You want the absolute best for your family when buying a home. You desire only name-brand home appliances. You want Andersen windows, wood flooring with area rugs that match the furniture. Panelized home construction offers more comfort for your family. By using builder's discounts, today's manufactured homes allow you to get more comfort, and it doesn't come out of your pocket.
Any builder can supply you with the appliances and upgrades you want, but not all builders have the buying power needed to get you real savings. In other words, your local builder can run down to Lowes and purchase the GE refrigerator you need, but can he get a better price than you?
Most builders get a ten percent contractors discount. And they will pass these savings on to you (to defray costs elsewhere).
Imagine if you could get an even larger discount, after all, you are buying a whole house full of new appliances!
Here is a hidden benefit of buying a home whose major components, from floor to roof and everything in between, come together on a factory floor. The panelized home construction factory can use it's buying power to attain a higher discount than that available to other builders.
The roof sheathing, the refrigerator, and the flooring system, are bought at the same time as the materials for a lot of other homes, from the supplier offering the greatest discount. The factory can then offer the discount to the panelization builders working within the manufactured home dealers network.
This is an incredible amount of buying power. The panelized home construction factory leverages their buying power even further by dealing directly with wholesalers rather than retailers like Lowes and HomeDepot.
The ten percent discount the local builder is offering doesn't look so good anymore.
You, the panelized home buyer, realize your savings when buying a home in the overall lower cost per square foot offered by panelized home construction. Our panelized home dealer had a significantly lower cost per square foot than all the local builders we got quotes from, but they only build homes in the Northeast. You will need to inquire with your builder about what the cost per square foot is available to you.
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Re: Permanent Wood Foundations - Hi, New Guy here and I have experience in wood foundations. I have one and my neighbor also built one a year later. I used special order pressure treated... [more]
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:24:15 GMT
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Re: Permanent Wood Foundations - I thought I had approved your post to me but for some reason it did not come through. But in it you clearly proved that you had no self-interest except as a... [more]
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Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:02:10 GMT
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Re: Permanent Wood Foundations - Gene, To be clear, I have NO business relationship with anyone in 'the business' of PWFs (or anything else for that matter). I am very much an amateur builder... [more]
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Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:55:12 GMT
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Re: Permanent Wood Foundations - Warren, I hope you were able to read my reply to Gene. I have been 'researching' this building methodology for many years, not just since I posted my first... [more]
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Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:53:53 GMT
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Re: Permanent Wood Foundations - Hi Gene, It does seem we have been duped. Maybe Terry researched it after posting the question. But it is nice we got some good responses on the subject of... [more]
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Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:48:53 GMT
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Re: Permanent Wood Foundations - Hi Loran, Thanks for commenting on PWF. It seems you have much experience with it. Loran I never said I'm a structural engineer. I quote "I do structural... [more]
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Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:36:52 GMT
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Permanent Wood Foundations - Posted by: "tosii2" terryovt@... ... Hi Terry; There are over 300,000 wood foundation houses, just in the US. Personally, I have designed about a... [more]
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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:39:40 GMT
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Re: Permanent Wood Foundations - Terry, Thank you for your input and well constructed reply. I must ask are you in the business and have a reason to promote PWF? The reason I am asking is... [more]
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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:34:24 GMT
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Re: Dear Owner Builder Group - Lets move off Yahoo and start a real - OK - if you go forward, I will join. Again thank you for your efforts. Gene... [more]
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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:23:13 GMT
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Re: Permanent Wood Foundations - Warren, I don't know what you are thinking of they do for mobile homes, so I can't comment on that relative to PWFs. Can you tell me what you feel is a "BIG... [more]
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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:20:49 GMT
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Re: Dear Owner Builder Group - Lets move off Yahoo and start a real - Hi Gene, First thank you, thank you for your kind words. I'm so happy I could help. You have stuck by this group in its peak and low times. You have proven... [more]
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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:06:15 GMT
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Re: Permanent Wood Foundations - Hi Terry, I never heard of PWF either, but what you are describing sounds a lot like what they do for mobile homes. To me this is a BIG NO NO; I do not like it... [more]
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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 04:44:20 GMT
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Re: Permanent Wood Foundations - I have not used a PWF foundation but, to my knowledge, if designed and with the proper materials, those foundations are as good or even better than block or... [more]
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Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:10:17 GMT
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Permanent Wood Foundations - Hi, Has anyone else used a Permanent Wood Foundation (PWF)? As someone who is really a 'I'd rather do it myself' person, this foundation method really appeals... [more]
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Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:58:52 GMT
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Re: Resend: Owner/Builder the way to go? - Sorry, I thought you were Waren the owner of this group. I am not certain what you want to accomplish but you can hire sub contractors who are individually... [more]
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Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:58:32 GMT
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