Mobile and Manufactured Homes
Mobile homes of the 60’s and 70’s were small single-wide units in a trailer park. Today’s mobile home is more likely to be a modular manufactured home and parked in a resort-like mobile home community. These prefabricated homes are still towed to their destinations and assembled on site. Modularization permits configurations of three, four, … Keep Reading → five and more units. In addition, since these units may be stacked, they are no longer limited to single stories. Production line manufacture of these homes results in prices lower than conventionally built family homes making them an attractive alternative to seniors on fixed incomes. Newly built mobile homes follow the same trends in home design. In addition to providing family housing, these pre-manufactured modules make excellent field offices and temporary housing after disasters. If you haven’t consider trailer living, check out how the manufactured homes have changed and see if there might be one in your future.
