Building Today's Dream Home - Building Fees
Hopefully you haven't bought the property yet, if you
have, make sure that you read the rest of this article, you might want
to sell the property. Building today's dream home can be a daunting
task, there’s building permits, planning departments and nowadays you
might have to deal with the fire and police departments in your
communities.
When I first started in the home building business, you would bring two
sets of plans down to your local Building Department. They would give
one to the Planning Department and they would look at one themselves. If
everything looked okay, you could start building.
The last time I went down to the building department, they needed five
sets of plans. This might not sound like much, but if there are any
mistakes on the plans, they give you the plans back and you need to make
the corrections and then pay for new sets of plans to be reproduced with
the corrections on them.
Now with two sets of plans, this might not cost as much, but with five
sets of building plans, just getting your plans out a plan check could
cost you a small fortune in reproducing any plans that need to be
corrected.
Now I'm not talking about the fees for building a new home, these fees
can make modern-day outlaws or robbers out of our city officials. Some
of these fees are astronomical and I'm not just talking about building
permit fees, even though building permit fees are expensive, you've got
additional fees in these fees, once added together, can produce a very
large number.
Before you even start to plan on building your dream home, make sure
that you get a good idea, how much it's going to cost you for every
single fee that will be involved, before you start to build your home.
Once you've purchased the property and get all excited about building
your new home, before you have checked the total fee allowance, you
could find yourself entering into a financial home-building nightmare.
Always check first before you buy the property, this could impact your
final decision.