkably fair look at the past as well as the new realities of the manufactured home industry.   While CBS’ used outdated terminology in most cases – not clearly making the distinction between the mobile homes that have no longer been …

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Sensationalistic ‘Cold Hard Lessons of Mobile Home U’ New York Times article  by Gary Rivlin draws Manufactured Home Industry Ire, Desire and Fire

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“Pencil head, its not a trailer park.”  So said Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS) Chairman and real estate legend Sam Zell to a packed auditorium of manufactured housing professionals, as Zell described previous comments he’s made to potential investors.  But “its not a trailer park”  isn’t the impression you’d get about proper manufactured home terminology from reading “The Cold Hard Lessons …

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Manufactured Home Production in February 2014 Continues to Rise.

In spite of the worst winter in decades, new manufactured housing production continued its 4 year growth trend, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). By law, all homes built to the federal HUD Code for manufactured housing safety and construction standards are not “mobile homes,” but are legally known as manufactured homes. …

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Clayton Homes partners in the Duck Commander 500

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Clayton Homes announced they are the proud partner of the Duck Commander 500, this year’s annual spring NASCAR ® Sprint Cup Series race at the popular Texas Motor Speedway ®. Some 150,000 fans are expected to attend the event on April 6, 2014. The race is said to be the single most-attended one-day sporting event in Texas. DigitalJournal  and MHProNews.com  …

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Manufactured Homes and the Harvard Study on Rental Housing

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Manufactured Homes and the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies reports on America’s Rental Housing; Evolving Markets and Needs On December 9th, 2013 Harvard University’s respected Joint Center for Housing Studies issued a report entitled “America’s Rental Housing: Evolving Markets and Needs.” The study begins by reporting what we all know from experience, namely that the numbers of renters are significantly up as …

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Yahoo! Finance Cautions: Mortgage Credit Availability Declining as CFPB Rules are coming on line

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Credit for mortgages in general are declining as new regulations and approaching ones are coming on line, says Yahoo! Finance. They cite the Mortgage Bankers Association and AllRegs as their sources, explaining too that tightening credit will result in fewer loans. Their report says that a significant impact will be felt by all home loans under $100,000. Since the Manufactured …

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Professionalism, KYPs and Manufactured Housing

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What sets apart the so-so service of a person or a company versus that of another which excels with customers? In a word, professionalism. This is true for all industries. For example, the service at a good restaurant with a top notch server is marked by someone who is warm and professional. A good server makes you feel welcome, then …

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Factory Home Building in Canada

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According to the Manufactured Housing Institute of Canada (MHICA), there are two broad categories of factory built homes in Canada. The MHICA describes these in the two paragraphs that follow. Manufactured Homes Manufactured (Mobile) homes are factory-built home and can be up to 95% completed when leaving the factory. The homes are typically built with an integrated sub-frame that allows …

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