Why Modular Homes?
Modular homes offer the best of both manufactured and site built
worlds! Having a home built almost entirely at the factory level, increases the
quality control, reduces weather delays and damages, as well as offering a
Greener way to build! Asking the factory to build the home as a modular (same
code as site built homes) will provide the benefits the site built industry
offers in lower interest rates as well increased value for appraisal purposes
now and in the future by using site built homes as comparable sales.
What is a Modular Home?
Modular Homes are constructed to the same state and
local building codes and are subject to the same zoning regulations as
site-built homes. In contrast, Manufactured Homes comply with the Federal
Construction Safety Standards Act (HUD/CODE), which requires homes to be
constructed on a non-removable steel chassis.
Benefits of Modular (International
Building Code) Homes
Factory Production
The affordability of factory built housing can be attributed
directly to the efficiencies emanating from the factory-building process. The
controlled construction environment and assembly-line techniques remove many of
the problems encountered during traditional home construction, such as poor
weather, theft, vandalism, damage to building products and materials, and
unskilled labor. Factory employees are trained and managed more effectively and
efficiently than the system of contracted labor employed by the site-built home
construction industry.
Building homes in a factory environment also helps
reduce the timeframe for completion of a custom project. The normal timeframe
for modular home production is 5-7 months allowing for the process of obtaining
financing, permit processing, engineering, production and on site completion.
There is time savings since construction can begin in the factory at the same
time the foundation is being built on your site. Because the plans are
California approved the plan check at the building department tends to take
less time than a site built. Also weather has almost no impact on building the
home.
Much like other assembly-line operations, modular homes benefit from
the economics of scale resulting from purchasing large quantities of materials,
products and appliances. Modular home builders are able to negotiate
substantial savings on many components used in building a home, with these
savings passed on directly to the homebuyer.
There are also Green (earth friendly) Benefits that
come from building a home in a factory environment. Prefabrication techniques
reduce waste, offer energy-saving designs and improve manufacturing and
construction efficiencies.
Financing
Along with offering economies of sale for factory production,
weather controlled climate for building, as well earth friendly benefits, the
factory built home built as a modular home tops off the benefits by offering
the best financing rates and options available!
It is important to distinguish between a true modular and a
"hudular" home. Both homes are built to IBC Code and right now are considered
"modular". A "hudular" home is built with an I Beam (ON FRAME) under the home,
same as a manufactured HUD built home. A TRUE MODULAR is built OFF FRAME using
a low boy for delivery purposes and then the home will be rolled or craned onto
the prebuilt foundation system.
Many lenders and appraisers consider a Hudular Home the same as a
Manufactured Home because of the I Beam the home is built on. “Ma” Williams
Homes will only build OFF FRAME, true MODULAR homes!! Don’t let another dealer,
factory, or lender talk you into an ON-FRAME home! You will regret the decision
later if the banker doesn’t fund the loan for your new home, or if in the
future you can’t refinance, or sell your modular home just like a site built
home. If appraisers, bank inspectors, or other parties look under your home for
inspection and see I-beams, you will have problems no doubt!
Building your home as a modular (IBC) opens up the
options the appraiser can use for comparable sales, thereby helping to increase
the value of your development. These criteria for appraisals will also help not
only with your current equity, but will also help with future resell value.
By regulation, institutional lenders do not
distinguish between site built and modular built homes because both types of
homes go through the same process at the building department and both are built
to the same (IBC) building code. Therefore this allows the modular home buyer
the same opportunities as any other home buyer in the market today!
In today’s environment, the decision to purchase a manufactured or
modular home may not be a choice, but rather dictated to us by the depressed
real estate market that we find ourselves in. One thing for sure is that with
the benefits of factory built housing, new site built homes will have a hard
time competing with this Green, efficient way of building that will be the
future!
Modular Home Pricing Compared to Site
Built Homes
Modular homes are built with the same materials as
a site built home, offer a controlled environment to assure a high quality
construction, offer the same or more technological advances to improve the
functionality, esthetics, and efficiencies of your home, offer the same
financing options and rates as a site built home, and the best part is that all
of these benefits come at PRICES UP TO 25 PERCENT LESS per square foot
than conventional site-built homes.
Technological advances, evolutionary designs, and a focus on
delivering quality homes that families can afford are the driving forces within
the factory housing industry. Factories are offering more designs, floor plans,
and options for homes that fit their needs and wants, at prices they can
afford! Skyline for instance will build any home they have in a modular for not
much more than a manufactured! Skyline and Silvercrest will both look at custom
modular plans so we can help you build your dream home! Your choices are
endless!!
Modular Homes Design Options
Silvercrest and Skyline homes offer numerous
standard floor plans for your perusal ranging from 1,400 square feet on up.
These standard plans are designed for value. However, both Silvercrest as well
as Skyline, also allow for custom design floor plans as well in which the
options are endless. (View our standard modular homes floor plans)
Both factories when building a modular home, have
more flexibility in design in some regards because the home does not have to be
complete when it leaves the factory. For instance, the home can be shipped from
the factory without a completed roof. After the home is set on the site the
custom rafters and trusses can be completed to achieve a truly custom site
built exterior architectural elevation.
Why Use “Ma” Williams?
If you could buy a home from a company that is competent, has a
friendly atmosphere, and prices that won’t be beat, would you?? That company is
“Ma” Williams Manufactured Homes, Inc.
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