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Where We Are Now On This Log Home Roller Coaster Ride…

No, we haven't secured our log home loan yet. But the good news is... time is on our side. Because the mortgage rates have already come down since our previous closing date in October of 2007, and they are projected to drop even more in the coming months.

Log Home Insurance: Little-Known Facts About Insuring A Log Home

It's a fact, log home insurance is typically 20% more than insurance for the same size non-log home. Worse yet, many insurance companies charging a 25% to 50% surcharge for a log home. Here's our experience getting log home insurance, plus a number of log home insurance tips to help you get started.

Digging A Well: What You Need To Know

Little known facts about wells and water usage. Here's everything we've learned about digging a well, including proposed costs to dig a well in Williamson County, Tennessee.

Golden Eagle Log Home Company Estimates The True Cost To Build A Log Home

Golden Eagle Log Homes chose to face the facts and state upfront the 'true' cost to build one of their log homes. This is what appeared in one of their ads in Log Home Living magazine.

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...

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