I continue to read over the past few months a constant assault on good hard-working folks here in Jackson County who choose to live in manufactured homes. After reading this letter, I feel compelled to point out to its author a few salient points. We moved to this county approximately three years ago and bought a manufactured home in Maysville. Prior to this, we lived in Gwinnett and attempted to buy a home there. We ended up purchasing what we could afford.
Folks live in manufactured homes because they are affordable.
These homes are also energy efficient and meet local, regional and national building codes. When I look through the legals in this paper, I see both stick-built homes and manufactured homes in this category. What troubles me is that folks like us living in manufactured homes are being stereotyped by people like the author of the letter. I guess we each have a porch about to fall in and kill two dogs, two or three cars up on blocks and one foot in the divorce court. Not everyone has the capacity to buy a stick-built home and after seeing the quality of some being built, I'll take a manufactured home any day.