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“The Manufactured Home Concert!” Wally Comer, Rich Rice – Adventure Homes Production Center – Inside MH Road Show Video

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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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Dr. Clivetty & Frank Martinez Home, Dover Farms, Martin, Michigan – Inside MH Video Interview and Home Tour

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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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U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly and others on The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act, S 682 and HR 650

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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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“The Condo Killer!” Provides Quality, Greener, Appealing, “Affordable Luxury” Living

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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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Video Commercials vs. Interviews or UMH Manufactured Home Tours?

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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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The Home Place – Warrior, Alabama – Inside MH Road Show Video

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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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Furnishing a Small Bedroom or other Space, tips from Ikea

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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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Sam Landy, UMH CEO, on Dodd-Frank and The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act – S 682/HR 650

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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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Dodd-Frank and Manufactured Home Financing: The Place Where Good Intentions and Unintended Consequences Collide

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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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The Tidmore Home – Exclusive Video for Inside MH

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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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Who knows Manufactured Home Reality the Best?

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Sometimes it helps to ask and answer a simple, straight forward question. Who knows contemporary manufactured homes the best? The obvious answers are: > Those who own them and > Those leaders who work in the ranks of manufactured housing, day-by-day. This is why telling the story of modern manufactured homes via video interviews of experts and home owners are …

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Olga Pecanac, Olga’s Place, Westville Indiana, Inside MH Road Show Video Interview

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Our video man is pretty taken by Olga. Charlie might be a tad embarrassed when I say so without warning him in advance about my publicly making comments like this.  But I’m on Pacific Time as I’m writing and Charlie and his S.O. are on Tampa time and fast asleep. As a military veteran, I’m hoping his lady in the …

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Take another Manufactured Home Tour! Inside MH Road Show Model Video

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a manufactured home (MH) video tour can be worth millions of words. We love sharing the stories of those who live in modern manufactured homes. The stories about those professionals who work in the MH industry day-by-day are equally important for the home-shopping public to see and hear. Video interviews are …

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Smitty Miller, Engineer – Inside MH – Professionals, Millionaires & MH Living

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One of the common misconceptions about contemporary manufactured home (MH) living is that it is only for the lowest income levels. That’s a false perception! This Inside MH video interview is with an engineer. It gives us a glimpse into what many professionals – including millionaires – think about quality, appealing MH living. Let’s say straight away that the manufactured …

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Alan Amy – Louisiana Manufactured Homes – Inside MH Video Home Tour & Interview

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Imagine getting a quality, appealing new home for “half price.” Well, no need to day dream or pretend — because you can when the eyes are opened to the beautiful, modern, energy-saving factory-crafted home option! We caught up with Alan Amy from Opelousas, LA at the 2015 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show to get his take on the modern world of …

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