The company manages the properties and most have tenants (their reputation is so good that they have a list of renters waiting for homes).The owner of the company will speak with you directly, if you wold like to speak with him, but I can send you brochures of photos and info on some of them to see if you'd want to proceed.

hate to be the devil's advocate here, but that ad is from Baltimore. at the risk of possibly offending someone, I'm going to comment that Baltimore doesn't exactly have a reputation for maintaining the best education system... this poster may be just trying to reach out to the locals in their own (and his) vernacular.

The first thing I did when I put down Lonnie's books was to call the state manufactured housing association and ask them what it took/takes to become a dealer.

If there is anything else (such as a large employer closing a manufacturing plant) that may make a difference in value for the subject property verses the other comps, they provide that information, too.

Besides, if banks consider condos "real" property, unlike a manufactured home on concrete piers, that's good enough for me.The important things I've learned with condos are:- Stick to middle-class developments or better.- Ask around about the HOA and management company.- Make sure the HOA owns the land and does NOT lease it.

Violating such these aspect can lead to having your reputation trashed to being black-balled to losing your license.

But when it comes to buying from someone you can track down, with a reputation to defend, and who might even be in your circle of rehabbers, you believe you have to be extraordinarily suspicious?

He lives in a 1296 sqft Manufactured Home built in 2002.

If it needs 10 k in work, have a reputable contractor put a bid together.

When Lonnie talks about homes 20 years or newer I believe he's referring to homes built prior to 1974 when Hud made stricter building codes for mobile homes (changing the name to manufactured homes).BTW You made me bust out laughing (in a good why) with that last comment, "I've learned that just because a seller says that is their final price, it doesn't always mean that."