Archives

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 [...]

The attainment of success as a salesperson is defined not only by financial rewards but also the satisfaction of knowing you have provided a worthwhile product and service to the purchaser.  The [...]

Today’s manufactured homes are available in floor plan sizes as small as 600 square feet and as much as 3000 plus square feet. The average size home purchased is approximately 1400 square foot, [...]

“Perception can be deceiving.”  You might assume that I must be technically-smart, considering I work for a high tech manufactured home web-site. Your presumed assumption is totally [...]