The process of building a custom home comes with a lot of steps! So far we’ve covered the following: Finding the Perfect Lot The Study Period Choosing Your Home Design Financing Your Custom Home Project Site Development Hiring Your Site …
One of the first tasks you’ll have after your lot is secured and you’ve selected your home design is to hire a Site Engineer. The Site Engineer will develop your grading plan. Almost everything that happens on your site during …
Building a custom home isn’t all about designing that perfect kitchen and waiting to breathe in that new carpet smell. From the time you start the process, you’ll become quite familiar with the term “Site Development” and all of the …
Money. This isn’t everyone’s favorite topic but when it comes to building a custom home, it is one of the most important conversations you will have. Shortly after the housing market went into recession, a financial crisis swept in and …
I don’t know about you but I LOVE looking at house plans. I can sit down with a set of plans and know within 30 seconds if I could live in it. I was talking with a client recently and …
The lot contract is ratified! Now what? Once the contract is ratified, I always go through the following steps before removing the study period contingency from the contract. Step 1 – Hire a site engineer to do a little investigating. …
Looking for the perfect lot? Finding good building lots in Northern Virginia is not easy. If you already own a lot or an older home you plan to tear down, that is great! If not and you need some assistance …
I thought it would be helpful to someone considering a custom home to have a resource (this blog) for the process from start to finish. Building 40-50 homes a year for our clients, NDI clearly knows how to build a …
