Mobile Homes and Manufactured Homes

Know Your Rights

• Buying a Mobile Home

  This presentation, available in both Spanish and English, provides information on how to buy a mobile home. Content Detail

  By:

  Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia

  Read this in:

  Spanish / Español

• Getting the Home you Deserve: Advice for Mobile Home Owners

  This document provides information for mobile home owners (also known as manufactured homes) and discusses some of the common problems that mobile home owners face. Read More

• How to Buy a Manufactured Home

  A Consumer's Guide to Today's Manufactured Home Content Detail

  By:

  Federal Trade Commission

• Manufactured Homes Consumer Guide

  By an act of Congress in 1974, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was designated as the government agency to oversee the Federal Manufactured Housing Program. The area within HUD responsible for the oversight function is the Office of Regulatory Affairs and Manufactured Housing, Office of Manufactured Housing. Most States have a State Administrative Agency (SAA) that administers the HUD program in that State. A listing of the SAAs can be found in the homeowner's manual that is provided with each new home. Content Detail

  By:

  U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

  Read this in:

  Spanish / Español

• Home on Wheels: Helping Mobile Home Owners Stay Put

  This website discusses the challenges and common problems that mobile home owners face. Content Detail

  By:

  National Consumer Law Center

• Manufactured Housing and Standards

  The Manufactured Housing Program is a national HUD program established to protect the health and safety of the owners of manufactured (mobile) homes. These web pages contain inforamtion for consumers and businesses. Content Detail

  By:

  U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

  Read this in:

  Spanish / Español

• How to File a Complaint About a Manufactured or Mobile Home PDF

  This provides the paperwork and forms needed if you have any complaints about the performance of your manufactured home that have not been resolved by the retailer where you purchased the home or by the manufacturer that produced the home. Content Detail

• Mobile Homes (Answers to Common Questions)

  This document contains common questions that people ask about your rights when your mobile home is sitting on property that you rent from a landlord. Read More

  By:

  Georgia Legal Services Program®

• Rental Property and Satellite Dishes and other Antennas

  Federal law prohibits restrictions that keep you from installing, maintaining or using antennas to receive video programming. This rule applies to owned property and to rental property where the renter has exclusive use of the area in which the antenna is installed, such as a balcony or patio. The rule also applies to antennas that receive and transmit fixed wireless signals as long as the antennas meet size limitations on property that they own or rent. Read More

  By:

  Georgia Legal Services Program®