1998 Manufactured - Now Single Family Home?

[pawwly2]

Once a manhome always a manhome , to clarify....you had it moved from previous location or you had it originally installed at this location before the stick built additions?

https://lvr-requests.ibts.org/

If its been moved you have eligibility issues , if it has been altered from original design you may only need structural inspections and have appraisal comp issues due to unique nature of design/improvement.

It will always be a manufactured home and will limited your buyer pool.

 

[timd354]

We bought new, a 1998 manufactured double-wide home ~ 2000 Sq. Ft. built in York, NE. Tried to sell it in 2001 but housing market was in the dump - we would have taken a big hit. We bought 2.5 acres in Minnesota, built a beautiful walkout basement for the foundation, with 12 feet concrete walls, and had the home moved on to the foundation; adding another 2000 sq. ft. - which now sports a 2 car attached garage, 2 more bedrooms, huge family room, utility room, and a big full size bathroom. We had to remodel the manufactured part (now the upstairs) to allow for the steps, among other enhancements. It's now a 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom home on 2.5 acres with none of the steel beams showing except a little in the utility room in the walkout basement where the furnace (now zone heat/air), sump, water heater and water filters reside. The upstairs walls are 2x6 with more insulation than a stick built home requires. Wiring was changed to mesh with the walkout basement, etc.
No one believes the upstairs started as manufactured, but that's beside the point.
To the point: Our jobs are moving us after 17 years, and now we need to sell our home. How do we go about getting our city inspector to change the original status of 2001 manufactured home to, at the very least, a single family dwelling? See attached file - I welcome your thoughts.

Sorry to inform you, but it is still a manufactured home, albeit a highly modified manufactured home and few lenders are going to touch it.

 

[Artemis Fowl]

So at some point you made a significant financial decision that was either informed or uninformed. If informed...you saved a few bucks on the front-end and now are having to deal with the back-end price. If uniformed, sorry for your current predicament but you shoulda informed yourself before laying out that much money to do stuff that most people would have questions about.

Trying to re-classify is trying to obscure what the house really is...another decision with a back-end price.

 

[EddieB]

Twenty days since original post. This might be another one post wonder. Wonder why...