Some developers are swine.

[paulsharvey]

Not to flood this thread; but I have been asked point blank from people several times; "does anyone still build a Jim Walter's home". Nope. No one really does. There is a guy, friend of a friend, that does build some cheap 2/2 and 3/2, small site built homes as spec houses. They are nice, but they have a design model to really reduce costs; sono tube piers; wood framed off grade; and he does much of the framing/piers/roofing himself.

Edit: This guy buys cheap lots, and builds a couple per year, maybe 4-6; in rural subdivisions. This model doesn't work with 100k lots, but works with a $30k lot.

 

[Jstpssng]

People need to get over the 1970s/1980s idea of what manufactured housing is

Today's equivalent around here is an "Amish building"... aka shed. 12' wide, 2x4 walls.
Disclaimer; that's what I live in. I bought it 10 years ago, fully wired and insulated. I tied into my well and septic and it's fine for what it is. Yet for the same money I could have had a septic poured and capped, and been Gollum for a couple of years until I could have a house built.

 

[BackRoad]

I bought a 35 acre subdivision. It was platted in 1982 next to a Corp of Engineers lake, intended to be used by those from the town displaced from the flooding of the lake.

It was originally 15 lots on 40 acres, with only the 3 closest to the main road selling before they realized the ground wouldn't perk!

So in 2019, I bought the remaining 35 acres still subdivided into the 12 lots that never sold. The original subdivision covenants are listed in my deed, but I am the only member of the HOA and therefore the enforcer!

So I gave myself a variance to live in my RV on the property while I built my house!

So Subdivision HOA head, Maintenance head, Landscape head, and head of Sanitation...the jobs are easy, but the pay sucks!