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When Wendy Thompson was looking for a home large enough for her four children and her new husband's two children this spring, the choices seemed uninspiring. The existing homes in the Macomb County communities where she wanted to live, such as Chesterfield and Richmond townships, were out of her price range. So she settled on a modular home, but then did not qualify for the mortgage. But that turned out to be a good thing. Thompson and her husband, Nick Thompson, were driving around near Gratiot Avenue and 27 Mile and found the Amherst Community in New Haven. The sign out front advertised new single-family houses starting at $119,900. The Saratoga model starts as a one-bedroom bungalow with cathedral ceilings at 1,000 square feet. With options, it can grow to more than 2,100 square feet with five bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths for $141,000.
Starting with a short history of the more than 75,000 Sears Roebuck kit homes built between 1908 and 1940, this book explains the pros and cons of today's factory-built homes. Binsacca explains that there are many choices and sources for customizing these new homes. Looking at the many photos throughout the book, readers would never know most of these houses started out on a factory assembly line. This step-by-step book shows home buyers how to investigate and compare catalog designs, manufactured and modular homes, kit or lumberyard suppliers, and on-site assembly of components. There is also brief information on mortgage finance sources and options. This new book opens wide the door of affordability to prospective home buyers, especially those desiring to build in a rural or retirement area away from city or suburban housing.
Samantha Kissel reacts to the temperature of the water after stepping out of her disabled truck Saturday in front of a house on Taylor Avenue on the Southeast Side. Many Evansville streets flooded once again as heavy rains that began Friday continued into the weekend. So far this has been the second-rainiest September on record. .
STAMFORD -- Dividing its classes among a church, city offices and a community center was not what directors of the city's alternative school had in mind when they set out to bring cohesion to the program.
But at this point, they are just hoping to keep the current arrangement in place through the end of the school year.
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FREMONT, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 26, 2006 -- @Road, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARDI), a global provider of next-generation solutions for Mobile Resource Management (MRM), today announced its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2006. Total revenues for the third quarter of 2006 were $25.2 million, an 8% sequential growth compared to $23.2 million for the second quarter of 2006. Hosted revenues for the third quarter of 2006 were $21.2 million, and licensed revenues for the third quarter of 2006 were $4.0 million. Net loss attributable to common stockholders for the third quarter of 2006 was $3.6 million, or $0.06 per diluted share. For the nine months ended September 30, 2006, total revenues were $73.1 million, an 11% increase compared to $65.6 million for the same period in 2005.
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