Article: Manufactured Homes Can Mean Difference between Retirement or Not in California.

By Roger Harris, Ventura County Star, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 22--When Donna and David Carver were planning their retirement home a few years back, buying a manufactured house and plopping it down on a lot in a Ventura seniors community wasn't exactly at the top of their minds.

They were thinking more along the lines of building a custom home on land they owned in Hawaii. But, after months of fussing with uncooperative builders, they ditched the island dream and put their money into a manufactured house.

They couldn't be happier. What's not to like, the couple asks? They have a new, spacious 1,740 square-foot home ...

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