manufactured homes

[goof ball]

Ok everyone is right manufactured homes are the best type of housing.I cant wait to move into mine.Good luck to everyone!

[JohnnyJ]

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[goof ball]

I came to this site to learn more about manufactured homes since I am buying one myself.The things I have said about these houses are what i believe and how I feel.I did not attack anyone or insult anyone.I was attacked and insulted for speaking my mind and feelings.I will stand behind the point ive tried to make that buying one of these homes because you think it is built better than a stick built is crazy.I am truly sorry for upseting so many people.Please except my apology.

[Valerie]

How can you say you didn't mean to insult anyone? You are basically telling people on this forum (many of whom own manufactured housing) that this is what you are buying until you can afford to own a "real home"? If that isn't an insult, I don't know what is.

[jason]

I do not consider these homes as real houses because they can be traded in like an automobile and they are on wheels and can be towed behind a truck.That is why I call them trailors .It was not ment as an insult.If that was the case I would be insulting myself since i plan on living in one of these trailors for the next ten years.I will admit I took things to far and hurt some peoples feelings.I was shocked when terry monroe posted about all the problems he has had with his trailor since day one and poeple attacked him and said he was silly for complaining.That he didnt do the required maintenance and should expect those kinds of problems.He said he was having problems from day one in a brand new trailor.How someone can consider the roof leaking in a brand new house from day one as maintenace is beyond me.I felt he was being insulted just for bringing up something negative about these types of houses.I then made a strong coment about how I felt. I did not insult anyone I just spoke my mind.I was attacked and insulted about my spelling errors.Then after those coments I will admit I got out of hand.I truly apologies for the way I presented myself.I am a good person and I have worked very hard for the things I have.Some people have me mixed up with another jason that is in law school and has made coments about trailors on this site.I build custom homes for people and I know the diferences between a site built home and a home made in a factory.Good luck to everyone enjoy your home.

[Valerie]

Nicely spoken and explained, even if others may disagree. After all, if people live in them, aren't they real homes? Do your homework, tour a factory (if you have the opportunity) get a good home and hopefully, you will be presently surprised. Good luck!

[Jon]

Jason:
Your explanation is understood.
I guess the sensitivity of manufactured home owners is the result of too many misconceptions about these homes that pass for facts. The last thing a manufactured home owner wants to hear is they don't live in "real homes." Such a statement is simply untrue and more than unfair. Its like saying a new site-built home never has a problem. Of course all of us know they do ... and it would not be a particular surprise to find a weather leak in an inexpensive site-built. Even so, many folks are more than willing to acknowledge such problems probably will not occur in a better built and more expensive one.
Yet, let someone buy an inexpensive manufactured home that has a similar leak problem and suddenly those same folks are ready to condemn all manufactured homes as inferior. As with site-builts, the old say that "You get what you pay for" applies to manufactured homes, too. There are manufactured homes produced today that can easily stand-up to the standards of a site-built home. Naturally, they cost more.
So why does someone buy an $40,000 manufactured home then complain bitterly when it fails to perform like a $400,000 site-built home? This type of illogic is what creates the sensitivity you witnessed in this forum. Unless placed in the proper context, such criticism is undeserved.
If folks have a high expectation of performance they should spend the extra money to get it by purchasing an $80,000 to $100,000 manufactured home that would be built to meet their performance expectations.
No matter how you slice it, today's manufactured homes are the best housing value for the money and they enable more folks than ever before to be homeowners instead of renters.

[E. L. Miller]

Jason: I have been browsing the Manufactured Home sites for a couple of weeks now, trying to find out as much as possible about Mobile/Manufactured homes. All of my life I have lived in conventional housing. When I was 60 years old, the company where I had worked for over ten years was sold. Because of my age, I was not able to find a comparable job and accepted a job with no benefits. The stress of all of this caused me to have a stroke with absolutely no medical coverage and I can no longer work. To make matters worse, in 2001 there was a terrible flood here in Houston, TX. Since I live in a community that has never in the history of the city flooded, I was also without flood insurance. FEMA does not cover many, many things. Things like roofs, back decks, driveways, barns, garages, storage buildings, etc. My house is a pier and beam and was floated off of the piers. That was not covered. My well was contaminated. No coverage! My septic system was ruined, and the rats and termites were swept from everywhere in the city to my property. Most of my FEMA money was spent fighting rodents and termites. The tremendously large Norway rats from the Ship Channel area have destroyed my electrical wiring, my stove, and have eaten holes throughout my home. Since my house, that was formerly a show place, is now unlivable, I am trying to learn as much as possible about mobile homes, as a mobile home or public housing are my only alternatives. So far, I have been pleasantly surprised. You can now find homes covered with Hardieplank, or Hardiepaneling, covered with log siding or cedar paneling, with metal panel roofing, with Cape Cod second stories, and L shaped buildings that are taped and floated, have ceramic tile and all kinds of other amenities. What a surprise for someone 73 who thought that all trailer homes were long and narrow, tinny, and were fire traps. Now, when I sell my property as a teardown, I probably will not have the finances to purchase a home as large as my current home, or with a ceiling fan in every room in the house, or a whirlpool tub, but it certainly will be far better than I initially envisioned. When my son, whose first owned home, was a mobile made the suggestion, I cringed and said, “NEVER!” I’m certainly glad that we now have the Internet to show us the error of our thinking. If you are a handy person, no one will ever know that the home you are living in is a mobile. My son completely bricked his in NC. I have seen mobiles covered with stucco in NM, and one was covered with Cedar board and batten. Add a deck or wrap around porch with columns, or cover the front with an arbor and plant Wisteria. With Wisteria you won’t even know the house is there after two years. But even though my life has taken a fantastic downward mobility turn, I will enjoy my few remaining years in a home that will be far better than I ever anticipated—even is it isn’t so MOBILE ANY MORE! Sorry that people are picking on you, but you just insulted their abodes and to them, be it ever so humble, it is still “Their Home!” Good luck in your search! ELM, Houston, TX (But headed to the Alamogordo, NM area!)