Questions about quality of Tru Homes

I’ve purchased several Tru Homes over the past few years. Good for the price. Bare bones product but they seem to move quickly in my parks. For some parks I own further from the Charlotte NC area, I have no choice but to fill empty lots with either used homes or Tru Homes because I can’t otherwise get the total rents high enough to have the tenant own a more expensive home in a reasonable time period. I just purchased a few homes from Legacy and they appear to be better built and nicer overall, but also $10k more expensive. I am putting those in my parks closer to Charlotte where I can charge higher rents.

Biggest problem with the Tru Homes is that almost without fail, they are delivered with 1/2 or more of the wall boards popped off the walls. Takes an experienced maintenance guy less than a day to repair and then you can’t tell, but it’s annoying. I learned the hard way it’s better not to vary exterior vinyl colors more than necessary because within 3 years there will be a hole somewhere in the vinyl on most of the homes (from rocks kicked up from mowing, etc.) Now I just have a supply of the vinyl from the company in my shop for repairs–all 4 colors. Ask them to deliver a few sticks of vinyl to keep under the home to make it easy to repair when that day comes.

I will continue to buy them…

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