Did you know it is less expensive and time-efficient to build a 2-story home than a ranch-style home with the same SQ/FT?    Building homes with verticality vs. a wide low profile and larger, more elongated footprints, minimize the need for...

• Jessica
• Thursday March 4, 2021

If you’ve been considering a prefab home for your dream home in the Colorado mountains, you may have some unanswered questions. Here at SmartPads, we want to educate and inform the community of the benefits of building a modular home...

• SEO Manager
• Monday January 25, 2021

SmartPads recently completed a brand new, “custom modular” home in Steamboat Springs, CO in just 3 months from the first shovel to move in by the new owners. Considering most custom homes take at least 12+ months, this achievement underscores...

• SEO Manager
• Friday January 1, 2021

At SmartPads, we are all about letting you customize both the inside and outside of your home to cater to your personal design preferences and living goals. For the inside, customization is available for all of the finishes including, cabinets...

• SEO Manager
• Tuesday August 4, 2020

Did you know that you can completely custom design both the outside and the inside of your SmartPads home, choosing finishes for the siding, flooring, cabinets, and more? In this blog, we outline what can be customized on the outside...

• SEO Manager
• Tuesday August 4, 2020

SmartPads provides the Colorado marketplace with luxury prefab homes and developments at a fixed-price. We create mountain-modern building solutions that are stylish, efficient, affordable and excellent for mountain living. We deliver the homes in shorter build times than what it...

• SEO Manager
• Friday July 17, 2020

SmartPads builds custom modular homes (also known as manufactured homes) at a fixed price. Pure and simple, having a fixed price you can bank on is the prefab advantage you get with SmartPads.  As modular home manufacturers, we provide the...

• SEO Manager
• Friday July 17, 2020

When working with SmartPads in Colorado, we take care of building the physical home for you, however, a local General Contractor (GC) is required to complete the onsite portion of the build. The General Contractor is responsible for the oversight...

• Jessica
• Tuesday March 31, 2020

This is a frequent question we receive here at SmartPads. Choosing the right lot can be a tricky process when looking for the ideal site for your SmartPads home. We have three simple tips we’d like to share to help make this process as...

• Jessica
• Monday February 10, 2020

As far as banks, lenders, and appraisers are concerned, financing your SmartPads prefab home is the same as any site-built home. Firstly, you’ll obtain a construction loan, which will require you to “put down” approximately 20% of the total estimated construction costs which includes the SmartPads home in addition to all other on-site work and permits required to complete the build. Then once approved you...

• Jessica
• Friday January 3, 2020