About Yuma Mobile Home Repair

What we are

A repair outfit for mobile, manufactured and park model homes in Yuma County. That is the entire scope. We do not do stick-built houses, and we do not do RVs.

That narrowness is the point. A manufactured home is a genuinely different machine from a site-built house — it sits on stacked piers instead of a foundation, its floor is particleboard over joists with a sealed belly underneath, its roof is low-slope metal instead of shingles, and there is a steel chassis carrying the whole thing. A capable stick-built contractor can walk into your home and make a confident, expensive mistake, and we have been called to fix the results of that more than once.

How we work

• We look before we quote. Free, on-site, in writing. Anyone who gives you a firm price for underfloor work over the phone is guessing, and the guess will not be in your favor.
• We tell you when the answer is no. If your home is not worth the money you are about to spend, that is the most useful thing we can tell you, and we would rather lose the job than take it.
• We stop and show you when it is worse than it looked. On a forty-year-old home it sometimes is. You get shown what we found and a re-quote before we keep going — not a surprise on the invoice.
• We fix causes, not symptoms. Replacing a rotted floor without finding the leak is selling you the same repair twice. Re-skirting a home that is still settling is the same. We would rather tell you the boring order of operations.

Ask us the questions you would ask anybody

We put this on the front page too, because it is genuinely how you protect yourself in this trade: ask whether the company is licensed for manufactured homes specifically — In Arizona, the people who level, anchor, set and structurally repair manufactured homes are licensed by the Arizona Department of Housing, Office of Manufactured Housing — not by the contractor board that covers stick-built homes. Ask any company you call for their license, and ask whether the work needs an installation permit. A real outfit will answer both without flinching. Ask for the scope and the price in writing before work starts. And ask what happens if they open it up and find worse.

Those three questions filter out most of the trouble in this business. Ask us. Ask the next company too.

Why Yuma

Because this is one of the most concentrated manufactured-home markets in the country — about 27,000 of them, roughly 28.6% of the county's housing — sitting in the sunniest place on earth, on soil that moves, under a monsoon season, and half of them empty all summer. The work here is real, the homes need it, and there is a shortage of people who do this and only this.