http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/construction-estimating-creating-a-preliminary-budget/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=construction-estimating-creating-a-preliminary-budget Expert Home Improvement Advice Thu, 16 May 2013 10:49:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/construction-estimating-creating-a-preliminary-budget/#comment-61428 Brad@Leaf Guard CT Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:14:33 +0000 http://www.homeconstructionimprovement.com/?p=10805#comment-61428 Hey Todd! This is a good comprehensive guideline for anyone looking to get an idea of what their dream home is going to cost to build. One area that I feel needs emphasis, and you have covered it here, is site preparation costs. I only bring this up because I purchased a home in Florida 7 years and got a nasty surprise from the builder about a month before we were due to break ground. They had under estimated how much fill would be required to bring the ground up to the appropriate level for building, it was a low lying lot, but you wouldn’t have known it from looking at it. After a lot of tense negotiations it still ended up costing me an extra $7000 which was half of the total amount of the overage!

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