False Beliefs Vs. Facts Regarding Today’s Manufactured Home

“Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.”–Henry Rosovsky, Harvard economic historian

If you’ve noticed, I’ve written a lot about the modern manufactured home and how the manufactured home industry is continually trying to convey why and how today’s manufactured home is not the same as the mobile home of 35 years ago.

If you’ve read these blogs, you are probably thinking,”well, here he goes again,”  and you would be correct. Unfortunately, there are those that still relate to the negative images that mobile homes had three decades ago and the false belief that today’s manufactured home must be “a mobile home with a new name.”

The quote above was not specific to manufactured homes, however, it does describe the difficulty of convincing those that their long held beliefs and myths are contrary to reality and facts.

So, here I go again.  Below, you’ll find a statement of facts that contradict many of these false beliefs and should debunk the myths about the manufactured home, the manufactured home industry, and the thousands of  homeowners experiencing the American dream of quality and affordable home ownership. The facts are followed by a list of a few of the nearly 200 articles on this web-site to further validate these facts.

•  – Manufactured homes are the only form of single family housing subject to a U.S. Congress mandated building code.

• – Manufactured homes are built in a controlled factory environment and not subject to adverse weather, theft and other perils prevalent in site built construction.

• – Manufactured homes are built on a steel foundation with unitized construction to withstand the rigors of transport to site.

• -Quality of building materials and amount of materials used in the construction of a manufactured home is equal or superior to those in a home built on site.

• -The return on investment and appreciated value is equal to that of a site built when siting is comparable. A manufactured home does not negatively affect conditions of value and aesthetics of communities.

• – Manufactured homes are eco-friendly, resource conscious, energy efficient, built to area climate conditions, constructed and installed to federal storm safety standards, and adhere to fire safety requirements that are superior to most state and local requirements.

• – A manufactured home may be customized to the specifications, needs and desires of the home buyer.

• – A manufactured home is only truly quality affordable housing in America, with costs typically 15 to 35 percent less (without land) than a comparable sized and equipped site constructed home (without land.)
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