Factors to Consider When Selecting a Site for Your Manufactured Home

Factors to Consider When Selecting a Site for Your Manufactured Home

In real estate as in business, location, location, location is the key to success. Deciding where you want to live is the first step in every manufactured home buying experience and it’s also the most crucial. A number of factors influence that decision — some personal, others financial, some within your power, others decidedly not.

Selecting the site for your manufactured home is a decision that can substantially impact your emotional and economic well-being for decades to come. It can be a difficult process but fortunately there are steps you can take to ensure you choose a location that best meets your needs.

Prioritize the Personal: The first step is to make a list of your personal preferences and rank them by priority. Depending on your age and interests, easy access to quality medical services might be of the utmost importance or perhaps proximity to major highways. Other factors to contemplate include convenient shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Cross Check: Your wish list completed, cross-reference it with your favorite dozen or so potential locations, cities and towns whose climate, environs and infrastructure have caught your eye. Once you begin narrowing your options, you will want to verify that your desired city or area is friendly to manufactured housing. This is easy if you have chosen a manufactured home community but more difficult if you are looking at property within city limits. Contact the county development office for answers to these sort of zoning questions.

Go It Alone?: Some manufactured home owners prefer the privacy of an individual lot secluded from other mobile home communities and traditional neighborhoods. Others readily opt for the amenities and security manufactured home communities provide. Give serious thought to which option you prefer and carefully consider if the services provided by a community are worth the monthly fees being charged.

Visiting Hours: Now it’s time to hit the road and visit each prospective location. You will want to inspect the land to determine that a mobile home can be safely installed and whether it is sloped to facilitate water run off. Check the local zoning regulation to determine whether unwanted projects could be built nearby.

Rent or Buy?: Decide if the lot where the mobile home will be installed will be rented or purchased. If a lot will be purchased, always have a title search done on the property. The title search will tell you if the owner has the sole right to sell the property. If the land will be rented, confirm that no additional fees for water, sewage or trash removal will be charged. Confirm that no move-in or move-out fees will be charged before installing the mobile home.


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At Harmony Communities, we feel strongly that each resident has a sense of home. That they come home from work and feel pride in their environment and in their place in the greater community. That families are comfortable raising children in our neighborhoods, and that couples and singles know that they belong to something bigger than their four walls. In other words, we seek to create harmony within each community, making our communities not just passable, but peaceful, safe, functional, and beautiful.