Welcome to Step 7: Home Design of building a home from scratch. This has been the most enjoyable step for us and it was in no small part to the designer we had working for us, Greg Godsey from Heritage Restorations.
Interviewing Builders in Northern Virginia
In the Army we had a saying, “Hurry up and wait.”
Many times you have to do things quickly, only to find yourself waiting around until you get orders to do another thing quickly. That’s how building a home can be.
Feasibility Period for Land Contracts
Step 6: Feasibility Study
Check out this beauty! It’s a Footprint Certification Plat that the soil experts at JT Frazier and the septic design company, Nokesville Design, put together to submit to Fairfax County. They also worked with a survey company, Schools and Townsend, for the boundary and topographic information. As you can tell, it’s a lot of coordination between many different companies. There may be some companies that have the septic designer and soil engineer under one roof, but not in this case.
Building on Raw land in Fairfax County
When we first moved to Fairfax County we knew that homes in this area easily average in the $500,000 – $750,000 range…for starter homes! My family and I spent a few Saturdays looking at homes and we narrowed it down to three options:
