Manufactured Homes in Central Florida

[diane]

We have property in a manufactured home community in Edgewater,Florida (just south of Daytona Beach.

Our main concern is finding a floorplan that will work best for us. My mom lives with us, so we need enough room to stay out of each other's hair, a larger second bedroom for mom (most floorplans have great size master bedrooms and the other bedrooms are tiny), and the most difficult requirement is that I use a wheelchair to get around, so the floorplan needs to be wheelchair friendly.

After six months of palm harbor telling us they can do anything, lower kitchen and bathroom counters, make rooms larger, we were just told that the factory cannot lower the counters for us. Palm Harbor is the only manufacturer we found that has a roll in shower (a $2,600 option!).

Anyway, we found a General Manufactured Home that has a great floorplan for us, but they don't do any custom modifications. The price seems to be low enough that we could lower the kitchen and bathroom counters ourselves and just do without a roll-in shower.

So, my question is: is General a good, well built home? and does anyone have experience dealing with them in terms of customer service and quality of their product?

[Charlotte]

Do Turtle Homes deliver this far? They are a good opton for the handicaped home owner. Check them out!

[Charlotte]

Here's the url for Turtle HOmes

http://www.turtlehomes.com/

[diane]

Thanks for the lead to Turtle Homes. I tried to get in touch with them months ago when first starting this adventure but had no luck. I will try them again.

[Eugene Tartt]

Call Byrd's in Palatka. I Just bought a Skyline from them and I remember they had a home set up completely for the handicapped.
I did not go in it, but I asked the staff about it, and it sounds like what you are looking for. The phone # is (386)328-1020.
Ask for Tray (Manager), keep us posted,Good luck:)

[Roy Bonney]

The modification you need are not out of the ordinary. Southern Energy does this type of thing often.