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Portable Housing, Made in Montana – HabiHut

FOR years Eldon and Bruce Leep, father and son contractors, built condominiums at the very high end of the market in the cluster of affluent ski villages near here at the foot of Lone Mountain.

But there were clouds looming in Big Sky country. "They were selling faster than we could build them," Bruce Leep said. "Then we noticed one day that we were five units ahead, and then eight or nine." The slowdown worsened, and soon the jobs stopped. The change put 40 employees of the Leeps’ company, Envirocontrol Systems, out of work.

High-end home contractors in southwest Montana, near Yellowstone Park, have been as battered by the recession as those elsewhere in the country. Accustomed to putting up lavish mansions of native stone and logs for wealthy clients, many have folded, moved or gone down-market, remodeling homes or building ones costing $200,000 to $300,000.

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By JIM ROBBINS, The New York Times

Full Story: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10225/1079789-47.stm?cmpid=lifestyle.xml

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