Karsten Company

Bought a Mackenzie floor plan (mfg home)in 2007.Opted to stretch 8' instead of an 8'porch.Love the floor plan, hate the house. Nothing but problems since day 1.Supposed to be EnergyStar rated, but the energy star paperwork in my folder was for the ORIGINAL (unstretched floor plan), and NOT for MY floorplan. All electric, power bills have been consistently well over $300/mo (only 2 of us in the house, and we are only home nights/wknds!)Warping wall studs (several which were bad enough that they had to remove sheetrock/exterior siding, cut the studs out and replace them), cracks too numerous to mention (several have been "patched" by their contractors, but have cracked out again in the same spots!Customer service is horrible, and the QC leaves alot to be desired.We have filed formal complaints with our state Building/Safety, and have just had the state out to do an energy audit (the factory wanted a second opinion: we already had one done by power company contractor. House leaks air horribly. Should have went with a Fleetwood

My wife and i bought our Karsten almost ten years ago. We love our home and at the price we paid for 2018 sq. ft. of energy star rated home, we could not stick built 1000 sq.ft. We had very little problems with it and the few we did were repaired very fast!

We have had our Karsten Home for over 5 years in Western WA -we have rain, snow, and cold temps. Our home is warm, dry, attractive and receives compliments from local construction experts. We love our home. The Karsten factory in OR provided us with helpful information when we wanted to add a skylight and they have been honest all along the path. I would recommend this home to anyone!

me and my wife spent at least 2 years if not more looking for a modeler home in new mexico. after looking at 4 of the top modeler builders in abq,nm. we found the karsten to be the top. there model home's where all mobile and not modeler ,which meant lower steel frame rating then the modeler one. i am 300 lbs. and my wife is over 200,with both of us jumping up and down hard there was no give in the floor and the house was not even tied down like it would be on your lot.the bass price was 110k for the home delivered on are lot. the sell person was very nice and helpful, he add all of the upgrade we wanted and work with us to get some upgrade they did not offer,we are talking about adding french doors ,extra walk in closet,two jacuzzi tubs, all wold floor,and a kitchen that could have been in a 1million $ home. we both cook. 2 ac and heating units for the house .the walk in panther was the size of a reg bathroom . we where given the ability to visit the build at any time ,it was built in abq,nm.at there plant there . the other Mobil home builder we look at where not as finished in side and the floor would flex as you walk on them. the total for the home was much higher then the bass but we had a lot of upgrade. they wanted 240k.but after looking at the cost of the upgrade we cut the price down by having then leave some thing out and we jobbed them out are self. the kitchen being jobbed out saved 40k,the flooring saved 25k,cant remember the ac&heating price but we saved a lot.the counter top where changed from solid granite to 12x12 tile of granite do to lay out was 8k.we saved 90k off the cost that way.it made it harder to do and if we did not look at the price of every thing then they would have made a nice profit ,but they did not hide any thing up front all they .nothing wrong with making $you have to look out your self. every thing they had a high mark up on was time we add that was not on there regular build,so you pay for it. but they only charged 100$ to add a 10' by 30'finshed walk in closet to a room that is cheap.so the price want from 110 to 150. it was a very nice home wish we still had it .

I live in a Karsten home that was built in the New Mexico factory. I searched for 2 years before I bought. On a cost per sq foot basis the house is unbeatable. Stick built quality, trailer pricing. I'm very happy with my choice. (I own a MHP, so I know trailers.) Karsten = 5*

Warranty work took to long to set up, and some repairs were not what you would expect after paying 95,000 for a house,I could go on but there isn't room. not a happy camper

after 6 months of research we thought karsten was the right choise then we went to nelmstar to start buying one got no responce with them went to clayton and got lied and mislead for 3 months now we are back to looking again but we will never deal with clayton again thanxs karsten for getting our hopes up to send us to the wolfs