Kit Homes: Your Guide to Home-Building Options, From Catalogs to Factories - Softcover

Binsacca, Rich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762731419 ISBN 13: 9780762731411

Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Kit homes, encompassing modular, manufactured, pre-fab, and factory-built houses, can offer the prospective home-buyer more design flexibility, lower costs, and a wider range of location choices than "site" or "stick-built" homes. This book is a roadmap for anyone interested in building a kit home. It compares the wide range of options available, from ordering house plans to be used for a materials purchase, to ordering complete house kits, to purchasing factory-built homes. There are tools for identifying the buyer's specific wants and needs, and for assessing affordability and financing options. And there is detailed information and a wealth of tips on the construction process itself, from finding the best building site to warranties and maintenance for the finished home. Lists of suppliers, a glossary of terms, recommended readings, and a set of helpful worksheets round out this completely useful and accessible manual.

About this title

About the Author

Rich Binsacca is an award-winning journalist and author of ten previous books and thousands of articles on housing and related subjects. A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, he lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife Duanea, sons Sam and Nick, and a cat.

From the Back Cover

Achieve your housing dreams

Whether you are buying your first home or designing your dream digs, Kit Homes: Your Guide to Home-Building Options, from Catalogs to Factories introduces you to the full range of kit home choices. This hands-on and accessible guide offers advice and guidance, provides essential tools, suggests additional resources, and walks you through the process of planning for and purchasing a kit home. Kit homes include houses derived from catalogs as well as modular, manufactured, and factory-built homes. These houses can provide greater design flexibility, cost and time efficiencies, and, often, a higher-quality finished product.
Comprehensive directories of kit home publishers and suppliers, an on-page glossary of key terms, recommended reading, and worksheets round out this thorough planning tool.
This valuable resource will help deliver a successful and satisfying home-buying experience.

 

With this book at your side, you will learn about:

low-cost options and design flexibility
a wide range of location choices
house plans, complete house kits, and factory-built homes
identifying specific wants and needs
assessing affordability and financing options
selecting a contractor to help build or manage the project
detailed information and tips on the construction process itself

Edition details

• Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762731419
• ISBN 13: 9780762731411
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146