Some manufactured home communities, particularly those targeted to seniors, also have amenities like clubhouses, swimming pools, spas, tennis courts and even dog parks.
So if you're just looking to buy a bargain and aren't fixated on appreciation, then a manufactured home community is certainly worthy of consideration.
Rep. ROSS: FEMA's excuse that they give, which is not a good one, is that they won't locate a manufactured home to a flood plain.
Your principal residence, for purposes of the credit, is defined where you live most of the time and can include a house, houseboat, mobile home, co-op, condo and a manufactured home.
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Nevertheless, due primarily to the negative impressions many people have about so-called "trailer parks, " the value of a manufactured home is less than a third of a comparable site-built home, even when variables such as neighborhood, structural characteristics and geography are controlled, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Real Estate Research.
That wasn't what analysts were expecting earlier this year, when some predicted another strong year for manufactured-home sales.
Governments will have less ability to force consumers to buy overpriced products simply because they are manufactured at home.
That was 1978, and Indonesia was flooded with all kinds of imported utility goods that Muhammad felt could easily be manufactured at home.
Lenders to manufactured-home buyers say many of their loans would fall into the high-cost category with this regulation, which goes into effect in January.
The lackluster sales have altered the plans of some manufactured-home companies that were expecting such housing to play a bigger role as the housing market remade itself following the crash.
We finance more manufactured-home buyers than any other company.
Since 2003, Panasonic has manufactured high quality home theater projectors in collaboration with Hollywood filmmakers and Panasonic's Hollywood Laboratory.
These were sleeker versions of the clunky ones being manufactured by state-owned monopolies back home.
Why are we still selling home-grown crops but not domestically manufactured cars or trucks?
The conventional wisdom held that many consumers were seeking less-expensive housing alternatives, and manufactured homes, which often can be purchased for less than half the cost of a traditional home, would serve that purpose.
But as Stephen King, the chief economist at HSBC, points out, that link seems to have gone, perhaps because of excess capacity at home, or because China's increasing presence in world trade pushes the prices of manufactured goods and labour down.
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