Just off U.S. 131 is Martin MI. The race track on the opposite side of the superhighway has been there for some 50 years. The Martin schools now have a prominent, new, award winning leader, who will be featured in an upcoming video interview. And in the appealing, residential style manufactured home community of Dover Farms, where we interviewed a …
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Nubble Lighthouse and Sohier Park. York, Maine – US Destinations
Our family is in Concord, New Hampshire, as part of our latest swing for our Inside MH Road Show. We’ve done a number of new video interviews and tours, with more to come. In between, of course we are taking in some of the sights and sounds nearby. Paul Bradley with ROC USA recommended the following popular lobster spot followed by …
Read More »Paul Simon, Singing Homeward Bound, Doing Good Work and MH
“I’m more interested in what I discover than what I invent.” – Paul Simon Simon and Garfunkel were different. They still are. Some want to be different for its own sake, others are willing to be different because of something that moves them in a new direction. “All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear …
Read More »Art Linkletter and Manufactured Housing today
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 …
Read More »How a Manufactured-Modular Home Production Center Achieves Savings and Quality – Inside MH Video with Mike Stone
People who see, touch and feel today’s manufactured homes are often impressed. Some will fall in love with the designer homes and easy-care lifestyles. But old myths and urban legends die harder for others. There are common questions we get about manufactured homes (MH) from skeptics and as well as from those who are enthuisiastic. One common question is on …
Read More »Congressman Stephen Fincher is Demanding Fairness for Rural Americans in Manufactured Homes – The Hill OpEd
There are fine lines to be walked in the subject of The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act – HR 650/S 682. One should not over or understate a problem on this or any other serious issue. MHLivingNews.com has been covering the fact that owners of the lowest cost manufactured home (MH) are being harmed by federal CFPB regulations. We’ll share …
Read More »Deer Valley Homebuilders (DVLY) CFO Steve Lawler-Inside Manufactured Housing Video & Home Tour
“As an industry, we represent all levels of home building,” said Steve Lawler, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Deer Valley Homebuilders, Inc. (DVLY). We spoke with Steve and his associate Chet Murhpree, General Manager of Deer Valley Homebuilders in a recent Inside MH Road Show to their production center in Guin, AL. What Steve meant by his statement quoted above …
Read More »Semper Fi! Video Patriotic 4th of July with Marine Manufactured Home Owner James Hodges, New Durham Estates, Westville IN
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 …
Read More »Dennis Raper – Wood Working Artist at Sunshine Homes – Chain Saw Artist video interview
Millions are ‘into’ various kinds of art. One emerging art form is chain saw art, and when we were recently at Sunshine Homes in Red Bay, Alabama, we caught up with craftsman Dennis Raper who showed us examples of his work. Dennis is a supervisor at the plant. From people in the production center, to office team members, …
Read More »House Inspector Tim Bunch – Comparing Conventional and Manufactured Homes – Inside MH Road Show Video
Tim Bunch has inspected not dozens or even hundreds of houses over the years. He has inspected thousands. He has been elected the head of the house inspectors association in his state. That should qualify him as an expert in most people’s minds. So it is with particular interest that we at MHLivingNews met with Tim to do this in-depth …
Read More »Compare! Tiny Houses, Conventional, Modular and Manufactured Homes – Wally Comer, Rich Rice Inside MH with Adventure Homes
At the end of the day, it’s about making comparisons. You or those you work with, know or love ought to make your next housing decision based on facts, not opinions. You ought to take the same kind of time to truly understand that next housing choice as you would to decide which doctor you want to do surgery on …
Read More »CFED and CFPB – Confused, Conflicted “Friends” of Manufactured Home Owners and Prospective Buyers?
Here’s a riddle for you. Why would a federal agency and a nonprofit think tank, both dedicated to consumer protection, choose to pursue a course that is diametrically opposed to their mutual mission? The Center for Enterprise Development (CFED) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have staunchly supported manufactured housing as an important component of affordable housing for low- …
Read More »Manufactured Home Quality Control – Inside MH with Brent Bolding at Sunshine Homes
We all love to see a great looking home! This article and the videos will show you appealing homes. The first video will share an Inside MH Road Show look at how those great homes achieved such a high level of quality. Let’s start this article differently than many others. We talk about quality and durability in manufactured housing, but …
Read More »A Culture of Customizable Quality Home-Building – Adventure’s Manufactured Home Production Center Part 2 – Inside MH Road Show
In Part 1 of our Inside MH video profile and tour of manufactured and modular home builder Adventure Homes, we heard Wally Comer and Rich Rice talk about “the concert” style coordination found in factory home-building. In Part Two of this video, you’ll see the culture of craftsmanship developed among team members that results in their ability to produce a …
Read More »“The Manufactured Home Concert!” Wally Comer, Rich Rice – Adventure Homes Production Center – Inside MH Road Show Video
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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