Mobile homes lol

Yah, here also-huge market. Not here as in Charleston, but South Carolina.

The problem with mobile homes is that even when you spend the money on the really nice ones, they still depreciate.

Minrott · Post by **Minrott** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:13 pm

heh, that's the truth. We happened to go look at one. Nice place, new manufactured home, plus the owners put an addition on it. The addition was a great room with vaulted cieling, fireplace, wood floors, basement family room. $40,000 in this addition, and they had the reciepts to show it. 20 acres of woods and a barn.

No one would even offer this old lady close to what she and her late husband had into the place. Kinda sad.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:28 pm

those aren't mobile homes are they?

pre-fab modular maybe, but i'm pretty sure mobile homes need wheels, no?

Post by **Mop** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:33 pm

my mom lives ina mobile home alot like the 3rd floor plan. shrug huge market and where she lives is close to 3k in value.

araby · Post by **araby** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:36 pm

if it has axles it's considered a mobile home I think

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:43 pm

araby wrote:if it has axles it's considered a mobile home I think

well yeah, axles kind of imply wheels

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:48 pm

I think what Mindia posted were modular homes.

araby · Post by **araby** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:33 pm

Don't be all smartass--they are literally considered mobile homes if they have axles, which yes imply wheels..but if you remove the axles from under your home, it's no longer considered a mobile home.

the street that my house is adjacent to had four mobile homes at the end when I was growing up...and everyone in the neighborhood signed a petition that they had to removed because of the original plan stating none were allowed because they lower property value. The judge ruled in their favor, and everyone moved out their mobile homes except one family, who had the axles removed, so that they could stay.

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:05 pm

Tikker wrote:those aren't mobile homes are they?

pre-fab modular maybe, but i'm pretty sure mobile homes need wheels, no?

Yeah they are "Manufactured Homes," not "Mobile Homes." I was just being a smartass.

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:07 pm

araby wrote:Yah, here also-huge market. Not here as in Charleston, but South Carolina.

The problem with mobile homes is that even when you spend the money on the really nice ones, they still depreciate.

They don't depreciate in California. I've been looking at these for 2 years now. They go up in value just like any other piece of real estate.

araby · Post by **araby** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:11 pm

that's good then =)

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:16 pm

araby wrote:that's good then =)

Yes and no. Yes because that's good for the seller. No because it sucks for the buyer. lol Even an entry-level pre-owned modular 2 bdrm/ 2 ba 1100 sq ft goes for about $130k now. That really sucks because a modular that size brand-new is only around $70-80k. Then if it's in a mobile home park, you have to pay another $400/mo. for the lease on the space. So, after financing the house and adding the monthly space cost, you're up around $1500/mo.

Oh, and I like your new sig!

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:10 pm

Narrock wrote:
araby wrote:Yah, here also-huge market. Not here as in Charleston, but South Carolina.

The problem with mobile homes is that even when you spend the money on the really nice ones, they still depreciate.

They don't depreciate in California. I've been looking at these for 2 years now. They go up in value just like any other piece of real estate.

What about Usama and Saddam? Where are they going to live?

Minrott · Post by **Minrott** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:40 pm

There's a difference between a "modular" home and a "manufactured" or "mobile" home. Yes, the whole point about axles may differenciate between a "manufactured" and "mobile," however, modulars are completely different and worth much more. A "manufactured" comes in on a semi flat bed, rather than it's own axles, in 2 or 3 complete pieces which are then joined together. They're generally very poor in design, trying to cram everything into the space alotted since they usually have no poured basement in under them like a "modular." Water heater in the closet, that sort of thing. They are usually set up on anchored blocks with a skirt put around the bottom to hide the crawl space, just like a mobile. The only difference between these and mobiles are that they're usually bigger and have no axles.

A modular is something altogether different. That is something built in pieces to customer supplied specifications, or that is built in according to cookie cutter blueprints and floorplans then modified by the customer to their needs/desires. They're built the same way as a stick built home, just built in a factory and assembled on site. Most times you cannot tell a modular from a stick built unless you look closely for hidden joining lines. Most are put on poured basements (in this part of the country). These appreciate at the same value of stick builts. The others just go down the shitter.

Jazendar · Post by **Jazendar** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:19 pm

That's the kind of stuff I do on autocadd. Right now i'm in school for Civil/Architectural Engineering, if you're every looking to build a new house, on wheels or not, and need some plans, hit me up and i'll do it for a fraction of the cost of a licensed place. Get em approved by the city np. Elevations, floor plans, roofing, electric, plumbing, foundation, all that good stuff hit me up~

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:21 pm

Manufactured homes are "stick built" homes. They are just pre-manufactured in a warehouse, built to your specifications, and then delivered to your home site. If you put it on a regular permanent foundation (not the concrete piers), it is every bit as valuable as a site-built home. I took the tour of the Silvercrest plant in Woodland, CA. It's pretty amazing.

Jazendar · Post by **Jazendar** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:25 pm

There's a silvercrest plant in woodland? I live here and I didn't know that.

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:30 pm

Jazendar wrote:There's a silvercrest plant in woodland? I live here and I didn't know that.

They're on Pioneer Ave.

http://www.silvercrest.com/factory.htm

Jazendar · Post by **Jazendar** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:32 pm

Out by the highschool/college?