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Home buyers often overlook the great value offered by a manufactured home that can be customized to fit their lifestyle. Buyers can choose from hundreds of designs, but they can also create their own manufactured home design by customizing any of our floor plans. Our goal is to provide you with a home that will enable you to feel that you have personalized your home rather than buying a stock model that may not provide the comfort and convenience you would like to have. You can also combine your ideas with the existing manufactured home designs.

A manufactured home can be set in two places. You can put your manufactured home on vacant land that you own or that you purchase or in a manufactured home park. Many people like the idea of vacant land because it affords them more privacy and requires less interaction with neighbors. However, vacant land will require you to be responsible for permits, zoning compliance, and bringing necessary utilities to the site.

Grading the land and preparing a pathway for delivery of the manufactured home, and making sure there are no roadway obstacles to delivering the home sections is your responsibility.

Putting a mobile home on land is the first step towards building your house and it needs to be a solid one indeed. There are many obstacles that can come with a wrong chosen land or area. Special permits, documentation, or emergency issues that can cause many problems. Make sure to do thorough research before buying land and putting a trailer on it.

Several options exist for a manufactured home (previously known as mobile home) setup. An existing piece of land, a manufactured home park, or selecting and purchasing a new property. This article discusses important considerations on how to set up a manufactured home on land.

Selecting a site for setting a manufactured home begins with a conversation with Homes Direct Inc. Specifically, a review of the homes available will enable you to select a model you like. This important step will provide you with information about the kind of property that will best suit your needs and the property that will be best to set a manufactured home on.

UPD: 31 March, 2020

Many loan terms for mobile homes can be difficult to understand. The terms are important, and it is important that every applicant for a manufactured home mortgage has a working knowledge of them. The purpose of this article is to provide an explanation of these terms. While you may be aware of many of them, there are some that you may need to know more about. This article will describe all of the terms that are pertinent to manufactured home financing.

The need for quality, affordable housing has never been greater than it is today in view of our changing economy. Manufactured homes provide the highest quality at prices of 10 to 30 percent less per square foot than the site-built homes. In many instances, the square foot price is $50 versus $94 for a conventional site-built home, and the completed home price variance is greater.

UPDATED 26 OCT, 2017 

You can finance manufactured and modular homes just as you can any other home. The six best manufactured home loan programs are discussed in this article.