A collection of helpful manufactured home resources for homeowners and buyers.
Buying a new manufactured home is probably one of the most important decisions you will make in your life. Nearly a third of all single family homes bought in recent years are manufactured homes. It is essential to understand that buying a new manufactured home is different from traditional home buying. Our hope is that … Read more
When it comes to mobile home community living you can expect to receive benefits you won’t find on private land or in other multi-family housing. Let’s go through some basics of mobile home community living. The Basics of Mobile Home Community Living Mobile home communities first and foremost rent lots. The homes on the lots … Read more
A manufactured home floor plan is an invaluable tool for potential home buyers. In the US alone, there are dozens of manufactured home builders offering hundreds of different models. Using information provided on the model’s floor plan can help buyers determine the best home for their needs quickly and easily. …the floor plan is a treasure map, written in … Read more
Meet Pam Willis, a fellow homeowner in the process of updating her vintage mobile home. We are honored to have her contribute to MHL! Today, she discusses her experience with a Federal Pacific Electric Panels (breaker box). These panels were used extensively between 1950 and 1990. Federal Pacific Electric Panels Little did we know when we moved into … Read more
In September 2011, I started Mobile Home Living. I bought the domain name, published through a free blogging platform called Blogger, and had no idea what I was doing. Looking back, it’s hilarious how naive and uneducated I was about the manufactured housing world and blogging in general. How this site eventually found its footing and gained popularity … Read more
Most new manufactured home models on display at dealerships have been professionally decorated so they are a great resource for decorating and remodeling ideas. That’s why we’ve decided to feature a new model on a regular basis – to share the new features available in present-day manufactured homes and provide ideas that can help you with your own manufactured home … Read more
Lots of people have an outdated opinion of manufactured homes. Whenever they hear the word mobile or manufactured they conjure up images of small, thin-walled campers that can be pulled behind a vehicle. Does the manufactured home above look like it can be pulled behind anything? The Palm Harbor manufactured home model you see above (and below) … Read more
Retirement is something we all look forward too. We work hard for 30+ years to support our families and the reward at the end of all that hard work is retirement – it’s the icing on the cake of life! Unfortunately, a lot of us aren’t quite as ready as we need to be for … Read more
The world has changed a lot in the last 30 years. There used to be a set path we were supposed to follow. We were supposed to graduate high school and go to college. Then, we were supposed to graduate from college and get a job in some huge corporation with an IRA, health insurance, and two … Read more
When I was in elementary school I had a favorite house that set right outside my hometown. This home was regal and fancy. It was a two-story brick home with three white columns and to a middle-class coal miner’s daughter that had always lived in a manufactured home, this fancy brick house was my idea of … Read more