As part of our normal construction services, you can hire your own general contractor and contractors. The requirements vary from state to state. If you decide to hire your own contractors, they must be licensed and insured with both general liability and workers comp. Also, we can provide “how to do your own button up” information for your contractors which is very helpful in making your project run more efficiently

Depending on the time of year, market demand, and where your house is going to be built, you can hire our referred contractors to do the work, or you can hire your own.

Call our office to set up a free, one-hour, design/price consultation. We do require that you have already read these FAQs before coming to a private consultation so that any further questions will be better answered, and more time can be spent on your design and your price during your consultation. Sometimes a general ball-park price can be given during the consultation, but estimates for custom designs can take anywhere from 1-4 weeks from your design/price consultation. In some cases longer, depending on our backlog of estimates. The time factor is not due to the complexity of the estimate but on our backlog of estimates

You must have a building permit and/ or footings or foundation in and a solid closing date (in some cases have closed on your construction loan) from your bank, in order to put the house into the 10-13 full business week factory production schedule. But since you need the blueprints to get the building permit, you must first make an appointment to come in to put a deposit down to get the blueprints started and prepare the paperwork for the bank. Immediately following that appointment, you can bring our paperwork with our rough floor plan to the bank and we start the blueprints that you will need to apply for the building permit. The blueprints can take approximately 6-8 weeks to complete which is also the time it usually takes for a bank to give an unconditional commitment letter and a closing date. Then you submit the blueprints to the town for a building permit. At the same time when you apply for your building permit, you come in, for what we call a Production meeting. This is where you pick out your colors and put the second deposit down. Then once you have closed on your construction loan or have a solid closing date, and your footings or foundation is in, we put your house into the 10-13 week production schedule at the factory. ALL TIMES QUOTED ARE APPROXIMATE AND CAN VARY DEPENDING ON THE TIME OF YEAR, THE FACTORY PRODUCTION SCHEDULE BACKLOG, MARKET DEMAND AND HOLIDAYS.

We require a first deposit which varies depending on each individual project. This is to get the initial process going, which is preparing the paperwork to present to the bank and starting the first step in finalizing your plan. Changes can still be made after the first deposit. We say “first step”, because people still make changes after they have given the first deposit at additional design review meetings. Once our customers have made all the final decisions about their design, that then begins the 6-8 week process to get state-approved blueprints.