Guide to Building Your Dream Home
If you don’t have the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over!
- John Wooden UCLA basketball coach
- John Wooden UCLA basketball coach
Step 1 - Develop Your Dream
Use these questions to help you focus your vision...
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Step 2 - Select Your Perfect Property
The answers to your questions above will help you drive the selection of your lot. The location and size will be dictated by what you plan to build. Your contractor can help!
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Step 3 - Choose Your Trusted Team
Your home builder should be your liaison for the entire project! Your builder should have amassed a network of solid contacts in every phase of the process to assist you. Your builder should be able to refer you to a lender for financial, architects for planning and drawings, designers for interior and exterior choices, and all of the onsite finishers. If you choose the right contractor, you will have access to all of his recommendations to choose from. The lot can be purchased outright or your builder can bundle the financing in with the project. Whatever works best for the project is what we want to do. |
Step 5 - Design and Budget
It’s difficult to set a budget until the builder knows your dream. Always choose a contractor that is in tune with your dream and very upfront with the process that is required to make your dream come true. Intuition like this only comes with experience. As you make changes to your plans and your vision, you should see the price change on the builder’s quote. You want to see an honest representation of your plans being built into your financial reports. If you don’t see changes, the builder was likely not being very transparent with their quoting to begin with.
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Step 6 - Financing
Financing changes depending on the economy and housing market at any given time. Finding a lender that has worked with your builder and has a good relationship can help everything run smoothly. Lending can come from many different sources, if you can work with familiar faces, everyone is more at ease throughout the project.
Leverage who your contractor recommends and talk to your title company. Title companies collect and compile documents from all parties for closing, which means they are a third-party observer when things don't go as planned. Many times, simply asking questions of your trusted partners will shed a lot of light on your next steps.
Leverage who your contractor recommends and talk to your title company. Title companies collect and compile documents from all parties for closing, which means they are a third-party observer when things don't go as planned. Many times, simply asking questions of your trusted partners will shed a lot of light on your next steps.
Step 7 - Let's Get Started
Once you have your dream, your team and your land, you are ready to go! It may seem like a lot to process, but that's why you have a trusted partner in Way Properties, LLC. It's new and overwhelming to you, but fortunately, we do this every day. Guiding a first-time home builder through the process of creating their dream is what we love to do the best! So whether this is your first time building a new home, or you are already a pro, Way Properties, LLC is ready to build your dream!
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