What is up with "Park Model" homes?
My wife and I continue to camp at the same CG over and over and had considered getting a seasonal site there to save the hassle of dragging the camper 3 hrs each way on weekends. The owner of the C...
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A park model is not really a RV, and it is not a "stick and brick" permanent home. It even falls a bit short of "mobile home" because it is not usually built to Federal standards for permanent-occupation manufactured housing, rather to RVIA standards if any.
Park model is something the RV industry has tried to put into a gap between "RV" and permanent housing, leaving the housing code authorities to try to figure out whether it is one or the other, and leaving a consumer in the lurch. Some communities have figured out where they want to put it, for code purposes, but that does not always fit mortgage or insurance standards.
Kind of like building a three wheel car that does not have to meet automobile safety standards because it is a motorcycle, then trying to say it does not have to meet motorcycle licensing standards because it is a car. Buyer beware.
Park model is something the RV industry has tried to put into a gap between "RV" and permanent housing, leaving the housing code authorities to try to figure out whether it is one or the other, and leaving a consumer in the lurch. Some communities have figured out where they want to put it, for code purposes, but that does not always fit mortgage or insurance standards.
Kind of like building a three wheel car that does not have to meet automobile safety standards because it is a motorcycle, then trying to say it does not have to meet motorcycle licensing standards because it is a car. Buyer beware.
