You have done it!. You have decide to take the plunge and build your dream custom home. There are many advantages to building a custom home over buying a home that is already built before you see it. However, there are countless decisions to make and questions to answer before your vision can become a [...]
Entries from March 2008
Custom Homes - One Story vs Two Story Home?
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
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Buying New Construction
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve recently had interactions with several buyers that have bought or are in the process of buying new construction homes. In these situations, the buyer did not bring their own agent into the purchase process and are now realizing these issues:
Builders are giving good discounts off of the “base model” of their homes, but buyers [...]
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Dubai Property Buyers Need to Ne Cautious
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
While there is a great variety of property on the Dubai property market, anyone who wants to own a home here needs to be cautious when buying, as there risks involved, just as in any real estate market. Here are a few things to watch out for at the moment:
Poor build quality
This is a major [...]
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Cost Of Building Your Own Home
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Building your own home is the best way to go. That is, if you know what you are doing. First off, you will need to know your budget and the cost of building your own home. The cost will depend on many different things, but mostly the process in which you build your home, and [...]
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Home Building Tip
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Building your own home is an experience you will remember forever. There is however, a right way, and a wrong way. As you build your home there are several steps that need to be taken. These steps need to be planned out so they do not create pitfalls.
The best way to find the best home [...]
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Turnkey Or Site Supervisor - No Owner Builders!
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
After much experience with clients deciding to “Save” money and sacrifice everything else including their sanity, marriage, sobriety, children, and life; I have this stern warning to people who actually think that they want to be an owner-builder and build their own home. It is not worth it. Find some help, even a site supervisor, [...]
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Real Estate New Construction and Recession
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
In another article, Gudrun and Tcat were examining natural disasters and rebuilding efforts. In this piece, we want to look at the impact of a recession on new construction sites and the general real estate market.
Okay. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that a recession takes a bit of a bite out [...]
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Traditional New Home Communities - Old Design Is New Again
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) means that a new home community is planned from its inception to be less automobile-dependent and more likely to be a walk-able community and more likely to create friendships among the neighbors. These TND communities, such as Cherry Hill Village in Canton, Michigan and Celebration in Orlando, Florida, celebrate yesteryear through [...]
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Asheville North Carolina - The Place To Be
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Even though the rest of the Country is facing a drop in Real Estate sales and Home Building contracts; Asheville North Carolina is still growing. It is a beautiful place to visit, peaceful place to live, a lot of room to establish and run a business, and offers a quality of life much better than [...]
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The Right Home In The Right Place
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Do you want to build a new custom home on a piece of bare Real Estate? You may want to custom design the floor plan to accommodate your family and lifestyle.
Here are a few questions that you may want to consider to start on your road to building the home of your dreams:
1. What is [...]
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