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To: Ilaine who wrote (21210)4/10/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
To estimate the cost of building a house, just figure out what you can afford and double it. Find an architect. The fee you pay him to plan and supervise the project (5% or so) will be repaid many times. Get recommendations from your local friends and associates. Someone who has actually built a house in the jurisdiction you will build in. Once the plans are done (most architects use software now) and you have seen the virtual house (you can virtually walk through the virtual rooms, try out different colors, etc. You can bid the job with at least two contractors. Use your architects advice. If he or she's the right guy, he'll know the contractor who is best and may be able to help get the best deal. The programs generate a bill of materials that everyone can estimate. Listen to your architect's advice. Have him supervise and make the working decisions. Enough you are a lawyer, but that should make them behave pretty well. By the way, you get this advice from one who has never built a house but one who studied very briefly under Frank Lloyd Wright. Consider yourself fortunate that FLW is no longer taking on new work. The buzz is that after you approve the plans you should take a world cruise and stay away from the site. Building a house is a perilous adventure. It ruined Jefferson but he got a really nice house out of it.

Start off searching the web. Try something on Infoseek like "build a house" One good place to start is this page:

infoseek.go.com
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