Well, I don't have tornadoes where I live, but it seems that even stick built homes have basements and tornado shelters.
Don't curse me, but I owned a Home Inspection biz for 15yrs. Everything from new construction to "vintage" homes. IMO, there are advantages and disadvantages to both choices.
1. While manufacturers are held to industry standards, which are greatly increased today, the final product is only as good as the crew/company/inspection was on that day. But there is generally less time to move-in day. Can customize. Less dealing with Building Inspectors, the City/County, and contractors.
2. In my experience, a cookie cutter home is not much different than a manufactured home (you really should see how fast a crew slaps a "production" home together), except for the roofline and the possibility of a 2nd story/basement.
3. Change orders on a stick built home will cause delays and cost you plenty.
4. Contractors can be awful... I've been an investor since 1975 and if I told all the contractor stories, I'd have a lot of people here mad at me. Personally, I wouldn't do it again.
5. Building inspectors/officials can be anything from perfectionists to incompetent. You wouldn't believe the things I routinely found at a new construction site after the Building Inspector already signed off. There are no guarantees of quality there, not much that it was done right, or even done at all. Do ya'll "gift" the city/county officials with a bottle of Jack like they do on the east coast???
I currently own a Palm Harbor... it is OK. But keep in mind that it was made 20+ years ago. I don't know what today's best brands are.
Wow, no appreciation? None??? My manufactured home is worth double what I paid for it in 2006. The land appreciates faster than the building for both types of housing generally (everything but the bones are considered to be a consumable item with a finite life, even with stick built, so the stick built house itself will also depreciate). I'm used to hot markets, Huntington Beach, San Diego, Bend, Oregon coast, they all doubled and tripled out of sight. But I no longer build high end custom homes for speculation (years ago I bought a 2yr old home in Bend OR that gained $50k in 2 months), what I got is good enough for a retired guy. https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/ne...ctured-homes-appreciate-well-site-built-homes
Don't curse me, but I owned a Home Inspection biz for 15yrs. Everything from new construction to "vintage" homes. IMO, there are advantages and disadvantages to both choices.
1. While manufacturers are held to industry standards, which are greatly increased today, the final product is only as good as the crew/company/inspection was on that day. But there is generally less time to move-in day. Can customize. Less dealing with Building Inspectors, the City/County, and contractors.
2. In my experience, a cookie cutter home is not much different than a manufactured home (you really should see how fast a crew slaps a "production" home together), except for the roofline and the possibility of a 2nd story/basement.
3. Change orders on a stick built home will cause delays and cost you plenty.
4. Contractors can be awful... I've been an investor since 1975 and if I told all the contractor stories, I'd have a lot of people here mad at me. Personally, I wouldn't do it again.
5. Building inspectors/officials can be anything from perfectionists to incompetent. You wouldn't believe the things I routinely found at a new construction site after the Building Inspector already signed off. There are no guarantees of quality there, not much that it was done right, or even done at all. Do ya'll "gift" the city/county officials with a bottle of Jack like they do on the east coast???
I currently own a Palm Harbor... it is OK. But keep in mind that it was made 20+ years ago. I don't know what today's best brands are.
Wow, no appreciation? None??? My manufactured home is worth double what I paid for it in 2006. The land appreciates faster than the building for both types of housing generally (everything but the bones are considered to be a consumable item with a finite life, even with stick built, so the stick built house itself will also depreciate). I'm used to hot markets, Huntington Beach, San Diego, Bend, Oregon coast, they all doubled and tripled out of sight. But I no longer build high end custom homes for speculation (years ago I bought a 2yr old home in Bend OR that gained $50k in 2 months), what I got is good enough for a retired guy. https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/ne...ctured-homes-appreciate-well-site-built-homes
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