Single-wide
Also called: single-section
A manufactured home built as one section, typically 14 to 18 feet wide and 60 to 80 feet long.
A single-wide is transported and installed as a single unit. Layouts are necessarily linear, rooms run front to back off a hallway, which makes them efficient but limits open-plan living.
Single-wides are the most affordable manufactured housing available and are common in land-lease communities. They fit lots that cannot accommodate a wider home, and they are simpler and cheaper to move if that ever becomes necessary.
The trade-off is resale. Multi-section homes generally hold value better and appeal to a wider pool of buyers, so a single-wide is usually the better choice when monthly affordability matters more than eventual resale.
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- Double-wide, A manufactured home built as two sections, joined on site to form a home roughly 24 to 32 feet wide.
- Multi-section, A manufactured home built in three or more sections, producing the largest factory-built floor plans.
- Manufactured home, A home built entirely in a factory to the federal HUD Code, transported to its site on a permanent steel chassis.