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Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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There is a new player in the housing market called Clayton and they make a house in pieces in a factory, truck it to the land and put it togther. It is not a trailer nor is it a regular house. I have not seen it except on the news but they say it cost about 1/2 as much as a house built from scratch and it cost about 1/4th the utility bills per square foot.
My only question is where this type of house can be built and how long until the Home Builders Associations and the neighbourhood snobs manage to use zoning laws to put this outfit out of business.
Clayton 'i-house' is giant leap from trailer park - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090506/ap_on_re_us/us_clayton_i_house - broken link)
Manufactured homes have been around for ages so I don't know why anyone would want to make them illegal. Zoning issues are a whole other ballgame, they would probably be ok wherever manufactured homes are already ok. I'm not sure I see the problem?
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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Originally Posted by Ceece
Manufactured homes have been around for ages so I don't know why anyone would want to make them illegal. Zoning issues are a whole other ballgame, they would probably be ok wherever manufactured homes are already ok. I'm not sure I see the problem?
The land area in this country where manufactured homes is legal is probably about the size of Disneyland.
There is a new player in the housing market called Clayton and they make a house in pieces in a factory, truck it to the land and put it togther. It is not a trailer nor is it a regular house. I have not seen it except on the news but they say it cost about 1/2 as much as a house built from scratch and it cost about 1/4th the utility bills per square foot.
My only question is where this type of house can be built and how long until the Home Builders Associations and the neighbourhood snobs manage to use zoning laws to put this outfit out of business.
Clayton 'i-house' is giant leap from trailer park - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090506/ap_on_re_us/us_clayton_i_house - broken link)
If they cost about 1/4 the utility bills per square foot, I think the only people that would want them out of business are the power generating companies.
Most zoning laws and neighborhood restrictions manage to squeeze out everyone except home builders. Hmmm, wonder if there is some connection there?
The zoning and rules usually specify that only SITE BUILT homes can be put on lots. That is a blanket sweep that eliminates mobile homes, modular homes, and prefab homes all.
The truth is that the prefab options are getting better and better. IMO, it doesn't make sense to have everything shipped to a site 1 piece at a time and put together there. There is a lot more climate control and quality control available inside a production facility than there is in an open lot with a concrete slab.
big one here in the upper Midwest. They go all over the place. My brother has one , very well built and energy efficient. Home Page
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