Straight answers

No — and the difference is legal, not cosmetic. A mobile home is built to HUD minimums: in most of the country that's a 70 mph wind rating. A Megalodon is built on a rigid steel tube frame designed above the toughest codes in America, and the Foundation Series is certified as a modular home — the same building code as a site-built house. It appraises like a house, finances like a house, and is insured like a house. The trade-off: that certification requires a permanent foundation. If you need to keep it movable, the Relocatable Series exists — with different financing.

How your home is classified decides how you can pay for it. Foundation Series — installed on a permanent foundation, it's real property: eligible for conventional mortgages, FHA, VA, and USDA loans, and it appraises against site-built homes. Relocatable Series — kept movable, it's personal property: financed with a chattel or RV-style loan at higher rates, like every tiny home on wheels ever sold. Nobody else explains this because the answer sells fewer homes. We'd rather you pick the right one.

That depends on your county, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. Use our land check: enter your zip and we'll tell you what your jurisdiction requires — minimum dwelling size, ADU rules, wind zone, and which Megalodon configurations fit. Our plans arrive engineered for your wind, snow, and seismic requirements, stamped for your state where available.

We get it — the price is amazing. Here's what the listing doesn't say: those units aren't built to any US building code, most jurisdictions won't legally let you live in one, no bank will finance it, and no insurer will cover it. Independent reviews put the failure rate of the cheap listings near 50%. If it works for your use case, genuinely, enjoy it. If you need a legal, financeable, insurable home — that's the product we build, and it's why ours costs more.

A tiny home on wheels depreciates like a truck, because legally it is one. A Foundation Series Megalodon is real property on a permanent foundation — it appraises against comparable site-built homes and builds equity the same way. Homes with third-party resilience certifications have also shown measurably lower insurance claims and a resale premium. Value isn't a promise we make; it's a classification we build to.

The frame is designed for it — bolted connections, numbered members, no field welding. You (or your local GC) pour the slab, and the shell goes up in days, not months. The plan set includes the erection sequence, and the engineering stamp means your inspector has what they need. What you're buying from us is the part you can't DIY: the engineering.

We only quote ship windows we'll put in the contract, and once we're in production we publish our delivered-unit count — updated live, not a reservation total. If a date is at risk, you hear it from us first.

No honest engineer uses that word, so neither do we. We say Hurricane Ready: engineered to a stated design wind speed (our design target is 180 mph — pending certification, and labeled that way until it isn't). What we can show you is the math, the HUD minimums we refuse to build to, and the insurance discounts that third-party resilience designations earn in participating states.

Concept stage. The engineering analysis is in progress, plans launch first, and the first demo unit is the next milestone. Renders are labeled as renders, specs are labeled as design targets, and this answer will change as the facts do. If a small-home company won't tell you what stage it's at, that tells you something too.