Should you Buy a MOBILE HOME IN 2024?

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In this Video I discuss the reasons on why I think you should seriously think through purchasing a Mobile home. Whether that is a double wide or single wide. There is times where purchasing one is a feasible option but the price of them has went out the roof. With all this in mind please think through your decision once you sign the dotted line you can’t go back! I really appreciate the view!
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[pinkcinderella]

Nothing to do with the topic of the video, but your wife keeps a nice tidy house! As a stay at home mom myself, I’m impressed! I know how much work that takes with little kids 😅

[kathy]

I just bought a double wide Wick home last Nov. I paid $65k cash. I couldn't be happier. It is an older model 1995...one owner and has been well kept. I knew going in that it would not appreciate, but it is a very nice home that is very cost effective.

[michaelduttry]

I live in double wide built in 1995. We've been keeping it up and repairs as needed. I know it won't hold it's original value but the 5 acres it sits on will.

[KarenCatizone]

Thank you for doing this video. May the Lord bless your family even more. Keep safe always! And tell your wife that the home is well kept.

[MisterPurpleFalcon]

Thank you for that thoughtful tour of your house.

[kibblenbits]

I bought a 1989 16x66 Schult (great condition, furnace was 3 years old and the hot water heat 1 year old, at the time), 12x20 deck, 10x10 enclosed front porch, central A/C, 4 acre's (most of it wooded), 10x10 shed with a dog run, insulated pole barn, with built in work bench's, and 2 outside mercury flood light's (pole barn has it's own 100 amp circuit breaker box, water, cement floor with a drain, both garage doors have opener's, and has a side door), less than 10 years ago for $48k (paid cash and got it below list price), in rural Northern MI. Used it as my secondary, until I retired in 2019, and moved into it (sold my 2 story site built in the city after I retired). My MH came with replacement windows throughout, additional insulation (my heating bill is 1/2 of what my sister pays for her site built home, that's 50 sq ft larger), all appliances (still working), standing seam metal roof, and a renovated handicapped accessible bathroom (the prior owner went into a nursing home). I retired from the largest insurer of mobile homes in the country, Foremost/Farmers, so knew exactly what I was buying. I love my economical and easy to maintain retirement home, with dirt cheap property tax ($700. a year). Around here today, an older single wide, on 1 acre, in halfway decent condition, with no garage, is going for about 80k. It's rare to find one with a garage, and near impossible to find one with a pole barn, unless it's on 5+ acres, with a price tag of 130k+, depending on the amount of acreage. Glad I found and bought mine before all the craziness happened!

[Crusader]

Stick Built homes are in the 400K range there are people never going to be able to afford that manufactured home is the only option! Not to mention it depends on the upgrade you want for the manufactured home, floated sheet rock and upgrade the frames

[valeriehurt]

My aunt had her double wide for over 40+ years & trust her house is a way better built than my aunt (her younger sister) stick built house & the stick built house is at least about 17 years & that house has issues since it was built from the grown up, from the plumbing to the septic to everything you can think of. I have several family members who have manufactured houses who are all satisfied & have several family members who have newer stick built houses who are very upset because their house that they built from ground up is falling apart more so & faster than the manufactured houses in the family. One of my cousins had to get get her newly LVP Flooring repaired twice since she moved into her house. One of my other cousins sold their big stick built & bought a manufactured house & they are much happier with their decision. I grew up in NY so I know when I retire the manufactured route is going to be the route that I take, I already have land that I inherited & it already electricity wired & plumbing ready to sit my house on....

[oldamongdreams]

Thanks for your insight and the tour of your home. Extremely helpful from a potential buyer perspective.

[joshscarbrough]

Appreciate your video. We live in Arkansas and are going to look at some Clayton homes this weekend. All info you are Sharing is great and I would definitely get that extended warranty. Main reason we are looking is because house prices have sky rocketed the last few years. We are really trying to keep our number under or around 200, 000. for everything. We just want a lower mortgage payment.

[UrgentHouser]

Thank you for the video. I was been thinking about purchasing a Clayton Hone

[stevenwilliams]

Thank you for this, especially the amount of detail you went in on the issues and showing them as well. You covered things I wouldn't have thought of like the 12 amp breaker. I just got my preapproval and started looking at land and homes and Clayton is big here in VA too. This gave me plenty to consider and think about.

[st]

We have a 2004 Doublewide as our second home on a lake. We are the 2nd owners. We don't live there every day, but it is at a lake and gets a lot of "lake" living. It was well built, and I would say that it almost still looks like new (other than the style of of decor and colors is outdated) I think that that it is starting to settle a bit because I have found a couple of small cracks in the ceiling. We need to get a mobile home person out there check and maybe relevel it.

[jaypaladin-havesmartswilll]

Thank you for taking the time to show the build quality of your manufactured home. I considered buying a new manufactured home vs an older one in a rental park but after watching several different videos by different owners who are finding tons of problems in less than a year, I am reconsidering buying new. I may just stay with a stick built home.

[FlippinJunkie]

Price breakdown would be awesome! Just found your channel, I hope it explodes!

[karenflowers]

I just found your channel and I’m great so happy l did. I going to start looking for two in the next few months. I’m planning to move into one and have my brother in the other on a double lot. I guess I’ll have to wait.

[BrittDelawder]

Very helpful! Keep it going. I’m a builder as well but have no time to build my own. Good info man!

[lindadmack]

Thank you for the information! Is there a builder you could recommend in the state of South Carolina?

[missw.-ibmx]

I would like to see a video on why manufactured homes do not retain their value over time.
Can you upload some?

[theweatherdude]

My wife and I bought a manufactured home from Clayton last year, closed on it in April and moved into it in June. I had actually seen your past couple of videos like this one before we bought it, and now that we’ve been in ours for almost a year, I can say we’ve had some of the same issues. I’ve overall been pretty happy with ours. It’s solid built as far as having 2x6 exterior walls and being extremely well insulated…found that out after our last electric bill ended up being way cheaper than everyone else’s from the January cold spell. But as far as issues go, trim is one of them. We have full drywall throughout, and we’ve had a few cracks pop up here and there. We have pretty good quality cabinets, but there’s a few trim pieces you can tell they just rushed to put together without much care for quality. We have the same issue with our electrical outlets, although the only real problem I’ve run into is they put one of those in outlets in our utility room where my deep freezer is supposed to go. Not even a week after moving in, that outlet had tripped without us knowing it, ruining everything in it. Our biggest issue is our kitchen floor makes an awful creaking sound in one spot next to the island. I don’t know what’s going on with that, but it’s something they’ll need to fix. We’re documenting all of this and will have them come out to fix it in the next month before our warranty goes out. As long as they stick to the warranty and fix these issues, I’ll be pretty happy. They’ve been good to us, going so far as to replace our refrigerator with a super expensive one from Lowe’s after we had issues with Frigidaire. But our dealership we’ve worked has some good folks working there, so we may have just lucked out there.