What is a modular home? If you still think of boxy mobile homes, not so. Today’s modular residences look like conventional built homes and range from cottages to mansions. Homes come in a wide range of sizes and you can find the home just right for your family. They are homes with roomy interiors that can go from traditional to contemporary and with custom interiors that can include; custom skylights, vaulted ceilings, an

Living frugal in a park model mobile home is a great way to retire on less. And it sure beats continuing to work.

Has your retirement portfolio taken a tumble in the last 2 years?  Mine sure has. The retirement plans of many are being rethought. That’s not all bad.

I reside in the Phoenix area, park model heaven for a lot of frugal retirees. Retiring to Arizona can be done very cheaply

Living in a Mobile Home Community has many advantages over apartments and regular neighborhoods, as they are generally more affordable and more secure. They also have a strong sense of “community” that is all too often lacking in our society.

Cost: In a Mobile Home Community, you own your own home and pay for the space. Space rents can start in the low $300’s for Homes; even less for Park Models. You can

Park model mobile homes offer a means to retire that is cheaper and is filled with more fun than a living in a regular stick built home. Whoa…what are you saying!

Park model mobile homes are much, much cheaper than stick built homes. You can buy a used park model home, 1,000 square feet, furnished for $20,000 to $30,000 all day long in Arizona, where we live. A stick built home would be

List a property for sale at fifty percent of market value and the bargain hunters come out of the word work. Like termites in a feeding frenzy, some of the items to look out for are often unsolvable by the time they are found. Properties in foreclosure carry certain hurdles that one needs to be aware of. I mean, you would hate to be out all of your hard earned money and not

Finding deals in today’s home market can be a challenge, but it gets a lot easier when you use the solid resources at your disposal. For instance, there are foreclosed homes out there that come at a huge discount for people who are willing to look for them. Government foreclosure homes are priced to move and there can be some nice ones thrown in there, too. Whether you are looking to purchase on

One of the most talked about things in home buying is going through the purchasing of a home with a short sale. A short sale is basically when a lender is accepting a cut-rate price to liberate an existing mortgage on their books. This can work if the seller owns more on the home than it is actually worth or if the home is going into default. This doesn’t mean that home is