Tag Archives: Modular home

Not Your Grandfather’s Trailer House

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by Harold D. Hunt, PhD, The Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University  Few would argue that significant strides have been made in the quality of construction, wind resistance and aesthetic appeal of a modern manufactured home. What may be surprising to real estate licensees is the level of energy efficiency available to today’s manufactured housing buyer. Before 1976, each …

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Modular Apartments opening in New York City’s Long Island, Nassau County

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Newsday tells MHLivingNews that a 28 unit prefabricated building, called The Stack, will be opening in early October for occupancy. The Village Lofts are located on Front Street in Hempstead. Matthew Korman, and Orlando Frade of Douglas Elliman Real Estate are leasing agents for the building’s modular homes. “The building is top notch quality,” says Korman. The features include residential …

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Factory Home Building in Canada

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According to the Manufactured Housing Institute of Canada (MHICA), there are two broad categories of factory built homes in Canada. The MHICA describes these in the two paragraphs that follow. Manufactured Homes Manufactured (Mobile) homes are factory-built home and can be up to 95% completed when leaving the factory. The homes are typically built with an integrated sub-frame that allows …

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A Breakfast with…Mary Gaiski, Pennsylvania Manufactured Housing Association

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  1) Who, What and Where: (Your name, town and your formal title at Pennsylvania Manufactured Housing Association, PMHA).  Mary Gaiski, Executive Vice President, Pennsylvania Manufactured Housing Association, New Cumberland, PA 2) Background: (Educational/Professional snapshot before entering the factory-built housing arena, at or before the Pennsylvania Manufactured Housing Association – PMHA). Besides picking up extra cash waiting tables, my life since …

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The Factory Built House on the Hill

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The New York Housing Association made arrangements April 30-May 3, 2013 to place a factory-built home in the Empire State Plaza for their Legislative Summit. The video that follows provides a brief history, but also tells the story of how hundreds of state legislators, their staff and thousands from the public were exposed to the amazing quality found in today’s …

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