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 …
Read More »U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly and others on The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act, S 682 and HR 650
“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 …
Read More »Do It Yourself! Insulated Skirting Installation for Manufactured Homes, Handyman Tips
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 – …
Read More »“The Condo Killer!” Provides Quality, Greener, Appealing, “Affordable Luxury” Living
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 …
Read More »Video Commercials vs. Interviews or UMH Manufactured Home Tours?
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 …
Read More »The Home Place – Warrior, Alabama – Inside MH Road Show Video
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 …
Read More »Furnishing a Small Bedroom or other Space, tips from Ikea
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 …
Read More »1.1 Million Global Shipments of PreFabricated Homes Projected by 2020
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 – …
Read More »Public Officials, Realtors, Housing Inspector, Industry Pros and Consumers Praise Modern Manufactured Homes – Inside MH Road Show Video Interviews
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 …
Read More »Sam Landy, UMH CEO, on Dodd-Frank and The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act – S 682/HR 650
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 …
Read More »Dodd-Frank and Manufactured Home Financing: The Place Where Good Intentions and Unintended Consequences Collide
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 …
Read More »The Tidmore Home – Exclusive Video for Inside MH
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! …
Read More »Linda Hazelhoff, Associate Broker, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Kalamazoo, MI on modern Manufactured Homes – Inside MH Road Show Video
In the video below, you will meet a professional who has been in real estate for over 1½ dozen years. Linda Hazelhoff’s husband is a custom builder, and one of her sons has a degree in architecture. It is fair to say that Linda knows homes, construction, quality, durability and design. What that in mind, the insights from this video …
Read More »Veterans, People & Pets – Pain, Death and New Life – Inside MH Video, Al & Joy Vollberg
Let’s start with a fact that will be a news flash to some. Reality TV can be quite scripted and staged. By contrast, what we are doing with our Inside MH Road Show segments is different! These are videos about real people, answering candid questions about their experiences in manufactured homes or manufactured home communities (also known by the dated …
Read More »Tyson Blattner, Purdue University Grad Student on Manufactured Home Living – Inside MH Video Interview
Lets allow Tyson Blattner and this video to speak for themselves, and just point out a few things that the visuals and this Inside MH Road Show video suggest. Tyson is going to Purdue University North Central (PNC); he is a few only weeks away from having his Master Degree in Business Administration. He is sharp, athletic and as he …
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