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 …
Read More »Who knows Manufactured Home Reality the Best?
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 …
Read More »Olga Pecanac, Olga’s Place, Westville Indiana, Inside MH Road Show Video Interview
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 …
Read More »Take another Manufactured Home Tour! Inside MH Road Show Model Video
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 …
Read More »Evan Atkinson + Walnut Model Home Tour – Inside MH Video Road Show
We pick up where we left off with Evan Atkinson in an interview series we launched couple of months ago. Evan and his brother, Jack, are front-and-center, hands-on owners and mangers of MH retail powerhouse, Williams-Burg Square. I say “power house,” because their award winning family operation hasn’t sold 500 or 1,000 homes. Rather, they’ve sold an amazing 10,000 manufactured …
Read More »Smitty Miller, Engineer – Inside MH – Professionals, Millionaires & MH Living
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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Congress, Don’t Be Fooled! The Upcoming Vote on Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act, HR 650
If you want to wear a tent, then one size can fit all. To have something more tailored to you, we have to have the ability to choose clothing that fits your needs, taste and budget. The same is true for homes. One size doesn’t fit all. We must be allowed to choose. Those choices should include financing options that …
Read More »From Mobile Home to Townhouse to Manufactured Home – Sue Midgett – Inside MH Video
Some stories just have to be heard for us to connect with them, so we’ll let the video below tell you an intriguing part of Sue’s family story. As you’ll see, Sue Midgett lives in Westville, IN at New Durham Estates. Sue was one of the wide variety of manufactured home owners and professionals we interviewed the week we recently …
Read More »Alan Amy – Louisiana Manufactured Homes – Inside MH Video Home Tour & Interview
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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