Amazing how many missed the point, huh?
Manufactured homes give the working class of this country (what’s left of it anyway) the ability to live free and be independent. And that’s a great thing!
As a Southern, Christian rural white man, I know people are free to insult and belittle me but guess what? I don’t need anyone to “protect” me, I don’t need a safe place, and go on, make fun of rednecks all day long and I’ll probably laugh if they’re funny!
My house is a solid stick built house. No basement, but we don’t worry about the frost line as there isn’t one. No need to worry about the cellar flooding, either.
I have a lot of friends with trailers and double-wides and some are really nice, and others are just old and ugly, but they keep ‘em out of the rain and for them they’re all home sweet home.
I have no problem with mobile homes. Just wish that the size restrictions were lifted. As the articles says they say a cost of $60,000. I can build a nice house for less than that if I could skip some of the code requirement that site built houses have that mobile homes dont have.
And if I could build a one bedroom house and add on later it would allow for it to be paid for as it increased in size. Like as you grew a family. But that is against the law.
I see on television were they allow these tiny apartments so why not tiny houses. Total BS.
And a trailer or modular can be anchored to the ground or a foundation just like a site built house. But you better make sure that it has the structural integrity to with stand the winds pulling the building apart above the anchors. Based on what I have seen most dont because it cost a lot more money.
Good points all. My brother just bought and moved into a manufactured home. After decades of apartment living, he is thrilled not to have to share walls. I toured the place and it’s more tightly constructed than my stick house.