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The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes: The Essential Buyer's Resource, Listing Every Builder in the U.S., Their Histories, Products, Price Ranges, ... Need-to-Know Information and Much More

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All 79 U.S. builders evaluated

More than 300 brands and series described. Plus,

An annotated construction rating chart with 56 criteria you can use to evaluate any home—before you buy.

John Grissim’s bestselling The Grissim Buyer’s Guide to Manufactured Homes and Land has been hailed as the definitive resource for navigating the tricky waters of the manufactured home marketplace. Now, he has written a companion guide that takes a close critical look at every manufacturer and the brands they build, providing up-to-date, essential information together with authoritative, no-nonsense insights that have made him a respected industry observer and voice for the home-buying consumer.

Each manufacturer’s listing includes: • Company background/history • States where sold • Principal market niche/target customer • Retail price range • Who they compete against • Construction rating on a 1-to-10 scale • Brands and series described • Description of a popular model • What distinguishes brand from competition • Number of dealerships • Warranty structure • Availability of in-house financing/insurance • Web site rating and evaluation • Grissim’s comments

Exhaustively researched, and containing much information that many manufacturers would prefer you not know, The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes not only tells you who’s who in the manufactured home universe—enabling you to compare and evaluate their products—it will help you be informed, empowered and confident as you make the many decisions involved in the purchase of your new home.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780972543613
ISBN: 0972543619
Label: Rainshadow Publications
Manufacturer: Rainshadow Publications
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 2006-02-01
Publisher: Rainshadow Publications
Studio: Rainshadow Publications


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• The Grissim Buyer's Guide to Manufactured Homes & Land: How to Find a Reputable Dealer and Negotiate a Fair Price on the Best-Kept Secret in American Housing
• Prefabulous: The House of Your Dreams Delivered Fresh from the Factory
• The Modular Home
• Manufactured Home Buyer's Handbook
• Modular Mansions


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Time-saving and Helpful -
This book has so much information in it. First of all, it tells you which manufacturers are selling in your state, that's the first way it narrows things down for you. Then, it gives you their website information so that you can see sample floorplans and exteriors. Finally, it gives you a rundown on their background (how long in business) who their affiliates are (if any), how it stands out in comparison to others along with an overall construction rating of 1 to 10. He tells you what you want to look for in a whole slew of categories that anyone shopping would want to know, for example: Aesthetics Exterior/Interior, roof pitch, floor decking, front door, rear door, water piping, electrical and subcategories, kitchen and subcategories, etc. At the beginning of the book he tells you how to use the book and how the ratings were calculated. There is so much information, but it is presented in such a simple way that it's not overwhelming or difficult for the layman to absorb.

If you are serious about purchasing a manufactured home, I would HIGHLY recommend that you purchase this book!

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Great Information -
Good information, a needed book when shopping for a manufactured home.
It helped us a great deal!

Rip off -
I'm sorry, but I just can't agree with all these positive reviews for this book. All it is is a $30 listing of pre-fab manufacturers in all the various states. What good does that do? You're only going to build in the state you live in and there is such scant information about the manufacturers in each state that I just don't see how this is so valuable. I rarely write a bad review, but I returned this book because I didn't feel it was worth the money at all.

Knowledge is power -
This seems to be an excellent book. The truth will be when I'm ready to buy a home. I feel so much more knowledgable! It's easy to understand and well illustrated.

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an "A" for effort -
we purchased this relatively inexpensive paperback--inexpensive, based on the effort this writer put into research and readable format--and based on the glowing reviews we saw here on amazon. i fully appreciate the need for this kind of book and for the writers best intentions.
however, i'm here as a reader who relied on his construction ratings (the introduction credits the writer for these construction ratings) to buy not one, but three 'homes of merit' manufactured homes. this enabled me to see that despite receiving a healthy construction rating (7) in the price range, the manufacturer wasn't able to sustain a consistent product in a) the plant where carpeting was laid crookedly in one home, and quality of kitchen counters were not matched from one home to the next, the refrigerators were not the same cubic foot size or manufacturer, leaving the impression they picked them up at a discount house, b) the placement of the homes on the property (one cannot be matched at the top where the two halves come together), c) the subcontractors who install air conditioners (with tubing reversed in one home so that exhaust was expelled into the home)--this after delivering the a.c./heat pumps much later than contracted for--awkward when renters are also contracted to move in. even more awkward when the steps are not delivered or built, and the keys either don't work or are interchangeable from home to home--all of these occurred.
this is only the beginning of a long list of things that are not rectified by a manufacturer who knew it was our intention to purchase more homes. so while i commend grissim for his efforts to catalog the myriad considerations in buying a manufactured home, based on my own experience, i have to say the construction ratings for homes of merit are optimistic, to say the least. let the buyer beware.