I don’t think CL search has the option to find listings which include the land. However, it may still be worth sifting through the listings. I would tend to think there will be more for-sale-by-owner listings on CL, and as such, you may end up saving money since they won’t have the RE agent commissions. Sites like Zillow and Redfin seem to be more geared towards the traditional RE listings that have agents. It’s not really that much harder to buy a house on your own. You’ll have to do the work yourself of finding an inspector, having a RE lawyer look over the docs, etc. But it’s not that much, and might save you 3-6% over what a traditional listing might be.
Maybe flip the problem around.
Buy a plot of land you like somewhere.
Then put a mobile home on it (or whatever). Of course, be sure the property is zoned to let you do that. And you might need to pay to get utilities to the property (although I am sure you can buy land where that already exists).
Not trying to be mean but if the lease terms are longer than you can reasonably be expected to live (old age) does it matter? Get a 50 year lease. If you are in your 60s that term will likely outlast you (and me too).
Is this a regional thing?
I thought the manufactured homes (not mobile home or trailer)were meant to be put in place and not moved.
I like @Whack-a-Moles idea. Look for land that has utilities in place. Buy that.
Buy the home. Have it put there.
I believe they come in several parts. It’s not just a truck dumping off an OG trailer, all in one piece.
The sort of home that’s on leased land is probably in a community run by a company that owns the land. Sometimes they sell the place to somebody else. Sometimes the somebody else hikes the rent, or chases everybody out, or stops keeping up the water and sewage supply. Occasionally these cases get into the news, which is how I know about them.
There may also be community rules, which @Czarcasm may or may not want to deal with.
– Buying the land and then buying the home to put on it might indeed be a solution. Somewhat more work, but a lot more flexibility: you won’t be dealing with liking the location but not the house in one spot, and vice versa in another. Do indeed check the zoning. Some municipalities treat manufactured homes like any other residence (mine does); some don’t. And some land that’s for sale isn’t even zoned to put a residence on it. And if it’s not on municipal water and sewer, make sure of your water supply, both quality and quantity, and of what it’ll cost to get a legal septic in, before finishing the sale (you can put an escape clause in the offer about such things.)
The larger ones do; they wouldn’t fit on one lane of the road if they arrived fully assembled. Many of them come down the road in two pieces, to be joined together on the spot; maybe some come in more than two these days. You need to get the foundation in place to put them on, of course.
Yes. I’ve seen them on highways.
1/2 is a wide load.
It’s such an unusual thing to seek that there aren’t/isn’t a convenient box to check that sorts like you hoped. There are probably preowned convertible tow trucks out there but you’d have a tough time finding a local one to use today using consumer search tools like Carmax and Autotrader.
That’s not a ding or a negative, there are infinity little details in real estate that can’t be easily summarized in a listing. I was hoping for some trees (for shade, garden variety garden variety [lol!], and ham radio antenna stuff) when I was looking for a place but the listings don’t capture the trees well: why would they? I found I really needed to drive by to see.
I also used a buyer’s agent who did a lot of the sifting for me. I said I wanted some trees, an alley, price range & a few zipcodes and he presented a number of suitable listings. I know agent is a bad word but I was quite happy to have his services & advice, especially, in my case, as a first time buyer 15 years ago.
This isn’t about landscaping, and you definitely can’t drive by a place and tell by looking at it that the land a house is sitting on is rented, leased or owned. You have to place that house on land, and if you are looking at buying a place instead of just leasing it, knowing whether it comes with the land that very house is sitting on is very important. For example, Zillow has check-offs for different types of landscaping, view, whether you want a garage or not, whether there is an HOA and how much (if any) you would like to pay, what type of utilities, price range, min/max numbers of bedrooms, min/max bathrooms etc. ad nauseum. All of these count as essential information, and the legal status of the land under your home isn’t?