Recently in Category - Money & Budgeting
Can You Build A Log Home For $150/SF?... Apparently In Middle Tennessee You Can't!
This article is one of the few in which we have actually vented our yearlong frustrations in dealing with finding a general contractor to build our home, topped off with some of the runaround we've received from the banks who seem unwilling to finance log homes in this area.
How Long Do Things Last? What's The Life Expectancy Of Home Components?
Have you given any thought to just how long those things that you're installing are going to last? I have. Recently the National Association of Home Builders -- NAHB -- shed some light on the life expectancy of common components inside a home. Have a look...
Estimating How Much Things Will Cost
Get-a-Quote is the largest free construction estimating database on the Internet. See why it's great... and not so great.
How To Track Your Expenses & Plan A Budget
After Jim dismissed the old-fashioned 'manual' way of creating a budget -- by writing figures on forms -- I went on the hunt for something along the lines of an Excel spreadsheet that could be used to track quotes, estimates, expenses and bids from contractors. I found it!
Budgeting The Details Of Your New Home
If there's one thing we've learned about building & financing a log home... it's the fact that it gets a little scary when you start to consider all of the 'unknowns'. This might help...
Log Home Lenders... A Few Things We Learned
We learned quickly that getting a loan for a log home is quite different than getting a loan for a traditional 'stick-built' home. Odds are, even if you qualify for a traditional home mortgage, you might not qualify right away for a loan to build a log home. When we were trying to obtain a loan to build our log home, these are the banks and mortgage lenders that we personally approached for a construction loan, and highlights from our experiences with each of them.
