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Last year when my friend Tami Crandall from Spearfish, S.D., renewed her home insurance on her 2,400-square-foot, 1913 two-story farmhouse with a detached garage, the price tag was about what she expected: $1,800 for the year. But Tami’s daughter and son-in-law, who live just a hundred feet away in a 1,500-square-foot manufactured home—a factory-built structure that rests on a permanent metal chassis as its foundation—had to pay more than twice that amount, almost $4,000, for similar coverage.
Manufactured homes, built in just a few facilities around the country and then shipped to a manufactured home park or land you own, are...
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This article is just plain stupid. Stupid #1: it does NOT cost $4,000 per year to insure a mobile home. Stupid #2: Single-wides DO NOT average $86,400 for 1,064 square feet of space, while doubles run about $158,600 for 1,757 square feet.
Does nobody fact-check this stuff anymore?
Can’t wait for AI to replace these writers.