Boomers Aren't Choosing Urban Retirement
Continue reading...17. January 2010
Gone are the days of the “Singlewide”, “Doublewide”, trailer talk. “Today’s Factory Built Housing” is here to stay. Be they Manufactured, Modular, PreFab, Component stacked et. al. it’s a whole new ball game. I had a rather challanging, eventful and even fun-filled experience with many AR members this past year regarding the differences between site [...]
Continue reading...17. January 2010
433a, Manufactured Home Financing, Mobile Home Certifications, Mobile Home Financing
Well, there comes a time and a place for all good things to end. I’ve owned a cute little 14×36, 504sf one bedroom, one bath Manufactured Home in a very charming little Beach community known as Leucadia for the past several years. One of my daughters lived there from the time we put it in [...]
Continue reading...17. January 2010
433a, Manufactured Home Financing, Mobile Home Certifications, Mobile Home Financing
Well, If You’re Tired of Waiting Around For Things To Happen Check Out What Just Might Happen In The Next RE Boom. Tens of thousands perhaps hundreds of thousands of old Trailers and Mobile Homes will be removed from “Resident Owned” Mobile Home Parks in the next few years and brand new Manufactured Homes will be [...]
Continue reading...17. January 2010
Are You Prepared? Here we sit in the comforts and confines of our own abodes and protected environs watching this staggering and mind boggling epic event unfold from our flat screen TV and online computer. All the while hundreds of thousands these poor souls are experiencing first hand, this horrific turning point in their lives [...]
Continue reading...11. December 2009
433a, Manufactured Home Financing, Mobile Home Certifications
Take two minutes to check out the link below if you want to see just how quick and simple your building solutions can be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E76jxaCddRc&feature=related Albeit the time line is exceedingly hyperbolic to say the least this will give a builder, developer, planning departments, permitting officials and especially the homeowner a basic understanding of just how [...]
Continue reading...11. December 2009
Well, who’s left? Now GMAC Finance Decides To Hit The Exit Door and Abandon Manufactured Homeowners Nationwide. It’s not enough that TAYLOR, BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP hit the skids and a very viable lending source for Manufactured Homes fell by the wayside. Now to add to the pain GMAC as just announced their departure.
Continue reading...30. November 2009
With all of the hulabaloo about first time buyers and an $8000 credit to help them find a pathway to the American dream (all of this insured by the way by FHA), one would think that one of the safest harbors for lending dollars would be manufactured housing—certainly the last bastion of low-cost housing. [...]
Continue reading...1. August 2009
THERE’S BEEN A WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN GOIN ON IN THE MOBILE/MANUFACTURED HOME INDUSTRY LATELY ABOUT THE INEVITABLE “BIG ONE!” In the photo’s above the entire deck of this mobile home was destroyed as well as the awning and carport that ran continuously around the front and side of the home. The destroyed skirting, shifting, tweaking and the [...]
Continue reading...25. April 2009
Manufactured Home homeowner borrowers get the run-around like you wouldn't believe and hear promises after promises from impatient and ill-informed lenders and mortgage companies
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17. January 2010
433a, Manufactured Home Financing, Mobile Home Certifications, Mobile Home Financing