Risk management
A home is often the largest single expenditure a
person has, and while there are considerable savings to be made by
having a home built for you, taking advantage of these fully means not incurring
unnecessary risk. The savings are so large that few, if any, would loose
money, whatever they did.
You reduce risk by a combination of things that
might include
Having
the club or someone to help you, this costs you something, but is recovered
many times over in cost savings on the plot, in speeding things up
and knowing what has to be done.
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Controlling
lost time and controlling your budget well.
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Getting
an architect to design your house, its a cost but usually an architect designed
home is worth at least that much more.
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Using a
builder as a main contractor or package company to build the home for
you. This is likely to cost 20% more, but you still have 20% of the
discount left.
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Using a
project manager, costs probably around 15% of build cost, but should
also save as much by trimming contracts and managing material loss and
time on site, so little net cost.
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Knowing
what you want to do and making decisions and sticking to them.
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Building a
dream
holiday home
Perhaps eventually you will want to move on
to build a holiday home in the UK or overseas.
Building in another place, presents new challenges
and risk to manage, ranging from the travel distance to see what
is happening yourself to cultural, language and currency.
The Self Build Homes Club is an
international club, we have many web sites, and more coming on
line, with a site or collection of websites covering a country,
projects and help to move ahead when you are ready.
So when you have built your new home you
can also start to think about following it up with a holiday home
as well.
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