The best house I ever lived in was a modular house. I rented it for 2 years and would have purchased it had the location been better. The house was laid out perfectly and the construction was excellent. It had a lot of upgrades that made it feel like a very high end stick built house.
I've been in modular homes before and there was something about it that i can't put my finger on, the closest would be the feeling of being inside a cardboard box on a cold day. I can't really explain why i felt this way, it was so odd because i didnt know it was a modular home until i asked my mother if she felt the same way and she explained it to me. Perhaps things have changed but to me that one experience kept me away and i bought instead a brick house which has always made me feel very safe, snug and secure. The modular home i was in made me feel like any earthquake would collapse it , or that the walls were made of many layers of cardboard or something.
Man I was never interested in real estate or anything. But me and my brother both watch your channel. You make it really interesting and understandable keep uploading please
I just found your channel and you are great! So full of helpful information and also you're great! Looking to move my 80 year mom from a 3 story townhome to a 1 story home.
I heat my entire modular home with a mid sized Vermont Castings Natural Gas Stove that sits to the side of my front door. A painting contractor who painted my house a year ago looked at my house and my small heating stove and said, "I bet that stove can drive a person out of here in the winter". House does not take much to heat. The stick built homes I have owned are like swiss cheese to heat in comparison.
And another thing. The insulation qualities of my modular home is so tight my heating bill in the winter and A/C bill in the summer are a fraction of my neighbors. It is like a Thermos Bottle.
It is pretty amazing that we haven't come up with a way to automate home building as we have with virtually everything else. I have seen some of the 3D homes, and BOXABL, ect but we really haven't been able to do it with full sized homes.
I would purchase a modern one here in Vegas if it was affordable, we're having a affordable housing crisis in Vegas locals cannot afford houses or even rent on pay rates here.
There's no substitute for a builder, and a trailer load of lumber. I'd still have to have the basement, drainage, retaining walls, septic/sewer, water and electric hookups. I draw up the plans for the size and shape of the house, 18ft x 35ft inside wall to wall. How i want it built, half up brick from the ground then aluminum siding to the metal roof with full ice guard under.
Moving from a modular. House is great and efficient-the issue is the interiors were the same size as mobile/manufactured resulting in 80K upgrade to renovate to standard size stick built finishes. Zip kit homes are the most modern styling available.
I see demand being strong for years to come. With a hybrid work system becoming more common and with marriage rates at an all-time low, demand for a more versatile and affordable shelter should be strong.
Last I knew they still build round homes. They are the dome homes you put together on site. I think there is or was a company that built these in Florida.
Modular and manufactured homes are not affordable since they require upfront payment for all construction and land. They’re affordable if they’re already rich enough to consider a custom home or remodel. What needs to change for affordable homes is each community needs to change their zoning and regulations. Living in apartments or family will have to happen in most cases. Modular homes are also single family homes. There’s campaigning against single family zoning in the major cities to increase density and mass transit. Modular might work for ADU if you have the land, but the major cities are working against it with bad policies on rent collection due to pandemic.
Home affordability has to do with property taxes... as long as municipalities tie their revenue to property values you will never see changes that increase home affordability.
I think there is something shady with that Katerra, if they were a multi billion company why did they folded?🤔 I do a modular home but it's no accident that we r left with that choice.
I would absolutely live in a well constructed modular home. Those mid century modern ones are gorgeous! Plop one of those on 100 acres with Mountain View’s and call me done!
We live in a 2K square foot modular house that was custom designed for us by the builder’s designer in south central Pennsylvania. They built it in 4 modules, put together on our site. We were responsible for the basement and connecting to utilities but they did all electric, plumbing, appliances, everything from the sill up. The only limit we had in the design was that we couldn’t have windows within 2 feet of a corner of the building.
@@mikeramos6272 this was all in 2004 dollars: the modular manufacturer charged less than $200K, but then we dug a full basement and finished 2/3 of it, had to drill a well, build a sand mound for a septic system, and dig a trench to the road to connect all the utilities, and the house is .2 miles from the road, so all that added another almost $100K. Therefore I wouldn’t call this a typical “affordable” home. But if we’d gone with one of the smaller, non-custom model designs and chose to build in a more convenient location, it would have been a lot less.
@@emilybeaton2947 sounds amazing and I would've done the basement as well. With that said, buying a modular home is no different than building a new one in the traditional sense. Especially now knowing when yours was constructed. We can assume itll be double that amount now. 😫
Is it cheaper to buy a house on land that needs fixing or buy land and put a house on it? Sometimes it feels like it's impossible to have a better living situation for working class.
I too love mid- century modern. Not gonna happen here in NW Florida. Everyone that can afford (or NOT afford) it have these freakin' McMansions that are absolutely hideous and the classic stereotype of overkill. I would definitely choose a modular home.
Your videos on Home 🏡 Depot homes, you do know they increase your taxes with those right ❓ Did you include thatit in your videos They re-access your property right when they drop it off
I would like to see sleek modular single homes about 800 to 950 sq. Ft With little yard and/or porch for seniors at a very affordable rate in South Jersey.
Have you seen S2A modular? They have been all over social media and I listened to an online seminar recently. It looks like they have a lot of ideas on green construction and a plan to scale up with investor support for the future. I don't believe they have built anything yet.
I have seen all their advertising but have yet to see an actual home. All they have is computer renderings and promises of new factories but I haven’t seen anything tangible yet. I hope to see something soon.
If there were a free, open-source CAD and BIM program that would allow you to get most of the functionality of Autodesk, it would be a true game-changer for DIY self-builders.
if you are ever in michigan i recommend coming to the greenfield village/museum. there are one of those 40's homes you can take a tour through and learn about
Re: Eddie Smallhorn ufo- they should make a housing development with every conceivable type of modular home. ufo, Norwegian, mcm, go crazy with creativity-IT WOULD BE AWESOME LIKE AN AMUSEMENT PARK!
What's amazing was I grew up in what's called a Levitt Ranch. Looking my old house up, it had an amazing 2000 sqft! I was wondering why (after moving away) the houses I looked at with 1600 sqft felt so cramped...
