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Same here, there are pre-built houses but they are ugly. It is even forbidden in some neighborhoods to put a pre-built houses.

I guess this is just because there is no company doing it properly and maybe no market for it.

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There's no reason the factory cannot build walls for custom houses. The jigs and all will be computer controlled, anyway. Nor does that imply cheaply built or poor materials.

It's got to be an industry ripe for disruption.

Exactly. They already do custom roof trusses in factories along with standard sizes.

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