Our editorials section offers insights, opinions, and perspectives for mobile homeowners by mobile homeowners.
Discover 11 famous celebrities who lived in mobile homes, from Elvis Presley to Jeff Bezos, and see how factory-built homes shaped their success.
Of all the lies about mobile homes, the one that upsets me most involves mobile home appreciation. Many, many people 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 and I Read more
How WWII transformed trailers into wartime housing—and sparked the mobile home stigma that shaped America’s housing history.
Maybe I’m getting old and grumpy. But every time I see an article about how digital nomads are trailblazers of a completely new lifestyle my eyes roll a bit. I’ll give the writers a little credit for the fairly cool name they’ve given to the ‘trailblazers of a completely new Read more
I’ve been especially tough on Clayton Homes over the last 9 years. In this article, I actually say some very nice things about Clayton Home’s new website and then I follow it up with a complaint because I can’t let them get a big head on us, now can I? Read more
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Over 17 million awesome people living in mobile and homes across the US. Yet, there are very few books, magazines, or television shows that cater specifically to us. Campers and RVs have tons of cool books and magazines. Mobile homeowners are lucky if we get a decent owner’s manual after Read more
Do you know what really burns my britches? This idea that every homeowner has unlimited time, money, knowledge, and energy to dedicate to home improvement and repair. There’s an expectation of perfection in the construction world, especially online. If a homeowner can’t improve or repair their home exactly like the Read more
The term ‘mobile home’ is controversial, to say the least. The manufactured housing industry has spent a ton of money trying to get the term erased from the minds of an entire nation. So, why does the industry hate the term mobile homes so much? In the last 7 years Read more
Esther Sullivan, the author of Manufactured Insecurity, calls tenants of mobile home parks ‘halfway homeowners’ and unfortunately she’s not wrong. Mobile homeowners living in their own home but renting the land under it are the least protected housing group in America. They can be precariously close to losing their homes, Read more
