Buying a Manufactured Home

Now in its third edition, "Buying a Manufactured Home: How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck in Today's Housing Market" is a guide to the world of manufactured homes, more commonly known as mobile homes, which can be a solid choice for having a place of one's own when houses can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Guiding readers through every step of the process, "Buying a Manufactured Home" is a must read for anyone considering this venue for their future.

This book should be required reading for anyone considering a manufactured home. A few evenings spent with this book will not only save you thousands of dollars it will result in you getting a much better home. Be sure to make notes and take them with you when you visit the dealers and the manufactured home factory (something you really must consider doing before you sign). Buying a manufactured home isn't like buying a car - so don't treat it that way.

Aloha,If you are in the market for a manufactured home you *must* get this book. He tells all the ins and outs of the manufactured home buying process written from the perspective of a guy who is simply trying to tell you the truth. He is sincere and *very* knowledgeable and will save you significant money and hassle.As one reviewer noted, this is not the best editing job. There are a number of grammatical errors, careless things like a missing pro-noun or mispelled words. But you don't buy a book like this looking for pulitzer prize level literature. You buy it to arm yourself with information. Mr. Burnside does a very good job of doing just that, arming you, and does so in an easy to read/understand fashion. I read the whole thing in about 4 hours.He gives tips on all aspects of buying a manufactured home and setting it up on your property. But the primary focus is how to handle the home dealers and how to get the best deal with the right options. In that light it would be wise to have this book as but one book in your home buying collection. A great book that covers other important areas like finding and buying land (etc) in a more comprehensive way than Mr. Burnside's book is "Finding and Buying Your Place in the Country" by Scher & Scher (husband wife team). This is also a *must* have book. Do not as much as set foot inside a manufactured home dealer without reading this book.Good Luck! It is a best seller for a reason.

This book was delivered just as I was going out the door to visit a dealer. What a God send!I read a few chapters while my wife drove... I could not believe the details involved. It opened my eyes.Some info is common sense. Other is insider information that you can use.I definitly recommend this book.... Can't wait to read the rest!

This book is amazing! I picked it up and opened to the middle, where the story of 'Travis and Tara' sounded way too much like the encounters my wife and I have had over the past few weeks. Same salesmen, same variety of attitudes, same approach to calculating how much money they can get from you. The information on construction and recommended options is excellent too. We haven't bought our home yet, but when we do, this book will have made a difference.