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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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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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What Goes Into Buying a Manufactured Home?

The manufactured home planning process is vastly different from the installation of a modular home. Your general contractor and manufactured home seller will be there to walk you through the process so you can move into your home as quickly as possible.

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Modular Home Insurance: What Policy Do You Need?

If you are looking to build a new modular home, you probably have a bunch of questions. One of the biggest questions is probably about insuring your new modular home. Modular home insurance isn’t much different than insuring a stick-built house. In fact, you will probably get the same homeowners policy that you would with […]

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Manufactured Home Financing and Home Loans

Buying a home is one of the biggest decisions a person will make in their lifetime. Buying ether a modular home or a manufactured home (mobile homes) can be a great option for lower-income families, first time home buyers and for anyone who want a new home feel. However, buyers may realize that financing manufactured […]

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Colony’s Popular Options

We thought we’d take some time to highlight some of the more popular options in our Colony line of homes.  You have more choices available than ever before, and hopefully this article will help you with a few of them.  Today we will be talking about:  Recessed Lighting, Hickory Cabinets, Kitchen Islands, Ceramic Tile, and […]

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Manufactured Homes Gone Rustic!

These pictures are of a Champion home that our friends at Champion sent to us.  It is on display at a dealer up in Vermont.  I love the rustic feel of this home and I could easily see these details incorporated into our Porch lot model.  Here are some pictures of our display model.    You […]

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Subdividing Property for Modular Homes

Let’s say your parents (or grandparents, or children for that matter) have a piece of property with a house on it.  You would like to build on a section of that property.  We see it almost every day.  Many families are considering ways to move closer to help with caregiving, cut expenses, and make life […]

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Heating and Cooling a Sectional Home

There’s nothing worse than being cold all winter (except maybe being too warm all summer), so we’d thought we’d take a moment to talk about your options for heating and cooling a sectional home. Sectional (or HUD-code) homes come with a forced air heating package installed from the factory with one of three fuel types: […]