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HogHunter34 · 03-07-2020, 10:28 PM

Looking to purchase a decent (not new) mobile home to place on our family land as a place to stay while hunting, get together, etc...
Where’s best place to search for decent deals & decent quality ones? Good place to shop Repos? Just wondering where or methods some of y’all who have purchased as primary or secondary residence resourced?
I’m in Tyler area. Looking for only single wide

rut-ro · 03-08-2020, 07:11 AM

I got lucky a few years ago at one of the local feed stores in Normangee. Found a lady who was wanting to upgrade and bought her used one for cheap. I ended up adding new doors, a handicapped shower for my parents and a couple other cosmetic items. All in was around 20k which is cheap if you try and price a new one.

HogHunter34 · 03-08-2020, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by rut-ro

I got lucky a few years ago at one of the local feed stores in Normangee. Found a lady who was wanting to upgrade and bought her used one for cheap. I ended up adding new doors, a handicapped shower for my parents and a couple other cosmetic items. All in was around 20k which is cheap if you try and price a new one.

Yeah that’s what I figured. I’m ignorant when it comes to buying a MH. Do they come with central heat/AC & water heater? I’m guessing it’s common they sale them with that included

BURTONboy · 03-08-2020, 08:32 AM

I would get with some realtors and tell them to keep and eye out. Likely be your best bet to find one as they go on new properties all the time. My wifes aunt is a realtor and found one basically brand new, still had plastic on all the fixtures, that was two years old on a property and they bought it for like a third of what it cost brand new.

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Jon B · 03-08-2020, 08:33 AM

Watch the secondary market. They sell cheap after only a few years

Antlers86 · 03-08-2020, 08:56 AM

Just buy this one. Great price and spend the little extra to move it.

https://discussions.texasbowhunter.c...d.php?t=756399

fowlwaters · 03-08-2020, 09:10 AM

Most moblie home places sell used one or repoed ones.

Abcdj · 03-08-2020, 10:38 AM

We decided to get one as a group for the lease. I was put in charge of looking for one. I looked for one in the 5-8k range for a whole summer. Most all of them I looked at were trashed out and we didnt want to do much work on one. I had given up.
One of our other guys had an emplyee getting married to a guy. This guy was trying to sell his house but couldnt sell it because his parents had put a mobile home on the property. No one wanted it there. We went and looked at it. It waz the nicest one I had seen by a long shot. He said if we got it off the property in a week it was free!
It was at the lease the next week. We only had to move it 18 miles and that cost us $2500 for the move and set up. Our came with the AC unit too.

Jake · 03-08-2020, 10:47 AM

Sometimes you can find deals on new ones that have set on their lot for a longtime. When you custom design one to get built the price goes up big time. Find a spec on the lot and make lower offers.

DapperDan · 03-08-2020, 12:44 PM

Use to work in the industry and sell them. New and used. 21st mortgage is a bank that finances mobile homes and they own quite a few repos. Actually at one time it was several hundred. You’d be surprised at how many newer ones they have. You can buy directly through them as well and that’s the best pricing you’ll get on a repo. If it’s sitting on a sales center lot, there is mark up on it over what the bank will sell it for.

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Acameron52 · 03-08-2020, 01:16 PM

You’ll spend more on moving it than buying it.

3whunt · 03-08-2020, 02:16 PM

I’m not gonna talk much on price at all. Pretty hardly ever means well built when it comes to mobile homes. The main deal you have to have is plywood floors. OSB,chipboard,dust floors all suck *** over the OMG run. Do NOT buy anything without plywood unless it’s so cheap you are ok with replacing it all with plywood. My family has made a killing in the business, we keep the ones with plywood floors (no matter the age or appearance) for our rentals.
Slap a metal roof on a plywood floored house and you are good to go for a long time.

Muskles · 03-08-2020, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Antlers86

Just buy this one. Great price and spend the little extra to move it.

https://discussions.texasbowhunter.c...d.php?t=756399

I was planning to tell him about this one, you beat me to it. May be a little far away though. Lol

3whunt · 03-08-2020, 02:47 PM

Big fan of antlers86. But tile doesn’t travel in a mobile home. You’d be looking at redoing the entire floor. But it looks built right. And the price is good. Epoxy works wonders on cracked fiberglass or plastic tubs for a weekend getaway.

Drycreek3189 · 03-08-2020, 03:09 PM

PM inbound, I know a guy !

HogHunter34 · 03-08-2020, 03:19 PM

Thanks for all the replies. Sounds like a chunk of change to move & set one up. Is it a flat rate within a certain mile radius?

3whunt · 03-09-2020, 04:09 PM

Everything is negotiated. Tires included. Leveling, blocking, tie downs, water hookups, electric hookups. It can be as much or as little as you want man. In North Texas I could help....probably not much south of Dallas.

03-07-2020, 10:28 PM	#1
HogHunter34 Ten Point Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Whitehouse, Tx Hunt In: Anderson County	Mobile Home ? Looking to purchase a decent (not new) mobile home to place on our family land as a place to stay while hunting, get together, etc... Where’s best place to search for decent deals & decent quality ones? Good place to shop Repos? Just wondering where or methods some of y’all who have purchased as primary or secondary residence resourced? I’m in Tyler area. Looking for only single wide

03-08-2020, 10:38 AM	#8
Abcdj Pope & Young Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Parts Unknown Hunt In: A warm enclosed blind	We decided to get one as a group for the lease. I was put in charge of looking for one. I looked for one in the 5-8k range for a whole summer. Most all of them I looked at were trashed out and we didnt want to do much work on one. I had given up. One of our other guys had an emplyee getting married to a guy. This guy was trying to sell his house but couldnt sell it because his parents had put a mobile home on the property. No one wanted it there. We went and looked at it. It waz the nicest one I had seen by a long shot. He said if we got it off the property in a week it was free! It was at the lease the next week. We only had to move it 18 miles and that cost us $2500 for the move and set up. Our came with the AC unit too. Last edited by Abcdj; 03-08-2020 at 10:40 AM.

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03-08-2020, 07:11 AM	#2
rut-ro Ten Point Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Sugar Land Hunt In: Leon,Madison and Zavalla	I got lucky a few years ago at one of the local feed stores in Normangee. Found a lady who was wanting to upgrade and bought her used one for cheap. I ended up adding new doors, a handicapped shower for my parents and a couple other cosmetic items. All in was around 20k which is cheap if you try and price a new one.

03-08-2020, 08:32 AM	#4
BURTONboy Pope & Young Join Date: May 2009 Location: New Ulm Hunt In: San Saba	I would get with some realtors and tell them to keep and eye out. Likely be your best bet to find one as they go on new properties all the time. My wifes aunt is a realtor and found one basically brand new, still had plastic on all the fixtures, that was two years old on a property and they bought it for like a third of what it cost brand new. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

03-08-2020, 08:33 AM	#5
Jon B Ten Point Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Central Tx. Hunt In: Central Tx and the Western States	Watch the secondary market. They sell cheap after only a few years

03-08-2020, 08:56 AM	#6
Antlers86 Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Athens Hunt In: Jack/Coleman/Henderson	Just buy this one. Great price and spend the little extra to move it. https://discussions.texasbowhunter.c...d.php?t=756399

03-08-2020, 09:10 AM	#7
fowlwaters Ten Point Join Date: Feb 2011	Most moblie home places sell used one or repoed ones.

03-08-2020, 10:47 AM	#9
Jake Four Point Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Austin	Sometimes you can find deals on new ones that have set on their lot for a longtime. When you custom design one to get built the price goes up big time. Find a spec on the lot and make lower offers.

03-08-2020, 12:44 PM	#10
DapperDan Pope & Young Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Tomball Tx Hunt In: Texas	Use to work in the industry and sell them. New and used. 21st mortgage is a bank that finances mobile homes and they own quite a few repos. Actually at one time it was several hundred. You’d be surprised at how many newer ones they have. You can buy directly through them as well and that’s the best pricing you’ll get on a repo. If it’s sitting on a sales center lot, there is mark up on it over what the bank will sell it for. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

03-08-2020, 01:16 PM	#11
Acameron52 Ten Point Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Lewisville Hunt In: Coleman & Loving	You’ll spend more on moving it than buying it.

03-08-2020, 02:16 PM	#12
3whunt Four Point Join Date: Dec 2013 Hunt In: SE Oklahoma	I’m not gonna talk much on price at all. Pretty hardly ever means well built when it comes to mobile homes. The main deal you have to have is plywood floors. OSB,chipboard,dust floors all suck *** over the OMG run. Do NOT buy anything without plywood unless it’s so cheap you are ok with replacing it all with plywood. My family has made a killing in the business, we keep the ones with plywood floors (no matter the age or appearance) for our rentals. Slap a metal roof on a plywood floored house and you are good to go for a long time.

03-08-2020, 02:47 PM	#14
3whunt Four Point Join Date: Dec 2013 Hunt In: SE Oklahoma	Big fan of antlers86. But tile doesn’t travel in a mobile home. You’d be looking at redoing the entire floor. But it looks built right. And the price is good. Epoxy works wonders on cracked fiberglass or plastic tubs for a weekend getaway.

03-08-2020, 03:09 PM	#15
Drycreek3189 Pope & Young Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Troup Hunt In: Cherokee, Rusk, Trinity Counties	PM inbound, I know a guy !

03-08-2020, 03:19 PM	#16
HogHunter34 Ten Point Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Whitehouse, Tx Hunt In: Anderson County	Thanks for all the replies. Sounds like a chunk of change to move & set one up. Is it a flat rate within a certain mile radius?

03-09-2020, 04:09 PM	#17
3whunt Four Point Join Date: Dec 2013 Hunt In: SE Oklahoma	Everything is negotiated. Tires included. Leveling, blocking, tie downs, water hookups, electric hookups. It can be as much or as little as you want man. In North Texas I could help....probably not much south of Dallas.