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Following the launch of its prefabricated modular home in May last year, DM Equipment Limited has only sold two of the units so far – one each in Lucea, Hanover and May Pen, Clarendon.
However, the company remains optimistic that Jamaicans will take up the units in the near future once they get over the idea of modular homes as a novelty.
“People are sceptical about new things. We are still trying to convince people that it’s a house that can be for them,” Joshelle Campbell, project manager at DM Equipment told the Financial Gleaner.
DM Equipment, a subsidiary of Zoukie Trucking, partnered with Smart Haves Distributors Limited, to sell and assemble the units in Jamaica.
The 420 square-foot, two-bedroom home space costs $6.5 million, before the installation of utilities such as water, electricity and sewage, as well as transportation, and can be assembled in two days, the partners say.