otishale

We are living in perilous times and anyone who is doing new work at all should probably consider themselves lucky. I would hope that good builders will be the ones to remain viable. Energy efficiency and good design are prime considerations in this era, because for most of us, money has to stretch much further. The spec building of cheaply built and poorly executed tract homes is finished. I would expect to see a lot more manufactured housing being offered for sale in the medium and low end market as is done in Europe simply because of the economy of scale and control over the building process. All it will take is good product and good marketing, and this is already in existence. There are lots and lots of bad builders out there who have imploded, and who will never be back because in the end, reputation is everything. When lending institutions find it less expensive to bulldoze unsold sub-divisions than it is to keep them for sale, it is easy to see even more radical changes to come. As builders, our world has changed forever. Those who cannot adapt to that world will become extinct, and rightly so.

Very nice, indeed