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An important consideration when placing your new manufactured home on your own property is the “what, where, and how” to prepare for utility connections, such as water, sewer, gas and [...]

Looking back over 40 years plus in the mobile home business (yes, I know they are called manufactured homes now. I’ll get to that later), I tend to think back on how things in the industry were [...]

The foundation your home will be installed upon is one of the most important elements of your new home. There are several different types of foundations and the one you use will be determined by [...]

A recent study by Foremost Insurance Company showed that the average manufactured home owner is 49.9 years old.  However, today’s manufactured homes appeal to a wide range of demographic groups. [...]

Manufactured housing is probably the most studied and analyzed form of housing in the country.  It sometimes appears that the site built housing industry has an obsession attempting to find [...]

Placing your new manufactured home on land you own, or intend to buy, allows you a certain amount of freedom both in the location of the land itself and in the location of your home on the land. [...]

Over the last several months, I have written numerous blogs detailing the many aspects of today’s manufactured home and the manufactured housing industry. Almost all of the articles were written [...]

The affordability of today’s manufactured home is validated and appreciated by most of those that have explored the world of manufactured housing in comparison to the conventional site built [...]

Do you ever wish you had a place to escape the hustle and bustle of the daily grind?  Do you sometimes fantasize about having a second home to get away for a weekend now and then?  Perhaps you [...]

Many years ago, before mobile homes evolved into today’s manufactured home, there was a belief that a mobile home placed adjacent or near site-built housing will result in the depreciating value [...]