The Wisconsin Mfd Home Owners Association  encourages you NOT to BUY a manufactured home. The building process, both on-site and in the factories, is about cutting corners—using inferior quality sheathing, cutting boards too short to meet in the center of studs—problems that promote irregular air exchange within a house and which eventually produce growth of mold and excessive heating bills. 

Additional problems:  fraud, misdealing, false statement, improper assembly, illegally based seizure of homes, defective set up, worthless warranties, and suspect consumer protection.  

If you are unfortunate enough to get caught in this malignant Pandora's Box as an unsuspecting consumer, you will find yourself immersed in an endless war that will consume the rest of your life and your life's income. You will get no satisfaction from HUD or even some legislators and state agencies because many have been corrupted by the MH industry—they have been bought off with big money and the heady power of control over millions of victims.

The industry is represented by the WMHA (Wisconsin Manufactured Housing Association), newly renamed the Wisconsin Housing Alliance (WHA) since 2006,  which has over 700 (organized) members (park owners, dealers, manufacturers, community managers) and a paid lobbyist.   Remember that WIMHOA and your Chapter are bucking the power structure--that makes what you do political because it is about POWER and who has it.

• Power (money) only respects numbers and force (public opinion).
• We consumers will be a "force," when we collectively organize.
• Our strength is in our numbers, when we organize ourselves.
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• CONSIDER THIS:    To get anything done politically, it takes lots of people, lots of money, and/or lots of public persuasion using the media.   Because WIMHOA typically has few people and little money, our only recourse is the Press.    
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• OUR ONLY POWER is the PRESS, so USE IT and don't let up.    MAKE EVERYTHING THEY DO PUBLIC NEWS.  That means you must communicate with your members regularly using flyers, email, phone calls, etc.  When the Park complains, YOU are being SUCCESSFUL!   So pat yourself on the back!
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• DO NOT fall for that old saw that Park Operators/Managers complain about--that the Homeowners Association is making their business look bad!   HA!   WHO jacked up the rents?   WHO let maintenance go to hell?    WHO has been intimidating residents?  When THEY are complaining, YOU ARE DOING DAMNED GOOD and are EFFECTIVE.  
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• Make no mistake—every relationship is political, whether it is personal, public, or business.    Money primarily separates the haves from the have-nots (them vs. us).  This includes homeowners who are educated buyers—or non-buyers of an inferior product.

• Politics is about power—and power is about money and numbers.  This makes WIMHOA's advocacy political.    Don't underestimate your adversary!  They will use every trick in the book against you, so give them no quarter.