It isn’t very often that one gets a chance to sit down with a billionaire that founded the largest manufactured home enterprise in the nation for a video interview. So we were certainly very pleased to be able to do exactly that at the recent Louisville MH Show, in our video interview with RV MH Hall of Fame inductee, Mr. …
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Since most Americans have never been in a modern manufactured home (MH), it seems obvious than even fewer have been to a sharp MH Model Home Village and Design Center. So as part of our recent Inside MH Road Trip through Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, we stopped at a brand new sales center located south of Pittsburgh, PA. The Utica …
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In the first leg of a recent swing through the Midwest to explore the modern world of manufactured homes (MH), we traveled with our videographer to Westville, IN. Among the locals we interviewed there was Wayne Hopper, who has been a builder and contractor for many years. While I certainly have questions in mind when we begin an interview, frankly, …
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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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Lights, camera, action! For the sake of the politically correct (PC), you can have handy women as well as men, so when we say ‘handyman’ that’s a little like the southern use of ‘guys’ for ladies or gents. In this episode of a planned periodic series, we will be with Brad and Craig Albers at New Durham Estates in Westville, …
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With an eye on expanding its search engine expertise to focus on other technological topics in the fields of automobiles, robotics and healthcare, search engine giant Google plans to increase the size of its campus in Mountain View, California by over 50 percent, from four million square feet to 6.5 million square feet. Google plans to do that utilizing modern …
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Hi Tony, Thanks for the updated link. The videos do a good job of highlighting the information you need to get out there to set the record straight, and they keep hammering home the message of quality, affordability and safety. The HUD official was a very nice, solid interview that also brought the cache of Credibility (with a capital C) …
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At the recent Louisville Manufactured Housing Show, we had the opportunity to sit down with a number of professionals from the manufactured home industry from across the country. We talked to giants in the MHIndustry, like Jim Clayton. We chatted with successful independent builders, like Wally Comer and Rich Rice from Adventure Homes, or Terry Decio from historic Skyline Homes. …
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Bill Matchneer, JD, is no stranger to manufactured housing. In his own words, Bill was the “Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Regulatory Affairs and Manufactured Housing at HUD. I manage the Office of Manufactured Housing Programs which is responsible for the Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards, the Model Manufactured Home Installation Standards and the Manufactured Home …
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Manufactured housing is pretty common on the mainland of the United States. But for a variety of reasons, manufactured home living has not yet caught on to a large degree in the Hawaiian Islands, the 50th U.S. state. That may be changing soon. KHON-TV in Honolulu tells MHLivingNews that a bill aimed at establishing manufactured housing communities throughout the state of …
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We began sharing a periodic series of video interviews that we filmed in Ohio last year with manufactured home owners and housing professionals. We will soon be sharing other video interviews with experts, professionals and more home owners. That said, there are good reasons why we initially selected this part of the country to do these first videos. Among those …
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Jasper County Mississippi was one of three counties targeted by one or more EF2 tornadoes over the weekend of January 3, 2015. Thirty-Three houses were destroyed in these tragic weather events that made the news. Of course, the media outlets focused not on the dozens of conventional houses brought down, but rather on the “mobile home community” where six of …
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Anne, a manufactured home owner, writes MHLivingNews as follows: “I loved your article on attitude change and downsizing. I was one of those people who always said I would never live in a manufactured home, and then life threw me a basket of lemons. Three of my four children had moved to another state, about 6 hours from their family …
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When searching for financing for new manufactured homes, there is an option which many overlook. Investopedia told MHLivingNews recently that the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) makes loans for manufactured homes and land, so called ‘land/home deals’ under the Title II program. Essentially, the FHA loans on a manufactured home have the same kind of terms and conditions as conventional housing. …
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A recent reported surveyed the top 10 things that home buyers want in their next house included energy efficient features. Besides cost and appearance, savvy home buyers have been looking for green features and energy efficiency for years. Green features and sustainable designs can save money both now and in the future, and offer numerous earth-friendly benefits. The Review gave …
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