Conventional loans · manufactured homes
Your lender wants an engineer's report. Here is how to get it.
A conventional lender may ask a licensed engineer to look at a manufactured home before closing. Tell us what yours asked for and we handle the inspection and the signed report.
- Licensed Professional Engineer in seven states
- The right report for what your lender wrote
- A signed PDF you forward to your loan officer
Rather talk it through? Call (314) 834-5853.
- 7 states
- A licensed Professional Engineer in each
- 1 business day
- For a licensed engineer to read your request and call you back
- In person
- The engineer inspects the home and its foundation
- Signed PDF
- Yours to forward to your loan officer
Where to start
What did your lender ask for?
It usually comes down to one of three things. If you are not sure, start with the first.
An engineer's structural report
They want a licensed engineer to inspect the home and its foundation.
Structural report
A permanent foundation certification
They want the foundation certified as a permanent one.
Permanent foundation certification
A report because the home was moved
The home was relocated and they want it checked at its current site.
Moved-home reportBefore the visit
Three questions to ask your lender first
Ten minutes on the phone with your loan officer saves a second report. The full list of questions.
- What exactly is the report called? Ask for the condition in writing, word for word.
- What does it have to address? The foundation, the whole structure, an addition, or a move.
- Who should receive it? And whether they need it by a certain date.
How it works
Three steps to a signed report
You know the scope and the fee before the first one costs you anything. More on how it works.
- 1
Send the lender's wording
Along with the address and your closing date. We reply within one business day.
- 2
The engineer visits
An in-person inspection of the home and its foundation.
- 3
You get it in writing
A signed PDF to forward to your loan officer.
Before you call
Guides
Straight answers for borrowers.
Engineer report for a conventional manufactured home loan
What an engineer's report is when your conventional lender asks for one, and what to do next.
Questions to ask your lender before the inspection
Seven questions to put to your lender so you order the right engineer's report the first time.
Permanent foundation and conventional loans
What a foundation certification is, what it is not, and what to ask your conventional lender first.
Refinancing a manufactured home: what the engineer needs
What to gather and send when a refinance on your manufactured home calls for an engineer's report.
Service area
Seven states
Your lender can be anywhere. The engineer has to be licensed where the home sits. See the service area.
- Missouri
- Arkansas
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Iowa
- Nebraska
- Indiana
Get the report your lender is waiting on.
Send the address and a few details. A licensed engineer replies within one business day.