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The need for quality, affordable housing has never been greater. Today’s manufactured homes, formerly known as “mobile homes,” can deliver outstanding quality and performance at prices ranging [...]

Every manufactured home retailer offer a variety of floor plan designs. Although it is impossible to offer every option with every home, most floor plans can be customized. This is the beauty of [...]

In the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, thousands of people migrated weekly from all over the United States to Southern California. Many, like me, came to escape harsh weather and seek the “good life” to an [...]

Cavco Industries, which bought a portion of Fleetwood Enterprise’s manufactured housing division in a bankruptcy sale after the Riverside, California firm went out of business in 2009, has now [...]

Green building is becoming more and more popular throughout the country, and that goes for green manufactured homes as well. In this day and age, there are many options available to potential [...]

So you have found a manufactured home plan that you love and you want to get the ball rolling so that you can move into your new home.  Before you proceed with the commitment to purchase, you [...]

In the late 1970s or early 1980s, I sold 3 double-wide mobile homes from my dealership in Orange County, California to a speculator and installed those units in the Paradise Cove Mobile Home Park [...]

This is the 100th article I have written in 2013 regarding my passion: manufactured homes. You might wonder, how could this be a passion? Well when you, meaning me, has spent almost a half [...]

“Manufactured housing industry, we’ve got a pricing problem!”  (I say “we” as I’m sorta in the industry).  No, our prices are not too high.  The problem is the pricing is inconsistent. [...]

Purchasing a new home is probably the biggest decision any of us will make in our lifetime. If you have finally made that momentous decision to become a manufactured home owner, then you are on [...]