Chapter 12: Final Analysis

       This chapter primarily summarizes a nationwide Consumer Reports survey from 1998. The bottom line is that 82% of respondents were largely satisfied with their manufactured homes, although most still had at least one problem they considered major. Consumer Reports also found that manufactured homes can last just as long as site built homes, and that there was a correlation between the purchase price and the number of problems customers have. The cheaper the home, the more likely problems will arise. Four out of six major problems cited were water related. Finally, the reputation of manufactured homes as "fire traps" was addressed. In a major study, Foremost Insurance found than while site-built homes experienced fires at a rate of 17 per 1,000 homes, the rate for manufactured homes was only 8 per 1,000. Therefore, site-built homes are over twice as likely to catch fire as a manufactured home (according to this study)! Still, there is a serious fire consideration lurking in manufactured homes that doesn't seem to have a parallel in site-built homes . . .

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