This evolutionary article will make the point in less than 250 words. Would you call an old crank-style wall phone a modern smart-phone? They’re both phones, but the technology and quality then and now are so different! Yet millions today make that kind of mistake about the trailer houses and mobile homes of yesteryear and today’s manufactured homes. Above is …
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Given its 50+ year history, the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show has been called the ‘grand daddy’ of all the trade shows that serve manufactured home business owners, managers and professionals. For years, there has been a debate on the show being kept exclusively as a professional event (meaning, closed to to public) or opening it up on the weekend following …
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Yours truly has been in and around manufactured housing (MH) since the 1980s, which is why I know the questions to ask home owners, or a factory builder, an MH Retailer or MH Community manager. That said, every time we do one of these Inside MH Road Show videos, one learns or re-learns something interesting! I’ve been in a factory …
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Sometimes, less is more when ‘teeing up’ a video interview. This is one of those times when I want to get you into their power-packed video as rapidly as possible. Dr Clivetty and Frank Martinez shed light on why thousands of ‘upscale’ home buyers are turning to manufactured homes (MH), and often to those in land-lease MH Communities. The Martinez …
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“As a U.S. Senator from Indiana, one of my top priorities is to help create jobs for Hoosiers and to support the industries that are vital to our state’s economy and to working-and middle-class families. Indiana’s manufactured housing industry is vital to job growth and to providing affordable housing options.” “I support access to affordable housing, including manufactured housing, and …
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There are many types of possible foundation enclosures – aka “skirting” – for a manufactured home. Regular vinyl skirting is the most common. On the elegant Tidmore Home, we saw brick used as a foundation enclosure. The first Do It Yourself (DIY) video on installing vinyl flooring we did with Brad and Craig Albers was such a big hit – …
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Award-winning Star Homes is a family owned manufactured home retailer located between Huntsville and Birmingham, in the town of Cullman, Alabama. We meet them recently on our latest Inside MH Road Show. In this interview, we talked with Blake Johnson, who plays a key role in managing sales at the business that respected Stanley Dye leads. When you interview and …
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Some 94% of all home shoppers today are spending some of their time doing research online. The National Association of Realtors says that some 85% of all renters want to own. The path to home ownership may be as near as a local manufactured home retailer or community. So what should your shopping process include? ManufacturedHomeLivingNews suggests that everyone considering …
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We were told that the name of the business came about like this. Some customers were describing to the management of the retail center where they were planning on placing their new manufactured homes. “We’re putting our home at the home place” was an expression that often came up, and that name stuck for the owners of the business. The …
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We don’t work for Ikea, but let’s tip our hat in their direction! Because as tens of millions know, Ikea does a cool job setting up displays in their stores of small spaces that look bigger than they are. This can be very handy in any house, including a manufactured home, when you want to maximize a small bedroom or …
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In a media release that included MHLivingNews, GIA has announced their recent findings that manufactured, modular and other forms of prefabricated home building are growing more popular. This confirms the 5 year trend that manufactured home shipments (read, new home sales) have been growing steadily in the aftermath of the mainstream housing/mortgage crisis. Edited experts from the GIA statement – …
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We’ve asked the question before. Who knows today’s manufactured housing the best? The answer should be obvious. Those who own, build and inspect contemporary factory-crafted homes. In this video, we bring you the following personalities. Von Washington, who’s work was warmly praised by President Obama, talking about modern manufactured homes. Sam Landy, President and CEO of UMH Properties, one of …
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Financing is often at the heart of any deal involving a major purchase. Manufactured home sales follows that patten, with some two out of three new homes being sold involving lending. In an exclusive video interview for Inside MH, Sam Landy spoke with us about the upcoming Senate Banking Committee hearing, Dodd-Frank and the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act …
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The path to home ownership lay before him, smooth and attainable as never before. All Eric Powell had to do was secure a small loan. He had a steady job, a decent credit score and a wife who happened to work for a bank: What could possibly go wrong? By Jan Hollingsworth for MHLivingNews.com Christmas came a week early for the …
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Welcome to The Tidmore Home Tour, an Exclusive to MHLivingNews.com that we are so pleased to bring you! As regulars here know, we usually love to show a few screen captures, insights and details from the video we are about to share, but this time will be different. The reason? We have surprises all along the way on this one! …
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