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We talked to the person who placed our house, and apparently he sourced a double wide and single wide from two different locations, moved them, and re-assembled them into a triple wide, which is still inhabitable several decades later, and seems likely to remain so. He said it was fairly difficult to move, and also added a metal roof, which I think is expensive. It is more space than we need, and there are probably 600 sq ft we aren't really using.
Negatives: I don't know if it would work in a wet climate, since it does not have a foundation. It's difficult to sell, since most loan companies will not finance previously moved manufactured homes. Ours is financed, at a slightly higher rate, because the loan holder is a local nonprofit.
I grew up in a mobile home that my dad had expanded over the years into a house that was indistinguishable from a non-mobile home (to the untrained eye, anyway: I'm sure if you're a builder you could probably tell). Started with the mobile home, build extra rooms off the sides as he could afford the material. Eventually re-sided everything and put a new roof on top of the whole shebang. So you can potentially start with a mobile and build out from there.
Caveats: my dad had a good amount of professional construction experience, and the mobile home in question was on the older side, but was in it's original spot. From my understanding, moving a used mobile home to a new location can potentially cause a lot of structural issues.
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