Independent Living
National Survey of Mobile Home Owners
Research Report
NFO Research, Inc.
July 1999
AARP's 1999 National Survey of Mobile Home Owners revealed that three out of four mobile home owners (77%) experience serious construction or other problems with their new homes, and nearly six in ten (57%) experience multiple problems. Only one in three (35%) of the most troublesome problems are successfully repaired under warranty, while six in ten (61%) are either not repaired at all, or are repaired at considerable expense to the home owner. These findings are based on a survey of 933 mobile home owners who purchased a new mobile home in the last eight years. The survey was sponsored by AARP and conducted by NFO Research, Inc. during May and June of 1999.