A renowned real estate management consultant based in New Mexico, Drita Bronkey has overseen numerous property management operations throughout her career and served as vice president of sales for a California-based property management business. At Zemer Property Management Consultants, Drita Bronkey oversees multiple mobile home park communities.

Although many manufactured mobile homes and site-built homes are mostly built out of metal and wood, site-built homes are erected on a piece of land while mobile homes are manufactured to be portable. In this regard, the weight of most materials used for building mobile homes is generally lighter than the ones used for site-built homes. What makes site-built homes heavier is that the majority of foundations for these home types are bricks and concrete. This doesn’t mean that the foundations are more durable than their mobile counterparts.

Rather than bricks and cement, many mobile homes are constructed atop a durable steel chassis. This material can last for as long as an owner intends to use the home in favorable climates. It is crucial to note that the steel chassis is the base of the manufactured home, but is not the foundation. The base will be connected to more rigid and permanent structures. Typical examples are cement piers and block walls that surround the home perimeter.

In summary, mobile homes and on-site homes share similar foundation structures on-site, but the mechanism is technically different. This article does not disregard mobile homes that are manufactured in automobiles. In this case, a concrete anchor for the steel chassis will be absent.