NR Building Solutions

Program

Infill — vacant lot to occupancy-ready

Transport, lot prep, set, utilities, skirting and make-ready run as one job with one schedule — because the industry's months go into the gaps between vendors, not into the work.

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Where the industry's four to six months actually go

Infill in this industry commonly runs four to six months per lot at fifteen to thirty thousand dollars and up. Ask an operator where the time went and almost nobody can produce a breakdown.

It is not the construction. The physical work across the whole sequence — lot prep, set, utilities, skirting, make-ready — is a matter of days plus curing and inspection.

It is the handoffs. In the standard model that sequence is five separate vendors with five independent schedules, and no single party accountable for the date the lot starts earning. The transporter is waiting on the pad. The setter is waiting on the transporter. The utility contractor is waiting on the set. The skirting crew is waiting on the utilities. The make-ready crew is waiting on all of it. Every one of them is individually reasonable, and the gaps between them are where the months live.

What we change

  1. One scope, one schedule

    Lot prep through make-ready is a single scope with a single critical path, so there is no queue between trades that belong to different companies.

  2. Permitting and utilities start at scope approval

    Not at delivery. These are queue items outside anyone's control, and starting them early costs nothing. On most stalled programmes, this is where the time went.

  3. Access walked before scheduling

    The delivery path inside the community, not the road to it. A transport that arrives and cannot place the home is the single most expensive hour in the programme.

  4. Electrical sizing checked at scoping

    A lot that held a small single-wide may carry a service that will not support the incoming home. Finding that at connection is a utility-company timeline, not a contractor one.

  5. One accountable date

    One party answers for occupancy-ready. Not for delivery, not for set — for the lot earning.

We are not claiming faster crews. We are claiming there is no dead time between them, and on a four-to-six-month baseline that is where essentially all of the available improvement is.

Licensing, stated plainly

Installer licensing for manufactured homes is administered by HUD in some states and by the state itself in others, and it is not portable between states. [U.S. Government Publishing Office, current eCFR]

The consequence: the set of states where we can legally perform set and installation work is narrower than the set where we can perform renovation work. Interior and exterior renovation does not engage installer licensing; setting a home does.

We say this because it is the fact a careful operator would use to test a national contractor's claims, and because a contractor who does not volunteer it either has not read the rule or is hoping you have not.

Each state page states the licensing agency and our position for that state.

Programme economics

A single lot is a project. Ten lots is a programme, and the difference is not linear.

Crews stay mobilized rather than demobilizing and returning for each lot. Permitting runs in parallel. Utility scheduling batches. Material orders consolidate. A ten-lot programme is priced as one programme, on one mobilization and one schedule, which is why infill work belongs in a park-wide quote rather than in a bid per lot.

The individual scopes underneath are at home set and install, lot prep and site work and utility connections.

Common questions

In the industry generally, four to six months per lot is a commonly cited range, at fifteen to thirty thousand dollars and up. Almost none of that elapsed time is construction. It is the queue between five vendors who each schedule independently, plus permitting and utility appointments that nobody started early.

We remove the handoffs. One scope, one schedule, one party accountable for the date the lot starts earning, and utility scheduling and permitting started at scope approval rather than at delivery. We are not claiming faster crews — we are claiming there is no dead time between the crews.

No, and we would rather say so. Installer licensing is administered by HUD in some states and by the state in others, and it is not portable across state lines. The set of states where we can perform set and installation work is narrower than where we can perform renovation work. Our state pages state the position for each state.

We do not sell homes. Operators source homes through their own channels and through dealers, and we handle everything from the lot forward. Where an operator wants help evaluating whether a specific home suits a specific lot, that is part of the scoping conversation.

Yes. Crews stay mobilized instead of demobilizing and returning, permitting runs in parallel rather than in series, and utility scheduling can be batched. The written estimate prices the lots together, on one mobilization and one schedule.

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