Download or read book Things to Know About Buying Used Or Maybe Even New Manufactured Mobile Homes written by Jacob S. Rascon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the process of purchasing a Manufactured home as well as everything that you should seriously consider and little tidbits that I wish I knew when I was a first-time home buyer especially in regards to mobile homes/manufactured homes.
Download or read book Adventures in Mobile Homes written by Rachel Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hernandez, a.k.a. Mobile Home Gurl, shares stories and adventures based on her own experiences in mobile home investingNthe obstacles, the struggles, and eventually the triumphs.
Download or read book Manufactured Insecurity written by Esther Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after mobile home park closures and community-wide evictions in Florida and Texas—the two states with the largest mobile home populations—Manufactured Insecurity forces social scientists and policymakers to respond to a fundamental question: how do the poor access and retain secure housing in the face of widespread poverty, deepening inequality, and scarce legal protection? With important contributions to urban sociology, housing studies, planning, and public policy, the book provides a broader understanding of inequality and social welfare in the United States today.
Download or read book The Grissim Buyer s Guide to Manufactured Homes and Land written by John Grissim and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative consumer guide to manufactured homes and purchasing land or leasing a home site, providing up-to-date, essential information home buyers need to make an informed purchase decision. This second edition of the bestselling guide is completely revised and updated, including a new annotated construction rating table with 56 criteria you can use to evaluate any home'before you buy. In this comprehensive book, John Grissim, author of the best-selling companion resource, The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes, gives you everything you need to safely'and successfully'navigate the tricky waters of the manufactured home marketplace. He explains how the manufactured home industry operates, how to find a dealer worthy of your trust, how to make the right home selection, and, as important, how to be informed, empowered and swindle-proof. Exahustively researched, with extensive input from both industry insiders and consumer advocates, this guide contains much information that retailers, even the good guys, don't want you to know. In addition to clear step-by-step guidance in the home buying process, John Grissim provides up-to-date, essential information together with authoritative, no-nonsense insights that have made him a respected industry observer and voice for the home-buying consumer.
Download or read book Foremost Mobile Home Fix It Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete step-by-step instructions on mobile home repairs, maintenance, improvements.
Download or read book The Optimal Criteria For How To Determine If A Mobile Home Is Worth Buying Top Reasons Why You Should Never Invest In Owning A Traditional Home Nor Renovating The Real Estate Property And Why Post 1976 Mobile Homes Are The Quintessential Housing Option written by Dr Harrison Sachs and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay sheds light on the criteria for how to determine if a mobile home is worth buying. Moreover, the top reasons why you should never invest in owning a traditional home nor renovating a real estate property are delineated in this essay. Furthermore, why mobile homes are the utmost affordable and quintessential housing option for prospective home buyers and the ample advantages and disadvantages appertaining to owning a post-1976 mobile home are revealed in this essay. Lastly, this essay also meticulously elucidates how you can earn online substantial money so that you can afford to a own a post-1976 mobile home.Even though the criteria to determine if a mobile home warrants purchasing may often seen eminently complex, it ultimately does not have to be and can be streamlined so that is parred down into asking only seven basic questions. These basic questions create a framework a scorecard that allows prospective mobile home buyers to ascertain if the purchase of a mobile home is a warranted purchasing decision. Each correct answer of yes to each criterion question on the scorecard is worth 1 point and an aggregate score of 6 points or more renders the purchasing decision of the mobile home highly likely to be a merited investment for the prospect home owner. You should do everything in your purview to ensure that you are never overpaying on the purchase of a mobile home. It is imperative to leverage this scorecard in order to help guide your purchasing decision so that you can prudently implement a strategical purchasing decision when buying a mobile home.The seven basic questions that you should ask yourself before purchasing a mobile home in order to determine if it warrants buying encompass the following: 1. Is the mobile home manufactured after 1976? 2. Is the monthly lot rent fee under $400? 3. Are the majority of the park's mobile homes occupied and properly maintained? 4. Is the mobile home not in a distressed state and also not in need of any major repairs? 5. Is the mobile home not located in flood zone nor hurricane zone? 6. Is the asking price of mobile home under $30,000 7. Is the mobile home located in a desirable location? As per the first criterion question, it is critical for mobile homes to be manufactured after 1976. Mobile homes of the modern era are today's manufactured homes even though people often prefer to refer to them simply as mobile homes. Manufactured home are manufactured in a factory and have just as much structural integrity, if not more, than stick-built homes which are built on the work-site instead of in a factory setting. The manufactured homes are the mobile homes built after 1976 and are no more vulnerable to tornado damage than site-built homes. Stick-built homes may have less structural integrity than manufactured homes due to having been exposed to the elements when being constructed as a result of never having been constructed in a factory setting. "The term 'mobile home' refers to an unregulated construction pre-1976, and the term 'manufactured home' refers to a housing unit that is constructed post-1976 following specific rules for design, durability and safety" (Understanding the difference," 2017). Manufactured homes can be considered the utmost highest quality homes since all stages of the manufacturing process have been eminently streamlined to practically unalloyed perfection and the raw materials needed to construct the home have not been profusely exposed to the outside elements, unlike stick-built homes that are built on the housing-site. Moreover, post 1976 mobile homes can be moved and subsequently securely anchored to a vacant parcel of land in order to render it almost impervious to hurricanes and tornadoes. Although the utmost devastating hurricanes and tornadoes can damage any type of home, stick-built homes are no less vulnerable to these calamities than post-1976 mobile homes which are securely bolted to the ground.
Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Download or read book A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear written by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.
Download or read book The Modular Home written by Andrew Gianino and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modular homes are the perfect solution if you want to build a high-quality, customized home without undue expense or hassle. In this informative guide, Andrew Gianino helps you make the best choices throughout the modular building process, with suggestions for everything from choosing the right dealer and contractor to setting the specs, price, and schedule. Whether you’re looking for a cozy Victorian or want to add a personal touch to a wide ranch, there’s a modular home that will fit your tastes, lifestyle, and budget.
Download or read book The Manual for Manufactured Mobile Home Repair and Upgrade written by Mark N. Bower and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lean Thinking written by James P. Womack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lean Thinking was launched in the fall of 1996, just in time for the recession of 1997. It told the story of how American, European, and Japanese firms applied a simple set of principles called 'lean thinking' to survive the recession of 1991 and grow steadily in sales and profits through 1996. Even though the recession of 1997 never happened, companies were starving for information on how to make themselves leaner and more efficient. Now we are dealing with the recession of 2001 and the financial meltdown of 2002. So what happened to the exemplar firms profiled in Lean Thinking? In the new fully revised edition of this bestselling book those pioneering lean thinkers are brought up to date. Authors James Womack and Daniel Jones offer new guidelines for lean thinking firms and bring their groundbreaking practices to a brand new generation of companies that are looking to stay one step ahead of the competition.
Download or read book Developing with Manufactured Homes written by Steve Hullibarger and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most completely finished variation of industrialized housing is the manufactured home. Many people still refer to these homes as mobile homes, even though they are rarely, if ever, moved. Developing with Manufactured Homes illustrates how the manufactured housing industry functions & how the homes are constructed. It explains how developers can make use of the industrialized approach to building, in lieu of the increasingly cumbersome "stick" building process. Elementary concepts in land selection, acquisition, the public approval process, development & construction are not covered in this book, except to the extent that the use of manufactured housing would dictate a significant variation in practice as compared to building homes on site. The primary focus throughout the text is on fee simple development-merging the house with the land to create a singular title of real estate. Although the emphasis is on subdivisions, planned unit developments & urban infill lots as opposed to the development of land-lease communities, many of the subjects covered are applicable to all of the above modes of land use. This book is an indispensable guide for any builder, developer or student interested in taking advantage of the opportunities in manufactured housing development.
Download or read book Buying a Manufactured Home written by Kevin Burnside and published by Cycle Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help you get the convenience and the quality you deserve--at a price that's fair and with financing terms that won't exceed your budget. It provides an easy-to-follow map for prospective home buyers to compare brands, features, quality, and financing terms. It includes enough detail information about construction to judge whether you're getting what you pay for.
Download or read book The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes written by John Grissim and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive consumer ratings guide to every manufactured home builder and their brands, with at-a-glance listings that provide key information home shoppers need to make an informed buying decision. All 79 U.S. builders evaluated More than 300 brands and series describedPlus, an annotated construction rating chart with 56 criteria you can use to evaluate any home'before you buyJohn Grissim's bestselling "The Complete Buyer's Guide to Manufactured Homes and Land" has been hailed as the definitive resource for navigating the tricky waters of the manufactured home marketplace. Now he has written a companion guide that takes a close look at every manufacturer and the brands they build, providing up-to-date, essential information together with authoritative, no-nonsense insights that have made him a respected industry observer and voice for the home-buying consumer. Each manufacturer's listing includes:Company background/historyStates where soldPrincipal market niche/target customerRetail price rangeWho they compete againstConstruction rating on a 1-to-10 scaleBrands and series describedDescription of a popular modelWhat distinguishes brand from competitionNumber of dealerships Warranty structureAvailability of in-house financing/insuranceWeb site rating and evaluationAuthor's commentsExhaustively researched, and containing much information that many manufacturers would prefer you not know, The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes not only tells you who's who in the manufactured home universe'enabling you to compare and evaluate their products'it will help you be informed, empowered and confident as you make the many decisions involved in the purchase of your new home.
Download or read book Building a Second Brain written by Tiago Forte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Building a second brain is getting things done for the digital age. It's a ... productivity method for consuming, synthesizing, and remembering the vast amount of information we take in, allowing us to become more effective and creative and harness the unprecedented amount of technology we have at our disposal"--
Download or read book National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why You Should Never Invest in Buying a Traditional Home Nor Renovating the Real Estate Property Why Manufactured Homes Are the Most Affordable and Best Type of Housing Option and Advantages and Disadvantages Associated with Owning a Manufactured Home written by Harrison Sachs and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay sheds light on why mobile homes are the utmost most affordable and best type of housing option for prospective home buyers and also elucidates the ample advantages and disadvantages appertaining to owning a mobile home. Moreover, how to make money so that you can afford to invest in buying a mobile home is delineated in this essay. In spite their stigmatized perception, mobile homes are by far the utmost afford and quintessential housing option for most people. Mobile homes of the modern era are today's manufactured homes even though people often prefer to refer to them simply as mobile homes. Mobile home are manufactured in a factory and have just as much structural integrity, if not more, than stick-built homes which are built on the work-site instead of in a factory setting. The mobile homes built after 1976 are no more vulnerable to tornado damage than site-built homes. Stick-built homes may have less structural integrity than mobile homes due to having been exposed to the elements when being constructed as a result of never having been constructed in a factory setting. "The term 'mobile home' refers to an unregulated construction pre-1976, and the term 'manufactured home' refers to a housing unit that is constructed post-1976 following specific rules for design, durability and safety" (Understanding the difference," 2017). The savings for the mobile homes buyers reap goes far beyond manufacturers being able to pass on cost savings to customers from having reduced labor costs and reduced raw material costs from having procured steel, appliances, and the necessary housing parts in bulk. Mobile homes are substantially more affordable than stick-built homes, primarily because they are constructed in a factory, produced in massive quantities with limited customization options available, and the manufacturing process for the mobile homes has been eminently streamlined to minimize inefficiencies. For instance, "Instead of having a separate framing crew, plumber, electrician, A/C professional, cabinet maker, counter top specialist, flooring specialist, sheet-rock crew, insulation crew and concrete crew working for themselves and showing up at all different times like they would on a site built home, you have them all together at one convenient location to work on the construction of the mobile home. Also, each manufacturer will have a limited number of floor-plans that they build. This means that they are building the same plan over and over day after day, which increases efficiency and time as well as cuts down on common building mistakes that are generally experienced with every site built home. All of these floor-plans are drawn by an engineer and are then certified by a licensed plumber, electrician, etc. This cuts down on costs dramatically" (Chapman, 2015). The operational efficiencies associated throughout all stages of the manufacturing process not only culminates in manufacturers being able to produce 4-7 robust, high quality mobile homes in a single day (Chapman, 2015), but also allows the home buyers to minimize their housing costs. Mobile homes can be considered the utmost highest quality homes since all stages of the manufacturing process have been eminently streamlined to practically unalloyed perfection and the raw materials needed to construct the home have not been profusely exposed to the outside elements, unlike stick-built homes that are built on the housing-site. Moreover, mobile homes can be moved and subsequently securely anchored to a vacant parcel of land in order to render it almost impervious to hurricanes and tornadoes. Although the utmost devastating hurricanes and tornadoes can damage any type of home, stick-built homes are no less vulnerable to these calamities than post-1976 mobile homes which are securely bolted to the ground. Mobile homes not only provide a affordable housing option for less than 1/5 of the cost of a traditional stick-built home.
