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Why Build Modular
Selecting a Dealer
Designing a Home
Specifications and Features
Selecting a Contractor
Finding & Preparing a Lot
Contractor Responsibilities
Building a Modular Addition
Financing a Modular Home
Warranty Service
Building on Schedule
Financing
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The essential guide to buying, building, financing and installing a modular home
Fri 10/02/09 11:52:33 pm
by Andrew Gianino
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Finding and Preparing a Building Lot for a Modular
Home
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Andrew Gianino - Tue 12/18/07 12:48:33 pm
When shopping for a building lot, you will likely
consider its location, purchase price, size, and shape - with good reason.
Where you live, the size of your construction budget, and how much land
you have and can effectively use will impact your selection. The choice of
location is likely to be determined by a variety of considerations. The
type of neighborhood, tax rate, length of commute to... http://modularhousingnetwork.com/modular_book/chapter6.php
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Selecting a Modular Home Dealer
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Andrew Gianino - Wed 12/12/07 10:51:07 am
Shopping for a modular home or for modular house
plans means, first and foremost, finding a dealer who offers the kind of
home you want and can back it up with good support and fair modular home
prices. Many customers find this process both difficult and confusing. It
is not like shopping for a new car or refrigerator. There are no consumer
magazines offering comparisons and recommendations on mod... http://modularhousingnetwork.com/modular_book/chapter2.php
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Excerpts from THE MODULAR HOME BOOK
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Andrew Gianino - Mon 09/17/07 09:55:27 am
...a comprehensive handbook for prospective modular
home buyers. The book is packed with everything you need to know about
buying and building a modular home-or a modular addition to your existing
home. dispels the misconceptions about the limitations of modular homes
and shows potential buyers that a modular home can be as good as, if not
better than, houses built with traditional stick-frame con... http://mfdhousing.com/modular_book/
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Building a Modular Home on Schedule
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Andrew Gianino - Sat 08/11/07 03:39:16 pm
A brief summary of Chapter 11 "Building a Modular
Home on Schedule " (20 pages) in The Modular Home, by Andrew Gianino,
President of The Home Store Building your home on schedule takes every bit
as much planning as building it on budget. In fact, if you put a lot of
effort into planning both, you are likely to find that keeping on schedule
is considerably harder than staying on budget. Th... http://mfdhousing.com/modular_book/chapter11.php
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Warranty Service for a Modular Home
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Andrew Gianino - Sat 07/14/07 12:18:13 pm
A brief summary of Chapter 10 "Warranty Service for a
Modular Home" (11 pages) in The Modular Home, by Andrew
Gianino..Warranty-service work is needed at some point on virtually every
new house. The imperfections of materials and people inevitably create the
need. The hundreds of different materials that make up a house don't
always respond as they were designed, sometimes causing undesirable
res... http://mfdhousing.com/modular_book/chapter10.php
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Financing a Modular Home
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Andrew Gianino - Thu 06/14/07 08:16:53 am
A brief summary of Chapter 9 "Financing a Modular
Home" (16 pages) in The Modular Home, by Andrew Gianino...There is one
very significant difference between paying for an existing home and paying
for a new home. When you buy an existing home you pay the seller in full
before you take possession of the home. If you use a loan to pay for the
home, you secure the funds with a mortgage. When you buil... http://mfdhousing.com/modular_book/chapter9.php
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Building a Modular Addition
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Andrew Gianino - Sun 05/06/07 09:07:04 am
A brief summary of Chapter 8 "Building a Modular
Addition" (16 pages) in The Modular Home by Andrew Gianino...Modular
construction is a great way to build an addition. You get the quality and
price advantage that modern modular homes are known for along with faster
build time. Speed is particularly beneficial when building modular home
additions, since the construction will temporarily disrupt you... http://mfdhousing.com/modular_book/chapter8.php
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The General Contractor's Responsibilities (Corrected
Link)
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Andrew Gianino - Thu 04/19/07 07:33:15 am
A brief summary of Chapter 7 "The General
Contractor's Responsibilities" (51 pages) in The Modular Home...your GC
needs to complete three types of construction tasks to build your modular
home: the site work, the "button-up" work, and the construction of
site-built structures...The site work includes everything done to the land
so you can build a home on it. Some of this work is done before the
h.... http://mfdhousing.com/modular_book/chapter7.php
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The Modular Home Book
by Andy Gianino
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The essential guide to buying, building, financing and installing your modular home. There are
no consumer
magazines offering comparisons and recommendations on modular home companies. Unless you know several people who have
already built prefab houses and can offer advice on specific modular home companies, it may be hard to take the first step.
This book is the answer!
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