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Posted by usm-admin on Sep 29, 2016 in Blog | 0 comments

Budget Basics for Modular Home Buyers

How Much Home Can I Afford? If you are considering building a new modular home, the first step in the process is to do your research. If you are reading this, congratulations, you are exactly where you need to be. Building a new home can be a stressful undertaking, so we’ll try to ease that stress a bit here. As with any major undertaking, it’s probably best to start with your budget. In this case, how much home can you afford. If you haven’t done so yet, please read our article on What Will My Modular Home Cost How much home you can afford obviously depends on your income and other sources of revenue you have to make the monthly mortgage payments. Modular homes are built to the same codes as conventionally constructed homes. As such, financing options for modular homes are similar. Three more factors in affordability are location, location, location. While $250,000 might get you a nice four bedroom home in some parts of the country, it...

Posted by usm-admin on Sep 26, 2016 in Blog | 0 comments

Modular Building Process and How to Get Started

Modular building has been in practice since the early 1900s. This building method provides a number of advantages over the “traditional” site-built homes including a faster building schedule and a higher quality end product. With your home built in a climate-controlled environment, you will benefit from simultaneous building in the factory and at the site of your home. Financing Work with your financing source to plan for the construction of your modular home. Plan to assemble all financial documents for your lender. Site Selection Work with your realtor to find the perfect site/lot for your future modular home! Planning Details & Foundation Prep You can view a few different modular home styles in our gallery. Once you find a type of home that will best suit the needs of you and your family, use MHBA’s Find a Builder tool to locate a modular home builder near you. Once you have chosen your builder, they will discuss home plans with you. Once you have finalized your home plans with the...

Posted by usm-admin on Sep 12, 2016 in Blog | 0 comments

PBS Building a Modular Dormitory

Construction is underway on a modular dormitory on Barclay Street in Paterson, NJ that will serve as dormitories for students from a New York-based medical school who are going through training at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center. Modular construction is being used to build the modular dormitory. If the 5 story wood framed modular building is built on a concrete/steel frame first floor and the first several floors have stud spacing of 8” and wider as it goes up, and it is built to the code which governs dormitories, 5 floors are permissible. Officials at New York Medical College (NYMC) say the dormitories will be ready to open in January. Mayor Jose “Joey” Torres expressed excitement about the new dorms. “I believe that at some point you might see something similar happening in our downtown with young people at PCCC (Passaic County Community College),” the mayor said. The dorms near St. Joseph’s appeared on Barclay Street almost overnight. The contractor two weeks ago stacked five units of wood-framed modular...

Posted by usm-admin on Jul 1, 2016 in Blog | 0 comments

Squirrel Valley Fire in 2016 – Help Wildfire Victims Rebuild

Rebuild after Squirrel Valley Fires If you, a neighbor, a family member, or a friend has been a victim of the Fires near Squirrel Valley of 2016, then we would like to offer some tips on rebuilding a new home. Losing a home is a tragic event and rebuilding a fire resistant home as fast as possible will help to get your life back in order. We’d like to help you understand the following critical things that can have a huge impact on your future and your new home: What is your best option for getting moved into your rebuilt home with as little delay as possible so you can avoid being displaced longer than necessary? There are newer construction techniques now available in Squirrel Valley that will shave months off of your rebuild and we want you to know what they are. Imagine being in a new home in as little as 120 days…this is now not only possible but common with this newer design technique…and with zero...

Posted by usm-admin on Jun 29, 2016 in Blog | 0 comments

Bella Vista Fires – Helping Fire Victims Rebuild

If you, a neighbor, a family member, or a friend has been a victim of the Fires near Bella Vista of 2016, then we would like to offer some tips on rebuilding a new home. Losing a home is a tragic event and rebuilding a fire resistant home as fast as possible will help to get your life back in order. We’d like to help you understand the following critical things that can have a huge impact on your future and your new home: What is your best option for getting moved into your rebuilt home with as little delay as possible so you can avoid being displaced longer than necessary? There are newer construction techniques now available in Bella Vista that will shave months off of your rebuild and we want you to know what they are. Imagine being in a new home in as little as 120 days…this is now not only possible but common with this newer design technique…and with zero sacrifice in quality. What new...

Posted by usm-admin on Jun 24, 2016 in Blog | 0 comments

Rebuild after Bakersfield Fires

If you, a neighbor, a family member, or a friend has been a victim of the Fires near Bakersfield of 2016, then we would like to offer some tips on rebuilding a new home. Losing a home is a tragic event and rebuilding a fire resistant home as fast as possible will help to get your life back in order. We’d like to help you understand the following critical things that can have a huge impact on your future and your new home: What is your best option for getting moved into your rebuilt home with as little delay as possible so you can avoid being displaced longer than necessary? There are newer construction techniques now available in Bakersfield that will shave months off of your rebuild and we want you to know what they are. Imagine being in a new home in as little as 120 days…this is now not only possible but common with this newer design technique…and with zero sacrifice in quality. What new advances in...

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