Author Archive | Home Manufactured

Prefabricated Homes to the Rescue

Today’s world is full of natural disasters. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods and fires have been devastating whole communities leaving many people homeless. Chile, Haiti, Japan, New Zealand, the U.S. and even Canada and many more have been hit and are struggling to rebuild. All have reached out to the manufactured building industry with a desperate […]

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The Value of a Prefab Garage

One of the many modular structures you can add to your home is the prefab garage. In fact, adding a garage is a cheap and easy way to increase the value of your property. In less than a week you can expand storage space and boost the market price of your house with the purchase […]

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Is The HUD Code Enough?

When you’re considering buying a new or used manufactured home is the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Manufactured Housing Code all you need to concern yourself with? Since June 15th of 1976 all U.S. built manufactured homes are built to this federal standard.  Unfortunately there’s more to consider than what the HUD Code covers.  As […]

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6 Benefits to Factory Built Homes

Factory built homes or prefab homes have potential benefits that far surpass site built homes. Following is a short summary of some of these benefits. Build Time – One of the benefits of a factory built home is a quicker turn around time. Like any factory built product the assembly line has been designed and […]

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Modular Home Quality

Let us look at some of the reasons that modular house quality is surpassing conventional building quality. While there are many factors to consider, they can be generally divided into three categories: people, place and process or who, where and how. Who builds modular homes? The employees of modular home companies build modular homes. This […]

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What is a Modular Home?

A modular home is a house that is made up of sections, or modules, that have been constructed in a factory and then transported to the building site for assembly. The modules resemble rooms or partial rooms and are generally square or rectangular in shape. They are built in a factory under controlled conditions and […]

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