Mrs. R2 and I are looking to downsize in our retirement years.
In 5 years we plan to sell our family home in the city and place a mobile home on some land we own in the country.
Here’s what we found out about mobile/manufactured homes. You can pay as little as $20 per square foot up to $100 or more.
You get what you pay for. And many come with 2x6’s, R30 insulation, 30 year roofing and hardi-plank siding, more energy efficient features than you can name, and so much more.
You cannot build a comparable site built home for the cost of a mobile home.
I used to sell them for Oakwood homes.
Yup - and you can custom design the home and pick out the room sizes, the layout, the features and the overall design.
With a stick home, you have to settle for what it is and a renovation can get very expensive.
They have to otherwise they would fall apart on the trip.
IT used to be that you cold locate a trailer on a lot and put it on piers, skirt it and you were good to go.
These days the require a concrete slab the size of the unit.
The reason was that piers and skirted didn’t sufficiently improve the property (i.e. put the wheels back on it and drag it off and the land is essentially unimproved) so the taxes never went up sufficiently for the municipality
I have this problem with a pole barn (48’ X 64”) that I put up on my own land... I desperately want a concrete floor, but have compacted crushed stone because the concrete improves the lot too much to justify the increase in taxes. (take the pole barn down and the land is unimproved). With the floor there, the building is deemed permanent and the taxes triple.