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Ready to build your dream home? How do you get from the dream to the bottom line… the cost to make it happen?

I can certainly empathize with you in your desire to know what a home building (or remodeling) project will cost before you get too far along in your planning. After all, you don’t want to plan for something that you cannot afford or for which you are not willing to put out the money.

The Preparations Leading to an Accurate Home Building Quote

Here are the steps to take in preparation for getting an accurate General Contractor quote for building your home. It will take some time and it will involve industry professionals. I advise people to take most or all of these steps. In the long run, it’ll pay off in spades.

1) Understand the real estate market where you will be building your home.

Each real estate market has its own flavor. Each market has its building styles and general labor cost range. You must know your market and know how your home will fit into it and know what uniqueness you want to achieve.

2) Make decisions about the general quality you want in your home.

The quality you put into your home will be reflected in the cost to build it. Will you build your home with low-end fixtures, finishing, and structural materials? Do you plan on high end materials? This decision will have a huge effect on the eventual bidding and quoting process. Decide early on!

3) Find a house plan or floor plan that is close to what you want.

At this stage in your preparations, you should find a floor plan that also shows what the exterior looks like. What you’re looking for here is a fairly close replica of what you want to create.

These will not be complete. You’re just looking for a reasonable facsimile.

4) Get a general idea of the cost per square foot to build this type house in your market.

Your next step is to get a basic idea of the cost to build based on what you know so far. Knowing the market, the size and style, the quality and the lay-out, you can now talk with industry professionals to get a rough estimate of the cost per square foot to build it.

Some of the professionals you might speak with include: Architects, builders, real estate agents that work closely with builders, structural engineers, and developers. If you speak with enough of these professionals, you will get a decent idea of the potential cost to build.

5) Have blueprints created by and architect or purchase a complete set of house plans.

Armed with the approximate cost per square foot, you now know if your project is feasible. At this point it’s safe to either buy a full set of blueprints or go to an architect or residential designer to have the blueprints created to your specifications. Make sure the blueprints are complete and specify materials choices and follow building codes.

6) Create a detailed “take-off” (which is a complete materials list) from the set of blueprints.

This materials list will assist you or your builder in pricing out the complete package of materials for the home. Some of the materials will be provided by various subcontractors so be aware of this and don’t add these up twice!

7) Get at least three complete home building quotes from General Contractors.

Once you’ve taken all these steps, you can now get your building quotes. By preparing in this way, you’re going to get better bids and you won’t be comparing apples to oranges. Every contractor will understand exactly what you’re after.

Use the Same Process for Major Remodels

With minor adaptations, you can use this same process to get accurate quotes for a major remodel. With smaller home improvements, you can omit a lot of these steps. For instance, an upgrade to your bathroom will not likely require blueprints or General Contractors.

But, a major remodel or home addition will likely require blueprints, materials take-off lists, and someone to manage the entire project. So, the same attention to detail and proper preparation is critical.

Take your time. You’ll feel in control of your project. And that’s a great feeling!

You can learn so much more about home building and remodeling online. One great option is to take advantage of a very informative yet simple to follow *free* e-course that you can find by clicking here http://www.DreamHomeCreation.com. You will also find other tips and tools, surveys, videos, and additional articles by Mel Inglima.

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One can simply define the project review as project start date, business plans and their corresponding benefits. When one devotes a quality amount of time in project planning, he ensures to minimize the cost involved and the project duration. Furthermore he ensures that the project quality is maintained at an all time high. One should always define the project overview statement with the following items:

Name of the project and start date of the projectRevision history and the corresponding versions details needs to be documented. Document should clearly explain the reasons for the revision and who has executed the revision along with the person details who has validated the revised versionDefine whether the project owner is a sponsor or a customerName of the project manager who owns the authority and the responsibility to execute the tasksProject Goal: describes what the project is going to achieve and define the goal setting.Duration of the project: Time frame that needs to be devoted by the number of staff allotted.Total costs: It is advisable to consider both the capital and expense costsProject Review Gantt chart to track the project completionAssumptions: Name the items which are needed for project execution but it is outside the control of the project team.Risks: Name the situation which can impact the project. It is advisable to draw up a Risk Priority Number for each of the tasks related to the project so as to minimize the impact on the business and at the same time, one can draw up a backup planLimited human resources and budget are some of the obstacles that one will face.Development of SOP’s and client specific documents, defining the business policies and guidelinesApproval from the business head is mandatory to initiate the project work

The application of latest management techniques and systems to execute a project from start to end, to maintain quality, time and cost has given rise to various online project management tools

Small business is a business owned privately and operated by a small number of employees. Small businesses have worked with email applications, accounting software, contact managers and databases, sales, and bookkeeping. The latest software and systems work together with the programs one is already using. Operating systems: Windows XP is one of the most advanced desk operating system. Business men can work faster and smarter with this operating system.Office Systems: The MS office enables one to access information quickly, streamline activities, share and communicate with team members.Networking and Servers: provides messaging, collaboration, security-enhanced internet access, and protected data storage. Eg. Windows small business server 2003.Developer tools: obtain quick results, build windows, web, and mobile, communicate and share more with teams, and ensure quality. Eg. Visual studio 2005

Project manager software helps you plan, monitor, and report on the project. It helps one understand the actual versus planned progress in a project as it happens. It’s a web-based system hence one can login from anywhere at anytime. It has the following features:

Dashboard: This one gives a graphical view of the status of one’s task online. One can customize one’s dashboard and create a unique way to view one’s project. With the help of group portfolio one can view different projects at the same time.Project planner: This helps to create and share plans with team members. One can schedule tasks and assign resources online.Intelligent reporting: This helps to configure the project status reports with the information one needs.Manage teams: This helps to create teams, assign tasks, and reallocate tasks.Track results: This helps to view progress of the project against schedulesCollaborate online: It helps to send emails to other people in the project, share documents, images, and add comments

Task Manager gives information about programs and processes that run on one’s computer. One can see the status of the running programs and end programs that have stopped responding. One can also see graphs and data on CPU and the amount of memory used. If there is more than one person connected to one’s computer, one can see who is connected, who is doing a specific task, and also send messages to them. The various tabs used are as follows:

Application tab: Using this tab one can update data, end a program, start a new program, and switch between programs.Process tab: Using this tab one can assign a process, change priority of running programs, end a process, sort the list of processes, and process column headings.Performance tab: Using this one can view graphs, number of processes running on the computer, update task manager, change display option, and performance field’s overview.Networking tab: Using this one can view the quality & availability of the network connection. It displays a graphical representation of the network performance.User tab: displays the users who can access the computer, client name, and session which provides one a name to perform task like sending other user a message or to get connected to other user’s session

It is very important to utilize the available tools to effectively run’s one business

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