| If only you'd known about amazingly portable | | | | Modular Homes Are Affordable |
| modular homes when you built your current | | | | Modular homes are not similar to mobile homes in |
| house! If you had, you could simply get a building | | | | any way except their affordability. The modules |
| lot close to your new job, pack your house along | | | | from which the homes are constructed are |
| with your suitcases, and bring it with you! Modular | | | | manufactured in an economically efficient manner |
| homes are really a very upscale, and far more | | | | which eliminates wasted materials and |
| durable descendant of the familiar mobile home, | | | | weather-related damage. Each module of a |
| and modular homes are the ideal solution to the | | | | modular home is inspected immediately after it |
| problem of truly affordable housing in America. | | | | leaves the assembly line, and again before it is |
| Yet their struggle toward mainstream acceptance, | | | | shipped for m the factor y to the building site. |
| which is finally coming, has been uphill all the way. | | | | The lenders who provide construction loans for |
| Modular homes, because they are built of individual | | | | traditional home also require an inspection not |
| factory-produced units known as modules and | | | | once, but after every phase of the construction |
| then shipped to their building sites for construction, | | | | so that cost overruns are almost unheard of. |
| have been tarred with the same "trailer trash" | | | | Because so much of the typical home |
| brush as mobile homes. But modular homes are | | | | construction process, like plumbing and electrical |
| nothing like mobile homes except for their manner | | | | wiring installation, has already been finished during |
| of construction. | | | | the module manufacturing process, there are |
| Advantages of Modular Homes | | | | many less subcontractors involved in the |
| Because there's a legal requirement that any | | | | construction of a modular home, and the multiple |
| house has to meet the building codes in the | | | | inspections guarantee a finished house which will |
| municipality and state where it is located, modular | | | | last as long as a stick built one. Hardly an attribute |
| homes are constructed not to the codes in the | | | | of the mobile home! |
| states and cities of their manufacture, but to | | | | Estimates are that going modular can save a |
| meet all state codes. If you need to move from | | | | homeowner as much as 35% of the cost of |
| the sunny humid climes of South Florida to the | | | | building a similar traditional home, and that savings |
| cloudy damp climes of the Pacific Northwest, your | | | | will more than cover the expense of taking your |
| modular home will handle the shift in environments | | | | modular "mobile home" with you wherever you |
| as if it were built to handle them, because it was. | | | | go! |