New Home - How Long Did It Take You?
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EVILFACE
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About 5-6 months for a quality builder.
If you are having one built, check the progress every single day and speak up if you don't like how something is done.
If you are having one built, check the progress every single day and speak up if you don't like how something is done.
Consider paying like a contractor to make sure it's being built properly. You can check in but you probably wouldn't know what would be done wrong. Builders will take shortcuts if they can, or use inferior materials than what you paid for.
We are not buying brand new. I'm just dealing with someone who is and they are buying KB. There a smiley that's hanging itself on this form? I should check. Anyways, I'm trying to figure out how long those cheap homes take to come together beginning to end.
Centurion
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Once planning was completed, approval from Dept of Building & Safety obtained (the most tedious part), and all finances and permits obtained, completion took 6 months. This is from starting with a leveled foundation to finishing the last coat of paint on the stucco.
Pick an experienced contractor because that is the person who will coordinate the different specialists to come in and perform their specific part (i.e. can't install and pull wires and cables if the drywall goes up
).
Make sure you are involved throughout production.
Pick an experienced contractor because that is the person who will coordinate the different specialists to come in and perform their specific part (i.e. can't install and pull wires and cables if the drywall goes up
).Make sure you are involved throughout production.
ONEYE
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Ah, cheap home, that's a problem. My research was for having a quality (not a cheap) home. If you are having a home built sure you don't want to over spend, but... you don't want to have poor quality materials.
Centurion
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As an alternative, pre-fabricated homes are more cost efficient and go up in a fraction of the time. Two months tops.
That's what I like to hear! Hopefully that is what happens for this guy in the end. A fast move in to his kb home would be great news.
We bought our lot in July 2008.
Ground was broken in August.
We moved in just before Thanksgiving.
So 4 months for my house.
It depends on the home. There are cheap homes that come in pieces and they just put them together once they get them onsite. Those don't take near as long as ones built from the ground up.
AllisonAmy
Hoarder of Larimar
Started clearing land in the beginning of May, moved in the first week of November. (Stick built, not a modular). (I designed the floor plan with some help from the bulider. I love 
my house!)
my house!)
BadMoon
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Yep I think this is about average in my area as well. They started ours in March and it was completed in July (last year).
Oh and happy interest rate to me. We couldn't have bought at a better time!
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And they tend to be less structurally sound and energy efficient versus a stick built home....from my experiences.
AllisonAmy
Hoarder of Larimar
I've heard that you can't re-finance a pre-fab home the same way as a stick-built house. I don't know if that is true or not, but anyone thinking of getting one may want to look into that.
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