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Default Re: Caravans, timber houses, temporary homes

How about a relocatable house ? ?You can select what you like and they'll transport it to your section. ?If you would prefer to go ahead and still build your own you could live in a small relocatable until your house was finished and then sell it on to recoup your money. ?Alternatively, if you find a good, sturdy relocatable that you'd be happy to live in permanently, you could move into it pretty quickly without having to wait for a house to be built. ?You'd just need a concrete slab to drop it onto. ?I believe you can also add on to them if you wanted to extend it.

Relocatable houses are quite 'big' in NZ although I doubt whether you'd get permission to install one on a section in an upper class or modern suburb or in an area where it wouldn't necessarily 'fit in' as they are older, wooden houses. ?I think you'd have to get council permission before thinking of buying one, just to make sure, in the same way that you'd have to apply for planning permission before having your house built.

Housemovers might be nearer for you.
Bay of Plenty House Removals .

Don?t know if http://www.yellowpages.co.nz/Pages/Search/Results/0,2878,a6001_c401_d0_l3963_m0,00.html?businessName =&category=Building+Removals&keyword=&pageNum=1&st reet=] Independent Removal Contractors [/url] sell relocatables but might be worth investigating as they have a place in Whakatane. No website, unfortunately.
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