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Sorry to hear about your problems with your home. We have just over a year in our Skyline and only have minor issues with it. We actually traveled to the factory and saw it being built, made for a nice road trip as we are in Washington and the Oregon plant was only around 6 hours away. We had some i...

Thought I'd jump back on and tell you all what we ended up doing. We used the money from the re-fi as a down payment for a construction loan, built the shop (24x36x12) and got the new Skyline! It has it's flaws (mostly cracks and door issues), but overall we are pretty happy with it. We'll add about...

We looked over the flyers for Fleetwood and Skyline and the "energy star" optional features you had to pay extra for on the Fleetwoods are standard on the Skylines. Makes you wonder what they are trying to pull, huh?

So who are the best builders now. So far we've looked at Clayton, Palm Harbor, Fleetwood, and I've liked Marlette for a while. The Palm Harbor guy has a deal on a new Skyline design that we are thinking about pulling the trigger on. Just curious what we're missing?

We drove around and looked at new ones over the weekend. We talked with people at Palm Harbor and Fleetwood. The PH guy has a deal going on a new design Skyline through the end of the month. It's the front runner right now.

So now I'm thinking, build my shop, upgrade things INSIDE the house and bank the remainder for a few months for a down payment on a new mobile. Think the dealer can come up with a legal way out for us?

Funny thing you should ask. After 2 months of jumping through hoops to get it, we were happy they finally approved us. Then after signing we felt even worse as we realized there was no legal way to do what we had planned to do. We knew what we were signing, but after spending so much time and money ...

We tried to do a conventional loan first, but they wouldn't do it with a single wide on the property. Almost feels like I'm in prison already...

Well that at least sounds a little positive. I don't have a problem doing that IF they will work with me. So far they have been unwilling to do anything with the newer home we were looking at because of the dreaded '2nd move' issue. That's why we had to do it the way we did. I've heard so many opini...

It sure seems odd that I can't put a nicer home on the property without going to jail???