By the time a home inspector visits a client’s mobile home, the home will be in place, ready for a move-in or a sale. But mobile homes, also called manufactured homes, carry with them a history, starting with the factory where they were built to be moved to a permanent site. A mobile home that is ready for inspection may have been pulled by a truck for hundreds or thousands of miles before arriving at its installation site. And after it arrived at its destination, a special tractor was used to maneuver around tight angles and into position and set the home in place. Because of the need to ...
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