Manufactured & Modular Homes Blog
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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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Few Limitations Exist for Modular Home Locations.
Modular construction is a great way to build your new custom home. However, too often there are misconceptions that prevent potential home buyers from switching to modular.
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Buying a Manufactured or Modular Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
It’s been quite a four months, hasn’t it? Now that things have stabilized a little (at least for now), we wanted to give you an update on some opportunities and challenges we see in the months ahead, so you can make the best decision for your housing needs.
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Altoona Mirror – Sneak peek “Behind the Desk” at Black’s Home Sales
Always a pleasure to get to talk to our local newspaper, the Altoona Mirror. Take a look at their recent feature and enjoy this sneak peak to hear one Black’s Home Sales’ employee’s take on our day-to-day business.
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What’s makes a great exterior for your new home?
We often have customers that are looking for that added “Wow Factor” on the exterior of their forever home. With our in-house architect, we can help them choose the custom exterior they desire.
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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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The benefits of buying a modular home or manufactured home
Whether you look at the economic or the environmental advantages, going with a modular or manufactured home has many benefits over the traditional stick-built home.
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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.