A Pop Up Home can be an affordable instant source of extra income; a clever downsizing option; comfortable accommodation for adult children or elderly parents; or a convenient home office, while increasing the total value of your property.
Adding a Pop Up Home investment not only increases the value of a property but also provides positive rental returns. Retirees are now opting to downsize into a Pop Up Home leaving their larger home to rent out or for their children to live in.
A Pop Up Home is an ideal solution for young singles to have their own space while allowing them to save to buy their own home. It has all the workspace they need with the convenience and cost savings of being just meters from home.
The Keppel 37 SQM 1 Bedroom
The team from Pop Up Homes, will sit down with you and discuss your requirements and help design your floor plan and achieve your goals.
Pop Up Homes will also help with your council approvals and certification as part of an affordable service that Pop Up Homes provide to customers.
All Pop Up Homes include:
Double glazed aluminium windows with flyscreens
Double Glazed aluminium casement door with glass panel
Quality PVC floor covering throughout
Lights, power points, power board and safety switch
Plumbing and Sanitary fittings
Photoelectric hard wired smoke detectors as per Australian Standards
All Pop Up Homes Kitchens include:
Gloss cabinets and drawers
Polished stone Benchtops
Double stainless steel sink & flick mixer
All Pop Up Homes Bathrooms include:
900 x 900 Shower cubicle
Toilet suite
Vanity cabinet with basin and flick mixer
Mirrored shaving cabinet
Towel rails
For more information on Pop Up Homes, please call for more information on:1300 121 556
Would you like to know more about council regulations?
ANZAC day is fast approaching. On the 25 of April is one of Australia’s most important national occasions.
For the first time in Australia’s history, due to the COVID-19 restrictions our communities will not be able to pay our respects to the ANZAC spirit in public.
However, this does not mean we can’t show our respects in the safety of our homes.
The team at Pop Up Homes will be doing a “light up the dawn on ANZAC day”.
You can too; simply stand at the end of your driveway, balcony or living room at 6 am on Saturday the 25th of April and play a digital recording of the dawn service.
Recently, Pop Up Homes has received a few emails from the public requesting our opinion in relation to a building project they are undertaking. In most cases, they have bought pre-fabricated houses from companies that claim are similar to a Pop Up Home but in actual fact, entirely different. Consequently, now have been left with homes that are unhabitable, non-certifiable and non-compliant with the Australian/New Zealand building standards.
If your house is non-compliant to Australian/New Zealand standards and can’t provide engineering and certification, your prefabricated home will be deemed unliveable, and the council will ask you to remove the dwelling at your cost. By this time, you will have already invested significant funds that in most cases, won’t be recoverable.
The purpose of this article is to inform readers about the seriousness of asking questions before buying and building a home. These simple “must ask” questions apply to many aspects of the building industry whether you are buying prefabricated buildings, modular buildings, conventional building and granny flats. Ensure you ask these questions before you commit to purchasing, they are designed to provide you, the buyer, with peace-of-mind.
Ask these questions when enquiring on Buying or building a pre-fabricated building
Is this a class 1A dwelling?
Have you had any issues getting the home certified?
Can they be certified in QLD?
Do you have any customer testimonials I can read?
Does your prefabricated and modular home come with a form 15 engineers design certificate? this is required for council approval and reassures you that it is structurally sound.
Does your plumbing for waste and sewerage conform to Australian standards and does your plumber use DWV pipe?
Does your prefabricated and modular home come with hard-wired smoke detectors? can you supply form 16 for this? this will be required for certification.
Do your prefabricated and modular homes come with Australian certified windows, do they also come with a form 15 and form 16 for design and installation?
Do you have a prefabricated or modular display home that we can view?
Can we view your certification for your display home?
Are the ceilings in the prefabricated home or modular home at least 2400mm high? They need to be, for it to be a habitable building in Australia.
Have you been informed, that there is no requirement for a laundry to be installed for a granny flat?
Does your prefabricated or modular home come with a warranty? Can I see a copy of your warranty?
Is your certification cost inclusive to the quote?
Does your prefabricated or modular home require stumps or foundation?
Does your prefabricated or modular home stumps/foundation come with form 15-16 design and installation certificates?
established Pop Up home to lock up stage
The Keppel 1 bedroom
Always be wary
Always be wary when purchasing a pre-fabricated building, modular home or granny flat, make sure what you plan on purchasing is exactly what was advertised from the builder.
Asking these easy set of questions will alleviate stress, uncertainty and doubt from your mind. It will ensure that what you’re buying is exactly what you have seen as advertised.
As I have always said to myself “if it’s too good to be true, then it isn’t”
The team at Pop Up Homes is very experienced when it comes to the build process and requirements. Not only can we answer all questions as mentioned above, but we can also provide evidence of certification, testimonials, video reviews from customers as well as warranty and forms 15, 16 and 21. We also have a display home right here in Hervey Bay, Urangan to come and have a look though.
Pop Up Homes exists to provide excellent customer service, an affordable housing solution and the very best experience possible. Pop Up Homes will assist you in every way we can to save you cost without sacrificing quality.
Please watch this TV interview with Shan, our Managing Director of Pop Up Homes and Channel 7 news for more information about being careful when purchasing prefabricated and modular buildings.
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If you would like to know more about our homes, please don’t hesitate to contact us through our web page www.popuphomes.com.au or alternatively, you can call our toll free number on 1300 121 556.
Would you like to look at customers reviews or to see what our Pop Up Homes are all about? you can check our Facebook page for more information, or you can Google search “Pop Up Homes”
Pop Up Homes are not just for caravan parks. They are a great alternative as a home or a Granny Flat. When thinking of a Pop Up Home in Queensland people often think of something that they have seen in a caravan park or over 50’s village. The savvy investor will often purchase a Pop Up Home and use it for investment purposes by putting it on an existing home block as a granny flat. This is a fast and efficient way of increasing your portfolio without having all the additional expenses of purchasing additional blocks of land, the smart investor uses what they already own to duplicate income changing the ROI (return on investment) from 5% to 10% or more instantly.
THE BENEFIT OF A POP UP HOME
The benefit of a Pop Up Home for Queenslanders is that they can be considered a permanent home/granny flat or an investment opportunity. They come in 2 sizes 37 SQM and 58 SQM and Pop Up Homes have 3 styles The Keppel, The Fraser and The Moreton. As part of our Pop Up Home package, they come complete with electrical, plumbing, flooring, kitchens and bathrooms. Pop Up Homes come with a footing system that requires no digging hence leaving your yard intact. They are built off-site and the installation takes no more than a week.
THE ADVANTAGES OF A POP UP HOME
The advantage to this is that you do not need to have the existing home vacant while the build process takes place as there is no disturbance to your existing tenants. A team of installers come in to install the stump’s, put the home on the stumps, fit the home off and are gone in anywhere from 2 – 7 days leaving no mess and no disturbance to neighbours or existing tenants.
Purchasing a Pop Up Home is easy, has a great return on investment, enables you to rent out your existing property while the build process takes place, leaves you with no mess, is affordable and perfect for the savvy investor.
BUYING A KIT HOME
Looking at buying an affordable kit home in Queensland? There are plenty of options available and it does depend on your budget and needs.
There are a few things to consider with a kit home the cheapest option is often for you to install that kit yourself. This is not for the faint-hearted.
1. You must have an owner builders’ licence to do this.
2. There are a lot of additional costs that you must not forget about as kit homes often come with all materials to lock up stage only.
3. Have you ever bought a flat pack from Bunnings and you are missing bits and pieces, think about all the components required for a home and the possible delays in acquiring the additional pieces required to complete the home?
THE BOTTOM LINE
The bottom line is that if you do not have a great understanding of the building code and are not a qualified builder then you are likely to run into some serious and costly delays. My suggestion is to weigh up all your options and get a price from a few builders to install the kit home to completion including electrical, footings, plumbing and council approvals. This is best done before purchasing a kit home so that you can weigh up all your costs. Also, look at the contract and ensure that the warranty on the home still covers you if you build the home yourself.
When looking at both kit homes and prefabricated home for sale in Queensland it’s important to do your homework and weigh up your options based on your building ability and individual circumstances. Both options are great if you are on a budget or are looking to get a great return on investment.
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