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Patagonia Manufactured Homes Come Standard With What Many Tract-Home Builders Consider Upgrades

Homebuyers shopping for their dream house often don't consider manufactured homes. It's a common mistake, but one that fewer and fewer are making as the quality of new manufactured homes for sale continues to rise. In fact, many manufactured homes for sale now include as standard what builders of tract homes call upgrades. Let's take a look at the Patagonia three-bedroom model from FactoryExpoHomes.com as an example:

The exterior of these 2,600 square foot manufactured homes features a composition fiberglass single roof, fiber-cement siding, semi-gloss exterior paint and trim around all windows and doors. The porch features a decorative porch light often considered an upgrade by builders of tract homes. They frequently make unattractive lighting standard, to force the homebuyer into paying for an upgrade to designer lighting. The Patagonia manufactured homes for sale differ in this way, one of many.

Inside these new manufactured homes for sale, homebuyers will find such standard features as vaulted cathedral ceilings throughout, plus a designer chandelier in the dining room. Anyone who has looked at tract homes in recent years has seen the can lighting often included in their dining rooms. The doors in the Patagonia are six-panel with waterfall casing. Tract homes usually offer three-panel doors as standard. Drapes and mini-blinds are included with these manufactured homes. Tract-home builders rarely offer window coverings as standard. Quality, no-wax vinyl flooring and carpeting - ½-inch padding and 25-oz. carpeting come standard - cover the floors.

Other standard features in these new manufactured homes for sale include textured walls and baseboard molding throughout, plus block and wire for a ceiling fan in the living room. Tract-home builders typically charge extra to set up a ceiling for a fan.

The Patagonia model of manufactured homes also has upgrade-worthy standards in the kitchen. Full-size appliances are included, as are ceramic-tile edging and backsplash for the countertops. Tract-home builders rarely make these standard. The laminated colors come in a selection of designer colors and feature a beveled edge. The cabinets are oversized and have hidden, European-style hinges, plus molding overhead. Tract-home builders consider deluxe molding such as that an upgrade. A cultured-marble windowsill, deep porcelain sink and Huntington Brass faucet complete the standard features in the kitchen of these new manufactured homes for sale.

In the bathrooms, homebuyers will find beveled-edge medicine cabinets, elongated toilets, deluxe lighting and additional Huntington Brass fixtures among the standard options. A ceramic tile edge and backsplash also frames the countertops in these rooms of the manufactured homes.

Additional upgrades are available for the Patagonia model of manufactured homes for sale, and homebuyers are invited to visit a FactoryHomesExpo.com retail center to see all of their options. There, they can take a tour of the model and others featuring the same level of standard options. All of the new mobile homes sold through FactoryHomesExpo.com are built to federal Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards.

About the Author: Josh Cole writes about the housing industry for several publications and websites. He recently did a behind-the-scenes series about the making of new manufactured homes for sale, which included a video tour of a FactoryExpoHomes.com retail center. He highly recommends manufactured homes to homebuyers. He himself has one of these manufactured homes for sale.