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In today's housing market, how can you build an affordable, high quality house with a unique, customized look? Designers, architects, engineers and others in the housing industry view modular construction as the simple, affordable solution.

Today's custom modular home is built in a climate-controlled atmosphere within a factory, placed on a site of your choice, and finished based on your external specifications. Modular homes conform to all state, regional and local building codes, and the total construction time is only three to eight months.

That's a far cry from the stereotypical "trailer park" image that still may come to mind when you hear the term "modular housing." Even the Florida "double-wide" with its screened-in porch, while offering a more comforting image to most of us, carries a somewhat negative connotation.

Today you can forget the negatives about modular housing. Instead imagine several components designed and factory manufactured with laser-guided precision that are then loaded on a truck, delivered directly to your site, and assembled on a custom-built foundation. The only work required in this relatively simple process is joining the pieces together and adding any special stylization to the exterior. Now picture living in this remarkably affordable, high-quality new home that your neighbors can't distinguish from more expensive stick-built homes.

The manufactured home industry is over 100 years old. In the early 1900s, companies like Sears, Aladdin and Gordon-Van Tine offered middle class Americans the opportunity to purchase their first home built in factories and shipped to sites in prepackaged kits. During the post-WWII housing boom, homes built on assembly lines were mobile homes, now known as manufactured homes, built with aluminum siding and positioned as low-cost alternatives to stick-built homes.

Today, many stick-built homes being constructed in large developments have the same floor plans, an identical lot size, and a common exterior elevation. The only difference the consumer notices may be the color of the siding or brick. These cookie-cutter homes typically cost more than modular homes and are plagued by construction-quality issues that the modular home industry has found cost-effective solutions for.

If you would like more information on finding the right manufactured home for you and your family, contact Premier Homes at (800) 875-8575 or email us at info@premiermfghomes.com.

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