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By Ray Schmitt Why would a manufactured home retailer want to be known as expensive?? Well, what one person calls expensive, another calls value. Consider cars for instance; the real cost is not the initial investment but the price per mile driven. A higher initial cost, well built, low maintenance vehicle (think Honda) will last longer, have less maintenance and …

PresenterPro shared the graphics that follow, and asks the compelling question, what’s next?  Every week here at ManufacturedHomeLivingNews.com, we will showcase a new Featured Home. You will find new articles. As you check back in on future visits, you might find yourself asking that same question, “what next?” Before visiting MHLivingNews.com, many visitors: Had no idea that you could have …

The New York Housing Association made arrangements April 30-May 3, 2013 to place a factory-built home in the Empire State Plaza for their Legislative Summit. The video that follows provides a brief history, but also tells the story of how hundreds of state legislators, their staff and thousands from the public were exposed to the amazing quality found in today’s …

The pros at MHVillage tell us that almost everyone who wants to sell their manufactured home would be well by working with a professional.  After all, selling a home can be a complicated and confusing process and many folks simply don’t have the time, or the know-how, to properly sell property.  However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t learn from listings For Sale By …

he two videos that follow are a pair of couples out of the millions who live happily in manufactured home land lease communities across the United States and Canada. One of the first things that jump at you as you watch these videos is that these are not actors, these are real people sharing from the heart. Both of these …

Conventional housing often reflects regional variations. Some houses in New England look different than those in Arizona. The same is true with manufactured homes. You can and so see similarities, but also regional differences.   This video from Northwest Pride Association showcases facts that reflect well in their region. But it also has insights good for all parts of the …

by Dave Shanklin  CU Factory Built Lending, has wowed our industry with its very popular “Step Rate” loan product and has no plans of ending it anytime soon.  The Step Rate loan product offers the borrower a very low rate for the first five years of the loan, which adjusts one-time at the 61st month to a pre-determined higher fixed rate, …

 by Mary Beth Juergens  I had the opportunity to speak during a session at the Iowa Manufactured Housing Association’s 65th annual meeting in Cedar Rapids held on November 12th. I want to again congratulate their entire association for organizing such an educational event. I enjoyed being among so many professionals with such enthusiasm and dedication to helping Iowans (and those in …

First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation hasn’t forgotten that the most important word in “home loans” is HOME. The real estate crisis has put words like “securitization” and “derivative” into the mouths of people across the nation. But somewhere along the line, many forgot that home loans are about people and their dreams, not Wall Street portfolios. FGMC hasn’t forgotten that. We …