What is the difference between a mobile home and a pre manufactured home?
Manufactured Homes June 17th, 2009I'm looking to buy a home and keep seeing the discription of homes as pre manufactured and mobile. What is the differance in these two?
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June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
A mobile home is delivered to your site on wheels and is a complete home all by itself. There is no permanent foundation only aluminum skirting underneath to cover the wheels and cement block supports.
A manufactured home is a home that's built in stages at the warehouse or building site and then delivered to your site and placed on a permanent foundation. It could be delivered in sections like walls or rooms. Sometimes a manufactured home is built completely on site just like a stick built home from scratch but mostly it's already built at the warehouse & delivered in sections to you.
Be very careful choosing a mobile home. They depreciate in value just like a car & are very unstable in inclement weather. A permanent foundation home is probably a better value over the long run.'
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
A mobile home is a home that you can travel with. A pre manufactured home is a home that is manufactured in parts and placed on a lot.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Nothing really.
It's like calling shell shock, post traumatic stress disorder. Same thing just classed up name.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
The answer is in your question, i'm sure if you think about if hard enough it will come to you.
Either way i'm sure whichever home you go for it will look just peachy in your trailer park.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Some of the pre manufactured homes are build off site and put together on site. The weather doesn't effect the framing and wall construction.
Trailers, or mobile homes have come a long way in the last couple of decades. They still have wheels!
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
The language is hype to distract from the facts that it is a Mobile Home- but they do make Modulars homes- which are built in a Factory, -Mobile homes have a Steel, underside and Floor support, Modulars have wood. Vast improvement has been made in these type homes, either of them.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
MOBILE homes have axles and wheels. Think TRAILER HOUSE.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Hi there! I've attached a link that offers you a description of these. Hope it is helpful!
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
mobile homes usually keep their wheels they also have a title (just like a car) manufactured homes are set on a foundation and usually meet the building requirements of a stick built home. they have the same type of deed as a house .
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
mobile home is on wheels , porta cabins are also called mobile homes , can be bought from available locations and transport and use it, small in size , ready to live .but
pre- manufactured homes are something are manufactured by some industry as per drawings and transported and assembled at site as per owners order.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
they are the same thing, people used to call them mobile because they were easy to move from one place to another. Now, with new technology and the fact that people usually don't move them once they are set up the name has changed to premanufactured home.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Also, the interest on a mortgage will be higher on a trailer. You will not be able to get a mortgage on a older trailor. A mobile home has wheels. It is registered like a car. A modular home is pre fabed in a factory and if it has a foundation it can be financed as a house. I think different states have different rules. If a trailor has the frame and wheels on it then it is going to cost more to finance it. In NH if it has a foundation it is considered a house and better finance rates. Talk to your Realtor or bank to find out which is the best way for you to go plus what age if it has no foundation will they not finance it.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
A mobile home is basically a trailor. It has a hitch that you connect to a vehicle to be towed to where you want to go, there is also a mobile home that has a drivers seat right in it. A pre manufactured home is a house that is like a put together kit, you select your style of home and then it is delivered and put together, It comes with everything that is needed to build it. But it is stationary and will not move, most pre manufactured homes also have metal studs in the walls and flat roofs, but there are many more models out there now than there used to be.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:38 am
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