Modular home recommendations

[Ramon Cuevas]

Hello BP community,

I have a lot under contract in Round Rock TX with a mobile home that needs extensive repairs. The new zoning would not allow me to replace the mobile home with a newer unit. My only options are to rehab what's there or tear down and build a new SFR. The margins are very small to put up a stick home at the current prices for new construction. Another option that I am trying to explore is the possibility of getting a modular home to replace what's currently there and sell retail.

Any thoughts or ideas?

[Nick Coonis]

@Ramon Cuevas yeah I'm not sure why either. I think a lot of people associate them with manufactured/mobile homes so there's a bit of a stigma with them. If your ever interested, go to the modular home sales office in your area. My county building department had no idea how to deal with the modular home either, but my sales office give me some info from the state that I gave to the county which helped. 

The thing is, the modular homes come with plans that are already stamped and approved by the state which supersedes local jurisdiction, so you get to skip plan check for the building department (for the house, they still plan check the foundation.) Also, the house gets inspected in the factory while it's being built by state inspectors, so the local county loses out on plan check fees and inspection charges. 

If no one is doing them in your area, sounds like a niche that you can exploit to me. That's what I'm trying to do in my area as well.