On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:05:37 -0500, Frank "frank wrote:

On 11/21/2017 12:02 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:36:30 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 11/21/2017 10:14 AM, Iggy wrote:
replying to Dean Hoffman, Iggy wrote:
Agreed! Go figure, Warren Buffet enters the industry and prices "magically"
skyrocket...again. Nothing about the both very easy hurricane resistance
nor
highest energy efficiency. Just wolves upon the prey...again.


Not really. Buffet's company reacted to the pre-hurricane market where
buyers wanted more upscale mobile homes. It is not a matter of price
gouging a giving people what they want.

There is an opportunity here to supply a basic, modest priced home.
Rather than gripe about what others chose to make, jump in and start
making the cheaper ones.

If you crash your Chevy, don't blame the Caddy dealer because you cannot
afford what he sells. You won't find a $5000 Chevy any more either.

Since this story seemed to be centered around Naples/Ft Myers Fla it
should also be noted that these trailers need to be 160 MPH wind code
and that is up to 80 MPH more than your average site built home up
north. Bear in mind wind pressure not a linear scale.
That is the reason why so many get blown up. A trailer set in the 70s
only needed to be 80MPH rated if it was rated at all.
It also explains why northern houses sustain so much damage in minimal
storms that we would not even put up the shutters for.


That's interesting to know. Thought it was maybe just houses there.

Nope, even your garden shed has to be built to wind code. We don't see
many of those sheet metal things they sell up north and if they are
here, they were put in without a permit (illegally).
There is no exception for size, square footage, portable or any of the
other dodges you get in other places. It is more about them becoming
flying debris than the loss of the shed itself.
"Portable" means you can put it in your garage before a storm, not
that you could pick it up and move it with a crane.
Even things like HVAC condensers require tie downs and these days they
have to be above FEMA elevation so you see them up on concrete block
pads at finish floor height.