MHP Ordering from Modular Home Place

Ordering a Modular Home

Ten Steps to Ordering a Modular Home

Step 1: Land and Financing

Land and money is key to ordering a modular home. Without land and financing the thought of building is just an idea. Your land and financing will influence the size, style and options of your modular home. A suitable building lot and financing is the first step to ordering from Modular Home Place.

Step 2 : Complete a Modular Home Place Buyer / Builder Registration

By being a registered buyer/Builder you will be able to get full quotes on your home, preliminary drawings completed and modifications made to the floor plans you have chosen to get a sales quote. Builder / Buyer Registration Form

Step 3: Pick Out a Modular Home Floor Plan

Modular Home Place’s large selection of standard modular home floor plans is a great place to start the selection process. All of our modular plans can be modified. Modular Home Place would be happy to custom design your home with you if you have a plan idea of your own.

Modular Home Place Floor Plans include: Ranches, Two Stories, Cape Cods, T-Ranches, Split Levels, Colonials, farm house, Modernist and Core House Cottages.

Modular Home Place will do a proposed black line floor plan. The black line drawing will be used to generate your sales quote.

Step 3: Modular Home Sales Proposal

Forward your floor plan and your wish list to Modular Home Place for a no obligation proposal. Modular Home Place will price your house the specs you choose. specifications. MHP will then forward the sales Proposal to you to review. If the price is acceptable we will review your wish lists and prioritize your options and add them to the sales quote. Note some options will be best to have completed on site.

Step 4: Tour the Factory

We highly recommend our modular home factory tour. The tour will show you how your prefab is built better in a controlled environment. More importantly you will see how finished your home will arrive at your building lot and the tasks you will need to have completed. Not visiting the factory is a mistake not to be made.

Step 5: Preliminary Drawings and Sample Kit

After the factory and understanding your responsibilities as your own builder, your house will now need to drawn by our manufacture’s engineering department. Depending on the complexity of the home the engineering fee starts at $2500.00. Complete Modular Home Places” Engineering Request Form” and send a the appropriate engineering fees to Modular Home Place. Engineering will now draw preliminary drawings: floor plans and front elevations. Preliminary drawing usually take two weeks for completion.

You will also receive our sample kit after the factory tour. The sample kit will allow you to make additional color and option selections.

Step 6: Preliminary Engineering and Revisions

Review your preliminary drawings and mark up any changes on the plan and Modular Home Place’s “Engineering Revision Request” Form. Number all of the changes on the floor plan to correspond with the items on the form. Return your request to Modular Home Place. Your revisions will be back in your possession normally within two weeks. Three revisions are included in the engineering fees. This step will be repeated

Step 6 will repeat itself until you are happy with your plans.

Step 7. Final Drawings

After signing off on your preliminary drawings - satisfactory floor plan and you have chosen your colors and options your house will now be drawn and forwarded to our Order Processing department. The sales quote will now become a final quote and your drawings will be turned into finals drawings as well. Your final drawings include: floor plans, elevations, electrical proposed foundation plan for your local engineer.

Step 8. Final Drawing and Sales Final

Review your final drawings and final pricing (Your price is good for 45 days). If everything is satisfactory, you will complete Modular Home Place’s Permit Set Request and return it to Modular Home Place. Your building permit sets should arrive in around three weeks.

Set Up 8.5 Order the Engineering and Foundation

While Engineering is preparing your permit sets, you will need to arrange excavation, foundation engineering and foundation installation.

Step 9 Pulling Building Permits.

After receiving your building permits take them to your local building department to receive your building permits.

Step 10 Order Your Modular Home

Once your foundation is scheduled for installation and your permit sets and other requirements are in place you will need to sign off on the permit sets and complete our Modular Home Place’s “Terms and Conditions of Sale” (our sales contract), Builder Acknowledgement, Modular Home Final Pricing and Options, Site Directions and Production Release forms.

Your Modular Home is Now Ordered and Will Be Delivered to Your Site in Around Four Weeks

Ordering Your

Modular House

1. Floor plans

2. Sales Quote

3. Engineering ($2,500)

4. Revisions and Options

5. Sign Offs (drawings and contracts)

6. Production Deposit (15%)

7. Delivery of Home (Balance)

8. Set

9. Button up and Completion