Re: Good option instead of a modular home?
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Hi folks, My wife and I ( and my 85 year old mom) are looking to move back to some property where I was born and raised.We have sewage and septic already out there, but the prices of modular homes in our area have gotten out of control in the last several months.
Do any of you guys now of an alternative for modern housing? I was thinking of something like a steel home kit and finish it ourselves. Thanks Moparts for any advice! You sound like a creative thinker.. Have you surfed around for houses built using steel shipping containers? There are a whole slew of interesting solutions people have come up with to create some amazing homes with them. They are readily available, so the raw boxes aren't suffering from the whole global supply chain crisis.. The supplies you need to fit them out might still be a problem, but that's the current norm with any construction. Cheers, - Art
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Re: Good option instead of a modular home?
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You'll probably find the same price increase for everything that you'd want to comfortably use for a house.
One possibility is see if there is any house mover type places around that have something. From time to time you see free houses advertised that are being moved off a lot to make room for a newer house. The house is free but you have to pay for all the fees involved with moving it and get the foundation made and deal with repairs from being moved but at the end of the day the prices for that shouldn't have gone up as much as building something new because the house is already built. Or look at buying a trailer park type trailer to use until what you want to build is affordable again. Then use the trailer as extra room or sell it.
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Re: Good option instead of a modular home?
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Northern Michigan has had a run on pole barn style housing the last 5 to 10 years. Many communities are now banning these structures and I think it is just a tax issue. There are some great designs out there and the best part is low maintenance. Check these builds out: https://mortonbuildings.com/projects/residential
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Re: Good option instead of a modular home?
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they may or may not still have this issue, but many mobile home parks have abandoned, or used ones you can buy and have moved. pennies on the dollar compared to new. they used to have some they nearly gave away as long as you paid for the move. you might check around you and see if they still have that issue. ^^^This. Even if it requires a total remodel, you'll still save tens of thousands, especially if you can do some of the work yourself. Mobile homes are depreciating assets. It makes no sense (to me) to buy a new one.
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Re: Good option instead of a modular home?
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Some years ago I checked into getting a Modular home and in my area there was not much of a cost difference between Modular and stick built. Even before the current run up in lumber, the big selling point was the money saved by rapid construction and occupancy. They didn't really compete, dollar for dollar, with stick built.
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Re: Good option instead of a modular home?
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The contractor I hired for my roofing jobs said that one way a modular is better is that they are built indoors in a controlled environment.
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Re: Good option instead of a modular home?
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I didn't see a location listed. I believe so much depends on this. Weather extremes, types of storms, average temps. If I'm not mistaken modular provides better insulation, but if you are in a hurricane prone area, I wouldn't go modular.
So I believe location must play a big role making this decision. A lot of people in Florida choose frame houses for their insulation benefits, but come hurricane season wish they had CBS construction.
Also, as someone wrote, I believe you will see the same percentage increase in all types of construction and not just modular.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: Good option instead of a modular home?
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The contractor I hired for my roofing jobs said that one way a modular is better is that they are built indoors in a controlled environment. A friend, who is a builder, was hired to go to facility that built modular homes in Canada. He thought construction was excellent and the controlled environment helped a lot.
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