Paul Knighton
Principal Broker (Oregon) / Associate Broker (Idaho)
MORE Realty · (208) 369-7447
Troy Bolinger
Sales Associate
MORE Realty · (503) 515-8769
The Learning Center
Written by our two-agent team, for Treasure Valley buyers, sellers and park residents. Straightforward explainers on financing, HUD labels, park approvals and the rest. No hype, no invented numbers: if we do not know it, we say so.
A park lease is a legal document, and Idaho's Manufactured Home Residency Act sets the state-level ground rules around it: notice before rent increases, limits on rule changes, and protections against eviction. Here is the Act in plain English.
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Boise's average January low is about 26 degrees, and a hard freeze can find every gap in skirting, seals and the pipes under the home. Here is the practical winter checklist we walk park-home owners and buyers through each fall.
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We refresh the rent and purchase math for the Treasure Valley every month and share the current figures whenever you ask. Here are the trade-offs that hold up month to month, the public sources we check, and why we never print dollar guesses.
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The single biggest misconception we hear: that buying a manufactured home in a park includes the land it sits on. It usually does not. Here is how space, ownership and the pad lease actually work.
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Whether your home loan is a chattel loan or a real property mortgage depends less on the home and more on the ground under it. We break down both loan types and why park homes usually get financed the chattel way.
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A small metal plate riveted to the home's frame, a foil label inside by the breaker panel, and a date in 1976 shape almost every park-home deal. Here is what the HUD label is and what it means for buying and selling.
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Selling a home on leased park ground is a different process from selling a house on a lot. Park approval, a clean title and a lease transfer all have to line up, and we walk sellers through them step by step.
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Five free Treasure Valley happenings for the first November weekend, each confirmed on the organizer's official page: the Holiday Makers Market at the Nampa Civic Center, the Boise Farmers Market winter market's opening Saturday at the Idaho Botanical Garden, the Eagle Holiday Bazaar, a free JUMP building tour, and the Girls Day Out Expo at Expo Idaho.
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