Four Pitfalls to Avoid When Building Your Own Home

Four Pitfalls to Avoid When Building Your Own Home.

When you consider building your own house, you have to carefully think about all of the options you will have and make wise choices. After all, new home construction is not easy or cheap, especially if you want a nice home. But we’re talking about your dream home here, it is a long term commitment and the place your family will build memories in for years to come. If you are truly going to build your own house, you need to avoid pitfalls that could haunt you for a long time, costing you tons of money and plenty of headaches.

It’s actually fun to design your own house, to draw up your dream home, but it’s another thing entirely to build your own house. Building your own home will take a great deal of resources like time and money, but if you can do it properly, there is nothing more rewarding. You and your family will build the house of your dreams if you can avoid making mistakes. Here are 4 of the biggest pitfalls that you should avoid when building your own home.

1. Find a good, experienced home builder, don’t settle: New home construction is not easy, and it takes years of experience to build a safe, sturdy, quality home. Building your own home is definitely not a hobby. That is why it is always best to find a home builder that has great references and experience, and that know what they are doing. After you design your own house, or even before, do the proper due diligence and find the home builder that is right for you.
2. Skimping on the details or the cost: When building your own home, the worst thing to do is to cut corners. You have to be realistic when designing your own house. This will be your dream house but if you cut corners during new home construction, you and your family will pay dearly for it down the road.
3. Don’t skip on research: Research is key when you decide to build your own house. You need to research every aspect of the process, not just the home builder. Identify a realistic budget, find the proper materials that fit that budget, and examine designs that fall within your budget before you start your own design. Improper planning can be painful.
4. Be patient: Yes, once you start building your own home in your mind, you are ready to move in, but new home construction takes time. There will likely be setbacks, there’s weather and material delivery delays, for example. You have to be patient. A great home is worth the wait, and rushing ahead can be dangerous.

Paraprin Construction, one of the premier custom homebuilders in northern Ohio, has new homes currently available for sale at the serene Cold Creek Crossing community in Sandusky, Ohio where residents can take advantage of a 10-year tax abatement being offered by the city.

We love to build on your own lot too! Our senior project manager over new home construction, Dave Linna, has built hundreds of stunning custom homes over his illustrious building career in the most prestigious towns of northern Ohio from Marblehead, Sandusky and Vermilion to Avon Lake, Westlake, and Rocky River and anywhere in between, if you’re planning on building a custom home, we would enjoy the chance to chat with you.

Give us a call any time to tour a model home, get your questions answered, or to discuss your custom home building plans – zero obligations – at (440) 523-8254

For your financing needs, new home construction loans and mortgage expertise, please call Tim Ott of Civista Bank at (419) 239-8615. Paraprin Construction is proud to be a preferred homebuilder of Sandusky’s own Civista Bank.