The Grissim Ratings Guide to Manufactured Homes
The essential buyer’s resource, listing every builder in the U.S., their histories, products, price ranges, construction ratings, need-to-know information and much more
Rainshadow Publications, 88 pages,
8” x 10”, cutaway illustration, 3-page table
$29.95 paperback
The Ratings’s Guide includes:
All 63 U.S. builders evaluated (see list below) More than 300 brands and series described
Each builder listing in the Ratings Guide includes the following:
- Name, address, contact information and whether publicly or privately held
- Web site
- Company background/history
- States where sold
- Principal market niche/target customer
- Retail price range before tax (price includes transportation & set-up)
- The brands they compete against
- Construction rating on a 1-to-10 scale (with 10 being the highest quality)
- Brands/series produced
- Description of a popular model
- What distinguishes brand from its competition
- Number of dealerships (company owned and independents)
- Percentage of HUD-code homes sold of total homes produced
- Availability of in-house financing and in-house insurance
- Warranty structure and length
- Web site rating, pros and cons, with comment
- Grissim’s comments
The Ratings Guide evaluates all 63 manufactured home builders in the US.
- Adventure Homes
- Athens Park Homes
- Atlantic Homes
- Bonnavilla Homes
- Buccaneer Homes
- Cappaert Homes
- Cavalier Homes
- Cavco Industries
- Cavco Homes
- Champion Home Builders
- Champion Homes
- Chariot Eagle
- Chief Industries
- Clayton Homes
- Commodore Homes
- Deer Valley
- Destiny Industries
- Dutch Housing
- Eagle River Homes
- Fairmont Homes
- Fleetwood Homes
- Fortune Homes
- Franklin Homes
- Friendship Homes of Minnesota
- Giles Industries
- Golden West Homes
- Hallmark Southwest Corporation
- Hart Housing
- Highland Homes
- Hi-Tech Housing
- Homark Company
- Homes of Merit
- Inspiration by CMH
- Jacobsen Homes
- Kabco Builders
- Karsten Homes
- Kit Homebuilders West
- Legacy Housing
- Lexington Homes
- Live Oak Homes
- Manufactured Housing Enterprises
- Marlette Homes
- Modular One
- Nobility Homes
- Norris Homes
- Oak Creek Homes
- Oakwood Homes
- Palm Harbor Homes
- Pine Grove Homes
- Platinum Homes
- Redman Homes
- Ritz-Craft Homes
- River Birch Homes
- Schult Homes
- Scotbilt Homes
- Silvercrest Homes
- Skyline Homes
- Solitaire Homes
- Southern Energy Homes
- Sunshine Homes
- Titan Homes
- Town Homes
- TruMH by Clayton Homes
- Valley Quality Homes
- Virginia Homes Manufacturing