My advice to anyone looking for a new home. Buy a brand new modular. Not through a huge company like Shorten, Simplex, Kintner etc. But through a builder like the one I work for. We sometimes demolish homes and believe me the modulars are waaaay tougher to take down than stick built. They're made to go down the road 70 miles an hour, try that with a stick built. Most builders will do things similar to the way we do. We will beat any price one of the big guys give you and provide you more for that price. We also give you everything included for the price of the house. Excavation, foundation, finish work, kitchen appliances etc. Most of the homes have hardwood or laminate flooring, stone wall fireplaces, ceiling fans in every room.
We have people bring us final prices from shorten all the time. They say its a final price but theres no steps into the home, no steps to the basement, crane not included, no gravel driveway, no landscaping at all etc. Support your local builder and it will pay off. The house is completed in 6-8 weeks turn key and you get a 10 year manufacturer warranty, 10 year foundation warranty and the builder is local and a phone call away for your "bumper to bumper" warranty where we fix anything at all within the first year...hell we get people calling because a lightbulb went out. But we send someone and they change it.
This way you get to customize your home the way you want it. You can draw a floorplan on a piece of paper and we can have it engineered for free and get your floorplan back in a few days. Or buy used and have no warranty, fix the roof in a few years, foundation cracking and crumbling, dump money into it left and right, then when you want to sell it its another 10-20 years old and noone wants it because its 50 years old and a money pit. I have to admit I'm a bit biased but this is real info that I've learned from years of working in new construction and more recently the sales end of it.
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07-22-2013, 02:43 PM
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