What is a modular home? What's the difference between a mobile home, a manufactured home, a modular and one of your houses?

By federal law, the definition of a manufactured home (or mobile home) is a single family dwelling, built in a manufacturing facility under the H.U.D. code and the transport frame is, and must be, a permanent part of the structure. Even though the wheels and axles can be removed, and they can be placed over a basement, the frame must remain attached to the house and they are still manufactured homes. When you resell the house you must disclose to the buyer that it is H.U.D. code manufactured home. There are special financing issues related to manufactured homes. �Modular� home describes a house built off-site, that complies with the Uniform Building Code (and/or International Building Code) that is transported to the site on low-boy trailers and permanently placed on the foundation. The term modular has been used for about the last three decades to distinguish a U.B.C.-compliant house from a H.U.D. code manufactured house. In the last few years, manufactured home dealers have also used the term modular when they placed them on some type of foundation on property other than in a mobile home park. Unfortunately, this has resulted in some confusion. Our homes, are custom-built, off-site (or factory-built) homes. They are built according to the Uniform and/or International Building Codes. They use the same materials as a site-built homes. They are not rectangular boxes with a low roof pitch; what most people visualize when they think of factor-built houses. Once set on a foundation and finished, even seasoned real estate agents cannot distinguish them from a houses built on site.