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‘We Own a Manufactured Home’ – Expert in Mobile Home/Manufactured Home Living Sounds Off, Neighbor Declares – ‘You Took a Mobile Home and Turned it Into a Palace!’ – What All Should Know

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Unless you are a daily or regular visitor to one of our websites, odds are excellent that you will learn several things about mobile homes and manufactured home living by reading this evidence-based article. You or a friend may own a manufactured home, and you may still learn several useful things about manufactured homes that are important to affordable home …

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Separating Fact, Fiction and Using Correct Factory-Built Home Terminology

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“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” – Daniel Patrick Monaghan (1) “How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” – Abraham Lincoln (2) Word, ideas, and their meaning matter. Don’t believe it? …

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Avoidable Tragedies! Mobile Home Fires vs. Manufactured Home, and Conventional Housing

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Every unplanned, uncontrolled fire outside of a fireplace, grill or pit is often a story about tragic injuries, deaths and/or property damaged or destroyed. A recent fire reported in Champaign County, Ohio, was no different.  But that blaze and burnt-out mobile home shined a bright light on the differences between mobile homes, manufactured homes, conventional housing and why the proper …

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‘Tis the Season!’ Manufactured Housing Association Delivers Christmas for Communities

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In addition to providing quality, appealing and affordable options for U.S. home seekers, stories like this one prove that the manufactured housing industry’s professionals also have heart. In Delaware, members of the First State Manufactured Housing Association donated generously to help make the 2016 holiday season more joyful for others. According to the Cape Gazette, over $3,000 worth of nonperishable items …

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Willie & Robertson Family of Duck Dynasty fame present Christmas gift – new Manufactured Home for the Holidays

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A Louisiana resident said she must have died and “went to heaven” when presented with a new manufactured home on the Duck Dynasty Christmas special. During the episode, “A Home for the Holidays,” the Robertson family of Duck Dynasty and Duck Commander 500 fame teamed up with Jeff Foote of Homes Plus in West Monroe, Louisiana, and Clayton Homes to …

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Caravan – British Manufactured Homes – 420 sq feet, sleeps 10!

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Designed by ABI in East Yorkshire, England, the Concept Van features moveable walls, a cinema, a ten-seat dining table and beds to sleep ten people, according to what The Daily Mail  tells MHLivingNews.   The 30 foot by 13 foot manufactured home – called a “Caravan” in the United Kingdom – prototype has beds that fold up into the walls, kitchen work-tops hidden …

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A Home Is…

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Your Home Is… “Home is where your story begins.” – Annie Danielson said. “A home is a home,” Next Step’s President and CEO, Stacey Epperson states. “To call it anything else, is simply wrong.” “Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have …

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How to Do a Damaged Wall Repair Yourself

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Wall panels can be damaged in a variety of ways. Damage may include stains, holes or gouges. When the impacted area is small, you may be able to avoid replacing the whole wall. Manufactured homes have two general types of interior walls: VOG (Vinyl over Gypsum) or finished drywall. VOG is easy to clean and doesn’t require painting. We will …

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Optimizing Your Space Tips 1 and 2

Millions live in a place where they want or need to optimize their space. This will be the first of a periodic series on how to make the most of the home space you have!  Photos courtesy of Flickr – and Wikimedia – Creative Commons Optimizing Your Space, Tip 1: Use bookshelves as dividers. You can divide one room into …

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Princeton’s Manufactured Housing ‘definition,’ You’ve Got to Be Kidding!

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MHLivingNews.com decided to see how others define a manufactured home. The first result that came up in Google was surprising and shockingly incorrect. Princeton, for the record, a manufactured home is legally NOT a mobile home. There have been no ‘mobile homes’ built in the United States since June 15, 1976, when the current legal definition and construction requirements for …

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