Another One Bites the Dust
According to a recent LA Times article, Green prefab architecture firm Michelle Kaufmann Designs is closing it’s doors.
“Kaufmann, who worked for Frank Gehry and Michael Graves early in her career, was a pioneer in the so-called modern prefab movement of recent years. She was also one of the first architects to make a persuasive case that prefab design, which reduces construction waste and damage to building sites, among other benefits, was in a number of ways synonymous with sustainability.”
“Kaufmann’s own efforts, she said, were undermined by the economy’s rise and its fall. During the last few years of the housing boom, as she was starting out, many factories were so busy making money with conventional prefab construction that they saw no reason to experiment with more innovative designs. As the economy has soured, many of those same factories have gone out of business entirely. And lenders, who during the boom looked for excuses to approve even the most exotic mortgages, have taken on the kind of conservatism that formerly marked prefab builders.”
Although lending on mobile homes, manufactured homes and pre fab homes has tightened up, financing is still easily available to qualified home buyers and home owners. Now more than ever, it’s important to have a trustworthy, licensed lender, with a great reputation, like CAMHF, on hand.
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