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Re: Another new chattel lender?

Tony Kovach — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:47:37 -0000

Gents
Your respective responses is part of what makes an exchange of ideas and viewpoints so valuable. Thank you both for your comments.

Tony

Re: Another new chattel lender?

Rebusy — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:03:34 -0000

Hi Tony! I spent 20 years as a mortgage banking before getting into the MH industry. Securitization is a great way to move capital from capital rich areas to capital poor regions. The problem, in the past, with mortgage securitization has been management. Whenever management puts pressure on underwriters to put more loans on the books, you then have to accept more risk.

Re: Another new chattel lender?

Gspanos — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:02:09 -0000

Tony, my friend, "syndicating manufactured home loans" [chattel or mortgage loans] is what partially got us in this financial mess. In the old days financial institutions held their own paper. They had a business insentive to make sensible loans. Making loans to securtize is a path to our same trouble. When are we going to learn?

Re: Reforming and Countering SAFE and Dodd-Frank

Tony — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:42:04 -0000

Tinkatee,
It depends on what you are referencing. FYI, different lenders have different points that they can do Dodd-Frank compliance and still make a dollar.

Re: Reforming and Countering SAFE and Dodd-Frank

Tinkatee — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:16:50 -0000

Was the reference to 30K instead of 50K a typo on the homeowner site?

Re: Manzullo, Rick, Romney and Manufactured Housing

1latonyk1 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:10:46 -0000

Bovine,
Dem bashing? Pardon me?

To my knowledge, Joe Donnelly is a Democrat, and one that we have favorably covered.

The election is very much going to impact MH, as you know, so I do see the business climate, MH and the election as all inter-related.

That said, I appreciate your comments. You are welcome to submit an OpEd to me for Industry Voices on a topic you see differently. Thanks.

Re: Manzullo, Rick, Romney and Manufactured Housing

Boevine — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:05:08 -0000

I gotta tell you Tony that the continued Dem bashing I am reading is pretty offensive to me. My own view is that all politicians will say and do anything to get a vote only not deliver when in office. The current republican slate has a weird way of being pro business when all I hear is why women are bad and contraception is bad.

I'd like to hear about MH on this website and nothing else. Please keep in mind that both Republicans and Democrats are done their best to not help this industry as well as help this industry.

Re: Haitian Disaster Relief and American Factory Built Housing: Crisis meets Opportunity?

Bizhub C650 imaging Unit — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:33:31 -0000

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so many entertaining stuff in your blog, especially its discussion. From the
tons of comments on your posts, I guess I am not the only one having all the
enjoyment here! Keep up the excellent work.

Re: Manzullo, Rick, Romney and Manufactured Housing

1latonyk1 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:24:42 -0000

The number of mentions in Twitter in the past week:

Newt Gingrich 44,458
Ron Paul 60,476
Mitt Romney 120,030
Rick Santorum 148,559
Barack Obama 194,972

This report from @mentionmachine

Re: Getting It Up

Imobilehome — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:16:57 -0000

FHA Title II? I like it! If we could triple our shipments in 3-5 years I'd be overjoyed...

Re: The 2012 Presidential Elections and Manufactured Housing

Tony — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:59:42 -0000

Presidential Politics, links to stories of possible interest

Obama tests
http://mobile.reuters.com/arti...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

http://bluecollarphilosophy.co...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

http://www.google.com/hostedne...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

Re: Rising Shipments, can we fuel an ever Rising Sales Tide?

Imobilehome — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:30:58 -0000

Wow! Don't mess with Texas..

Re: Rising Shipments, can we fuel an ever Rising Sales Tide?

Roger Wendt — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:37:57 -0000

Over the last couple of years we have been selling and delivering a significant number of homes out of dealer inventory in Az. Inventory is now at it's lowest level in a very long time and will probably not go much lower. We will now see a rise in the shipment numbers even if we do not experience an increase in sales

Re: Haitian Disaster Relief and American Factory Built Housing: Crisis meets Opportunity?

moladi — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:29:55 -0000

Just returned from NY - moladi has been selected by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - Rockefeller Foundation Design with the Other 90%
CITIES to showcase the South African designed and patented formwork
construction technology as an innovative solution
to address the unprecedented growth of informal settlements globally.

Addressing two
critical issues

·
Backlog of quality
affordable homes

·
Unemployment

Re: Haitian Disaster Relief and American Factory Built Housing: Crisis meets Opportunity?

Galina — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:11:12 -0000

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Re: What’s Your take on the State of the Manufactured Housing Industry?

Guest — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:50:08 -0000

Link just loops back to this page

Re: Muckraking and the Herman Cain lesson for Manufactured Housing

Tony — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:26:57 -0000

RN,
Often the comments are via phone, text or email. But I understand your point, thanks for YOUR comment.

Tony

Re: Muckraking and the Herman Cain lesson for Manufactured Housing

Rnodel — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:05:52 -0000

Really surprised this one didn't generate several comments

Re: Pre-Christmas Rush Surprise!

Chad Carr — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:09:19 -0000

Tony, thanks for covering the event. Could I add that anyone looking for more information about this event can contact me directly at (800) 336-0339. We enjoyed hosting this event, we also learned a lot from the terrific retailers, community owners and industry experts that attended.

Chad Carr
Rainmaker Software & Consulting

Re: Shame on us

Shawn — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:26:03 -0000

I love the comments and agree we as an industry need to stand together and come up with a united national media campaign to educate as well as familiarize home buyers, politicians and gov officials of the myths and misconceptions. We must address resale of used HUD homes and bring that process much closer to the residential site built process. Problem is no one wants to invest in a home that has almost no chance of easy profitable resale (marketing and financing) or is valued based upon some book. That may work for cars, trucks, RV's, but manufactured housing is almost never moved once set up and differ greatly by local. You can sell the same Ford pickup on the west or east cost and the value is about the same. Not so with factory built housing!

Re: Shame on us

Tony — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:01:16 -0000

GS,
Nice to hear from you, sir. Answer, not at all. What I'm saying is that experience shows that being in the GoToMeeting presentation has told us that time is saved and clarity achieved when someone attends. This vs just reading bullet points on a power point presentation the potential attendee has otherwise not seen or heard.

As an analogy,
Your notes for making a case make sense to you. Would they be as clear to someone else? Obviously, the odds of clarity on your notes go up if you first explained the notes to someone and then handed them over.

Finally, the GoToMeeting format also allows for discussion, comments, questions and answers.

Thanks for your question, I hope this clarifies the comment.

Re: Shame on us

Gspanos — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:02:21 -0000

Tony:The MH Alliance/Phoenix Project continues to draw new parties and inquires. One common question is, where do we find the power point on the MHProNews.com website?The Answer is, you don’t. Are you saying we are to dumb to understand this if we only have the program on our computer.

Re: Let’s not play Dick Tracy

advinjhonsan — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:31:07 -0000

The apparently confessional confidential files and twisted and distorted words and actions,They were fighting the wrong and meets for tell retreat to fight for the righteous.

new york cpa

Re: Let’s not play Dick Tracy

Guest — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:05:45 -0000

remove post

Re: Sneaking a Peek

Doug — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:42:25 -0000

Looks very impressive. I am printing a hard copy in color so I can study it closer and better appreciate the coming changes.