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Getting Started You shouldn't rush into a building project without first laying the groundwork. Taking the time to plan what you want in your new home and how you will achieve it can save you from a case of builder's remorse a few years down the road.

7 Helpful Hints for Hiring a Builder 7 Helpful Tips for Hiring a Builder
Choosing a builder early in the home-building process—ideally before you've settled on a site or design for your home—can set the stage for a successful home-building experience.
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10 Mistakes You can't Afford to Make 10 Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make
Avoid these common—but costly—home-financing errors.
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What You Need to Know About Choosing the Right Lot What You Need to Know About Choosing the Right Lot
Choosing the right site on which to build your home will go a long way toward ensuring a successful building project.
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How Much House Can You Afford? How Much House Can You Afford?
One of the first steps in the home-building process is to investigate and analyze your financial situation and find out how much money you’ll have available for the construction and purchase of your custom-built home.
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Stop Wishing, Start Building: How to Get Started on Your Second Home
For most people, their getaway home exists only in their imagination, and they never go any further toward building it. What steps should you take to make that home a reality?
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Create a Wish List Create a Wish List
Creating a list can help you to refine your choices, so that as you begin searching for your dream home, you're sure to focus on designs that meet your criteria.
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Select Your Site Select Your Site: Find a Home for Your Home
Just as important as choosing the home plan you want to build is choosing the lot upon which to build it. Which is of greater importance is ultimately up to you.
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Viewing a Home from Every Angle Viewing a Home from Every Angle
Attention to the crucial relationship between your home and the site where it is built will offer spectacular results. Take the time now to ensure that your new home will offer you and your family years of satisfaction.
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10 Tips for Choosing the Best Home Plan for You 10 Tips for Choosing the Best Home Plan for You
Choosing one home plan among thousands may sound like a daunting task. But once you determine what is essential, narrowing down the possibilities can become a feasible–and even enjoyable–experience.
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Choose Your Plan Choose Your Plan: Begin with Your Lifestyle Needs
You may already have a picture in your mind of what your dream home looks like. It's important, however, to ask yourself a series of questions that can help you choose a plan that works for you.
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Cut Costs, Not Corners: Save Money Before You Build Cut Costs, Not Corners: Save Money Before You Build
Careful attention to the design aspects of a pre-drawn home plan can save you some green before you first break ground.
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Making Every Square Inch Count Making Every Square Inch Count
Embracing smart design instead of more square footage will save you money and make your home more livable.
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The Incredible Flexible Floor Plan The Incredible, Flexible Floor Plan
Once you've identified your family's daily patterns, as well as your hopes for your new home, look for a timeless home plan that meets those immediate needs yet offers options for the future.
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How to Read Blueprints How to Read Blueprints
Professionally drawn blueprints contain a wealth of information. Although symbols and callouts can vary slightly from one home designer to another, knowing a few of the basics will assist you in distilling a clear picture of your new home.
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Modify Your Plan Modify Your Plan: Make a Pre-Drawn Plan Your Own
For a smaller price than a custom-drawn home, modifications can tailor your stock home plan into a design that's as good as a custom home.
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your Home A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your Home
Building a home isn't child's play, but taking the time to educate yourself about what you're likely to encounter will keep you from going gray before your time.
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Find a Contractor Find a Contractor: Look for a Good Fit
You're not just looking for a builder. What you want is a new friend, a financial consultant, a guru, a business partner, an efficiency expert, and maybe a soul mate-all wrapped up in one person.
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Be Your Own Contractor Be Your Own Contractor: Challenges and Rewards of Doing It Yourself
While acting as the contractor for your home can be rewarding—psychologically and possibly financially—the decision to do so is not one to be taken lightly.
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Preliminary Steps Preliminary Steps: What's Essential Before You Break Ground
Proper planning is one of the best ways to ensure your new home's quality and value. Before you break ground, follow these tips to prepare yourself for this risky but all-important first step
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7 Essentials for Building a Second Home 7 Essentials for Building a Second Home
Whatever your dream getaway is, it is possible to make that dream a reality by building your own second home: on the lakeside, by the sea, in the woods or anywhere else you can imagine
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Take the Plunge Take the Plunge: Tips for Building on the Water
To take advantage of a great setting and proximity to recreation, more people are choosing to build homes on the waterfront.
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Create a Preliminary Budget Create a Preliminary Budget
If you plan ahead and are willing to stick to a budget, it's not hard to achieve your goal of home ownership.
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Get Financed Get Financed: Find the Right Mortgage for You
Choosing an institution to finance your new home won't be nearly as hard as choosing a builder. We'll tell you how.
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The Legal Pieces The Legal Pieces: Know Your Rights
As you prepare to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on your new home, the two things you need most are an attorney and a building contract.
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