A weekly series
Land That Failed — mobile home land that did not work
One property an episode. The same four checks every time, and a different one stopping it each time — until the last four, which pass all four and fail on something that is not on the list.
Episodes
Episode 8
Right answers, wrong order
Nothing here failed. They bought the home first, and every answer that came back after that was a change order.
Episode 7
Nobody saw it raining
Flat, open, easy to clear and easy to grade — and the low end held water for two days after every storm, which is where the pad went.
Episode 6
The deed said no
Zoning allowed it, the soil perced, access was fine — and covenants recorded decades ago prohibited manufactured homes outright.
Episode 5
Four hundred feet out
Good land, good soil, county said yes — and the nearest transformer was four hundred feet down the road, most of it on the owner's dime.
Episode 4
One acre, thirty feet
An acre sounds like plenty until you subtract the setbacks, the septic field, the repair area and an easement running corner to corner.
Episode 3
The wrong rulebook applied
He called the county, the county said manufactured homes were allowed, he bought it — and the county was not who decided.
Episode 2
The dirt said no
Eight acres, no sewer anywhere near it, and soil that would not take a system on the part of the property anyone wanted to build on.
Episode 1
A bend too tight
Four acres, open in the middle, priced right — and a hard left turn eighty feet up the driveway that a seventy-six-foot home could not make.
Before you put money down
Send the property and we check it against the records before you are committed.