Clear, practical guides for buying and placing a manufactured home in California. Explore financing or lending options, choosing a floor plan, evaluating a lot, permits, foundations, site preparation, delivery, installation, energy options, and wildfire-aware planning.
Every manufactured-home purchase is more than selecting a home. It is also a land, permitting, site-work, budgeting, delivery, and installation project. Performance Realty helps California buyers understand the questions to ask before they move forward, including what to expect when exploring financing or lending options and when to speak with outside lenders or brokers.
Learn how California’s Zone 0 policy may affect manufactured-home site planning, permits, delivery, installation, and wildfire-aware lot design.
Read the Zone 0 guide →Every guide, one card each — from how the home types differ to what a lot needs before a home can arrive.
Buying a manufactured home is a home purchase and a site project running in parallel. Here is the whole sequence, in order, and where the real variables live.
Three factory-built home types, three different sets of rules — and in California, three different paths through placement, titling, and financing. Here's how to tell them apart.
The price of the home is only part of what gets financed. Here is how the pieces fit together, what varies by buyer and property, and where Performance Realty's role begins and ends.
Width, layout, delivery, and budget all hinge on this one choice. Here's how to think about it.
Energy efficiency is not one feature or one brand name. Here is what the federal baseline covers, what Zero Energy Ready actually means, and what to ask about a specific home.
Buying a manufactured home is about more than selecting a floor plan. Here is what an independent dealer does across the home, the site, and the project path.
Land, Lots, and Placement · California Permits and Site Preparation · Delivery, Installation, and Foundations · Manufactured Homes in Communities
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