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Prefab Rebranded?

When Amazon changes the name of a product and puts it out there, it has a better chance of being embraced by the market. This seems to be true with the tiny home priced at an attractive $47K.

$46999

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The 30-foot-deep house has a floor plan that’s anything but tiny, despite its name. It’s made with high-quality materials like steel that, according to the brand, will stand up against harsh weather conditions. It has two stories that you can access via a staircase, and it comes prewired with electricity and plumbing, making it live-in-ready upon installation.  The sleek walls are also insulated, so you’ll stay cozy and cool all year long, and they’re soundproof, providing privacy between rooms. 

On the first floor, there’s a bedroom with a full-size bathroom: It has a toilet, sink with storage, and a private shower area. The kitchen has built-in cabinets while the open-concept living room has ample space for a couch, a coffee table, and a dining room table. The second floor houses the main bedroom, an en suite bathroom, and sliding glass doors that lead out to a charming deck with space for chairs, a fire pit, or a patio heater. 

Trailer homes and prefab homes have been on the market for decades. The difference lies in their setting. Despite their name, the former is traditionally stationary in a trailer park. Rent is paid to a landlord who maintains the grounds and hook-up services. Prefab homes are built in a factory and shipped in pieces to the purchaser.

So far, the prefab homes are not common in the Minnesota market. Perhaps Amazon will change all that.

Whitney’s Voice is like no other.

O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, shall leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation,
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust;”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.