Witnessing a Nationwide Custom Modular Home Set

In the modular home business, a 'home set' means just that, the modular home gets "set" on its foundation. Whether that is a slab, a crawl space or full basement, the 'home set' is a big step in the process of getting that Nationwide Custom home to the point of completion.

The homes are manufactured in their Martinsville, Virginia factory. The work is done inside, where there is no snow, no rain, no wind, no heat or humidity to make work uncomfortable. That is one reason a home can come together as fast as Nationwide does it. Once the home, in modular form, is ready for the customer then the trucks rolled out of Virginia and, in this case, rolled into Bradley County Tennessee.

My husband and I made the decision months ago that we would have a Nationwide Modular Custom Home for our next residence. We met with Mark Kelly and Steve Payne of Nationwide and Chris Spors, our builder, as our initial discussion regarding what a Nationwide Home is and how the process works. You can read about that here.

A month or so after that meeting there was a follow-up meeting with Mark and Chris. We had the final floor plan at that point. We picked out most of our options so that we could get a handle on how much the basic modular home would cost.

At that point we also found out that Chris, along with Nationwide, had another customer who was a little further along in the process although they started after us. They were ready to move ahead and we were invited to watch when their panelized foundation walls went in a month ago.

The next step for those new home owners was the actual 'house set', which we were invited to this past week. Although the home we saw being set is different from ours, the process was what we were interested in.

This is much different from buying an existing home, which is the only experience we have had up until now. We have a lot of time and planning invested in our future home. We feel very in touch with our home, although it's only on the drawing board at this point in time. We are also very pleased with all the help and advice that Mark has given us. Nationwide truly works with you from beginning to end.

After watching the home set, we have a better understand of how things move along at Nationwide and that they have a process that makes sense, even to a novice. The home is very well protected during its travels from factory to the final destination. The home set we watched involved two modules. We missed the first one, but saw the second one go up and most of the roof in just a short period of time.

At this point Chris and his team of guys will be doing the finish work. It will be some time before the home is move-in ready. But it beats the time it would take to build it stick-by-stick on site.

We left there with a good feeling about what we witnessed. We can't wait until it is our turn to watch our Nationwide Custom Modular home be set on our property in Tennessee. We made the right choice and we already feel like part of the 'family' of Nationwide home owners.

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Personal knowledge and experience