July 2, 2008
Mobile Home Loans
If you are in the market for a mobile home, you'll find a variety of loan programs and financing options to make buying the home of your choice affordable and easy. Even people with poor credit may be able to obtain financing for a mobile home. The interest rates will be higher, but can be refinanced at a later date when the credit rating improves. There are even FHA loans suitable for mobile homes. The two main types of FHA loans are one for people who own their own land on which the mobile home will be placed, and one for people who will be living in an established mobile home park.
Some companies require mobile homes to be fixed to the ground in order to provide loans for them. This includes removing the wheels, axles and hitches of the homes. Such requirements are called foundation requirements. Lending companies usually put this requirement in order to secure themselves by creating fixedness for the property. An extreme requirement for this is to affix the entire home on a concrete foundation. This is also a usual demand by lending companies.
The very fact that mobile homes are movable increases their insecurity about the money lent. Many banks and lending organizations have today completely stopped writing loans for mobile homes without land.
Some financial institutions have mobile home foundation requirements that have to be fulfilled in order for the loan to be granted on both owned land or on mobile home parks. One of the requirements is that the wheels, axles, and hitch of the mobile home have to be removed. Another requirement is that the mobile home has to be permanently affixed to one of the following foundations, either a poured concrete support column installed below the frost line, or a poured concrete slab on grade with a floating slab and concrete block piers installed below the frost line.
Financial organizations normally provide 75 to 90 percent of the total cost of building the house. Mobile home mortgages are usually long-term mortgages for periods generally above 10 years.
Filed under Home Loans by Ray Lam









