Buying mobile homes wholesale from manufacturer as developer?

[Patrick Sears]

Hello, Anyone here ever qualified as a retailer/developer with a manufactured housing company to buy directly from them vs. buying from a retailer and paying the retailer mark-up? Around 2010 I visited the Commodore plant in NC and they gave me their price sheets and qualifications to become a developer with them--much cheaper than paying retail. It doesn't look like they are doing that now (it was actually for an "on-frame modular" which was basically a doublewide built to state modular code).