Where do people live while building?
Idahoans
Particularly if you've sold your previous home. It can be impossible
to find rentals for under 6 months. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Carla
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Before you buy.
Charles Self
> Where do people live during the months it takes to build a home?
>Particularly if you've sold your previous home. It can be impossible
>to find rentals for under 6 months. Any ideas?
I know of several who moved a mobile home onto the lot, hooked into well and
septic, and were right there when all was ready to go. I know of some
others--smaller or less affluent families--that bought used motor homes and
brought those to the lot and lived there for a bit. A lot depends on locale,
codes, neighbors. Around here, no one much cares. Other places, there are
intense problems if you bring a motor home onto a lot and keep it there for
more than a few days. Here, just leave once a week to dump the tanks.
Charlie Self
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DEBBEY HENDERSON
do.....It's convienent, not to mention you can watch the process of your
home being built. Deb
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A travel trailer is a great idea, and it will give you rent free living; for
the cost of renting a house or apt. you can get one cheap, espesially if you
buy used. @ <b>m,e</b>
Dezignaré
It normally takes longer than six months to build a house and our experience
with clients during the building process indicates that rarely is a house
completed on time, so be prepared for a time frame longer than initially
projected. This can be due to many factors, which may be out of the hands of
the builder/contractor.
Previous posts indicating renting some sort of motor home, if this is in
fact an option, will allow you to stay on top of things. Depending on your
particular situation, it can also create tension when you are there to see
things are not progressing as fast as you might like or believe they should.
By all means, do whatever you can to make this an enjoyable experience, so
that when you finally get into your "dream location" you won't feel as if
you have been through a war zone. It may be better, in the long run to go
ahead and rent, if you can afford to do so, to preserve your sanity and your
lifestyle.
Dezignaré
Idahoans <idah...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Where do people live during the months it takes to build a home?
> Particularly if you've sold your previous home. It can be impossible
> to find rentals for under 6 months. Any ideas? Thanks!
>
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> Carla
> idah...@earthlink.net
Carb Unit
be a major deterrent towards theft of building materials.
RAMMAN
> Particularly if you've sold your previous home. It can be impossible
> to find rentals for under 6 months. Any ideas? Thanks!
>
> --
> Carla
> idah...@earthlink.net
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> Before you buy.
The house we are building has a detached garage. We are building the garage
first . It has a guest room and minimal "life support" facilities. This will
be converted to my office after the house is complete. We will move into it
and place most of our furniture in storage. This will allow us to be on-site
for the critical part of the construction. Our architect has told us that
the difference in total construction cost to do it this way will be minimal.
We won't have to rent during construction and the saving in this alone will
more than offset any small costs of initial garage construction and storage
of furniture.
Richard Greene
JASON
Could never get away with that where I am, a Certificate of Occupanicy (C of O)
IS required here. Have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it. plumb, elect,
flooring, drywall, kitchen facilities, sewer/septic hook up, water and so on. It
would be as big a deal as the house it self except on a smaller scale. Then you
get to do it again. What state do you live in?
good luck
Jason
TooTall
apartment with 6 month lease. We are working on the plans at present and I
don't see any way we will have the home built within six months. Better
check your restrictions, if any, before moving a travel trailer on to the
property. Also, a travel trailer can get extremely tight for extended
living. Be sure wife, if any, likes camping cause you'll be essentially
camping out for 6 months plus. I sold my travel trailer prior to selling
the house. We sold what furniture we could so we wouldn't have to store too
much stuff.