It’s been a while since we did a new model home tour, so we’re correcting that right now with our latest summertime video of “The Kennedy.” We shot this last month, during an Inside MH Road Show...and we have some surprises in store for you on this video. If this is your first Inside MH video on this site, this one is …
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Whispering Pines is a “55 plus” manufactured home community. Nestled among the trees of Western PA, we knew it was way over due for us to share the perspective of those who enjoy “retirement community” living. This Inside MH video interview is with Jack and Betsy Norman, who will tell us in their own words what they like about the …
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Art Linkletter was a much beloved radio and TV personality, perhaps best known for the “House Party” show. Linkletter died in 2010 at the age of 97. Years before, during the 1980s, Art Linkletter was hired by the Western States Manufactured Housing Association to do a campaign to better inform the public about the quality and appeal of manufactured homes …
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We knew we wanted to share James Hodges’ story around some national holiday. Independence Day – the 4th of July holiday period – seems like a perfect fit! James has a terrific home, as you’ll see in the second video on this page. It a ‘residential style’ manufactured home, meaning if we didn’t tell you it was built in a …
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Tens of millions of Americans follow a life-path that includes starting-out or re-aligning with apartment living. When their time comes to decide – “what’s next?” – that’s when the choice or comparison between a manufactured home and other housing options comes into play. That’s one of many reasons we were so pleased to do this interview with Jon and Amy …
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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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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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We’ve asked the question before. Who knows today’s manufactured housing the best? The answer should be obvious. Those who own, build and inspect contemporary factory-crafted homes. In this video, we bring you the following personalities. Von Washington, who’s work was warmly praised by President Obama, talking about modern manufactured homes. Sam Landy, President and CEO of UMH Properties, one of …
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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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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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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 …
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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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“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.” This often repeated phrase first appeared in an editorial in the September 21, 1897, edition of The New York Sun. A young girl had written to ask the editor if there really was a Santa Claus. A few days ago, a homeless woman in the Chicago area, came to believe that there really …
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xMMKOVnqPWAKJTLv Every year the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) at their annual “Congress and Expo” event announces the award winners for a variety of categories. This year’s winner for a new home design in a manufactured home under 1800 square feet was CMH. The photo spread below are courtesy of MHI. You’ll notice details such as high ceilings, crown molding and …
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