Manufactured Home Blues

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Yea, I think about that too. In the event of a tornado I am not sure what I should do. The media tell you to leave your home, and puts
us poor manufactured home owners in a state of sheer panic. With the storm conditions of hail and trees falling I am not sure
if it is really better to drive out in that or not.

I live in the country, so where am I going to go. I would get killed by a tree more than likely trying to drive out in a panic
to get somewhere else.

I just don't know if the media really understands how useless that advice really is for people. If anything it just makes
us feel doomed and helpless.

Living out in OK I can see how the storms out there can be really bad. I am sure that you all see hail bigger than I ever have.
 
Something like a third of Nevadans live in HUD code manufactured homes; some of the rest live in UBC code prebuilt housing and prefabricated structures, including panelized construction.

Many of them are beautiful inside. I just wish the idiot manufacturers would stop carpeting the bathrooms!

Our house is stick built because I won't live with a carpeted bathroom.
 
Manufactured housing - built to the HUD code, which is defined by performance, not materials.

Modular home - built to a stick building code, frequently the UBC.

Instances of both are brought to the site, generally in two or more sections and assembled.

Panelized, prefabricated, etc. Prebuilt components assembled on site. As an example, a wall may have been built and wire at the factory. Built to a stick building code, frequently the UBC.

People need to get over it. Having components built in a factory usually means less waste, less exposure to weather damage or theft during construction, and can mean excellent quality control. One manufactured housing maker in Oregon has for years found that many of their purchasers are previous owners of stick built housing.
 
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Yep!! our bathroom was carpeted. We ripped it up and put down a beautiful forest green marbled tile.
It made a big difference. I agree carpet in the bathroom and the kitchen is a breeding ground for germs
and mold. That was the first thing we did when we bought our house.

Then I painted all the walls, and did my magic with decorating. Our next mission is to change the carpet in the
rest of the house and put hard wood down where they linoleum is now.
 
We lived in a trailer park for a couple of months while a triple wide was being cleaned out for us to live in on acreage when I was 12. The first one was nicer. Sunken living room, beatiful kitchen, nice bedrooms. It was gorgeous and I can remember that at 12. The triple wide, was aweful, only in that the people that had lived there lift fish in the refrigerator with the power off and thrashed it. Just about the time my mom got that thing looking like a home it was time to move back to California to our house.

The Trailor Trash remark, could discribe me right now. This is a rental, it could be cute I guess, but my husband had told the owners he would paint and do some other things while we were here. Then he died. I can't afford to do anything he had said he'd do and I had to stop the escrow on the house we were buying, so here I am.

We loved looking through the modulars near here. I haven't been since he died, but have been thinking about it, just to look. We were there once and I saw what looked like a duplex. We walked back to check it out and it was a SFH. It was huge and I fell in love with it. It was 3200 sq ft and ooooohhh....just amazing. It sat there for almost 2 years and they ended up dropping the price below 100k, which here is cheap. It was gone when we went back about the 5th time and were able to get it. Sure wish I had it now.

I've been looking at the houses they build out of cargo trailers. I couldn't believe those the first time I saw them and with most, you'd never ever know what they were made of. It I had the land and thought I could build one and get permits for it, I would. Heck you want a bigger house, you buy another 3k trailor. They are amazing.

The thing I've always said though is the most important thing to have is a roof over your head. I don't know what will ever happen in my case, but I can tell you, if I have to live in a tent city, at least I have a tent with a roof over my head. Might even be a good way to save some money. LOL

Your home is beautiful. And you make it a home, so it doesn't matter what anyone else says.
 
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hmmm. I live in a double-wide with a 40' screened back porch, a 12' front deck, and a barn, all on a chunk of acreage. My horses are right outside my back door now and my chicken coops are behind the barn. It cost a fraction of a brick house but at the time we bought it (right after Katrina) the soonest a contractor could build us a conventional house was a 2-year wait. So we opted for the double-wide and have never regretted it. If we had built that house, we would have lost it when the economy went south. Instead we are sitting with a mortgage we can comfortably afford even though we lost our entire savings in the crash. Sure, sometimes here lately the food is a bit scarcer than we would like, but we can still cover our bills and the mortgage is in no danger of not getting paid. I would not go back to conventional.

The first year we were here, we built ourselves a tornado cellar into the north-facing side of one of our hills. It's only 10 feet square, but there is enough space for us, the dogs, and the parrots. This year we invested in a generator.

Oh, and I don't give a flying leap about what people may say. In fact, any gossip is more likely about our being pagan and gay than about what kind of house we live in.

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Rusty
 
OHHHHH MAN!!!!!!!
I FEEL THE SAME WAY!!!!!!!
my husband keeps telling me its not a trailor its a manufactored home!! it has drywall walls and built the same way a house would this one is just made fast and in a factory. it is a fixed house it does not have axles like a trailor has and it is just as good as a stick built house!!
but dealing with the people who sold us the house has been a pain in the rear i shouldnt have to make inprovement on a brand new home!! the molding wasnt fixed the carpet was layed wrong the door jams are all crappy looking
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and plus it has everything in it a trailor would i want to change so much to make it look like "not a trailor" the cabnets (the doors are real wood but the cabnet them selves are that cheep press wood with paper that looks like wood
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) i want to change all the lights in it they have that cheep looking lights so i want differant ones i want to change the ugly molding and repaint the walls not that flat paint that rubs of when you scrub them (the guy that was suposta "fix" the walls gave us paint to paint over the dirt
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i love that i have a roof over my head and i went to living in a 31 ft pull trailor on a lot to a 2,500 sq home on 5 acers i AM VERY THANKFUL for it but i to can not get over the "trailor trash" stigma that MH have
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i guess we can have a support group to talk about our feelings...
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keep your head up and be thankful you have somewhere to call home!! so many people out there DONT have that!
 
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Gosh, I'd love to have you living in close proximity, even next door. I need more pagan friends nearby. And that other non-issue? Eh.

Oh! Are we talking Pagan now?? hehe
 

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