Buying a Manufactured Home: Warranties and How to Handle Issues After the Sell

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We are continuing our Smart  Buyer Series and focusing on the various warranties that may be offered to you while buying a manufactured home and also how to properly handle issues after the sell.  We’ve previously covered how to avoid issues during a manufactured home purchase. We want to help you get the best deal and have the … Read more

Avoiding Issues During a Manufactured Home Purchase

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This is another article in our Smart Buyer Series. Another article in the series is Manufactured Home Warranties and How to Properly Handle Issues After the Sell. If you are going to be a future manufactured home buyer, please read both. Knowledge is power after all!  Avoiding Issues During a Manufactured Home Purchase You’ve heard the … Read more

5 Tips for Buying & Moving Into a Mobile Home

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Please welcome our guest Kenny Soto from a great site called My Move. They have so many great posts for any homeowner and lots of handy tools. If you’re about to make a big move or just want to learn some new things, you’re gonna want to visit MyMove.com. Here’s their top 5 tips for … Read more

Caveat Emptor, Let the Buyer Beware

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 “When I see a mobile home, I see a ATM”                                                                      – Tom Sheppard   This is an article about owner financing deals where the mobile homes are sold but the land or dirt is only rented. I found this on a site called “The  Lemon’aide’ Stand” a blog about investing and making money. It’s … Read more

Buying a Mobile Home: They Can and DO Appreciate!

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Buying a mobile home can be a difficult time. Mobile home and manufactured home loans are hard to find and taxes can be confusing. On top of that, you may have been advised wrongly that mobile and manufactured homes never gain value or appreciate over time so their not a good investment. It’s not true … Read more

Manufactured Homes for Sale: The Price Guessing Game

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Think you know manufactured home property values? In the HGTV magazine there is a game where you looked at one photo of the home and a small description, then have to chose the correct selling price out of multiple choices.I had fun doing it and thought it would be fun to play with manufactured homes … Read more

Manufactured Home Safety Inspection Checklist

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The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) developed this Manufactured Home Inspection Checklist to help residents gauge how vulnerable their manufactured home might be to wind damage, based on where it’s located, how well it’s anchored, and what type of foundation was used. The Institute also has a very informative site called DisasterSafety.org … Read more

Learn More About Mobile Home Insurance

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Nearly eight percent of the U.S. population lives in manufactured (mobile) homes, according to the Population Reference Bureau and US Census. While several laws have been enacted over the years to make them safer and more capable of withstanding destructive winds, we will always need insurance. There are several options available for mobile home insurance. … Read more

Energy Star Tax Savings for Mobile Homes

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You either look forward to tax time or you dread it. I have learned a bit about taxes while working for CPA firms through the years. Unfortunately, I have also learned that a lot of people don’t know about all the tax breaks available to them. I read somewhere that if Americans would actually take … Read more

5 Mobile Home Myths Busted

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The ignorance about mobile and manufactured housing is astounding. By ignorance, I simply mean there are many that are uneducated and misinformed about mobile and manufactured housing. Those people are usually the very ones who speak ill or spread untruths about mobile homes unknowingly. With proper education and knowledge I am certain we can change … Read more