In one, a modular home with a long wooden front deck, 60-year-old McRaecRae, a retired worker at the county senior center in Chillicothe, sits and quietly smokes with a friend, Berl Sullivan, 57.
They had a tidy, double-wide modular home with flowered wallpaper, family pictures on every surface, a vase of cut roses on a sideboard, and an absurdly friendly hound in the yard.
Choose a builder who has experience with modular homes.
Still, the $750 a month for the mortgage on her small modular home, along with some other bills, was not insignificant, even for a couple with means, forcing them to set aside other priorities.
Of the 450 Poospatuck tribe members, 275 live on the reservation, a network of narrow streets with small houses, tidy modular homes and ramshackle trailers.
After consulting with Joe Enright, the general manager of Westchester Modular Homes of Fairfield County in Bethel, Conn., the couple decided to visit the manufacturer in Wingdale, N.Y.
Modular homes today, though, can range from simple Cape Cods to two-story colonials with porches and decks to large contemporaries that would rival in quality and appearance elaborately designed stick-built houses.
"You may have the best manufacturer in the world, but if the builder is a dog, you're going to end up with problems," said John Colucci, the vice president of sales for Westchester Modular Homes, manufacturers of modular housing in Wingdale, N.Y.
Mike's business makes modular homes.
