At last--the definitive, comprehensive guide to manufactured homes and purchasing land or leasing a home site. Exhaustively researched with extensive input from both industry insiders and consumer advocates, this new guide, published in the Spring of 2003, is an indispensable resource to help you find a dealer worthy of your trust, make the right home selection, and, as important, be an informed, empowered, and swindle-proof consumer. 
Destined to be the standard authoritative reference work for manufactured homes, the guide Includes the Top 25 manufacturers rated, many helpful charts and diagrams, 66 illustrations, and essential information that retailers, even the good guys, don't want you do know--and which can save home buyers thousands of dollars. 
Written by veteran journalist and author John Grissim whose plain spoken observations have made him a respected advocate for the home buying consumer.

The Complete Buyer's Guide to Manufactured Homes and Land: How to Find a Reputable Dealer and Negotiate a Fair Price on the Best Kept Secret in American Housing

Grissim, John

Rainshadow Publications

At last, the first comprehensive consumer ratings guide to every manufactured home builder and their brands, with at-a-glance up-to-date listings that provide key information home shoppers need to make an informed buying decision. 
All 79 U.S. builders evaluated 
More than 300 brands and series described. Plus, 
An annotated construction rating chart with 56 criteria you can use to evaluate any home—before you buy. 
John Grissim’s bestselling The Grissim Buyer’s Guide to Manufactured Homes and Land has been hailed as the definitive resource for navigating the tricky waters of the manufactured home marketplace. Now, he has written a companion guide that takes a close critical look at every manufacturer and the brands they build, providing up-to-date, essential information together with authoritative, no-nonsense insights that have made him a respected industry observer and voice for the home-buying consumer. 
Each manufacturer’s listing includes: • Company background/history • States where sold • Principal market niche/target customer • Retail price range • Who they compete against • Construction rating on a 1-to-10 scale • Brands and series described • Description of a popular model • What distinguishes brand from competition • Number of dealerships • Warranty structure • Availability of in-house financing/insurance • Web site rating and evaluation • Grissim’s comments
Exhaustively researched, and containing much information that many manufacturers would prefer you not know, The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes not only tells you who’s who in the manufactured home universe—enabling you to compare and evaluate their products—it will help you be informed, empowered and confident as you make the many decisions involved in the purchase of your new home.

The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes: The Essential Buyer's Resource, Listing Every Builder in the U.S., Their Histories, Products, Price ... Need-to-Know Information and Much More

John Grissim

The second edition of the best-selling consumer guide to manufactured homes and purchasing land or leasing a home site, providing up-to-date, essential information home buyers need to make an informed purchase decision. Completely revised and updated, including a new, annotated Construction Rating Table with 56 criteria you can use to evaluate any home—before you buy. The Buyers Guide has been widely hailed as the definitive resource for navigating the tricky waters of the manufactured home marketplace. With this new edition, journalist, author and consumer advocate John Grissim (himself a manufactured home owner) has made many revisions and up-dates and added new material that make this invaluable resource even more useful to home shoppers. Among the many additions are a greatly expanded discussion on selecting the right home, including a new glossary of common terms used in manufactured home construction, plus a new three-page Construction Features and Specifications Comparison Table with 56 criteria. This table enables you not only to identify what features are associated with different levels of quality but also to determine the construction quality (on a 1-to-10 scale) of any home you are evaluating. This is by far the most comprehensive detailed listing of construction features and quality ever provided consumers. Among many topics receiving an expanded discussion is the installation (or set-up) process and the role of the set-up contractor, including a detailed installation check-list for home buyers. Warranty issues, and how to deal with them, receive added emphasis. Also included are tips to better calculate the fair asking price for a home, together with a simple formula for determining your offering price during negotiations. Last, given that so much has happened economically in the years following the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent crash of American housing, one may reasonably ask if this edition of the Guide—the second printing of which was in 2008—is as relevant and up to date in 2018 as it was a decade ago. The unequivocal answer is Yes. The author had completed the updates and revisions to the Guide just as the economy was slipping into recession (see Chapter 1). More important, the manufactured housing industry had already emerged from its own meltdown during the previous decade and had corrected many of its shortcomings. The industry was, and still is, poised to offer home buyers exceptional value.

The Grissim Buyer's Guide to Manufactured Homes & Land: How to Find a Reputable Dealer and Negotiate a Fair Price on the Best Kept Secret in American Housing

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With this second edition of the most comprehensive ratings guide to every manufactured home builder in the U.S., journalist and consumer advocate John Grissim continues to provide the authoritative, accurate and up-to-date information that home shoppers need to make an informed buying decision—and which has made his guide the most popular consumer resource book ever published for buyers of manufactured homes. Completely revised and redesigned, The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes describes and evaluates all 63 U.S. builders, assigning each a construction rating. Scores of brands and series are described. Plus, an annotated construction chart with 56 criteria you can use to evaluate any home—before you buy. Each manufacturer’s listing includes: • Company background/history • States where sold • Principal market niche/target customer • Retail price range • Construction rating on a 1-to-10 scale • Useful comments on product offerings • What distinguishes brand from its competition • Web site rating and evaluation • Author's observations about the company, including authoritative, no-nonsense insights that have made him a respected industry observer and voice for the home-buying consumer. Note: Grissim, a journalist for more than three decades, is fiercely protective of his professional credibility. Accordingly, other than income derived from the sale of his books, he neither solicits nor accepts a dime (nor gifts or freebies) from the industry about which he writes. His readers have his assurance he intends to keep it that way. Exhaustively researched, and containing much information that many manufacturers would prefer you not know, The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes not only tells you who’s who in the manufactured home universe—enabling you to compare and evaluate their products—it will help you be informed, empowered and confident as you make the many decisions involved in the purchase of your new home.

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The Complete Buyer's Guide to Manufactured Homes and Land: How to Find a Reputable Dealer and Negotiate a Fair Price on the Best Kept Secret in American Housing

The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes: The Essential Buyer's Resource, Listing Every Builder in the U.S., Their Histories, Products, Price ... Need-to-Know Information and Much More

The Grissim Buyer's Guide to Manufactured Homes & Land: How to Find a Reputable Dealer and Negotiate a Fair Price on the Best Kept Secret in American Housing

The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes: The essential buyer's resource, listing every builder in the U.S, their histories, products, prices ... information and much more (Second edition)