Manufactured & Modular Homes Blog

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Top 10 Front Porch Fall Decorating Ideas to Welcome the Season with Style

As the crisp breeze and vibrant colors of fall make their grand entrance, it’s time to transform your porch into a cozy haven that reflects the warmth of the season. Whether you’re an autumn enthusiast or just looking to update your home’s exterior, our top 10 front porch fall decorating ideas will inspire you to create a welcoming and festive atmosphere.

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Navigating the Current Landscape of Housing Prices and Mortgage Rates

In the dynamic realm of real estate, the intersection of housing prices and mortgage rates has become a focal point of discussion. Over the past year, the market has hinted at a potential shift, with existing home sales projected to reach lows reminiscent of the aftermath of the 2008 housing market crash.

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Manufactured Homes Could Mean a New Trend in The Housing Market

In today’s world of subdivisions and mass production, new home construction lacks a lot of the custom features most home buyers crave. Home design comes off as cookie-cutter, and plug and play. New homes are built one after another and look surprisingly similar inside and out.

As true brick and mortar homes have shifted to this design style, many have assumed that modular homes lack custom designs, and will fall into a cookie-cutter style as well. However, these are common misconceptions around modular builds and how they differ from true custom designs.

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Custom Home Design Doesn’t Have to Mean Expensive

In today’s world of subdivisions and mass production, new home construction lacks a lot of the custom features most home buyers crave. Home design comes off as cookie-cutter, and plug and play. New homes are built one after another and look surprisingly similar inside and out.

As true brick and mortar homes have shifted to this design style, many have assumed that modular homes lack custom designs, and will fall into a cookie-cutter style as well. However, these are common misconceptions around modular builds and how they differ from true custom designs.

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Blair Chamber of Commerce: Family Talents Spur Business Success

Recently Black’s Home Sales, Inc. president, Dale Wronski, received a call from his favorite local journalist and Blair County Chamber of Commerce president/CFO, Joe Hurd. Mr. Hurd asked for an interview for the chamber since they were starting a segment featuring family-owned, local businesses. The resulting article is included here. The interview was quite a […]

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Modular Home Construction Codes Update

If you are in the market for a new home, you may have heard that the state-wide building codes for Pennsylvania were in the process of being updated. This set of codes applies to all residential construction that is not HUD-code (single-wides or sectionals). It applies to site-built and pre-fabricated homes as well as modular. […]

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Double Your Fun: What’s In a Double Wide Home?

The phrase “Double Wide” literally means that two halves of a home will be put together into one wider structure. These halves typically consist of two fourteen foot sections to create a twenty-eight foot wide home – although two sixteen foot sections are occasionally combined into a thirty-two foot wide. Often called sectional homes, double wides (like single wides) are built to the HUD Code, have a permanent metal frame and do not require a foundation (crawlspace or basement) when being installed.

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Manufactured Home Resale Value

While resale value for modular homes can appreciate, the same is not true with many manufactured homes. Whether your manufactured home will appreciate or depreciate in value over time is really up in the air, and the answer isn’t as clear-cut as you may like.