Manufactured

[Indy Residential]

This is a follow up on a previous post of mine regarding manufactured home. I would like to thank everyone that gave me advice and let you know were I am at on this appraisal. I turned down the assignment, and then read that I could retrieve these numbers on the cross member. In addition, I took an on line factory built course which confirmed the numbers have to be on this cross member. So I went back out to this property to attempt on finding this number on this cross member. This is a rural property!!! The crawl space entrance is at the rear of the home, and the cross member where I find this number is approximately 70 feet. I go in crawl spaces all day, but this one I was scared. The lady said that they seen snakes, spiders, etc… I am a bigger guy that was flat on my belly at some spaces throughout the crawl space area. I searched up and down, but could not find any numbers. I hired my smaller in size cousin to assist in finding this, nothing. There were some storms in this area, and there was a manufactured home park and the majority of these homes had there skirting exposed so I searched those to reference where this number was, nothing on them. The previous owners had passed away, and deeded this property to the existing owners. There have been additions to this manufactured, which have been certified by a structural engineer. The old siding was replaced so the exterior conforms. They tried taking off the existing siding to see if the HUD plates would be exposed, nothing. After all of this we found an old manufactured invoice from Young Homes. I called Young homes only to find out that they had a fire and all of there archives were lost. Young homes said that I would not find this number due to the permanent block foundation, that the foundation block would need to be removed to expose this number. After all of this, the home owner calls today, and said they took the breaker box off and found the RAD #. This is great, but if you remember there were two sheriffs’ out there that could not find these numbers and re-issued a new VIN. With the HUD numbers, can I find the old VIN? I was so blinded by trying to find this number, that I lost track of what I can do now that I have it. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. Thanks again for your help,

 

[Doug Meyer]

I would pose this question on the manufactured home section or I would contact Joann there. She is very knowledgeable on this subject and could give you the best advice available. Send her an email, she is really helpful on these matters. Also, if you plan to do manufactured, I would take every available course in these matters and thoroughly know this subject inside/out. I consider these to be very tough assignments.

 

[Indy Residential]

It was right in front of me the whole time. With the number I found I can verify the manufactured label thru the IBTS. I feel competent, but wanted to verify all this information. I love this online forum, and the FHA Resource Center is a great tool. I spoke with several peers to get advice, when I should have just gone directly to the source, HUD/FHA. I was hesitant to call, but they actually were very helpful. I feel that is its all downhill from here, but still will verify all my information that I have gathered is correct. You know this property is a manufactured, and I seen two appraisals stating that it was conventional built. One of the appraisals is on the old form, and the “is this a manufactured” is checked no. It would have been a lot easier on me if these other appraisers would have took time and gathered this information, and did there job. Anyway, this site is addicting!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for helping