If you are in the market for a mobile home, you’ll find a variety of loan programs and financing options to make buying the home of your choice affordable and easy. Even people with poor credit may be able to obtain financing for a mobile home. The interest rates will be higher, but can be refinanced at a later date when the credit rating improves. There are even FHA loans suitable for mobile homes. The two main types of FHA loans are one for people who own their own land on which the mobile home will be placed, and one for people who will be living in an established mobile home park.
There are two types of mobile home loans available, loans to buy a mobile home with the land and loans to buy a mobile home without the land. When the land does not come into consideration, the finance institutions give a loan for mobile homes in parks, leased lots, family land, or any situation where the home is not deeded as real property. This sometimes includes people who buy manufactured houses and place it on their land until they build another home later.
The very fact that mobile homes are movable increases their insecurity about the money lent. Many banks and lending organizations have today completely stopped writing loans for mobile homes without land.
Some financial institutions have mobile home foundation requirements that have to be fulfilled in order for the loan to be granted on both owned land or on mobile home parks. One of the requirements is that the wheels, axles, and hitch of the mobile home have to be removed. Another requirement is that the mobile home has to be permanently affixed to one of the following foundations, either a poured concrete support column installed below the frost line, or a poured concrete slab on grade with a floating slab and concrete block piers installed below the frost line.
Not all mobile home loans and mortages are FHA. Many are provided by private lenders who specialize in offering loans for mobile homes and/or manufactured homes. As mentioned earlier in this article, interest rates on some of these privately funded loans can be quite high. Even so, mortgage loans are often available for refinance at a later date. This is why many people who dream of owning a home start off with a mobile home or manufactured home.
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