The Complete Buyer's Guide to Manufactured Homes and Land: How to Find a Reputable Dealer and Negotiate a Fair Price on the Best Kept Secret in American Housing

At last--the definitive, comprehensive guide to manufactured homes and purchasing land or leasing a home site. Exhaustively researched with extensive input from both industry insiders and consumer advocates, this new guide, published in the Spring of 2003, is an indispensable resource to help you find a dealer worthy of your trust, make the right home selection, and, as important, be an informed, empowered, and swindle-proof consumer.

Destined to be the standard authoritative reference work for manufactured homes, the guide Includes the Top 25 manufacturers rated, many helpful charts and diagrams, 66 illustrations, and essential information that retailers, even the good guys, don't want you do know--and which can save home buyers thousands of dollars.

Written by veteran journalist and author John Grissim whose plain spoken observations have made him a respected advocate for the home buying consumer.

John Grissim is a journalist, author and recent convert to manufactured housing. During a career spanning more than 30 years, he has authored eight books and contributed to many periodicals in the U.S. and overseas, including Rolling Stone, Discovery, Sports Afield, Surfer, Playboy, and Smithsonian. He lives with his family on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.