{"id":557,"date":"2007-04-27T05:25:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T09:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/before_you_buy_"},"modified":"2007-04-27T05:25:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T09:25:58","slug":"before_you_buy_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Before you buy your modular home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=529,height=392,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/27\/h2storyepoch_2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"250\" height=\"185\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/images\/2007\/04\/27\/h2storyepoch_2.jpg\" title=\"H2storyepoch_2\" alt=\"H2storyepoch_2\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n You might want to read Andrew Gianino&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modularhomebook.com\/index.html\">The Modular Home<\/a>. At $19.95 it should be one of the first things you should buy when considering building a new home.<\/p>\n<p>I wish we has known about this book when we were buying our modular home because it provides the answers to so many questions we had. I feel we made the right decisions, but we had to find things out the hard way.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to know I have not read the book. I am recommending that you buy it just from reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modularhomebook.com\/chapters.html\">chapter summaries!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/27\/balconyepoch.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=400,height=478,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100\" height=\"119\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Balconyepoch\" title=\"Balconyepoch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/images\/2007\/04\/27\/balconyepoch.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>Every one of the chapter summaries has data that I <em>still<\/em> have not learned even though we&nbsp; built a modular home and I wrote articles about the entire process in this weblog.<\/p>\n<p> This book came out six months before we ordered our modular home, but I just discovered it today through a Google ad on the side of a web page. If you are new to modular homes, the illustrations alone will blow you away. <\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=540,height=398,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/27\/tcapemanorwood.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.making-ripples.com\/images\/2007\/04\/27\/tcapemanorwood.jpg\" title=\"Tcapemanorwood\" alt=\"Tcapemanorwood\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 10px; float: right; width: 203px; height: 149px;\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a great read for a rainy day while you are planning your future home. <\/p>\n<p>To get yourself in the mood, read this brief summary of Chapter 1 &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.modularhomebook.com\/book\/chapter01.html\">Why Build Modular<\/a>?&quot; in The Modular Home, by Andrew Gianino, President of The Home Store. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might want to read Andrew Gianino&#8217;s book, The Modular Home. At $19.95 it should be one of the first things you should buy when considering building a new home. 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