Whether the term is model home or staged home, the definition is the same. It is the detailed and creative preparation of a house to be sold. There are many positive aspects to furnishing a home for sale. Here is a quote from the New York Times: “The scale varies, but the purpose is the same, to sell the house.” …
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By Ray Schmitt Why would a manufactured home retailer want to be known as expensive?? Well, what one person calls expensive, another calls value. Consider cars for instance; the real cost is not the initial investment but the price per mile driven. A higher initial cost, well built, low maintenance vehicle (think Honda) will last longer, have less maintenance and …
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PresenterPro shared the graphics that follow, and asks the compelling question, what’s next? Every week here at ManufacturedHomeLivingNews.com, we will showcase a new Featured Home. You will find new articles. As you check back in on future visits, you might find yourself asking that same question, “what next?” Before visiting MHLivingNews.com, many visitors: Had no idea that you could have …
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The New York Housing Association made arrangements April 30-May 3, 2013 to place a factory-built home in the Empire State Plaza for their Legislative Summit. The video that follows provides a brief history, but also tells the story of how hundreds of state legislators, their staff and thousands from the public were exposed to the amazing quality found in today’s …
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The pros at MHVillage tell us that almost everyone who wants to sell their manufactured home would be well by working with a professional. After all, selling a home can be a complicated and confusing process and many folks simply don’t have the time, or the know-how, to properly sell property. However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t learn from listings For Sale By …
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he two videos that follow are a pair of couples out of the millions who live happily in manufactured home land lease communities across the United States and Canada. One of the first things that jump at you as you watch these videos is that these are not actors, these are real people sharing from the heart. Both of these …
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Conventional housing often reflects regional variations. Some houses in New England look different than those in Arizona. The same is true with manufactured homes. You can and so see similarities, but also regional differences. This video from Northwest Pride Association showcases facts that reflect well in their region. But it also has insights good for all parts of the …
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by Dave Shanklin CU Factory Built Lending, has wowed our industry with its very popular “Step Rate” loan product and has no plans of ending it anytime soon. The Step Rate loan product offers the borrower a very low rate for the first five years of the loan, which adjusts one-time at the 61st month to a pre-determined higher fixed rate, …
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by Mary Beth Juergens I had the opportunity to speak during a session at the Iowa Manufactured Housing Association’s 65th annual meeting in Cedar Rapids held on November 12th. I want to again congratulate their entire association for organizing such an educational event. I enjoyed being among so many professionals with such enthusiasm and dedication to helping Iowans (and those in …
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Welcome to Version 2.0 of Manufactured Home Living News – Where Visitors are always Welcome! Updates and new articles will be routinely added here, along with a steady roll out of new features. When you scroll down the home page, you will also find a robust selection of popular news feeds, which are automatically updated. In 2013 an estimated 22 …
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There is an old real estate mantra of “location, location, location.” But if you’ve shopped for a home before, or are shopping for one now, haven’t you had times that you found the ‘right home,’ but it wasn’t in ‘the right location?’ One of the advantages of a buying a new manufactured or modular home is that you can find …
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At whatever stage of life you happen to be in, there are a variety of smart housing options available for you. You may be starting out, starting over, upsizing or downsizing. There are great opportunities available for you in modern home options today. Most American still prefer to own a home. In fact, some 67% of Americans are home owners. …
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Any home – conventional, mobile or manufactured – that is built over a crawl space has to have some sort of foundation enclosure. For decades, this has been called ‘skirting’ with manufactured homes. There are all types of ways to create skirting or foundation enclosures for a factory built – or conventional – house. You could do it with masonry, …
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Sometimes posters or photos and a short message tells a story quickly and dramatically that a thousand words can’t express as well. For example. Imagine bringing a ton of car parts to a driveway and building a car outdoors. Clearly, it is better to buy a factory built car than one built on site. The same is true for buying a …
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The building industry has settled on continuing to provide their products in the same way for generations…all parts and pieces delivered and assembled on site. As other industries seek to become more efficient and work towards increasing their top and bottom lines, construction continues as it always has. There is an alternative and it has been used successfully all over …
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