Architectural Designs

Any info on having a new home built for you?

My husband & I are considering having a house built for us exactly the way we want it rather than just buying a home already on the market. We own a condo at the moment & are both in our 20's and young & doing good financially at the moment. We are not planning on doing this for quite some time, it was just an idea that jumped in our heads & we are planning on working & saving as much money as we can in order to make this dream of ours come true! We picked out a house that we really love on this website & want to know if anyone can estimate how much we should be planning on spending vs. just buying a house on the market. Also any other tips or info you are willing to share is great! Thanks so much I just wanna know what we are getting ourselves into before we make a final choice. Here is the house we are thinking of building thanks so much! We live in MA http://www.eplans.com/new_american_house-plans/HWEPL57980.hwx btw.. We know eplans has a find out how much this will cost option, however that will cost us $30 which seeing as we are not sure what we really want at this point it wouldn't make much sense to possibly need to do that multiple times.

Public Comments

1. the link you provided has a "find out how much will it cost to build this house in your area" option. use it.
2. Ask the builders about "cost plus" arrangement I have not done this but my understanding it is best contract.