One key to the powerful insights of doing Inside MH Road Show video interviews like this one is that you can spot what is real so quickly. Fisherman Dave Cavinder is the real deal. He is earthy, no pretense, authentic! There will be some things that will be a bit salty, so mom/dad, if you want to keep just a …
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Downsizing! Reader Letter to the MHLivingNews Editor
Anne, a manufactured home owner, writes MHLivingNews as follows: “I loved your article on attitude change and downsizing. I was one of those people who always said I would never live in a manufactured home, and then life threw me a basket of lemons. Three of my four children had moved to another state, about 6 hours from their family …
Read More »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 »Realtors © and Conventional Housing Builder/Developers are Invited!
Licensed real estate agents and conventional on-site home builders and developers are being given an opportunity for a free guest pass to attend the 2014 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show. As an industry trade event, this show is not open to the public. Nor is it normally open to anyone outside of the manufactured housing industry. Special Guest Pass Available for …
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 »LMHA’s Lenny Kopowski honored with Jim Moore Excellence in Communications Award
Leonard “Lenny” Kopowski, Director of Government Affairs, LMHA, was honored with the Jim Moore Excellence in Communications Award presented by the Manufactured Housing Executives Council (MHEC) during the Manufactured Housing Institute’s 2013 Annual meeting held recently in La Costa, CA. In Kopowski’s role for the Louisiana Manufactured Housing Association (LMHA), Lenny used a three step, “outside the box” public relations …
Read More »Everything Old is New Again
by Katy Weldon Something amazing is happening to older mobile and manufactured homes in certain areas of California and other parts of the United States. They are in demand! As regular readers of ManufacturedHomeLivingNews know, no mobile homes have been built since June 15, 1976, when the federal manufactured home construction and safety standards went into effect, creating manufactured homes. …
Read More »Social venture ROC USA featured in NPR broadcast
May 3, 2012 Concord, NH – ROC USA, LLC was profiled during the “All Things Considered” segment of NPR’s (National Public Radio) broadcast Wednesday night. ROC USA Founding President Paul Bradley said that with an audience of more than 12 million, the piece goes a long way toward raising awareness of the Concord, N.H.-based social venture. “We’re already seeing a …
Read More »National Industry Leaders Honored at 2013 Congress and Expo
Individuals and companies were honored for outstanding achievement in the manufactured and modular housing industry at the 2013 National Congress and Expo awards luncheon held in Las Vegas April 17, 2013. Those recognized for their contributions are as follows: LAND-LEASE COMMUNITY OF THE YEAR (Northeast/Mid-Atlantic)—Calverton Meadows, Calverton NY (South) – Oak Ranch, Austin, TX (Midwest) – The Community of Rolling …
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