Review of Jacobsen Homes

4 years ago

July 30, 2020

July 30, 2020
Update after 18 months after moving in. I write this not for Jacobsen on the manufactured industry but those who are considering having a home by purchasing through the industry. Structure construction is HUD guided so it it up to quality standards and can meet the demands of high winds.

However sellers like Jacobsen uses cheap inferior products for interior bought in bulk such as carpet, vinyl, door window trim all which buyer would be better off purchasing an unfinished model then hiring a trusted contractor or buyer do it themselves as we did.

Since moving in we have added front and rear porches, installed a carport for Florida's hot sun and have been purchasing and installing interior trim, carpet and tile from Lowes and home Depot. These things can be an investment if the home is on a solid foundation.

We wish we had deleted all of the interior. Purchased the house and had it placed on a FOUNDATION. We could have saved money instead of paying for the cheap materials Jacobsen uses.

Examples: Carpets after 18 months show wear for only two people living here.Trim is cheap pressed wood that swells. Door frames out of line & are piece work. See Photos of LOWES doors as example. Vinyl was pieced together rather than one piece. We are replacing with wood floors.

These are our experience of the Jacobsen home sales that can be beneficial but finished by buyer when on a foundation as REAL property instead of a Mobil double-wide loosing equity. I wrote this for buyers & hope it helps for your investment & resale. Also update for Google Home, Cable & electronics.

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July 15 2019
We wanted what we thought was a modular set upon a foundation as an investment which took us over 18 months to get. 30 days before delivery of the home we received an email telling us Brevard county required us to add plants trees more dirt and several other items so we were forced to borrow another $10,00 to complete that.

What really bothered us about the whole purchase deal is when the home was delivered instead of using a crane as most dealers do & can be viewed on YouTube to set it on the foundation, they used two TRANS-LIFTS which they use for their steel frame mobile homes.

This home had no frame and used 10 inch floor joists because it is set on a concrete foundation. In attempting to use the TRANS-LIFTS ( see Photo in foundation) they twisted the whole house blowing the sheet rock off the walls and rupturing pipes. Two walls were completely moved out of place severally. They used cross beam pipes laid on the lifts which slipped out of place and came up through the floor in one room.

The house was severally distorted from lifting it wrong instead of using a crane to set it properly. Nothing was really finished at factory. They sent in amateurs to plaster and repair the damages, paint and fix the cracks created by using the TRANS-LIFTS. We were furious about the way they man handled our home. It took repeated returns on same cobbled work to do the repairs over the next 45 days before we could move in.

Would we do it again? No! We would not buy from Jacobsen again. They were nice people and they did work to over come many of the conflicts we encountered, but very unhappy with the subcontractors they used to do a professional job on our dream modular investment home. We tried to get a local contractor first to build a block home, but they were all backlogged before so we decided on a factory home.

We looked at a lot of modular, double wide homes, but we believe now Jacobsen was the wrong dealer to provide us a modular home set on a solid foundation, completed and ready to move in. If you want just a cheap trailer then they may be OK, but not for investment of a $220,000 for a completed home done right the first time. We love our home now but it took a lot more to correct Jacobsens problems and subcontractors amateur work. Conclusion: Modular home on a foundation can be really nice but take care to get it all in writing and demand professional work.