Manufactured homes are pretty solid. I would not mistrust them too much. At least as well made as most apartments and they er.... well lets just say the compare favorably stacked against the construction of your current place.
My house they originally were asking for 110 and I offered less. Got it for 101.
101? That’s really low these days.
Heh...so there's that...though it ain't sayin' much. ;-)
Hm...at the least, it's an option I hadn't really considered, and probably not a bad thing to keep in mind. Maybe I'll spend the next six months getting really square financially and get into the right mindset, and then start researching. Current landlord has never bothered to come up with a new lease agreement...so although he might fuss a bit if I give notice by, say, fall...he can't do much about it.
A quick glance shows that most of the ones under $150k or so need work or are on a rented lot. :-\ But I’ll need to save up closing costs and all that anyway, won’t I? So it’ll likely still be a long way off. No telling what the housing market will do in that time.
Just kind of depressing, ‘cause my little house in Vermont - very small two bedroom with no land, but still! - only cost $40k. And sold for 50k. Not that there are tons of houses in that range back home, but there are certainly some very nice ones with even a yard and all for 80k or so.