HOW TO NOT GET SCREWED: Advice for Renters/Mobile Homes/Insurance/Lawsuits: Ep311 of HOME DIAGNOSIS 

Thanks for sharing.

Great season. Thank you for the work you do.

Very good program. Interesting and underreported subject. 1- Not all Mobile homes are on rented property. There are parks that are owned by the residents. Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park in Los Angeles County, California is one example and burned in Woolsey Fire. The recovery story is likely instructive. The heat of many California fires was such that even underground utilities were damaged to the point of having to be replaced. Also the issue of ground contamination from things that burned and produced toxic compounds. 2- What about the survivability of manufactured homes built to IRC and put on a permanent foundation? Is the risk the same as a stick built or panelized home, or is it more like a HUD code. Many manufactured builders offer the same floor plans in IRC and HUD products. In many remote and rural areas (especially the western US) these modular homes built to IRC code are the most commonly built because of prohibitive site built costs. 3- Regarding the rehabbing of a flooded home, if the wall profile and roof system is very old, what can be done to bring the home up to code? Generally the wallboard is removed above the flood line but above is often left intact. That would seem to limit options for changing the air tightness of a structure. 4- It would be nice if a database existed where people buying existing homes could look and see to what building code standard a home they are considering was built to. In past years many states used the IRC + some local changes and some homes predate the IRC adoption. Thanks for your excellent work.

Crazy thing is that I just had a customer that wanted me to do the site work for a manufactured home and the sales material that the home manufacturer put out brags how better they are built because they meet HUD standards as well as standards for every state. Thanks for pointing out the glaring difference that a home builder and contractor knows but the future home owner would never know about. That is the very reason that I’m working on putting out a video about these differences

i find it interesting that there is little mention of state or govt role in this. down here local govt signs off on every aspect therefore they take responsibility for it. we had cyclone last year and many places where flooded (and people died) because the homes should have never been built there. so home owners got insurance pay outs, but also in certain places the govt bought the houses/land off them. as with leaky home syndrome, the govt can't run so its left last man standing and often pays for the repairs/rebuilds. if you guys think your mass produced building is poor now, wait until selling the family home is the middle class main income. kiwis live in houses half the length of time usa does, ie sell the houses twice as much. home owners want cheap nasty but beautiful looking homes that fall apart, because they won't be there in a few years time. plus 2nd hand homes make more money than new homes do, therefore very little incentive to build new homes which would reduce 2nd hand home prices. it also means the realestate market is double in size and becomes very powerful.

Corbett did you become ill along with Grace & the kids?