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Do It Yourself! Insulated Skirting Installation for Manufactured Homes, Handyman Tips

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There are many types of possible foundation enclosures – aka “skirting” – for a manufactured home. Regular vinyl skirting is the most common. On the elegant Tidmore Home, we saw brick used as a foundation enclosure. The first Do It Yourself (DIY) video on installing vinyl flooring we did with Brad and Craig Albers was such a big hit – …

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Video Commercials vs. Interviews or UMH Manufactured Home Tours?

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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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Furnishing a Small Bedroom or other Space, tips from Ikea

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We don’t work for Ikea, but let’s tip our hat in their direction! Because as tens of millions know, Ikea does a cool job setting up displays in their stores of small spaces that look bigger than they are. This can be very handy in any house, including a manufactured home, when you want to maximize a small bedroom or …

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Dodd-Frank and Manufactured Home Financing: The Place Where Good Intentions and Unintended Consequences Collide

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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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Veterans, People & Pets – Pain, Death and New Life – Inside MH Video, Al & Joy Vollberg

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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 …

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Who knows Manufactured Home Reality the Best?

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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 …

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Congress, Don’t Be Fooled! The Upcoming Vote on Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act, HR 650

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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 …

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From Mobile Home to Townhouse to Manufactured Home – Sue Midgett – Inside MH Video

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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 …

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VOG – What? Why? Plus New Manufactured Home Resident’s Video Story

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Some years back, Arby’s began a campaign that touted the idea that “Different is Good.” In fact, different can be good, bad or neutral. So let’s see what the 411 is on VOG use in manufactured homes – which certainly is ‘different’ – and why it can be good for millions of home buyers and already is for many home …

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From Florida to Northwest Pride – Video Views of Modern Manufactured Homes

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Manufactured Home Living News is far from alone in producing videos focused on the MH Lifestyle. Companies, individuals and MH Associations are among the many which have also provided video insights and commentary that promote a better understanding of this contemporary, eco-friendly, quality, affordable living option. We’ll share two different videos in this article, the second one from Florida the …

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Is More Manufactured Housing Coming to Hawaii?

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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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An Inside Look at Manufactured Home Living – a Builder’s and Home Owners’ Viewpoints

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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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Salute to service people on Veteran Day, reminder that Manufactured Homes qualify for VA Loans

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Wikipedia says that “Veterans Day is an official United States holiday that honors people who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces, also known as veterans.” Veterans Day is often marked by flags and flowers in cemeteries where the dead are laid to rest, as well as with parades or other honors for those who are still living and have …

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When Bad News is Good News and Modern Manufactured Housing

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For many in the mainstream media, bad news is good news, because it routinely sells more newspapers, magazines, books or advertising. For example, the top story today isn’t that over 330,000,000 million Americans don’t have Ebola, rather, it’s that a handful in the U.S, did or do – and one foreign visitor died – who brought the deadly disease with …

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Legislation that may impact RVs-Park Model Homes and Manufactured Housing

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Congressmen Marlin Stutzman (R-3 IN) and Jackie Walorski (R-2nd IN) announced Thursday October 9th legislation they’ve introduced legislation aimed at preventing recreational vehicles from being regulated as manufactured housing (MH), the the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette and MHProNews tell Manufactured Home Living News. Marlin Stutzman (R-3 IN) and Jackie Walorski (R-2nd IN), photo credit – WikiCommons. As our regular readers …

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