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Using the drop-down list, select one of the following:
Singlewide: Singlewide manufactured homes are residential structures that consist of one unit that is 8 to 18 feet wide and up to 80 feet long, built and towed to the site.
Doublewide, Triple Wide, and Quad Wide: Multi-wide homes are residential structures that consist of two or more single units that are joined together at the site to make one living unit. The assembled homes are typically 24, 28 or 32' wide and can be as long as 80', however 42' and 50' are typical. Once delivered, the homes need to be bolted together, set on piers or a basement and have the water, sewer, and electrical connected. If more than one story, a crane is used stack one unit on top of the other. Additional services are often done when the home is first set such as installing skirting connecting the air conditioner and removing the hitch and wheel assemblies.
Enter the total feet of width and length for the main house.
A tagalong is an three-wall additional to the main house that has its own supports. Using the drop-down list, select one of the following:
Tagalong Singlewide: Singlewide manufactured homes are residential structures that consist of one unit that is 8 to 18 feet wide and up to 80 feet long, built and towed to the site.
Tagalong Doublewide: Multi-wide homes are residential structures that consist of two or more single units that are joined together at the site to make one living unit. The assembled homes are typically 24, 28 or 32' wide and can be as long as 80', however 42' and 50' are typical. Once delivered, the homes need to be bolted together, set on piers or a basement and have the water, sewer, and electrical connected. If more than one story, a crane is used stack one unit on top of the other. Additional services are often done when the home is first set such as installing skirting connecting the air conditioner and removing the hitch and wheel assemblies.
Enter the total feet of width and length for the tagalong (addition).
Quality indicates the quality of the materials and workmanship in the residence, and determines the cost level in the report. Select one of the following main qualities:
1 Fair
2 Average
3 Good
4 Very Good
5 Excellent
You should examine both materials and workmanship when determining the overall quality of construction. The quality of materials and workmanship of individual building components may vary. However, the overall quality tends to be consistent for the entire residence. Furthermore, the quality of materials and workmanship tend to influence each other.
Workmanship is often superficial, allowing you to easily observe its quality. The following are all indicators of better quality workmanship:
Solid and level floor structures
Plumb walls
Smooth finish on concrete and plastered surfaces
Mitered joints in both exterior and interior woodwork
Proper fitting doors and windows
As with workmanship, the quality of materials is usually apparent during the inspection of the residence. Grade of wood, floor cover and fixtures (either standard or custom) are primary indications of material quality.
Since quality determines the cost level used in the report, you should exercise extreme care in choosing it. You are urged to refer to the descriptions below and to the pictures in Section A of the Residential Cost Handbook and Residential Cost Explorer to aid in your quality selection.
See Quality for brief descriptions of each quality level for each residence type, each of which includes a link to a full description of the quality level.
Select one of the following conditions, which prints in the descriptive section of the report but has no effect on the cost calculation:
1 Worn Out: Repair and overhaul needed on painted surfaces, roofing, plumbing, heating, numerous functional inadequacies, substandard utilities, etc. This condition is found only in extraordinary circumstances. Excessive deferred maintenance and abuse, limited value-in-use, approaching abandonment or major reconstruction, reuse or change in occupancy is imminent. Effective age of the residence is near the end of the scale regardless of the actual chronological age.
2 Badly Worn: Many repairs needed, with many items needing refinishing or overhauling, deferred maintenance obvious, inadequate building utility and services all shortening the life expectancy and increasing the effective age.
3 Average: Some evidence of deferred maintenance and normal obsolescence with age in that a few minor repairs and refinishing are needed, along with some refinishing. But with all major components are still functional and contributing toward an extended life expectancy, the effective age and utility is standard for like properties of its class and usage.
4 Good: No obvious maintenance is required but neither is everything new. Appearance and utility are above the standard, and the overall effective age will be lower than the typical property.
5 Very Good: All items are well maintained, many having been overhauled and repaired as soon as they showed signs of wear, increasing the life expectancy and lowering the effective age with little deterioration or obsolescence evident with a high degree of utility.
6 Excellent: All items that can normally be repaired or refinished have recently been corrected, such as new roofing, paint, furnace overhaul, state-of-the-art components, etc. With no functional inadequacies of any consequence and all major short-lived components in like-new condition, the overall effective age has been substantially reduced upon complete revitalization of the structure regardless of the actual chronological age.