Something other than a "traditional" home?

I don't own one - but I wish I did.

I grew up in a mobile home :)

No but dh and I are thinking of getting rid of the "traditional" home we have and purchasing a double wide mobile home.

Anyone want to share the pros and cons of them??

DH and I want to buy a condo on the beach. We rent one every summer and in a few years would like to purchase one of our own. Does anyone have any pros or cons?

Diana,
My mom and my best friend have double wides. They love them. You can put the skirting around them and most of them look just like a house. Just make sure you buy one with plywood floors. My grandmother (before she passed away) had to replace her floors with plywood in the kitchen. I don't know what they were originally made of, but it didn't last.

We owned a side x side (townhouse I guess) before we purchased our present home. We really didn't like it because there is always extra noise from the other side. We had great neighbours, but when they changed the furniture around, we heard everything. The neighbours on the other side had a side x side also and had very very noisy neighbours. We both sold and moved!!

If anything every happened to this home, we would purchase a mobile home. We'd never get another home like this for the price we paid for it and in has good a shape. Mobile homes/double wides are beautiful today. They aren't like they use to be!!

DH and I have discussed purchasing a double wide mobile home and placing it on land in the country. I had a mindset that they were still the way they were built when I was a child but after seeing some of the newer ones, they are as well built as a traditional home. We are waiting until DD is out of school in 2005, before we make any type of move. I would like to find some land to purchase now so that we could have it paid for by then, the land here is reasonable and I think we could buy a few acres and have it paid off by then.

Blessings,
Kathy

I used to sell Mobiles....and they are very well made, some have a few glitches, jsut like site built homes that have to be attended to, but other than that, they are extremely nice!!!

We bought a modular, got to choose our options and such, as one would when building form the ground up. the only difference is that most of the parts to it were already premanufactured, just waiting to be chosen....sorta. so instead of haveing this layout or that, we chose this layout, changed this a bit, relocated that, did away with this option for the benefit of doing this option instead. (That was what it was like when we were chosing our options) LOL does that make any sense? lol.

Yes it does make sense Melissa! :)


Thank you ladies for all your input. I do believe we will be going the route of a mobile home, but not for a few years yet.

We bought a new double manufactured home 6 yrs ago, and had put on our lot. We love it, its all tape and textured like any other home, thermopane windows, shingled roof, sits on a regular concret foundation. Our home is very well insulated, we heat our 4bd 2 ba home with a pellet stove and also have a power furnace which we haven't used in the last 4 yrs since getting the stove, I open the blinds and let the sun come in and it will heat the house up so much I have been having to turn off the stove durning the day( unless its real cold out.)

I lived with my brother for a while in their double wide. It was very nice, but I don't like the way you can "feel" the floors move when you walk. (maybe it was just my imagination) My brother and sil just love it though. :) If I lived somewere that didn't have tornadoes I might consider a manufactured home.