Modular Home Facts

Here are a few interesting facts I found in a book on modular homes (it's called Prefab Home, and it has a lot of wonderful pictures of a modular home being built, in case you're looking for something to check out from the library):

• Factory-built, modular homes meet or exceed state building codes.  Then they are transported to the site where assembly is completed.
• Modular homes have been around a lot longer than you might think--the first American one was shipped from England in the 1600s.
• In the mid-1900s, people ordered affordable modular housing from the Sears Roebuck catalogue.
• Builders have long thought the idea of assembling houses in an industry assembly line (like automobiles) would be a productive way to do business.
• Today, more than 22 million Americans live in modular houses.
• There are 275 manufactured home facilities in the U.S.
• One in eight new single-family homes is modular.
• The cost per square foot for modular homes is 10-35% less than comparable site-built homes.