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A couple of weeks ago, entirely out of the blue, we got a phone call from a family who lives exactly .3 miles from our empty lot. (Our current rental is 6.3 miles away and our old house was 17.9.) They are moving to New York for one year and wanted to know if we [...]
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Our new dream house did not come in at a dream cost. And so, as I told you last month, we decided to redesign the house. That’s no big deal. We’ve done it so many times already. And we did it endlessly on the first custom home, too.
It’s the time factor that’s killing me. We [...]
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On Monday we met with the first builder to come up with a bid for us. To say the least, it was disappointing.
The total came in at $804,266. And that’s after we bought the lot for $248,000.
Seriously. We’ve built a million dollar home. And this is not it! This house is the downsize into something [...]
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When we designed our first custom home in 2002, we didn’t pay much attention to size. Since we had five acres of land to play with, we had few constraints. The biggest problem we had was getting height approval by the city.
We focused, instead, on function. We made rooms for the all the people in [...]
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After considering our construction options, we came to the conclusion that acting as our own contractors isn’t in the schedule. We’ve ruled out using an owner-builder system as they are generally structured.
We have been given several references and will be sending out the following letter to them.
If you are a general contractor or construction supervisor [...]
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