Man. vs Mob.

For one a mobile home has wheels, whereas a manufactured home doesn't. A manufactured home is brought to your site, and set usually on a concrete slab. It is more of a permenant home, it's just pre-manufactured and then brought to your site and put back together. A mobile home on the other hand can be moved from one mobile home park to another or from a part to a piece of land. Hope that helps you understand the difference.

I've heard people use different terms to describe different types of homes and they sometimes interchange the terms but they don't always mean the same thing, so I'll explain the different types of homes. First, the typical type of home is built in place on the site where the home will sit with building materials delivered to the site. These are referred to as site built or "stick built" homes. They are built from the ground up at the home site on a slab, foundation or full basement. They offer the most design options as they can be built in any size, shape or configuration desired, using any building materials available, from inexpensive to luxurious. The term "manufactured home" is kind of a general term and can be used to describe a mobile home or a modular home and this is where some of the confusion can come in because there are some definite differences between the two. Mobile homes, either single, double or triple wide, are built in a factory and the frames are steel. These steel frames are built to withstand the rigors of transporting the home over the roadways and serve as a built in "trailer" for transport. Once complete, wheels and axles are welded underneath and a hitch on one end. Trucks are hitched to the sections and they are towed to the home site where the sections are mated together. While they can be placed on a permanent foundation or a basement, they are more typically placed on concrete blocks or piers, which is how it is done in a mobile home park. The axles and hitch are removed but can be replaced if the home needs to be split and relocated to a different site, hence the term "mobile". Different materials are usually used on the inside of mobile homes such as the wallboard, sometimes being considered a "cheaper" form of construction, although the quality of today's mobile home is much better than they used to be. They usually have vaulted ceilings and these types of homes are more limited in size and shape, pretty much being rectangular and limited to a single story. They are usually sided with vinyl siding and once set, are "skirted" with vinyl strips to enclose and finish off the lower part of the home. A "modular" home, like a mobile home, is built in a factory but unlike a mobile home, modulars are built on wood frames just like a site built home. The sections or modules are then placed on trailers with a crane and moved to the home site, where they are set in place also with a crane. They can be placed on a slab, foundation or full basement just like a site built home and once set in place, are never moved again. Modular designs are much less limited than mobiles and can be built in any number of modules, in just about any size and shape, including multiple stories. Once set in place on site, they are hard to distinguish from a site built home as they are built with all the same quality building materials including normal interior drywall and any exterior siding and finishing desired. They actually have a couple of advantages over site built homes in that they are built entirely in a climate controlled environment and not subjected to any weather that can damage building materials or cause delays during construction like a site built home is. Because of this "assembly line" type of efficiency, they are usually less expensive to build that a site built home and stay on schedule during construction, arriving at the site at the stated time ready to live in. In terms of expense, mobiles are the most inexpensive followed by modulars, with site built homes being the most expensive and time consuming. Well, there you have it. I hope that clears up the confusion.

Total non sequitur--I don't have a clue what the difference between a manufactured or a mobile home, but I liked the heading man. vs. mob. (made me think of the difference between an individual and the mob and/or groupthink).

The differences aren't always clear. You can have 2 seemingly identical homes side by side and one is a mobile home and one is a manufactured home. A mobile home has wheels attached to the bottom. But. And this is a big but. When you set it up it can be on a permanent foundation or not. Most people bolt it to a foundation, let the air out of the tires and put a skirt around the home so you can't see the wheels. As long as it has wheels and theoretically can be moved, it gets taxed as a vehicle and not as a house. It is a lower tax rate. The exact same home could be a manufactured home if the factory left off the wheels for transporting and it had to be transport it some other way, such as on a flat bed truck. The mobile home can be transported on a flat bed truck too if you want to. They usually are transported that way. But as long as theoretically there is the option of hitching it to something and towing it. It's a mobile home. A manufactured home can be set up on its lot about 2 feet lower on to the earth because they don't have to leave space for the wheels to dangle and deteriorate underneath. If you are stupid enough to take the wheels off your mobile home and ditch them somewhere and get caught. Your mobile homes status gets changed and upgraded to a manufactured home.Manufactured home = higher taxes. Your taxes on it go up with the removal of the wheels. That is the difference.

Not one thing! they are both manufactured and they (ever wonder who they are?) decided to change the name to make the trailer houses sound more appealing. Truth is, the new modular homes are quite nice but quite expensive. Manufactured is a glorified term or the mobile home.

Not one thing! They are both manufactured and still considered a mobile home. They(have you ever wondered who they are?) changed the old mobile home wordage to manufactured ages ago to make them sound more appealing. I still use mobile home or even a trailer house !

one is often assembled in pieces and then delivered and put on a pier and beam foundation - some times on a slab where a mobile home is rolled into place (or the 2 halves are) and then some kind of foundation is erected under it. the roomie's folks 's house mobile home, but they've done so much, including putting a "real" roof on it that is no longer considered one.