Buying a Manufactured Home: How to Get the Most Bang for your Buck in Today's Housing Market: Amazon.ca: Kevin Burnside, Robert Bentley: Books

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This book contains comprehensive information to help the potential home buyer to find, specify, purchase, finance and install a manufactured home. It explains the best way of financing and other aspects of the process. Includes all necessary information both for erecting manufactured housing as a permanent home on one's own land and in a mobile home park.This third edition is significantly expanded and updated.

About the Author

Kevin Burnside has worked in real estate and manufactured housing for over twenty years and is thoroughly familiar with all aspects of the industry.Robert Bentley is a California-based technical writer specializing in architecture and building trades.

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4.0 out of 5 stars I hate thinking up titles, Jun 10 2004

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This review is from: Buying a Manufactured Home (Paperback)

Very good, eye-opener book if you are considering buying a manufactured home. Lots of behind the scenes information on how dealers operate when they sell you a home. Many good checklists to go over and plenty of tips on how to save a lot of money and headaches when purchasing. I read the book in three hours and wished there was more on what it's like to live in one of these homes. It would have been nice if he had provided a list of reputable or even just all home manufacturers in general with website links. Glad I bought the book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Manufactured Home Buying Required Reading, Jan 20 2004

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Susan Richards (Los Osos, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Buying a Manufactured Home (Paperback)

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Buy!, July 25 2001

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John "Kula Kine" (Kula, HI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Buying a Manufactured Home: How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck in Today's Housing Market (Paperback)

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.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing at best....
This book did a good job of explaining the sales office process, but skipped over the really scary things, like buying the lot, lot upgrades, working with contractors, water,... Read more

Published on Feb 29 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars Insider reveals Secrets of Manufactured Home Dealers
Kevin Burnside does a good job of covering the comprehensive subject of "Manufactured Housing"; what we used to call mobile homes. Read more

Published on Nov 16 1999 by Real Estate Investor