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  • 5 Issues You’ll Need to Consider When Buying a Pre-owned Mobile Home

    There’s more to buying a pre-owned mobile home than many realize. Of course, buying the best home at the best price is important but there are a few more things to consider that may not be so obvious. The following tips will help mobile home buyers have a stress-free home-buying experience. While we can’t cover…

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  • Is Your Mobile Home Making you Sick?

    Most of us started hearing about FEMA trailers shortly after Hurricane Katrina. FEMA had purchased 52,000 travel trailers to house the victims of the nation’s largest natural disaster but they ended up making thousands of their residents sick. The builders of these trailers used cheap composites with extremely high levels of formaldehyde off-gassing levels. Disaster…

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  • Resident-Owned Manufactured Home Communities Could be the Answer

    I’m thrilled to introduce Bill, our guest writer that is sharing his experience as a co-owner and manager of a resident-owned manufactured housing community. You can read much more about Bill and the community at his new blog, Living in a Resident-Owned Community. I’ve lived in a sixty-unit mobile home community in Freeport, Maine for…

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  • A New Hope for Mobile Homes: Flipping Mobile Homes in Portland

    Daniel and Justine Derrick are giving Portland area mobile homes new hope and creating some gorgeous farmhouse mobile homes in the process. The Derricks are a picture perfect family with an all-American can-do attitude. Their company, Living Hope Properties, has flipped four homes so far and they’re working on their fifth. No doubt it will…

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  • 5 Luxury Manufactured Homes for Sale in California (January 2019)

    For a girl that grew up in a hollow in southern West Virginia, California was the epitome of cool. It has everything: beaches, mountains, sunshine, and snow. It even has movie stars and mobile homes! Not just your ordinary mobile homes though, they have a ton of high-end luxury manufactured homes for sale in California.…

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  • The Long, Long Trailer Book

    If you like vintage mobile homes you probably know all about the classic movie The Long, Long Trailer. It stars the funniest red-head that ever lived, Mrs. Lucille Ball, and her handsome husband, Desi Arnaz. The movie is a lot like the couple’s popular TV show, I love Lucy. Both are about a couple that…

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