FAQ's

Why Buy a Modular Home?

Compare building a car yourself in your garage, piece by piece and bolt by bolt, to buying a new car built in a modern, high-tech factory.  It would take hundreds of hours, cost many times more, and the quality, reliability and performance would probably be much lower.  The same concept of saving time and money by building in factories, rather than “on site,” applies to modular homes.  Compared to "on site" construction, modular home factories reduce labor time by using high-tech assembly lines, and they reduce materials costs by purchasing in enormous volumes.  The resultant savings, often thousands of dollars per home, they pass along to you, their valued customer.

The time saved is also considerable.  Today's modern assembly plants can build a modular home in as little as five days. There is also cost savings realized by reducing waste.  If you have ever been to a construction site, you have probably seen dumpsters filled with enough leftovers, scraps and waste to build a large part of another home!  The purchasing of excess materials is a huge problem with site-built homes, and most of this excess is never returned or accounted for.  Did all of the materials you paid for end up in your home?

Labor savings, volume purchasing, and waste reduction will equate to huge savings per square foot, compared to site built homes.  Unlike a job site, the controlled environmental conditions in our factory also protect the components of your home against weather, theft and vandalism while under construction.

Are modular homes as well built as site-built homes?

In most cases, better!  Modular homes are built from the floor joists up.  Each section of a modular home is created in a separate part of the factory.  These sections are specially designed and assembled to become stronger as each section is connected to the next using a special assembly process that combines bonding, nailing and bolting, a process rarely used in conventional site-built homes.  Modular homes have 2x6 studs in the outer walls, while most site-built homes use only 2x4 studs.

Modular homes are designed and constructed to withstand long-distance shipment and crane setup, which require more solid construction.  Can you imagine trying to lift a site-built home 20 feet into the air with a crane?  If it stayed together at all, it would more than likely sustain serious structural damage, if not a total collapse.  Site-built homes are just not engineered or constructed with the structural integrity of a modular home.  If you tour one of the factories, or even if you look over one of our information packages, we are sure you will be amazed at how well our modular homes are built.

Will my new modular home be appraised as high as a site-built home?

Yes.  Our experience over several years has been that modular homes do carry the same value as site built homes.*  If you maintain your modular home property, it will increase in value every year just like a site-built home of the same design and condition.

*Property values can be affected by several factors including, but not limited to age, location, square footage, and condition of comparable properties near your building site.  It pays to be selective when purchasing property; the lowest priced land is not always the best deal in the long run.  Contact us for a list of available building sites, or ask us about a land evaluation, or we can give you tips on purchasing property for your home.