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What if a house was truly better in every way?
We could fill a book describing the virtues of the Jeriko House and its powerful building system. But a few key concepts should make our case.
> The house that lives with you is a house that never grows old.
We live today in a world with but one constant; change. If one's investment in a home is to be a practical one, that home must cope with that reality. Far too many homes do not. Over the course of life, the situation of a household evolves -today more rapidly than ever. The birth of children, the needs of relatives, evolving circles of friends, marriage, new hobbies, and the rapid evolution in domestic technologies of communication, computing, entertainment, energy and so on, all these things can impact our needs in a home. The more difficult and more expensive it is for a home to accommodate those needs, the greater the threat of it becoming obsolete, turning from shelter to burden, forcing us from locations and communities we may love but must abandon for another more practical structure. With its powerful modular building system, a Jeriko House need never go obsolete. Whatever they may need or want, whatever the future may throw at them, it can accommodate it more easily, more quickly, and more economically than any other kind of home.
> Don't bet on the future, bank on it.
All too often today the home buyer finds himself being coerced by builders, realtors, and lenders alike into buying more house than he needs for fear of the changes the future may bring. Because the conventional home is so hopelessly incapable of efficient adaptation, we are led to believe that the only solution is the virtual Swiss Army Knife of a house that hedges on the bet of what tomorrow may bring by foolishly trying to anticipate everything possible. This is a costly wager that has far too many people carrying mortgages that tax their personal resources to the limit and, as recent economic shifts have demonstrated, often results in financial disaster as the housing market grows more volatile. No need for such a costly and risky wager with the Jeriko House. It has no problem with change and its owner no reason to fear the future. One can buy just as much home as one needs at any time and adapt it to one's future needs as they emerge with little effort and modest cost. Need more room for new children? Plug in more space. Job now letting you work from home? Plug in an office. Turned entrepreneur or discovered a child's artistic talent and now need a home workshop? Just add it on.
> Get the home you want.
Ever wonder why homes tend to all look alike -and most of them painfully predictable? It's because homes aren't usually designed for the people who buy them. With primitive conventional building methods, developers normally cannot make homes en-mass that can be personalized for every customer. So they try to create homes that the majority of people will at least 'settle for'. Thus they design to suit an abstract ideal of the lowest-common-denominator in public taste. To overcome this, a home buyer can have a home custom-built, but here they often run into the problem of where to start with their designs. People don't often have very specific ideas for what they want in a home. So they often resort to tinkering with the same sort of 'boilerplate' designs the developers use and hope they can find a contractor who understands what they tell him, or they hire an architect and hope they can get what they want in negotiation over the details of his master vision.
With a Jeriko House you get what you want. Our suggested designs are just a starting point and examples of what is possible. Because all that goes into a Jeriko House is based on standardized components that go together in specific ways, the final plans of a Jeriko House practically draw themselves based on your choice of basic forms and the components that flesh them out. And with its great flexibility of foundation use, you have the freedom build a Jeriko House anywhere, in most any environment you might want to live in, be it an urban lot or the edge of wilderness. With our on-line design exploration tools, you can experiment with possibilities at your leisure, see a representation of the end result, and tabulate a rough cost. And should you need help, our staff designers are ready to assist you in keeping your vision within your budget and the realities of building codes and regulations. In the future, as our catalog of basic design, components, materials, and furnishings grows, you will eventually be able to explore your dream home down to the smallest detail and order it all as easily as shopping on-line.