{"id":17010,"date":"2019-04-12T05:03:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com\/blogs\/tonykovach\/?p=15613"},"modified":"2019-04-23T12:34:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:34:42","slug":"for-want-of-a-nail-manufactured-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/for-want-of-a-nail-manufactured-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"For Want of a Nail &#8211; Manufactured Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16991\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ForWantofaNailManufacturedHousingMastheadMHProNews.jpg\" alt=\"ForWantofaNailManufacturedHousingMastheadMHProNews\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ForWantofaNailManufacturedHousingMastheadMHProNews.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ForWantofaNailManufacturedHousingMastheadMHProNews-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ForWantofaNailManufacturedHousingMastheadMHProNews-575x302.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div id=\"manuf-2613623840\" class=\"manuf-content manuf-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3870480136270376\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3870480136270376\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>For Want of a Nail<br \/>\n<\/strong>For want of a nail the shoe was lost.<br \/>\nFor want of a shoe the horse was lost.<br \/>\nFor want of a horse the rider was lost.<br \/>\nFor want of a rider the message was lost.<br \/>\nFor want of a message the battle was lost.<br \/>\nFor want of a battle the kingdom was lost.<br \/>\nAnd all for the want of a horseshoe nail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In older English, the word \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>want<\/strong><\/span>\u201d could mean \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>for lack of<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d Viewing the above proverbial wisdom through that lens is understood as follows, according to <em>Wikipedia. <\/em>The <em>Masthead <\/em>will further unpack this for those professionals and aficionados who are keen on our segment of the factory-built housing industry after the <em>Wiki <\/em>quotes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>The proverb has come down in many variations over the centuries. It describes a situation in which a failure to anticipate or correct some initially small dysfunction leads by successively more critical stages to an egregious outcome. The rhyme&#8217;s implied small difference in initial conditions is the lack of a spare <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horseshoe\">horseshoe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nail_(fastener)\">nail<\/a>, relative to a condition of its availability.[1] At a more literal level, it expresses the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military_logistics\">military logistics<\/a> in warfare.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Such chains of <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Causality\"><strong>causality<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong> are perceived only in <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindsight\"><strong>hindsight<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> No one ever lamented, upon seeing his unshod horse, that the kingdom would eventually fall because of it<\/span>.<\/strong><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Related sayings are &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>A stitch, in time, saves nine<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;. A somewhat similar idea is referred to in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metaphor\">metaphor<\/a> known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camel%27s_nose\">the camel&#8217;s nose.<\/a>\u201d said <em>Wikipedia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For Lack of a Nail, Manufactured Home Independents Were Lost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manufactured housing has lost many a message. That is proven by the troubling instances like the bullet\u2019s below will note<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/bryan-manufactured-homes-ban-passed-but-petition-count-other-legal-moves-may-stop-texas-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bryan City Council<\/a>, which is just one of a growing number of cities, towns, or counties that have taken steps to limit or ban manufactured homes.<\/li>\n<li>HBO\u2019s viral <em>This Week Last Night<\/em> with John Oliver video on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/hbos-john-oliver-on-last-week-tonight-mobile-homes-video-manufactured-home-communities-fact-check\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mobile Home<\/a>s.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Declining shipments of manufactured homes during an affordable housing crisis. Unbelievable, given that the Urban Institute and others have cited the improved quality of manufactured homes, but facts are what they are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each of those bullet\u2019s reflect this vexing point. The powers that be either can\u2019t or won\u2019t stop\/and or address these trends.\u00a0 That much ought to be obvious, and while debatable, those who would opt to defend the Omaha-Knoxville-Arlington axis\u2019 perspective on the controversy would easily lose.\u00a0 The 3 bullets above are just recent examples of why.\u00a0 Others examples are found in the related reports, further below the bylines, offers, and notices.<\/p>\n<p>So that means, alternative approaches \u2013 not including the current methods being used &#8211; must be developed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parallel Paths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The independents and investors in our industry must not place every bet on one thing. There is an array of possible alternative strategies that have proven useful and must be adapted to or applied to this industry\u2019s circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>One point is simple. Make officials of the federal government do their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has primary jurisdiction under current federal law over manufactured housing. Under the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000, there is enhanced federal preemption for manufactured homes. HUD is the enforcement agency for that aspect of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Some are talking about suing the City of Bryan, TX. The Masthead favors that option, on several different grounds, that could represent the interests (and thus separate causes of action) for individual groups.<\/p>\n<p>But the <em>Masthead<\/em> also favor\u2019s pressing the Feds into doing their jobs. One need not look beyond the border battle to realize that manufactured housing isn\u2019t alone when it comes to the notion of enforcing existing laws. \u00a0The border issues has festered for decades, under Democratic and Republican administrations. The same can be said about the proper implementation of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DtjcqbrK5I\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhousingassociationregulatoryreform.org\/time-to-enforce-the-law-on-federal-preemption\/\">\u201cTime to Enforce the Law on Federal Preemption\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;\u201cTime to Enforce the Law on Federal Preemption\u201d&#8221; &#8212; Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhousingassociationregulatoryreform.org\/time-to-enforce-the-law-on-federal-preemption\/embed\/#?secret=EJw3IExqYz#?secret=DtjcqbrK5I\" data-secret=\"DtjcqbrK5I\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was 2017 when the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform wrote the report linked via the text image box above. It is time to enforce the law on preemption. The linked report below reflects MHARR\u2019s most recent step, in calling on HUD to do a formal study of the issue noted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QTIrFZyrnX\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhousingassociationregulatoryreform.org\/hud-study-analysis-of-zoning-discrimination-against-manufactured-housing-sought\/\">HUD Study, Analysis of Zoning Discrimination Against Manufactured Housing Sought<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;HUD Study, Analysis of Zoning Discrimination Against Manufactured Housing Sought&#8221; &#8212; Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhousingassociationregulatoryreform.org\/hud-study-analysis-of-zoning-discrimination-against-manufactured-housing-sought\/embed\/#?secret=FqEv7pV03h#?secret=QTIrFZyrnX\" data-secret=\"QTIrFZyrnX\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first step with HUD \u2013 or anyone else \u2013 ought to be the direct ask to HUD.\u00a0 But other steps can be included.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elected congressional representatives and Senators can be asked to intervene.<\/li>\n<li>But also there is the Writ of Mandamus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) knows about this option, because their general counsel, Rick Robinson, wrote a book the included that as the title and a subplot. Rephrased, MHI knows they could fight this in several levels, but for whatever reason(s) one cares to float, they have obviously not chosen to do so.<\/p>\n<p>We have a source on the ground in Bryan, TX that told MHProNews that \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>To answer your question without commentary, no one employed by\u00a0MHI\u00a0was present<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, manufactured home industry consolidation continues. It is the larger MHI members who are most often the beneficiaries of that consolidation. Coincidence?\u00a0 Is that a hidden benefit or motivation for those big boys who dominate the association to allow such headwinds \u2013 for now \u2013 so that they can further consolidate the industry? Later, once they\u2019ve consolidated all that they think they can, will the powers that be magically dust off issues like enhanced preemption, and put them to work for their own enhanced profits?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget the investigators question. Cui Bono? Who benefits? Who has the motivation to do &#8211; or not to do &#8211; x?<\/p>\n<p>We think satirically of MHI as <strong>Buffett\u2019s and the Big Boys Buffet<\/strong>.\u00a0 MHI is short for the Machiavellian Housing Institute. Day by day, they build the case against themselves, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Buffett Moat and that of his de facto allies purportedly grows as an outcome of alleged market manipulation and association malfeasance. Or as one executive with long ties to MHI told MHProNews this past week, it is \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>association malpractice<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d That source alleged to MHProNews that MHI had some 4 million dollars in reserves.\u00a0 Why aren\u2019t they using some of those reserves to fight issues like the John Oliver viral video, or zoning issues, like Bryan, TX?<\/p>\n<p>As one more example of purported \u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>association malpractice<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d\u00a0 Why is it that MHI creates supposedly useful research and hides it behind a login?\u00a0 Why does MHAction seem able to get more bad headlines than MHI can stir up good headlines?\u00a0 Why doesn\u2019t MHI and do what MHAction and other who have created useful research have done? Namely, take that information, and beat the drums to make it know widely throughout the land?<\/p>\n<p>Are they incompetent in Arlington? Or rather are cagily in pursuit of consolidation? Doesn\u2019t either one leave us where the industry is right now? Let those queries hang and sink in, as we turn back to the main point.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Writ &#8211; and Order<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Writ of Mandamus<\/strong>. Ask HUD politely, but if they don\u2019t respond, then <strong>Make the Feds do their jobs via a writ of mandamus<\/strong>. Arguably, less costly than many others suits might be. That must be one of the parallels paths.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16996\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/WritOfMandamusJudicialOrderRemedyDoSpecificActObligedToDoByLawMastheadMHProNews.jpg\" alt=\"WritOfMandamusJudicialOrderRemedyDoSpecificActObligedToDoByLawMastheadMHProNews\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/WritOfMandamusJudicialOrderRemedyDoSpecificActObligedToDoByLawMastheadMHProNews.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/WritOfMandamusJudicialOrderRemedyDoSpecificActObligedToDoByLawMastheadMHProNews-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/WritOfMandamusJudicialOrderRemedyDoSpecificActObligedToDoByLawMastheadMHProNews-575x302.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. \u00a0Let\u2019s not lose the nail that causes more manufactured home independents and prospective home owners to lose their part of the American Dream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>We Provide, You Decide<\/strong><\/span>.\u201d \u00a9 ## (News, analysis, and commentary.)<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>See <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Related Reports<\/span>, further below<\/strong>. Text\/image boxes often are hot-linked to other reports that can be access by clicking on them. Third-party images and content are provided under fair use guidelines.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17019\" src=\"https:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LATonyKovachQuoteManufacturedHousingIndustryWontReachPotentialAddresscoreIssuesArtificallyholdingitback466.png\" alt=\"LATonyKovachQuoteManufacturedHousingIndustryWontReachPotentialAddresscoreIssuesArtificallyholdingitback466\" width=\"466\" height=\"534\" \/>By<a href=\"http:\/\/www.83degreesmedia.com\/features\/mhnews072115.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> L.A. &#8220;Tony&#8221; Kovach<\/a> &#8211; for <em>MHProNews<\/em>.com.<\/p>\n<p>Tony is the multiple award-winning managing member of LifeStyle Factory Homes, LLC, the parent company to <em>MHProNews,<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/MHLivingNews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>MHLivingNews.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Office <b>863-213-4090<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> |<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Connect on <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>LinkedIn<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span lang=\"en-US\">http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sign Up Today<\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/daiyGn\">here to sign up in 5 seconds for the<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">manufactured<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> home industry&#8217;s leading<\/span> &#8211; 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For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the message was lost. For want of a message the battle was lost. 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