From the time we started bidding on the property until we had the deed we were filling out the mound of paperwork for the mortgage lender and on the hunt for a house plan. We had interviewed two separate contractors that were business acquaintances of the family, both giving us almost identical quotes once we discussed our plans. We found just a few really good house plan sites, soon to discover that most of the websites had exact plans. The bigger webistes, such as houseplans.com and eplans.com had a large variety. The contractor found us an architect to help mold a plan to our needs, which costs $2,000. To us this was definitely worth it because he could move walls and change the plans whenever we wanted, at least before construction started. We were able to make a phone call and the architect could quickly make the changes.
It took us a month before we could finally settle on a house plan. The architect was able to change the elevation to look similar to the other three homes in the neighborhood. Our house plan has four bedrooms and 3 baths. Total square footage equals 3050 all on one level.
Today we received the final plans from the architect and paid the remaining 750 dollars of the original 2,000Last Friday our contractor had the percolation test done which cost 500 dollars. If you add the cost of the land, architect and the septic perc test we are thus far at a total of $53,500 out of pocket. Now we sit and wait for the county to approve our plans.
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