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02-13-2024, 6:04pm | #41 | ||||||
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I've built 3 houses,one in Tidewater, VA, another right outside of Wash DC in Alexandra, VA and my current home near Orlando, FL. Even with a great builder, it can be stressful, with many hassles and changes along the way. One quick example, my current lakefront FL home required a "stem wall" for support in adding a swimming pool and a raised lanai. Turns out it would be the first one on the lake, so we spent weeks going round and round with permits, engineering reports, inspections, etc. Now EVERYbody on the lake has one.
And I had an incredible asset because the wife is a construction contracting officer with the US Army and oversaw most of the details. A move-in ready home, if it meets your needs may be the ticket.... You just came off one stressful, life changing event (divorce) it may pay not to jump into another. |
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Either way, you make the money.....on THE BUY! PERIOD!
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Anyone can scrimp and save while building a home. The real money comes from the original buy. My properties have doubled my costs every build. THat's right, the day the homes finish they sell for twice what it costs me! I buy only from motivated sellers and what I call trouble lots. If the OP can do some labor helping to bring down some numbers, but sweat equity ain't free.... And I like a brand new building to live in! |
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I'd have no problem with time commitment in the short term. Being on site and all that but 18 months would be the outside of what we want.
Large scale project management isn't a problem for either of us, nor is expecting what we want from suppliers. Never built a house but did build our last office(ground up), and refurbs on others. Been involved in 70K+sq ft ground up projects. Entertaining space is big for us, we saw a model that we loved too far away from us that had 14' ceilings in the basement, it was a stunning look with a walk in wine storage. Storage is another thing, deeper than normal space between walls for hidden storage, deeper cabinets, large pantries. 99 percent of subdivision's in Michigan do not allow fences unless you have a pool so we've only been looking at homes with pools. Outside of subs your either looking at very old homes or building which was another consideration so we could do fencing for the dogs. The labor we could do, or I could get my employees to do, is just low voltage which I would have a ton of but not traditionally something that is included in the cost of a home. |
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Matter of fact I started doing exactly that. Buying lots and flipping them for profit. |
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How does anyone have dogs with no fenced back yards? |
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Our next-door and across-the-street neighbors, both with 2+ acre lots, both have large dogs and invisible fences. They seem to work well.
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Even in a rural setting, pet owners are legally required to have their pets under control. And that usually means..fence or leash.
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I get that; invisible fence doesn't keep OUT any other animals. Our neighbors' 2 dogs (malamute & boxer) seem to be very content within their boundaries, and because our street only has 13 houses and just a handful of dogs (always leashed when out walking), there haven't been any "incursion incidents" that I'm aware of.
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