Things To Consider When Buying Modular Homes

Posted by Legendary Homes on March 25, 2014 in Modular Homes with 1 Comment

With the popularity brought by modular homes, more and more people are looking for the best tips when buying modular homes.

A modular home is a home built in a factory and transported to your home site. It is required to undergo check- up under the building code set by the location of your home. It is built with added insulation and energy- efficient materials to ensure your safety and ease of living. And learning what to consider before buying it is essential. So here are the things to consider before buying modular homes.

Buying Modular Homes: Its Cost

Buying modular homes is like owning a car. You first inquire about the cost and expenses you will be spending. There’s a base price for every standard modular home and then there’s your home’s real price. Modular home’s price depends on the style and dimension wanted by its owner. You will need contractors to work on your heating and air conditioning; and plumbing plans and installation. You will also require help for your sheet metal and electrical plans. Another consideration for the price is the location of your home.

Site of your Modular Homes

Do you already have a site for your home? Having a site for your home already reduces the whole building and construction cost of a modular home. If you are still looking for a site, there are home dealers that provide the land-home package. Also consider if the site is underdeveloped or not. Developed community already has access to electricity, propane, water etc. If these things are already near your site, you won’t have to pay additional fees. Installment of septic system, and other matters involving the construction of your home’s basement should also be considered.

Dimension of Modular Homes

Can you afford a big home? Or are you just looking for a simple home? The average cost of a modular home is $55 – $85 per square foot. This is only for the house itself, which means it excludes other expenses in building or finishing your home. Garage, porches, and decks don’t come with the price of your modular home. You have to hire another person to make them, which means you need to have additional budget for this. If you can create your garage, porches, and decks, why not do so? It could save you some money by doing it yourself and cutting out the labor costs.

Customization of Modular Homes

Stylistic customization of your home is one of the most appealing parts of buying modular homes. However this only applies if you acquire compatible modular units. Your manufacturer can calculate the cost of your house’ additional features, then would sum it up to the price of your home. If you’re in a hurry and wanted to buy a simpler home, then thinking of adding a spare bedroom later on, make sure that the home features a widely compatible, low cost expansion potential. And you must discuss this with your builder in advance.

Having said the three considerations when buying modular homes, you now have a brighter look on what you and the salesperson will be talking about. Just remember to pay attention to what he is saying and ask questions that would help your dream home become real.

Considerations When Buying Modular Homes

“With its superior quality, energy efficiency, strong and budget friendly modular homes, Legendary Homes is one of the trusted modular home builders around Clarklake and Jackson Michigan for over 20 years of experience now. Legendary Homes helps in site location, acquisition of permits, excavation, foundation (including Insulated Pre-Cast Foundations), landscaping, breeze ways and other services needed to complete your home. As a company that prioritizes its customers, Legendary Homes allows you to customize your home. And most importantly, we assist in home financing by working with the top lenders in Michigan.”

It’s amazing news to start building your dream home, right? “We make your dreams a reality!”

Legendary Homes’ Spring Special: Landscape Package

Posted by Legendary Homes on March 25, 2014 in Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

Do you want a landscape package from Legendary Homes? The company’s modular home customization also includes landscaping, the feature where you usually think of a trees, flowers and grass. Doing landscaping for your modular home is also an overwhelming job that you need planning to attain your dream design.

Benefits of the Landscape Package

One thing you should remember in landscaping is that it comprises different features. Landscape designers will give attention to your soil characteristics, grading of lot, lighting, ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ landscaping, and the actual layout in relation to fixed structures. ‘Soft’ landscaping is the process where you choose what kind o plants, trees, and flowers; while discussing about the patio, walkway, and driveway is called ‘hard’ landscaping. Knowledge of these factors will help you in your advanced planning about your landscape design.

Modular home landscaping is definitely a difficult that you will seek for a landscape designer, who can work with make your landscape plan, a reality. A landscape designer helps you in making a landscape plan that will fit your modular home’s yard. He can address issues brought by pre-existing items, such as trees, plants, and property lines. He can also assist in saving expenses for materials needed because most of landscape designers have partners who they go to for landscaping materials. A landscaping designer also works in lawn maintenance requirements because some landscapes are hard to maintain.

Legendary Homes’Landscape Package

At Legendary Homes, Inc., we work to make your dream landscape become a reality. Our commitment to provide our clients with high performance and great value service is not only limited within our quality modular homes. We take pride in delivering quality landscape layout, made faster and better. We choose only the best quality materials to make your custom landscape design.

As Legendary Homes strives to provide the best service, we assist customers in meeting their dream landscape by providing an extensive list of options in a very reasonable price. We have partnered with Underwood Nursery in giving you excellent lawn care and landscaping. Together we work with superior craftsmanship and give thorough attention to the smallest details to give you the best result. And this spring, we are offering a $4, 000 Landscape Package to the first five buyers of our modular homes.

“With its superior quality, energy efficiency, strong and budget friendly modular homes, Legendary Homes is one of the trusted modular home builders around Clarklake and Jackson Michigan for over 20 years of experience now. Legendary Homes helps in site location, acquisition of permits, excavation, foundation (including Insulated Pre-Cast Foundations), landscaping, breeze ways and other services needed to complete your home. As a company that prioritizes its customers, Legendary Homes allows you to customize your home. And most importantly, we assist in home financing by working with the top lenders in Michigan.”

It’s amazing news to start building your dream home, right? “We make your dreams a reality!”

Top Tips in Financing A Modular Home

Posted by Legendary Homes on March 24, 2014 in Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

How does one become calm in financing a modular home? Modular homes are less expensive but it can be overwhelming to finance. Most homeowners would apply for home loans in the bank to get started with the construction of their homes. But what are the steps that a homeowner should undergo when financing a modular home?

Types of Modular Home Loans

In a financing modular home, a person will undergo two stages when the bank has issued the loan. These are commonly called as construction-to-permanent loans. When your home is complete and has received the final appraisal, the loan is called construction loan. This is where you pay for the ‘interest’ of your loan. And if your home is complete your loan is called permanent mortgage, which requires you to make regular payments.

Steps To Financing A Modular Home

There are 8 steps in financing a modular home. The first step is to undergo a non- binding pre- qualification estimate. This is where you figure out how much money you will spend for your home and how much will they be able to lend you. This will be successfully done if you will show the bank your financial information and your credit history. Second is to compare rates from at least three different banks. This is to ensure that you will get your money’s worth for the loan. There are banks that offer low interest rates which could save you thousands of dollars for a home loan. The third step in financing a modular home is to apply for the loan. You will need to prepare a number of documents before this. With your satisfactory application, the bank will most likely approve your loan. A letter of commitment will be sent to you once this happened, and you may present this to your manufacturer or dealer before signing the final contract.

The fifth step is simple yet maybe tedious for some homeowners. Once you’ve received the approval, you will need to set- up a disbursement schedule showing your payments for the property, your manufacturer, the general contractor and anyone associated with the construction of your home. The bank will ask for a proof of completion of the disbursement from you during an inspection. If this was done accordingly, the bank will release the payment. After this, you and the bank will close on the loan. Together you will sign the final documents and you will pay for the closing costs. Your loan has been approved and closed. Your modular home is now being built. And you are paying every month to the bank for the interest. Until your home is not complete, you will not pay for the principal. You will only pay for the principal when your home is complete and the bank has already done the inspection and appraisal of your home. If bank is satisfied, your loan will become permanent mortgage and you will start making payments for the interest and the principal. You will pay higher every month with this one.

The steps for financing a modular home may be simple but as I have said it could be daunting. Honest documents will play significant role in your loan application. So make sure that these documents are legal and valid. Moreover, pay attention to the details of your loan. Read between the lines for hidden fees and charges for late payments because this is where most of the homeowners fail.

Financing a Modular Home Loan

Legendary Homes, Inc. is among the top ranked home builder who is working with the Specialty Products Group of Premier Home Mortgage in financing the construction of your dream home. You can go to the financing page of Legendary Homes for a free, personalized consultation.

“With its superior quality, energy efficiency, strong and budget friendly modular homes, Legendary Homes is one of the trusted modular home builders around Clarklake and Jackson Michigan for over 20 years of experience now. Legendary Homes helps in site location, acquisition of permits, excavation, foundation (including Insulated Pre-Cast Foundations), landscaping, breeze ways and other services needed to complete your home. As a company that prioritizes its customers, Legendary Homes allows you to customize your home. And most importantly, we assist in home financing by working with the top lenders in Michigan.”

It’s amazing news to start building your dream home, right? “We make your dreams a reality!”

Benefits of Having A Modular Home

Posted by Legendary Homes on March 20, 2014 in Modular Homes with 1 Comment

Though prefabricated, constructed in the factory, transported and installed onsite, modular home is just like our traditional home. It has the same quality, style and comfort with the on- site built homes, but surprisingly have a number of benefits.

Modular Home Gives Less Expenses

Generally, modular homes are less expensive that traditional homes, and incurs lesser construction associated expenses. Most of them are made and assembled offsite, which reduces time needed to build. And they can be assembled by the owners if they want to. Moreover, maintenance and repair later on requires lesser expenses since most modular homes are built to withstand termites and other structural defects caused by warping or rotting. With this, more and more people will be interested to buy your home later on, providing you with a better value on your investment.

Shorter Time of Construction with a Modular Home

On average, a modular home is built within 1- 2 weeks in the factory. This is primarily due to uninterrupted work of workers. Bad weather cannot stop the building process since modular homes are built indoors. And after delivery to your site, it will take 2- 4 weeks for your home to complete.

Freedom of Customization of your Modular Home

A modular home gives you the freedom to design your house in accordance to your style or personality. You can also modify the floor plans of your home. You can change the size of the rooms if you want to. Just see to it that you have discussed your modification to your manufacturer beforehand.

Modular Homes Comes with a Warranty

Modular homes generally comes with a one- year warranty for construction and separate warranty for appliances, windows and doors. So when you will find any defect after your home is completed within the year, you will no longer experience any difficulty waiting for your dealer to fix them. However, you must have a copy of the complete warranty, and if it requires renewing do so.

Modular Home is Lifestyle Friendly

Because you can customize your modular home, you can design it according to your lifestyle. If you are a laid- back living in a middle- class subdivision, there are styles that could complement your lifestyle. Modular homes are often customized in consideration to size and aesthetic appearance wanted by its owner. You can talk with your dealer about one of the specific preference you would like so your home will suit your way of living.

Because of the benefits modular homes have, a lot is considering building their ideal house. If you want to build your own house, LegendarHomesInc.com will help you. We have a number of modular home floor plans that will suit your needs. Just visit our YouTube Channel: LegendaryHomes, Inc.

A Look at a Modular Home Model

“With its superior quality, energy efficiency, strong and budget friendly modular homes, Legendary Homes is one of the trusted modular home builders around Clarklake and Jackson Michigan for over 20 years of experience now. Legendary Homes helps in site location, acquisition of permits, excavation, foundation (including Insulated Pre-Cast Foundations), landscaping, breeze ways and other services needed to complete your home. As a company that prioritizes its customers, Legendary Homes allows you to customize your home. And most importantly, we assist in home financing by working with the top lenders in Michigan.”

It’s amazing news to start building your dream home, right? “We make your dreams a reality!”

Ways to Finance the Construction of a Modular Home Addition in Allen, Michigan

Posted by Legendary Homes on January 2, 2014 in Allen, Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

There are many alternatives for financing your home, including a growing number of lending institutions that are providing conventional and government-insured financing plans for prospective owners. The most common method of financing a manufactured home is through a retail installment contract, available through your retailer. Some lending institutions that offer conventional, long-term real estate mortgages may require the homes to be placed on approved foundations.

Apply for a Modular Home Construction Loan

Apply for the FHA Loan

Construction loans are also issued by HUD-approved lenders and insured by the FHA, or Federal Housing Administration. FHA grants the Title I Home Improvement Loan to someone who meet the requirements. As noted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Title I loan can be used for home improvements, repairs and property alterations.

Use your Personal Fund

In case you still have question about modular homes, you may contact Legendary Homes Inc in Jackson, Michigan. A representative will be happy to assist you. Meanwhile you can check our modular home price sheets by signing up to our blog

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Modular Home is the Perfect Option If You are a First Time Homeowner

Posted by Legendary Homes on January 1, 2014 in Jackson, Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

Why should a first time homeowner choose a modular home? A modular home is made in a controlled factory, delivered to your site and built in an instant, making them a clever, cost-effective and fast alternative to traditional building techniques. Many are also beautifully designed and environmentally friendly and you can add on another module whenever you need to extend.

The most obvious of advantage of a modular home in Jackson, MI is that they can be any type of floor plan. While personal preferences and specific requirements may vary from person to person, everything is possible to be incorporated when choosing modular home construction.

Lesser Construction Time

Apart from a much lesser time of construction and a more convenient future modification, you will also benefit from a wide range of options to custom-design your dream home. Given such flexibility, you can even modify the modular home floor plans to make it a reality what you have just imagined your house would be. It is also alright if you have not yet thought of a particular design as the selection of homes are made available to help you make up your mind. All you will see are very beautiful model of modular homes that are significantly lower in cost but legitimately high in quality.

Allows you to Customize the Floor Plan

Modular home construction allows you to build and own a home that shows your style and fit your lifestyle. These homes are a great reminder that you can have more options for less expense to really make a house a home that is uniquely yours.

Considerations when Buying a Modular Home

As a first time buyer, it is ideal that you have a great representation and someone who is equipped in working with first time buyers. This is because you will have lots of questions and suggestions as you go through the process of planning and construction of your own custom-built modular home. You want to have someone who will take the time to listen to your concerns and show you everything you have to know and consider about such undertaking.

In case you still have question about modular homes, you may contact Legendary Homes Inc in Jackson, Michigan. A representative will be happy to assist you. Meanwhile you can check our modular home price sheets by signing up to our blog

Topic: Modular Home

Modifying the Modular Home Addition to Fit your Lifestyle

Posted by Legendary Homes on January 1, 2014 in Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

In the past adding a new addition your modular home usually meant a long difficult process from start to finish of the project. A new concept in adding on to an existing home is to add a modular home upgrade.

Regardless of whether your home was originally designed and constructed modularly, it can more than likely be upgraded or expanded utilizing a modular home addition. You’ve looked at all the possibilities, gotten your estimates, but when you look at the figures on the page you instantly go into shock thinking there’s no way you’ll ever be able to afford the addition to your home.

Construction of Modular Home Addition

Modular home construction to the rescue; Most homes regardless of their original type of construction module or old school conventional construction can be expanded modularly if the right plan is implemented. We are more than happy to work with existing home owners to make their dreams come true. Implementing the right plan begins with you and your idea of what you want in a modular home addition. Once you have in mind how you want to expand your home and where you want the expansion to occur you need to make a few notes to keep the idea fresh.

Codes for Modular Home Addition

All of our local additions and modular building plans meet all existing local building codes, which will usually be a plus in the cost department for you. Allowing us to know what your idea is helps in whether or not we are able to modify your existing home.

Benefits of Modular Home Addition

Modular home addition will ultimately provide you benefits that suits your lifestyle. It saves time and money in the overall construction process. Your addition will be constructed off site then hauled to the location and put into place. This cuts down on overall disruption to your day to day living. Helps to keep the neighbors happy, and minimizes the inevitable damage to surrounding landscaping. So if it’s time for a new home addition, make it a modular home upgrade.

In case you still have question about modular homes, you may contact Legendary Homes Inc in Jackson, Michigan. A representative will be happy to assist you. Meanwhile you can check our modular home price sheets by signing up to our blog

Topic: Modular Home

Modular Homes | Affordable Alternative to Stick Built Homes

Posted by Legendary Homes on February 20, 2013 in Modular Homes with No Comments Yet

Modular Homes

Modular homes are a great alternative to the traditional on-site construction of new housing. Because most of the original design work is done off-site in a climate-controlled factory using a technical approach to the construction of houses built these systems provide a more efficient and cost effective way to make your home dreams. Then individually designed modules are made by the manufacturer shall be transported to the site. A local contractor uses icing on the cake after joining the sections together using the same methods and criteria used to stick-built homes. The result is that the beautiful houses of one and two story modulars can be purchased at a significantly lower cost per sq ft.

Modular Homes as Good as Stick Built Homes

Modular houses match the quality and appearance of traditional stick built homes. This is not a manufactured home bred without curb appeal. The modular design allows a wide range of custom design plans can offer your family custom luxury homes. Our free guide of online consumers is here to help you understand the advantages and disadvantages of modular construction to help you through home builders and show you some of the thousands of customized plans that you can choose for your dream home.

Modular homes have few design limits. Local builder and developer can work together to create a desired dream home. The main difference between the traditional houses and mobile homes is that modular homes start as separate segments and are made at a factory. The final part is transported to their chosen job site and erected by giant cranes. Installation is a little like building with Lego blocks, but building codes are much higher. Modular homes are built on a foundation and cannot move from the base. These prefabricated houses can be any shape or size and will meet or exceed state and local building codes. Once fully developed, is as strong and attractive as a building built with traditional methods.

On the other hand, built mobile homes (also known as double wide homes) to the HUD code federal building. It requires all mobile homes to be built in a non-removable steel chassis which greatly limits their design options. Mobile homes can be moved from one location to another. Prefabricated houses are not built on a permanent basis. See our comparison table housing. These homes can have all the characteristics of a traditional house stapled. You can get extra high ceilings, fireplaces and all types of items as you can imagine for your custom plan. Even with individual plans. You save time and money with modular homes.

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