‘Life is a Series of Tradeoffs and Decisions’ – Examining Choices Made Impacting Lack of Affordable Housing and Manufactured Homes; plus, Sunday Weekly MHVille Weekly Headlines in Review
Mark Cole writing via John Maxwell said: “Rick Warren says it this way, “The greatest detriment to tomorrow’s success is today’s success.”” Cole went on to say: “Here’s the question that every leader must ask him or herself regularly: “What is the next level worth?”
John Maxwell teaches a very helpful principle: pay now—play later. We all pay in life. Anything we get will exact a price from us—and the longer we wait to pay, the greater the price. A successful life is a series of trade-offs.
I’ve found that the higher you go, the harder it is to make trade-offs. Why? As we climb higher, we have more, and we find it more difficult to let go of what we’ve worked for. Trade-offs become harder the more you have to lose.”
Manufactured housing has demonstrably been underperforming for essentially all of the 21st century. As the math and history in the reports linked below reveal, the falloff of manufactured home production from the levels achieved in the mid-to-late 1990s are roughly equal to what the U.S. needed but never built.
Some corporate and association leaders in MHVille apparently made the decision that they wanted underperformance. Why? The evidence suggests it is to foster consolidation.
The headlines are linked to reports below are meant to inform and provide a roadmap for the industry to recover and achieve its true potential. Life is a series of tradeoffs. To learn how to get beyond the status quo, it is necessary to first understand what has gone wrong and why.
Objective analysis and critique are essentially for growing a location’s sales, and thus the industry to collectively achieve its potential.
Martha C Nussbaum, image quote design by MHProNews.
Don’t miss today’s postscript.
With no further adieu, here are the headlines for the week in review, from 10.6 to 10.13.2024.
Hindsight can be 20/20. But that twenty-twenty hindsight only occurs when we seek to look at reality objectively instead of through some twisted prism that may make us, or someone else, feel better.
As Cole was quoted saying in the preface:
“Rick Warren says it this way, “The greatest detriment to tomorrow’s success is today’s success.”” Cole went on to say: “Here’s the question that every leader must ask him or herself regularly: “What is the next level worth?”
John Maxwell teaches a very helpful principle: pay now—play later. We all pay in life. Anything we get will exact a price from us—and the longer we wait to pay, the greater the price. A successful life is a series of trade-offs.
I’ve found that the higher you go, the harder it is to make trade-offs. Why? As we climb higher, we have more, and we find it more difficult to let go of what we’ve worked for. Trade-offs become harder the more you have to lose.”
Not only is a successful life a series of tradeoffs, but an ‘unsuccessful’ life is also a series of decisions, good or bad, that are essentially tradeoffs.
When we launched MHProNews, almost 15 years ago, it was originally called MHMarketingSalesManagement.com. While we were praised for being visionary and groundbreaking, we have to admit that we were also naive. It should have been obvious that with several multi-billion-dollar brands involved in manufactured housing that they wanted the status quo. Otherwise, they would have been using their resources and influence to work to improve the manufactured home industry’s low production and increasingly consolidating status quo.
L. A. “Tony” Kovach, photo by Mark Simon, shows Kovach engaging with SAAs in NY. Kovach has a proven history of respect for residents, homeowners and is pro-MH Industry.
We did none of this alone. We benefited, and still benefit, from the input of readers and writers from across the spectrum. We have been blessed by God in countless way. We are not resting on our laurels. There is work to be done. While we pause to recall the 15 years that have come and gone in blink of an eye, we are also looking ahead. Make good choices. If you’ve made some bad ones, and we have all been there, done that, and have a pile of t-shirts to prove it, don’t just accept the past problem. Dust yourself off. Learn the lessons of the past. Prepare for what may be a challenging future, but it is the only future we are going to be given. Let’s work to make the best of it. With God’s help, let’s make the best years the ones that are to come. Let’s start that job by Swamping the Vote. ##
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Some think that Biden is at times coyly giving Kamala the shiv, because she worked to depose him from the Democratic Party nomination. While that is speculative, it is plausible. Biden repeatedly said he didn’t want to step down.
We keep evolving. ICYMI, or need to see the latest, check this link out.
Our son has grown quite a bit since this 12.2019 photo. All on Capitol Hill were welcoming and interested in our manufactured housing industry related concerns. But Congressman Al Green’s office was tremendous in their hospitality. Our son’s hand is on a package that included the Constitution of the United States, bottled water, and other goodies.
Tony earned a journalism scholarship and earned numerous awards in history and in manufactured housing.
For example, he earned the prestigious Lottinville Award in history from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied history and business management. He’s a managing member and co-founder of LifeStyle Factory Homes, LLC, the parent company to MHProNews, and MHLivingNews.com.
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