JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge.
This case involves whether, under § 506(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, delivery and setup costs should be included in the valuation of a retained mobile home in a Chapter 13 proceeding. Both the bankruptcy court and the district court determined that delivery and setup costs should not be included in the mobile home's valuation. We agree and therefore AFFIRM.
I.
The relevant facts of this case are undisputed. 21st Mortgage Corporation financed Kayla Glenn's purchase of a used mobile home for the "base price" of $29,910. This base price apparently included the cost of delivering the mobile home, as well as the costs of blocking, leveling, and anchoring required by Mississippi law. 21st Mortgage retains a purchase-money security interest in the home and has a secured claim of $27,714.
Glenn filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 13. Glenn's bankruptcy plan allowed her to retain her mobile home and pay 21st Mortgage the secured value (plus 5% interest) over the life of the plan. 21st Mortgage objected to the confirmation of the plan because it disputed the valuation of Glenn's home. The dispute is whether $4,000 — the alleged cost of necessary delivery and setup services for Glenn's mobile home — should be included in the valuation. Because Glenn has chosen to retain her mobile home, she will not again incur the costs of delivery and setup.
The bankruptcy court determined that the delivery and setup costs should not be included in the valuation of Glenn's mobile home, overruling 21st Mortgage's objection
The district court agreed with the bankruptcy court's decision in light of Rash and the text of § 506(a), noting that "[v]irtually all of the courts that have considered ... whether to include delivery and setup costs in a mobile home valuation have reached the same conclusion." The district court therefore affirmed the bankruptcy court's judgment and dismissed the appeal. 21st Mortgage timely appealed to our court.
II.
"We review `the decision of a district court sitting as an appellate court in a bankruptcy case by applying the same standards of review to the bankruptcy court's findings of fact and conclusions of law as applied by the district court.'" Endeavor Energy Res., L.P. v. Heritage Consol., L.L.C. (In re Heritage Consol., L.L.C.), 765 F.3d 507, 510 (5th Cir. 2014) (quoting Clinton Growers v. Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (In re Pilgrim's Pride Corp.), 706 F.3d 636, 640 (5th Cir. 2013)). "Acting as a `second review court,'" we review a bankruptcy court's legal conclusions de novo and its findings of fact for clear error. Official Comm. of Unsecured Creditors v. Moeller (In re Age Ref., Inc.), 801 F.3d 530, 538 (5th Cir. 2015) (quoting Fin. Sec. Assurance Inc. v. T-H New Orleans Ltd. P'ship (In re T-H New Orleans Ltd. P'ship), 116 F.3d 790, 796 (5th Cir. 1997)); ASARCO, L.L.C. v. Barclays Capital, Inc. (In re ASARCO, L.L.C.), 702 F.3d 250, 257 (5th Cir. 2012). Issues of statutory interpretation are reviewed de novo. Nowlin v. Peake (In re Nowlin), 576 F.3d 258, 261 (5th Cir. 2009).
III.
The dispute here centers on conflicting interpretations of § 506(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. 21st Mortgage argues that because § 506(a)(2) requires calculating replacement value "without deduction for costs of sale or marketing," delivery and setup costs should be included in the replacement value of a mobile home. Moreover, according to 21st Mortgage, a mobile home's "replacement value" — defined as "the price a retail merchant would charge for property of that kind" — necessarily includes delivery and setup costs. 21st Mortgage also contends that the "proposed disposition or use" standard from the Supreme Court's decision in Rash does not apply here because § 506(a)(2)'s language was added after Rash and applies regardless of whether a debtor retains her property. The Manufactured Housing Institute submitted an amicus brief in support of 21st Mortgage's argument, asserting that, under § 506(a)(2), the price a retail merchant would charge includes delivery and setup costs for mobile homes.
Glenn did not submit a brief to our court on appeal. We requested the input of the United States Trustee Program.
We begin with the text of § 506(a). See Nowlin, 576 F.3d at 261 ("When interpreting a statute, we begin by examining its language."); see also BedRoc Ltd. v. United States, 541 U.S. 176, 183, 124 S.Ct. 1587, 158 L.Ed.2d 338 (2004) ("[O]ur inquiry begins with the statutory text, and ends there as well if the text is unambiguous."). It is a cardinal rule of statutory interpretation that "effect shall be given to every clause and part of a statute." RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank, 566 U.S. 639, 645, 132 S.Ct. 2065, 182 L.Ed.2d 967 (2012) (quoting D. Ginsberg & Sons, Inc. v. Popkin, 285 U.S. 204, 208, 52 S.Ct. 322, 76 S.Ct. 704 (1932)).
Section 506(a) of the Bankruptcy Code governs the valuation of secured claims in Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceedings. Section 506(a)(1) states that the value of a creditor's claim "shall be determined in light of the purpose of the valuation and of the proposed disposition or use of such property...." Section 506(a)(2) states:
11 U.S.C. § 506(a)(2).
Section 506(a)(2) should not be construed to the exclusion of § 506(a)(1) when the two clauses can be read consistently. "[I]t is a `cardinal rule that a statute is to be read as a whole,' in order not to render portions of it inconsistent or devoid of meaning." Zayler v. Dep't of Agric. (In re Supreme Beef Processors, Inc.), 468 F.3d 248, 253 (5th Cir. 2006) (en banc) (quoting Wash. State Dep't of Soc. & Health Servs. v. Guardianship Estate of Keffeler, 537 U.S. 371, 385 n.7, 123 S.Ct. 1017, 154 L.Ed.2d 972 (2003)); see also Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts 180 (2012) (Under the harmonious-reading canon, "[t]he provisions of a text should be interpreted in a way that renders them compatible, not contradictory."). We agree with the district court that there is nothing in § 506(a)(2) that prohibits considering the "proposed disposition or use" of the property in the valuation.
Section 506(a)(1) — and the Supreme Court's interpretation of its language in Rash — inform our interpretation of § 506(a)(2).
Under § 506(a)(2), the valuation of a mobile home is determined by its replacement value, which is "the price a retail merchant would charge for property of that kind considering the age and condition of the property at the time value is determined." 11 U.S.C. § 506(a)(2). This specific replacement-value standard accords with § 506(a)(1)'s directive to consider the "proposed disposition or use" of the property because both statutory requirements focus on the specific property in question. See In re Allen, No. 16-11029, 2017 WL 685568, at *3 (Bankr. W.D. La. Feb. 17, 2017) (interpreting the phrase "of that kind" in § 506(a)(2) to mean "a mobile home of that kind that is already fixed in place and therefore not in need of delivery, setup and connection costs"); In re Prewitt, 552 B.R. 790, 799 (Bankr. E.D. Tex. 2015) (reasoning that § 506(a)(2) is consistent with Rash because it defines "replacement value of collateral securing a consumer debt ... as the price a retail merchant would charge for the property itself — not for tangential services that will not be actually performed").
Section 506(a)(2)'s definition of replacement value as including any "costs of sale or marketing" does not undermine this conclusion. The mandatory inclusion of costs of sale or marketing does not extend to all costs tangential to the replacement of a mobile home. While costs of sale or marketing are repeat costs of doing business, delivery and setup costs for a retained mobile home are completed service charges "which will not, in reality be repeated." In re Prewitt, 552 B.R. at 800; see also In re Thornton, No. 15-6762-RLM-13, 2016 WL 3092280, at *4 (Bankr. S.D. Ind. May 23, 2016) ("Courts consistently have held that, under § 506(a)(2), value cannot be reduced by costs of removal and cannot be increased by costs of set up and delivery."). As the Trustee correctly emphasizes, delivery and setup costs "are not
Our holding accords with the determinations of all courts that have addressed the issue. See In re Eaddy, No. CV 15-05744-DD, 2016 WL 745277, at *7 (Bankr. D.S.C. Feb. 23, 2016) ("Courts have uniformly rejected including [relocation and setup] costs when determining value pursuant to section 506(a).") (collecting cases). 21st Mortgage cites no caselaw to the contrary.
In light of the statutory requirements and the Supreme Court's determination that the "proposed disposition or use" of collateral is crucial to its valuation, delivery and setup costs must not be included in the valuation of a retained mobile home under § 506(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.
IV.
Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.
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