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Kit Homes: Your Guide to Home-Building Options, from Catalogs to Factoriesby Rich Binsacca
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Achieve your housing dreams Whether you are buying your first home or designing your dream digs, Kit Homes: Your Guide to Home-Building Options, from Catalogs to Factories introduces you to the full range of kit home choices. This hands-on and accessible guide offers advice and guidance, provides essential tools, suggests additional resources, and walks you through the process of planning for and purchasing a kit home. Kit homes include houses derived from catalogs as well as modular, manufactured, and factory-built homes. These houses can provide greater design flexibility, cost and time efficiencies, and, often, a higher-quality finished product. Comprehensive directories of kit home publishers and suppliers, an on-page glossary of key terms, recommended reading, and worksheets round out this thorough planning tool. This valuable resource will help deliver a successful and satisfying home-buying experience. With this book at your side, you will learn about: low-cost options and design flexibility a wide range of location choices house plans, complete house kits, and factory-built homes identifying specific wants and needs assessing affordability and financing options selecting a contractor to help build or manage the project detailed information and tips on the construction process itself Synopsis:A complete guide for homeowners interested in purchasing and constructing a kit house Synopsis:Kit homes, encompassing modular, manufactured, pre-fab, and factory-built houses, can offer the prospective home-buyer more design flexibility, lower costs, and a wider range of location choices than "site" or "stick-built" homes. This book is a roadmap for anyone interested in building a kit home. It compares the wide range of options available, from ordering house plans to be used for a materials purchase, to ordering complete house kits, to purchasing factory-built homes. There are tools for identifying the buyer's specific wants and needs, and for assessing affordability and financing options. And there is detailed information and a wealth of tips on the construction process itself, from finding the best building site to warranties and maintenance for the finished home. Lists of suppliers, a glossary of terms, recommended readings, and a set of helpful worksheets round out this completely useful and accessible manual. About the AuthorRich Binsacca is an award-winning journalist and author of ten previous books and thousands of articles on housing and related subjects. A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, he lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife Duanea, sons Sam and Nick, and a cat. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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