Originally Posted by
Xyzpdq0121
You can not change the title from a Mobile home to a SFR "stick built" dwelling. Your home is what it is. You can not call a duck a chicken just because you taught it to cluck instead of quack. HUD requires the wheels to be removed and it to be on a foundation for lending purposes, but it is still called a Mobile home. Your home still has, and will always have, a DOT plaque on it. All, or part, of the structure is Mobile... You own a moble home. You are stuck with that classification.
A mobile home does not have a DOT plaque on it. It has a HUD plaque on it. And yes, the home in most instances can be converted into real estate and tied into the land. In Ohio this can be accomplished as long as certain criteria has been met. And from what I've read in trade magazines, this can be accomplished in other parts of the country as well.
A HUD code mobile home can be placed literally anywhere. In a park or on private property. The wheels are not required to be removed from the axles either. We installed many homes where the wheels and axels were left on the home in many instances. It has nothing to do with lending purposes either as all the homeowner would need to do is locate a home mover and the mover would just put new wheels and/or axles on the home and move it.
The wheels and axles would be removed however, if the home was to be set on a full basement or approved crawlspace. It would make no sense to keep either on the home.