How Much Does That House Cost?

Modular Home by Schiavi Homes

Modular Home by Schiavi Homes

If you walk into Schiavi Home Builders and ask “How much for that house?”, you are apt to be asked, “How much would you like to pay for that house?”  While this annoys some folks who are used to shopping for a modular home much the same way they shop for a used vehicle, it opens the eyes of the serious home builders.  When I go online and search for modular home pricing I find terms like “Lite”, “Affordable” and “Majestic.”  Another site had “Bottom Range”, “Normal Range” and “Top Range” pricing.  Yet another listed “Ballpark Price”, “Sales Proposal” and “Final Approved” price.  How these terms in anyway help me figure out if I am getting a good value for my purchase I have yet to understand.  One website even had a disclaimer that prices, specifications and materials may change at anytime…well that’s helpful.

The bottom line is that when you are considering purchasing a modular home, you are building a custom design home for yourself and the pricing should be specific to include the items that are important to you.  What you want in a 2 bedroom, 2 bath ranch will not be what your neighbor wants in the same home.  You might want top of the line cherry cabinets, speciality hard wood floors and granite countertops, while your neighbor would be satisfied with basic maple cabinets, standard linoleum and formica countertops.  I can assure you the price of those two homes will be significantly different.  So when we ask you, “How much do you want to pay for that home?”, in effect we are saying, “we’re listening to you and what is important to you.”  Once you communicate to us what you desire in your own new home, we can begin to talk about price.  We can educate you on specifications and what is standard or not, what is included in the base price and what is not, what your general contracting quotes cover and what they don’t.  The folks that find it annoying when we ask, “How much do you want to pay for the home?” aren’t really interested in a home, they’re really car shopping – they just don’t know it yet.


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