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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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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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Should I Renovate or Build a New House?
This is a common dilemma that I run into with many of my customers. They agonized over spreadsheets trying to find out what is a more feasible option both in terms of lifestyle and budget. And to their credit, it’s … Continue reading
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Create An Outdoor Living Space
When it comes time to make home improvements that will help with future resale value, we often think of redoing the kitchen, new floors, new windows and even finishing the basement. But one of the most often overlooked improvements is … Continue reading
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
Financing Your Custom Home Part 3: Applying for Your Construction Loan
So you’ve identified the best type of construction financing for your new home. Great! If not, be sure to read Part 2 before you continue. One of the things you may find when you start calling around to local banks … Continue reading
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Financing Your Custom Home Part 2: Finding the Right Construction Loan
In this second part of the series, we move on to the Construction Loan. Unlike the typical home purchase of an existing house, there are not as many financing options available to the new home builder. In fact there are … Continue reading
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