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Modular Home, Not Mobile Home

Ten years ago my wife and I were looking to buy a home in Marblehead. We couldn’t find anything that we liked. At the time, my wife’s sister and her husband were building a new home in Andover. They were building a modular home. I knew very little about modular construction. To tell you the truth, I didn’t have a favorable opinion of assembly line constructed homes. My father and grandfather built traditional “stick-built” homes down on Long Island. I thought stick-built was the only way to go.

After coming up short in our search for a new home, I asked my Realtor, Heidi Magee, to investigate the vacant lots in Marblehead available for sale. Back in 1998-1999, I recall that Heidi found 10-15 lots ranging in price from $100,000 to $900,000.   Read the rest of this entry »