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Why should I buy a modular home instead of a "stick-built" or site constructed home?

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Home Builder with Midwest Home Center

Excel Modular Home Being SetA nice benefit of modular homes is the reduced intrusions for your neighbors. Since most work is done off site there is reduced noise and aggravation to your new neighbors as compared to stick-built construction

 

  A very easy analogy to draw is the one between the home you're building and the automobile you drive. You'd never think of calling Detroit or Japan and asking a big automaker to ship you all the parts for a car so that your mechanic could put it together in your backyard. You want your vehicle built in a controlled environment by experienced people, with engineers on site and continual testing and quality control being done.

A car will lose value over the life of it, which may be four or five years and is a small investment compared with what you could be spending on your home. Your home, on the other hand, may be worth anywhere from five to twenty times the cost of the car. Your home will gain in value and becomes, potentially, a very significant part of your net worth. Doesn't it make sense to have it built under the same type of conditions as your automobile? We build your dream inside our factory, in a controlled environment, where the materials we use are never subjected to water or snow damage and we never lose time when the Midwest weather sends the site builders home. We have engineers on site and have vigorous quality control standards for every house we build.

Ron Tarvin
Residential, Investment properties, rehab projects, property management, luxury homes, new construction! - Katy, TX
Broker, Katy, Houston, Cypress 77450,77494,77095
What about the long term viability and appreciation of modular homes?  Just curious.
Mar 07, 2008 12:53 PM
Mark Organek
And the United States of America - Mesa, AZ
It's not a game, it's your life.
If only finance companies saw the same logic.  I'm a resident of Arizona and there is a pretty big difference in quality when it comes to modular or pre-fab construction with the quality on the higher end of the spectrum when built in a controlled environment.  We don't have snow or tons of rain to contend with but the quality of workmanship starts to have the potential for deterioration when workers from several different contractors try to blend together their different quality standards.
Mar 07, 2008 12:55 PM
Carol Judd
New Star Real Estate - Vernal, UT
Vernal Utah Real Estate
A Modular House in Vernal, Utah has financing the same as a site built.  They can be appraised against site built homes.  Manufactureds are different in loans, appreciation and specs but buyers have a hard time accepting the difference
Mar 07, 2008 01:03 PM