The popularity, understanding and appreciation of manufactured homes is growing day by day, but a key topic we’re routinely asked about is financing. As a “specialty product,” often local lenders ‘just don’t know’ enough about manufactured homes and so they can be reluctant to lend on what what they don’t understand. Thus the importance of specialty lenders in manufactured home …
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Boston Globe Reports that New Building techniques can avert a Housing Crisis
The Boston Globe published an editorial that began as follows. “THE TERM “manufactured housing” tends to invoke a 65-by-12-foot mobile home plopped down in a trailer park. But the industry has evolved to the point that many housing units assembled in factories are indistinguishable in looks and quality from homes built on site.” We agree. While their recent column seems to …
Read More »Sensationalistic ‘Cold Hard Lessons of Mobile Home U’ New York Times article by Gary Rivlin draws Manufactured Home Industry Ire, Desire and Fire
“Pencil head, its not a trailer park.” So said Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS) Chairman and real estate legend Sam Zell to a packed auditorium of manufactured housing professionals, as Zell described previous comments he’s made to potential investors. But “its not a trailer park” isn’t the impression you’d get about proper manufactured home terminology from reading “The Cold Hard Lessons …
Read More »Caesars Palace 2014 Congress and Expo
Housing professionals will not want to miss the 2014 Congress and Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) along with National Communities Council (NCC) is hosting this all star event. The 2014 National Congress & Expo for Manufactured and Modular Housing will be held on April 29 – May 1, 2014 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. The …
Read More »A Breakfast with…Nancy Geer, New York Housing Association
1) Who, What and Where: (Your name, town and your formal title at New York Housing Association, NYHA). Nancy P. Geer, Executive Director, Latham, NY Background: (Educational/Professional snapshot before entering the factory-built housing arena, at or before the New York Housing Association – NYHA). Graduated from Ilion High School in Central New York, attended Mohawk Valley Community College and …
Read More »Lake Mirror Classic Automobile Festival, October 18-20, 2013, Lakeland, Florida, U.S. Destination
The 14th year of the Lake Mirror Classic Automobile Festival is now history. Some 600 show vehicles were part of one of the biggest regional events of its kind in America. As with many such events, awards were given for various categories of classic vehicles. Mirror Lake in Lakeland, Florida lives up to its name. Lakeland, Florida is located …
Read More »Cancer Cures and the Affordable Housing Crisis
What if there were a true cure for cancer, but for whatever reason, the medical profession failed to embrace it? Or what if some MDs embraced the hypothetical cure, but others and most public officials turned their nose up at the solution, allegedly because it was more profitable to keep the status quo than it would be to cure the …
Read More »A Breakfast with Tim Williams, Ohio Manufactured Home Association
Please tell our readers your WHO, WHAT, WHEN, and WHERE? Tim Williams, Executive Director, Ohio Manufactured Homes Association (OMHA), Dublin, Ohio. Tim, give us some insights into your background, prior to entering the factory built home arena. U.S. Secretary of Labor Representative /Spokesperson, Great Lakes Region, President George Bush Administration (Presidential appointment”) Assistant Secretary of State, State of Ohio. Vice …
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