Also read Manufactured Insecurity by Dr.

If it's in a lower income area, you might be able to do a manufactured home on a permanent foundation.

It remains to be seen whether this will take off or not, but there is a major $1bn state of the art processing chip manufacturing facility that was completed in the last 3 years or so up there, and SUNY Albany is pouring resources into nano tech.  

Biggest issue is that the manufactured homes will now be 10 years older.  

We're RE Brokers, general & manufactured home contractors, developers, interior designers, investors and property managers in the North County Coastal area.

We developed the relationship with the modular home companies during the downturn in hopes of expanding our offerings and ended up building 3 homes with one manufacturer and 1 with another, we found there to be limited demand for the product in our area and minimal cost savings over similar stick built products.  

You may want to check with your local manufactured housing association.

4 years old may still have 1-6 years left on the manufacturer warranty

Having several years in manufacturing experience of cabinetry, the cost to assemble cabinets after parts are cut is minimal because from what I’ve seen costs to package parts versus packing an assembled box is greater because individual parts need packaged.

Believe the manufacturer was Omega and the quality is pretty good, maple with self closing doors.I'm looking to keep the cabinets under $4k and these seemed expensive.