Do you live in a mobile home?

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

If so, how do you like it? Good investment? Thoughts?

honeybeagle · ‎10-19-2011

We live in a manufactured home community age 55 and over. Our home is situated over a pit so it is ground level. Only one step up into our house. Due to changes with the laws of the city all the new ones brought in are above ground with skirting around the bottom and a stairrcase to enter. I love our home. it is quality built and well insulated. It would be considered a double wide. We have two bedroom and a office, two full bathrooms. We are empty nesters and did not want a community with children and teenagers. The important thing to research is the management. Do they enforce the rules that residents must meet. Examples would be maintenance on the outside of their home , including their yard. Hope this helps.

CalminHeart · ‎03-09-2010

We lived in a mobile home for 18 months. I would not do it again. I realize they've changed a lot since we lived in one but I was never comfortable.

Group 5 minus 1 · ‎03-11-2010

Hubbs says not a good investment.

I know a person who lives in a mobile home community for those 55 years and older. Her home is lovely. There is a lot of "pride of ownership". Her neighbors are sooooo wonderful.

Hubbs also says look at the selling price of mobile homes,used after market price.

Imaoldhippie · ‎06-10-2015

While single wides lose their value considerably I would still buy and live in one anyway. Most of my childhood we lived in a trailer.

I own one now but do not live permanently in it. Its in another state and in the summer when we go visit family we stay in it. We are considering selling our permanent home, (which is a double wide) and moving into the single wide. Its a lot cheaper living. The only reason we are still "thinking" on moving is because of the Ohio winters.

If you are looking for an investment, then I say no. If you want to live cozy, less expensively and dont care about re-sale value then go for it.

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Meowingkitty · ‎06-19-2010

I don't live in one nor would I. Out here in Arizona they always seem to be the ones hit by monsoon storms or fires and are totally trashed. I would worry about structural integrity.

Chessa35 · ‎01-27-2015

Had the opportunity to live in my in-laws double wide for 8 months , in Florida . It was a 3 bedroom ,2 bath , living ,dining and laundry room . It was really big and very comfortable living . We really liked it . Didn’t feel like you were in a trailer. My in-laws were very happy there .

PilatesLover · ‎08-20-2014

A negative factor to consider is formaldehyde. The manufacturers don't use as much as they used to, but it is still in the materials used to make them.

We looked at moving into one in the 1990s and there were posters in every room about formaldehyde emissions, so the warning had to be a law. Due to my husband's severe asthma, my allergies and having an eight year old at the time, we never looked at another.

River Song · ‎03-15-2010

I'm in hurricane alley (Florida) and wouldn't want to live in a mobile home year round unless I was willing to evacuate every time there was a hurricane. Evacuating to a shelter is very unpleasant. It's either that or you get in your car and start heading to Georgia with thousands of other cars on the road. After Hurricane Irma in 2017 hit my area, mobile homes were totally destroyed, twisted like a tin can, from tornadoes generated by the hurricane.

That said, my in-laws, now deceased, lived in a mobile home community on a golf course and loved it. They were retired and played golf every week so it suited them. But, if a hurricane was coming, we insisted that they stay at our house and not in the mobile home.

Their mobile home was a double wide, had a carport (no garage) with a small storage shed, and a small back porch that looked out on the golf course. My DH was in construction and said the mobile home had cheap finishes and that it was difficult to fix things. And he was constantly having to fix things. Anyway, this was 30 years ago and I'm sure mobile homes have improved since then.

Are they a good investment? No, I don't remember getting top dollar for the mobile home after my in-laws died. A mobile home might be a good choice for a seasonal second home in Florida during the winter but then you have the expense of upkeep of the home to deal with during the summer.

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SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

I know someone who sells mobile homes for a living. They told me most are made to last for about 50 years and they are not something to invest in for resale.

Places to find to put them after you buy one can be a concern...the lot rental fees and park amenities/aesthetics would be something to look at in the areas where you want to live. In my area there are no mobile home parks which I would want to call my neighborhood.