We live in Oregon, too, and although I can't answer your question I do have an opinion! We looked at moving onto land and putting up a manuf. home a few years ago (just before the market fell). We are living in a manuf. home and won't have anything else now. We fell in love with both Karsten and Fuqua homes. The Fuqua can be purchased like a stick built home -- the lenders consider them as if they are stick built. But the expense put them over our budget. By far, my favorite was Karsten. They're well built, nice floor plans, and you can make changes to them! If you want to extend the end 5 more feet, they'll do it. Not many others will do that.

Good luck -- and enjoy!

dee