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- From: charleen@net.bio.net (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers,misc.invest.real-estate
- Subject: Re: Manufactured Housing (not a mobile home)
- Message-ID: <Dec.30.14.09.07.1992.15431@net.bio.net>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:09:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.164738.24680@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Dec30.185653.26661@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.185653.26661@rigel.econ.uga.edu> skip@rosalyn.stat.uga.edu (Skip Gundlach) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.164738.24680@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> ktong@shannon.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Tong) writes:
- >>
- >>Does anyone out there know anything about manufactured housing or
- >>has any experience with a house built using manufactured housing.
- >>I'm not referring to a mobile home, I'm referring to a house that
- >>is built in a factory and then shipped to the site and assembled
- >>together. The finished product should look no different than a
- >>stick built house.
- >>
- >>I'm doing research on this to see if this is a good (and cheaper)
- >>alternative to custom building a home on a lot.
- >>
- >>Information that I would like to get is
- >>
- >> * Companies and/or factory that manufactures this type
- >> of house in the Southern Calif. area.
-
- Unless they have gotten out of the manufactured home business since I
- worked for them seven years ago, Kaufman and Broad, Inc. builds
- manufactured homes in California, Arizona, New Mexico and other
- states. Their corporate headquarters is in West Los Angeles.
-
- My memory is a bit hazy on this, but when K&B built a development in
- Pomona consisting solely of manufactured homes (on very small lots),
- I seem to recall that it had to be approved by the local government.
- You might want to see what your local laws are with regard to zoning.
-
- Charleen
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