OMG how perfect is the duplex model for aging in place?? You can rent out the other part to your family or caregiver and have extra confidence that you'll have the help you need when you need it!!! Genius!!
Man! The concept is Awesome 💯 reminds me of what's called a cross modular. The shell is a manufactured home and the rest of it is site built. Out side of home has no personality. Like the inside! Thanks for sharing 👍
Just two minutes into this and this seems quite BRILLIANT. I like your analogy to the core of the home with a chili sold in a bread bowl. (smile) . As with all brilliant ideas, one has to wonder why someone else did not think of it before now.But glad someone DID think of it. and that you FOUND it. This should be very appealing to a lot of folks.
Interesting, to say the least. The affordability of the home is a concern because the price does not include the land or the cost of a local contractor to complete the home. Thank you for sharing this information with us.
Great stuff Kerry!! Always enjoy your weekly videos!! The expansive development in this community of pre-fabs is quite astounding!! You are in on the ground floor and I appreciate your efforts!! Greetings from Ontario, Canada!! GIDDYUP!!
I just got home from Miami, Florida yesterday. So I love hearing about this company. Especially since I got into a conversation with family about the prefab industry. I even showed them a few of your videos. 💻 Interesting concept & company. I’d go with their 3 bedroom model and their duplex ADU. That’s a lot of people being able to stay at one property. Sounds perfect for hosting holiday family reunions. 🧑🎄 Fantastic video Kerry. You’re off to a strong start to the year. 😎
Great location, great products, great shipping, but not so great price. It would be good in our location, so if they had something midsized it would be good to seriously look into it. Good job, Kerry. Thanks to listening to your viewers. I really appreciate it, as it is so rare.
amazing idea ... this would be a great alternative because most people don't really want to live in tiny homes ... you can easily find contractors to frame out the rest of the house
Thanks for a Florida option. This looks great! Let’s face it, nothing is really “affordable “ anymore but at least it’s an actual HOME not a pod at those prices!!
Yay-😂 not sure about the affordable part.... But I really like the studio duplex, or the E model. Thanks for your time and work on this company find! 🥶🖤🔔👍💓
Sure you can always build cheaper initially. But a house isn't supposed to last 5 years. Just like code is a minimum requirement not what you should really be building at. I'm blown away at how affordable this unit is considering it has massive upgrades with solar, on site Rainwater harvesting, impact glass. Subtract out all the upgrades that you get on a unit like this and you're looking at 175k ish ish. That is amazingly affordable price per square foot!!!! Way to go MesoCore ❤ and thank you Terry for keeping up with all these changes in the industry. Love your work! 🌟
Very clever. And seems high spec...if you could finish it yourself maybe it's doable. Also you need the land....Florida house prices and rentals are apparently extortionate....so maybe ?
It's because the $225k includes them setting up your home on your already prepared property. Y'all must think that owning your land, having electric, water and sewer and all the inspections are free too! Nope. Those are things you pay for BEFORE your $150k house kit arrives. Then YOU have to put it together, pay someone else to put it together OR pay this company the extra $75k to put it together and finish it for you. ... Be careful whom you call a fool, you might just be speaking of yourself.
@@gracefulkimberella - Actually, the price ($225k-$275k) is for the homes themselves & nothing else. Land & utilities/utility hookups are extra & are NOT included in the prices mentioned in the video.
@@__WJK__ that's what I said Sorta The kit price is the $150k. The 'affordable' price the other two were talking about that jumped up to 225-275... That extra $75-125k is (what I was explaining) for the actual install, set up and finishing costs.
Heh. Yeah. It’s objectively goofy. The weird thing? Feels like a bargain 2 me. Although, I live near Toronto. that would be $2+ million dollars for the 1100 sq foot one. I can’t afford THAT. I can afford this. it’s a weird situation when it’s 10x the price, due to geography and the airbnb effect. SAN Francisco must be even crazier.
Thank you for clarifying the "standard impact windows" it made no sense when you said it....hurricane windows or nothing if you reside in Florida, folks 😂
That Core concept is brilliant! Though still not as tasty as the bread bowl delivery model at Tim Horton's. Man, now I can't stop thinking about chili. What were we talking about???
The A1100 and the Model E duplex are both good designs. The Model E ADU falls victim to what as an architect I would call the construction philosophy overpowering the overall design. Because their main idea for their operations is delivering a core that will contain as much plumbing and electrical as possible, they try too hard to maximize that potential and end up putting an extra half bathroom in there, just because they can. But a 1 and a half bath doesn't make sense in such a small home. That is not to talk down the company, as I said their other two models are great and their main idea is solid. I am just a nerd when it comes to architectural design.
I very much appreciate your input given your own expertise and thank you for sharing that with us...but i personally would LOVE a second bathroom in any size dwelling so that i have my own personal one in or near my bedroom that guests do NOT use. And that does matter a whole lot to me tho most small home builders would not find it worth including. I think a lot more people would these days have a preference for one half bath and one full even in a small home (possibly more true for women) for reasons not going to get into here but are more currently even necessary or desirable for reasons that did not even exist before last few years. To have a private bath space with a full bath for the tenants but for all others...another one, for someone who may be in the home for example to just deliver something, or just do repairs, or even for a dinner guest or similar visits, and not need a full bath. That can seem decadent and yet be more valuable to consider than you might at first realize for a whole lot of health and personal privacy reasons.
@@marianl3447 That's all very understandable. It's an issue of scale and priorities I guess. Off course we would all love to have as much amenities as possible in buildings of all sizes. But it always comes at the cost of something else, so then we have to make choices. For example one could have used that space that the half bathroom occupies, for the kitchen. Have it set up as a galley kitchen, with services on both sides and a corridor in the middle, that leads to the bedroom. That's how some other ADU manufacturers have handled the design and I think it works. That would allow you to have the space that the kitchen currently takes up, to be used as part of the living room. And you would move the dining table to the spot that the living room now takes up. I'm trying to help out the company here, it's feedback they could use. Or not. It's fine. They already have two great models as I mentioned.
The units look basic and I suspect that the fixtures and fittings come from local Home depots. @4:41, I like the idea of an island on wheels that can be rolled away when not needed.
Kerry, I love you but I'm not convinced with this one. The triangular pediment over the front door is cheesy. Also, the IKEA quality materials look a bit suspicious. For me, the Lloyoll Skali is still #1.
Solar panels, rainwater harvesting, solar hot water - this should be standard in new homes if we’re ever going to put a dent in reducing global warming. The core - very logical 👍🏽 But what’s with the Trump plinth above the door? Ps. Love Timmy’s 😋
I would love to see more 3 bedroom/2 bath homes!
Ok! I can do that
Same!
More? …. more 3 bedroom plans?
Any real estate agency will offer you many three bedroom plans for 500,000 - 800,000 or more …Check them out.
@@StyleViewStudio Your price point demonstrates the reason I’m asking. As well as square footage. 🙂
I like the 2 bedroom and 2 bathroom, with storage the most!
OMG how perfect is the duplex model for aging in place?? You can rent out the other part to your family or caregiver and have extra confidence that you'll have the help you need when you need it!!! Genius!!
Good call! The duplex is awesome
Great idea shipping them the way they do and keeping the plumbing centralized. 👍
Agreed 👍
Man! The concept is Awesome 💯 reminds me of what's called a cross modular. The shell is a manufactured home and the rest of it is site built. Out side of home has no personality. Like the inside! Thanks for sharing 👍
Just two minutes into this and this seems quite BRILLIANT. I like your analogy to the core of the home with a chili sold in a bread bowl. (smile) . As with all brilliant ideas, one has to wonder why someone else did not think of it before now.But glad someone DID think of it. and that you FOUND it. This should be very appealing to a lot of folks.
Interesting, to say the least. The affordability of the home is a concern because the price does not include the land or the cost of a local contractor to complete the home. Thank you for sharing this information with us.
Great stuff Kerry!! Always enjoy your weekly videos!! The expansive development in this community of pre-fabs is quite astounding!! You are in on the ground floor and I appreciate your efforts!! Greetings from Ontario, Canada!! GIDDYUP!!
Thanks James! Glad you’re enjoying the videos
I just got home from Miami, Florida yesterday. So I love hearing about this company. Especially since I got into a conversation with family about the prefab industry. I even showed them a few of your videos. 💻
Interesting concept & company. I’d go with their 3 bedroom model and their duplex ADU. That’s a lot of people being able to stay at one property. Sounds perfect for hosting holiday family reunions. 🧑🎄
Fantastic video Kerry. You’re off to a strong start to the year. 😎
Thanks Billy! How was Florida?
@@KerryTarnow Very rainy 🌧️
Great location, great products, great shipping, but not so great price. It would be good in our location, so if they had something midsized it would be good to seriously look into it. Good job, Kerry. Thanks to listening to your viewers. I really appreciate it, as it is so rare.
amazing idea ... this would be a great alternative because most people don't really want to live in tiny homes ... you can easily find contractors to frame out the rest of the house
Glad you like it
The high quality mobile home is very beautiful and comfortable. You always share beautiful mobile home models
Thanks for watching 😃
Good idea for people who cant do the trade work. Only issue is I like a window over the kitchen sink and in in the bathroom
Thanks Kerry! The amount of content you put out is much appreciated. Wonderful company model!
Thank you 🙏🏻
Voted best channel of 2023(by me of course) kicking ass fresh off the new year definitely will win 2024 GREAT JOB AS USUAL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!! Appreciate that 👊🏻
Thanks for a Florida option. This looks great! Let’s face it, nothing is really “affordable “ anymore but at least it’s an actual HOME not a pod at those prices!!
The visual aesthetic reminds me of when my mom used to tell my brother "she has an amazing personality" when trying to fix him up with a gal:).
Yay-😂 not sure about the affordable part.... But I really like the studio duplex, or the E model. Thanks for your time and work on this company find! 🥶🖤🔔👍💓
Thanks for watching Mary Beth
Really nice floor plans with these !
Glad you like them!
Thanks Kerry - this seems like a more practical design/approach than many other adu type projects. I'm interested to see where it goes.
Thanks for watching!
The bread bowl pre-fab home you mentioned peeked my curiosity . . . especially if it came with a tank full of clam chowder as part of the deal.
Haha!
Sure you can always build cheaper initially. But a house isn't supposed to last 5 years. Just like code is a minimum requirement not what you should really be building at. I'm blown away at how affordable this unit is considering it has massive upgrades with solar, on site Rainwater harvesting, impact glass. Subtract out all the upgrades that you get on a unit like this and you're looking at 175k ish ish. That is amazingly affordable price per square foot!!!! Way to go MesoCore ❤ and thank you Terry for keeping up with all these changes in the industry. Love your work! 🌟
Cool, I live in Florida, hurricane proof is a big deal here! 👍
Yeah seems critical!
_Brilliant find kerry_
Thanks!
Thanks for this one Kerry!!!
Thanks for watching 👊🏻
Hey, you see the blizzard on most of Michigan right now? Yeah I'm smack dab in the middle of it
Yikes 🥶
Yeah, and now like 16°F outside now so I agree. Yikes
Very interesting offering.
I think so too!
Great video, great info, Kerry !
Thanks Dale 🙌🏼
I'm in, wonder how it would handle snow load? Nice sizes available.
Love your videos but the glass teranium inback of you partially off the table is killing me😅
Haha 😆
Their price is pretty amazing for the size compared to a lot of other builders. It's too bad they're only shipping in Florida it sounds like.
Thanks for watching 🙌🏼
Very clever. And seems high spec...if you could finish it yourself maybe it's doable. Also you need the land....Florida house prices and rentals are apparently extortionate....so maybe ?
They had me at affordable but then completely lost me at $225,000 =0
It's because the $225k includes them setting up your home on your already prepared property. Y'all must think that owning your land, having electric, water and sewer and all the inspections are free too! Nope. Those are things you pay for BEFORE your $150k house kit arrives. Then YOU have to put it together, pay someone else to put it together OR pay this company the extra $75k to put it together and finish it for you.
... Be careful whom you call a fool, you might just be speaking of yourself.
@@gracefulkimberella - Actually, the price ($225k-$275k) is for the homes themselves & nothing else. Land & utilities/utility hookups are extra & are NOT included in the prices mentioned in the video.
@@__WJK__ that's what I said
Sorta
The kit price is the $150k. The 'affordable' price the other two were talking about that jumped up to 225-275... That extra $75-125k is (what I was explaining) for the actual install, set up and finishing costs.
Heh. Yeah. It’s objectively goofy. The weird thing? Feels like a bargain 2 me.
Although, I live near Toronto. that would be $2+ million dollars for the 1100 sq foot one. I can’t afford THAT. I can afford this. it’s a weird situation when it’s 10x the price, due to geography and the airbnb effect. SAN Francisco must be even crazier.
@659J absolutely not. I'm saying that the person who buys this has to pay for so much more than just this.
Wait. That zen garden thing is schooching off your table 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha was wondering if anyone would notice 😂
@@KerryTarnow 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for clarifying the "standard impact windows" it made no sense when you said it....hurricane windows or nothing if you reside in Florida, folks 😂
Well, none of them are ever in Minnesota, Canada maybe. But can you imagine the cost to go through customs?
I also miss that bread bowl. 😂
💯 🍞 🥣
Nice video Lerry
Lol!
That Core concept is brilliant! Though still not as tasty as the bread bowl delivery model at Tim Horton's. Man, now I can't stop thinking about chili. What were we talking about???
Sorry I'm so late but I didn't get here until just now.
I can't leave any comments right now I just started watching. 😏
I always appreciate the comments 👊🏻
The A1100 and the Model E duplex are both good designs. The Model E ADU falls victim to what as an architect I would call the construction philosophy overpowering the overall design. Because their main idea for their operations is delivering a core that will contain as much plumbing and electrical as possible, they try too hard to maximize that potential and end up putting an extra half bathroom in there, just because they can. But a 1 and a half bath doesn't make sense in such a small home. That is not to talk down the company, as I said their other two models are great and their main idea is solid. I am just a nerd when it comes to architectural design.
I very much appreciate your input given your own expertise and thank you for sharing that with us...but i personally would LOVE a second bathroom in any size dwelling so that i have my own personal one in or near my bedroom that guests do NOT use. And that does matter a whole lot to me tho most small home builders would not find it worth including. I think a lot more people would these days have a preference for one half bath and one full even in a small home (possibly more true for women) for reasons not going to get into here but are more currently even necessary or desirable for reasons that did not even exist before last few years. To have a private bath space with a full bath for the tenants but for all others...another one, for someone who may be in the home for example to just deliver something, or just do repairs, or even for a dinner guest or similar visits, and not need a full bath. That can seem decadent and yet be more valuable to consider than you might at first realize for a whole lot of health and personal privacy reasons.
@@marianl3447 That's all very understandable. It's an issue of scale and priorities I guess. Off course we would all love to have as much amenities as possible in buildings of all sizes. But it always comes at the cost of something else, so then we have to make choices. For example one could have used that space that the half bathroom occupies, for the kitchen. Have it set up as a galley kitchen, with services on both sides and a corridor in the middle, that leads to the bedroom. That's how some other ADU manufacturers have handled the design and I think it works. That would allow you to have the space that the kitchen currently takes up, to be used as part of the living room. And you would move the dining table to the spot that the living room now takes up. I'm trying to help out the company here, it's feedback they could use. Or not. It's fine. They already have two great models as I mentioned.
a split bathroom would be the working compromise --- in the same footprint as a full bath you have a half bath and an independent shower room.
Not all bread bowls are created equal 🤣😂
Thats the truth
I live in FL so steel is the way to go for me, but I see a lot of wood. Hoping wood can be changed for something termites don’t like!
thanks for watching
There’s also a difference between “has a toiletsink“ and “has a toilet, sink and stall shower.”
Hah! There definitely is 😆
Can another room be added on later?
Is this doable full DIY? I wouldn’t, but just curious
Yeah it is
The units look basic and I suspect that the fixtures and fittings come from local Home depots. @4:41, I like the idea of an island on wheels that can be rolled away when not needed.
For sure, nice to be able to move it
Safety comes with a cost. This seems to be a fair price.
Thanks for watching 🙌🏼
Kerry, I love you but I'm not convinced with this one. The triangular pediment over the front door is cheesy. Also, the IKEA quality materials look a bit suspicious. For me, the Lloyoll Skali is still #1.
Tough to beat the Skali!
Toiletsink installed in the shower? You're really teetering on the edge there, Terry
Haha I didnt even catch it 😂
don't let that terrarium fall off the table
Haha
Not crazy about the flat roof for drainage.
Thank you for the feedback
I like it ok but that weird roof centerpiece , they can keep that😂
Solar panels, rainwater harvesting, solar hot water - this should be standard in new homes if we’re ever going to put a dent in reducing global warming. The core - very logical 👍🏽 But what’s with the Trump plinth above the door? Ps. Love Timmy’s 😋
If you get me the address I can see about getting a video of the Orlando location
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Thanks!
147k for the 1100 ft not bad
Thanks for watching
You’re doing pretty good eh
Haha!
2HRS, I WAS IN UTUBE JAIL, AGAIN!! THIS INTERESTING .. A BIT PRICY FOR A 20FT CONTAINER KITCHEN, BATH & 1/2, LAUNDRY
Haha! Again!!!?
KEEP SHOUTING LIKE THIS AND THE UTUBE POLICE WILL BE AT YOUR DOOR AGAIN😂
They need to step up their design esthetics. The pitched section above the entry door is tacky. It reminds me of mobile homes bank in the day.
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@@KerryTarnow 🙂
Don't like the flat roof.
Fair enough! Appreciate the feedback
Not really an affordable option. You can get a fully done manufactured home for less than that
Appreciate the feedback, thanks for watching
Kind of bland, otherwise a feasible home option.
So it’s stick built - you must be desperate for videos! Keep looking!
No; it's partly stick built. That's the point.
Haha
Yeahh, I mean, you can still do normal stick built homes at the same sq ft for less money. Most of these still don't make sense.