How To use "Building Systems" In The Carolinas To Save Your Money
The housing industry has grown exponentially in step with our country’s population growth, and these days there are plenty of options for the type of home you can build.
You hear terms like mobile and manufactured, modular, panelized, and stick-built. What’s the difference in the way these houses are built and their costs?
Once you've decided on where your best place to live is…it's time to decide the type of home you would like to build.
We're going to cover a few different types of building systems. For more information on each type, click on the title.
- Stick Built Homes
- Pre Fabricated Homes
- Mobile Homes and Manufactured Homes
- Modular Homes
- Panelized Homes
Cost Considerations:
General estimates regarding pre-fabricated homes figure a 20% to 40% savings over traditional stick-built homes. However, this figure can be highly misleading.
With modular homes, increased size also means increased costs, as more trucks are required to transport the homes and more cranes and men are required to construct them.
Panelized homes face the same challenges in regards to transport, and depending on your leg work in your local area, the cost of your finishes and labor can vary highly.
Manufactured homes are by far the least expensive up-front, but decrease in value over time. This is changing, but be aware of it. Since they are built to HUD standards established in the 1970’s, manufactured homes are typically not as well insulated as modular, panel, and stick-built homes. Manufactured homes are by far lightest on the pocket on the outset, although future depreciation skews this figure. They are also the quickest to move into, once you’ve found a suitable site.
Because they are built in all types of weather, stick-built homes often require more maintenance during construction than factory-built homes. The quality of stick-built homes also varies, even within the same builder, as weather conditions affect the home.
Overall, stick-built homes are the most time consuming and expensive, but they are also the most customizable and easiest to acquire financing for.
Panel built homes are the second easiest to acquire financing for, as some of the actual building occurs on site. Panel built homes are often considered the best insulated, and have a bit of a savings advantage over modular homes. Modular homes are quicker than panel homes to move into, and provide the greatest ease of construction, while maintaining high quality in structural quality and insulation.
No matter which way you go, homes where some or all of the components are factory built have clear advantages.
It’s a growing market, and you’ll do well to be familiar with it.
Save yourself time, money, and wind up with a home that you love, quicker than you thought possible living in Your best place to live in the Carolinas!
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