Greater flexibility in the construction process allows for each home to be customized to meet a buyer's lifestyle and needs.  Interior features now include such features as vaulted ceilings and working fireplaces to state of the art kitchens and baths, giving the homebuyer all the features found in traditional, site built homes.  Enhanced energy efficiency in manufactured homes, achieved with upgraded levels of insuation and more efficient heating and cooling systems, provide another source of savings for homeowners, especially in this era of rising energy costs.  Smart buyers are turning to Energy Star labeled manufactured homes for substantial savings in many aspects of owning and operating a home. 

Taken from ~ Quick Facts 2011 Manufactured Housing Institute

Today's manufactured homes have experienced a major evolution in the types and quality of homes being offered to buyers.  Technological advances are allowing manufactured home builders to offer a much wider variety of architectural styles and exterior finishes that will suit most any buyer's dreams, all the while allowing the home to blend in seamlessly into most any neighborhood.  Two story and single family attached homes are but two of the new styles being generated by factory built innovation.  As a result, today's manufactured homes are offering real housing options for the suburban and urban buyers. 

 Taken from ~ Quick facts Manufactured Housing

Much like other assembly line operations, manufactured homes benefit from the economies of scale resulting from purchasing large quantities of materials, products and appliances.  Manufactured home builders are able to negotiate substantial savings on many components used in building a home, with these savings passed on directly to the homebuyer.

Taken from ~ Manufactured Housing Institute

The affordability of manufactured housing can be attributed directly to the efficiencies emanating form the factory building process.  The controlled construction enviornment and assembly line techniques remove many of the problems encountered during traditional home construction, such as poor weather, theft, vandalism, damage to building materials and products, and unskilled labor.  Factory employees are trained and managed more effectively and efficiently than the system of contracted labor employed by the site built home  construction industry. 

Taken from  ~ Manufactured Housing Institute