In Florida, is a site built house or a PreFab house a more viable financial decision? I like the construction of the prefab houses and I am not familiar with an on-site builder that replicate or help to create something like that, but having never built a home, I am not sure which is a better option. Thanks..

I think that as the costs of construction materials and labor continue to escalate, prefab will become more and more a viable option. Site labor is affected by site conditions. If it is raining, extra cold, or windy, productivity goes down. If you look at a 2000 sq. ft. home after the foundation is completed, you start the steps, framing, sheathing, electrical, plumbing, drywall, etc. With a product as simple as SIP’s, you stand you walls, set the trusses, sheath the roof and start drying the place in. You can knock as much as 2 weeks off of the framing, but remember, with SIP’s, the walls are sheathed and insulated with some coming with drywall installed. I am just guessing, but now the time savings should be around 1 to 1.5 months. Apples to apples cost comparisons should yield to prefab.
……Just my $.02 worth.

Thank you, I appreciate your opinion. I recently found a home off of A1A in the town of Indiatlantic. It is beach side and only four homes in from A1A and therefore only 4 homes from the ocean. I think that I could get the guy to sell me the home for a very reasonable price considering its location. I will post some pictures on here as soon as I know a little more, but I think it has a lot of potential to become a very workable modernist home. So, perhaps the building prefab issue, will no longer be...Thank you so much