Factory-built homes
Modular, manufactured and mobile homes: what's the difference?
All three get called factory-built, but they're built to different codes.
Manufactured home
Built entirely in a factory to the federal HUD Code and inspected under federal authority, after June 15, 1976. This is what Land & Homes Arizona sells.
Modular home
Also factory-built, but to the same state and local building code as site-built homes. It's permitted and inspected like a site-built house, just assembled off-site.
Mobile home
The older term for homes built before 1976, before the federal safety code existed. None of our Champion homes are mobile homes.
Becoming real property
In Arizona, a home permanently attached to owned land can become real property through the Affidavit of Affixture process.