Category Archives: General Questions
Choosing the Right Floorplan for your Custom Home.
The devil is in the details. When designing your custom home, make sure you take your time and put a lot of thought and planning into what I consider to be one of, if not THE most critical design decision… … Continue reading
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Preparing Your Home for Winter – Part 2
As I mentioned in my previous post, now is the time to prepare for winter and fix those items that can help you have a more secure, warm and better insulated winter. Doing these repairs and improvements now in the … Continue reading
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Prepare Your Home for Winter – Part 1
Summer greetings! I hope you are all enjoying the few actual days of legitimate summer that graces us here in Upstate NY. As someone once told me, summer in Upstate NY is really just three days of really bad sledding. … Continue reading
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Protect Yourself With A Builder’s Contract
Before you jump headlong into any substantial building project, it is important that you and your builder agree to several key points upfront. Items such as budgeting, project scheduling, fees and the parameters around up-charges or upgrades should be clearly … Continue reading
Filed under Construction Loans, General Questions
Recommended Summer Reading
I hope you are all having a great summer. If you have the opportunity to take vacation this summer and have some time for a little light reading, why not read up on home building and renovations? One of the … Continue reading
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How do you find a General Contractor you can trust?
So you want to build a new home, or make a large renovation to your existing one. Congratulations, this is an exciting time, but it can also be a nerve-wracking one. Who are you going to get to oversee the … Continue reading
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Financing Your Custom Home Part 4: The Builder Contract
Continuing on in our series on financing your new home, I would like to share with you an additional step you can be working on while you await the result of your loan application. If you haven’t already, be sure … Continue reading
Condo? Townhouse? Build New? Decisions, Decisions….
I want to talk about the different issues and considerations when building or buying a new home in a housing development, town house or condo. First time homebuyers and those looking to downsize need to understand the options. First and … Continue reading
Government tax incentives: the real deal and it’s ending soon.
I’d like to talk about a subject that everyone looking for a new home is very interested in: saving money. The government is making saving money easier by offering a host of different tax incentives for new home buyers or … Continue reading
English Please!
How many times have you approached a contractor and asked a simple question, and in return heard an explanation full of terms like e-factors, stress bearing walls, truss angle and zip system approaches. All you want to know is if … Continue reading
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