Why don’t more people buy land and then put in a modular house?
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Anonymous
| Why? |
Anonymous
What would be the advantage? |
Anonymous
Cheaper |
Anonymous
| People like things ready made. |
Anonymous
| Where is this vacant land that's zoned for housing and hooked up to electricity, sewer, etc., that doesn't already have a house on it? People do this in rural areas., but it's hardly a problem that can scale in already developed areas. |
Anonymous
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If I had to replace my existing house I'd look into it. But otherwise I'm unlikely to ever build new. Most people do not buy land (teardown, here) and then build new: they buy existing homes from owners or builders.
If you are going to all that trouble of site permits, etc. with your own plans and builder, you probably want to go custom. Modular construction limits you in that respect. |
Anonymous
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Because where I'm looking in Bethesda, choice land already has a house on it and is worth north of 2M. Razing the existing house and building my dream house on it seems a tad expensive given I'm not even sure I'll stay in the area for more than 5 years. I've actually thought about it, because all the existing homes for sale are terrible!!!
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Anonymous
| Some of the modern modular stuff is really neat – like Blu – but isn’t exactly a savings and there’s less room for customization. |
Anonymous
| My parents did this, but they bought an old, very small farm that had a house on it that wasn't amendable to renovation (like, there were floors that weren't level, there had been several additions that were don't pretty slapdash, etc.) and it was easier to just raze the house. They put on a nice modular home, which they love (very energy efficient, enough options to customize, and it looks nice). But that situation isn't all that common in more developed areas. |
Anonymous
| Plenty of people do, and plenty of others have no interest in modular houses. Seems pretty obvious. |
Anonymous
Are you talking about rural land? Once you're done running utilities and putting in septic, you might as will build a house. Are you talking suburban? Assuming zoning will even allow it, the land will cost so much that you might as well build a house. |
Anonymous
| Guess you haven't priced running utilities. |
Anonymous
| It’s a brilliant idea but the modular houses really don’t exist at scale yet |
Anonymous
Are you kidding? Double wides and triple wides are incredibly common in less expensive areas. Here they make no sense because land is so expensive |
Anonymous
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Somehow I thought they meant Dwell mag modular not trailer trash modular. My bad.
The company we looked at had an 18 month wait and 650k delivery with an IKEA level kitchen |