How to Move your Mobile Home: Home Installation

ESSENTIAL HOME INSTALLATION Probably the most important part of the move, assuming your home makes it there in one piece, is the installation.  Good installation will assure you a lifetime (if you never move again) of proper usage.  Bad installation will cost you a fortune in repairs and maybe even destroy your home over the long-term. The following are the essential points of the installation process, and what you can do to ensure their success. LOT DRAINAGE Water is the key enemy of the mobile home.  Moisture destroys mobile homes more than any other factor, other than vandalism.  As the home is made of the minimum materials allowable under HUD, there is not much room for error, and moisture can take and buckle a mobile home floor, or rot the exterior siding, in a fairly short period of time. Before the home even arrives, it is important that the lot be set up so that no water can stand under the home.  The area where the home is to sit should be built up of dirt so that it is higher than the adjoining area.  Additionally, there should be no drainage that runs under the house, such as a creek or stream that feeds a creek.  If water gets under the home, you are asking for trouble.  Your floors will get destroyed, and so will the way your home settles.  You will be re-leveling it constantly. By Frank Rolfe Frank Rolfe is a mobile home park investor and owns over 100 parks with his partner Dave Reynolds. Frank also leads regular Mobile Home Park Investing Bootcamps through the MobileHomeUniversity.com.