I love watching those half hour reality shows where an amateur house flipper purchases a house and expects to flip it in a week. Nearly 99% of the time, their budget and timeline shift. Partly it’s because of their inexperience, but partly that’s the nature of home construction. There is the expected cost and the […]

As a proponent of the benefits of modular homes, I get frustrated when I hear about the misconceptions that people have when they think of modular homes. That’s because, when some people think of modular homes, they think of mobile homes or of the poorly build modular homes of the 60’s and 70’s. But modular […]

As I pointed out yesterday, a modular home is cheaper to build than a home built onsite and it is cheaper to live in. In my last post I talked about why it’s cheaper to build. And in this post I’m going to talk about why it’s cheaper to live in.
First, the home comes with […]

Modular homes are custom-built homes that are put together in large units, transported to the site, and attached together. They are not mobile homes. They are regular homes, custom built, but they just happen to be built somewhere else.
This concept may be new to some and one of the biggest benefits that always surprises people […]

Last summer, someone in my neighborhood decided to build their own home. They were a block over, so I couldn’t see the equipment, but I could hear them. As soon as the local noise bylaw said they could start up their equipment, they did. It was as if they all stood around with their fingers […]

Have you ever been involved in building a site-built home? If there’s one word that sums it up, it’s “unpredictability”. It’s actually quite frustrating.
o       The weather is unpredictable. Some projects can be completed in the rain or wind, others cannot. A build schedule can be completely thrown off with just a day or two of […]

I was in a conversation with a neighbor recently about building homes. He had built his own house years ago and he was quizzing me on custom built modular homes. At first he thought I built mobile homes but I quickly clarified that these are real homes, just built in sections and transported to the […]

 
A friend of mine was relating a story to me the other day. When he was 16 years old he helped his uncle build a stick-built home. It was a custom home and his uncle intended to build it then sell it for a profit, so he was conscious of the bottom line. The home […]

 
Problem: “I take care of my aging parents. They are mobile and want some privacy, but I want to be close to them so I can provide them with some level of care… and so they can spend time with the grandkids.”
 
Solution: Modular homes can help. Rather than buying an existing home and retrofitting it […]

Problem: “I want an eco-friendly home”.
Solution: I remember a time when eco-friendly was a nice little add-on in any company’s marketing. Today, it’s an essential part of nearly every company’s value statement. As a society, we’re becoming increasingly aware of the importance of the health of the earth on our lives and on the […]

Problem: “I want to build my own home, but I want a home that is priced right. Frankly, I can’t find the home I want at the price I’m interested in paying”.
Solution: Modular homes may offer the solution you’re looking for. Custom-built on-site homes usually cost much more than a modular home. That’s because […]

In this series of blogs I’ll be exploring a number of trends in the marketplace and discussing how modular homes support the trend. In this blog, the trend I’m talking about is the growth in home-based businesses.

It used to be that people went out to work. They’d work a 9 to 5 shift from […]

In this series of blogs I’ll be exploring a number of trends in the marketplace and discussing how modular homes support the trend. In this blog, the trend I’m talking about is the change in today’s definition of “family”.

In the “Leave it to Beaver” days of America, everyone had a white picket fence, 2.5 […]

In this series of blogs I’ll be exploring a number of trends in the marketplace and discussing how modular homes support the trend. In this blog, the trend I’m talking about is cocooning.
Trend guru Faith Popcorn predicted the concept of cocooning. Essentially, she suggests that modern people cocoon in their homes because work is busy, […]

In this series of blogs I’ll be exploring a number of trends in the marketplace and discussing how modular homes support the trend. In this blog, the trend I’m talking about is retiring baby boomers.
By 1946, after 2 world wars and a depression, people were eager to have life return to normal. The economy was […]