Home Improvement and Real Estate

Our retirement is often referred to as our “golden years” because it’s the time we are supposed to enjoy most in our lifetime. You work hard all your life to reach the goal of retirement so now you are expected to sit back, relax and enjoy yourself. You have many options when it comes to your living arrangements during retirement. You can stay right where you are and live in the same home, you can downsize to a home that easier to maintain or you can move into a community that is built for people just like you. When you reach the age of fifty-five you are not quite to the age of retirement but you are getting close and you are probably already making that transition in your life. A fifty-five plus community is a master planned community that is age restricted to ages fifty-five and older and are often referred to as retirement communities. However, you don’t have to be in retirement to live in one. The only requirement is that you meet the age restrictions of being fifty-five or older. Let’s take a look at some of the reasons you might want to consider a 55+ community in Florida.

Age Restriction

Let’s just be honest. Once you have already raised your children and they are out of the house and on their own, you don’t want to hear a baby crying or kids and teenagers making all kinds of noises at all times of the day and night. In a fifty-five plus community, you won’t have to worry about any of that because of the age limitations. You will be able to go to sleep in the peace and quiet and wake up to the peace and quiet. You will also be around people your own age and that are at the same stage in their life as you are. When you are around people your own age it’s easier to cultivate new friendships and relationships because you are like minded.

Low Maintenance

Sure, you probably needed a two-story, four bedroom, three baths and two car garage home with a pool while you were raising your kids but now that they are gone do you really need all that space with all that upkeep that comes with it. Your answer is probably no so that’s what makes these communities so attractive for senior citizens. Most of these communities are in apartment or condominium style complexes so that maintenance is very low. You won’t have to worry about trimming the trees, mowing the yard, taking care of the pool or cleaning a four thousand square foot home every week. That in itself will take a lot of pressure off of your daily routine.

Amenities

These communities come with tons of amenities such as pools, planned activities, on-site restaurant, twenty-four-hour security, gated entrance and twenty-four-hour staff in case of an emergency. You won’t have to worry about someone breaking into your home because you will have top-notch security …

Have you ever looked at the mobile homes in your area, though they were pretty nice, and wondered how they were put together in the first place? Because of how efficiently they are put together, and the fact that they are built in a controlled environment, they can be built and sold at a relatively quick pace and at a fairly low cost. There are a few steps that have to be done to get it put together and ready to sell, below is how the construction workers do it.

1.) Get what they need

The first thing that they need to do is get the materials that are required to build the house. They will order all of the necessary materials, usually in bulk, so that they can build multiple mobile homes at once.

2.) Put up the steel frame

After the materials are ordered and spread out correctly, the next phase will be to start constructing the steel frames which will be used to support the floor joists and everything else that goes into making the house. The steel frame is what will hold your house together and be its foundation. The floor joists are installed onto the frames so that when the floor is down it can be screwed in securely, and the frame is then given joists that will hold everything else in place as well.

3.) Lay down plywood

Once the steel frames are constructed and raised securely into place and have the joists installed onto them, the construction workers can then lay down sheets of plywood for the floors and screw them down. Once screwed in they are often glued down as well so that the floors won’t move and squeak when you walk on them.

4.) The walls start going up

The floors are laid, so the next step to build a mobile home is to put up the walls. Usually, these are put up in a separate area and then attached to the home once the floors are down. Once the walls are put in properly, the construction team can start putting in the electrical wires, the plumbing system, and the ductwork.

5.) Put on the roof!

Once all of these elements are put on and attached, the mobile home is then ready for the roof to be attached. The framework for the roof is installed first, then goes the plywood, the tar paper, and finally the shingles go on last to finish it off.

6.) Adding in the finishing touches

Once all of the frameworks are installed and put in, then the construction professionals like those at Michigan mobile home construction can start adding the finishing touches which turn it into a home. The sheetrock goes up, and then things like the kitchen and bathroom cabinets, light fixtures, windows, and outside siding can be installed.

There are usually 20 work stations or even more that each construction worker is put on to work. This makes the mobile home assembly highly organized …