October 5th, 2020 — Meeting with New GC

October 5, 2020

Meeting this morning with our newest GC went amazing! He was impressed with how basically everything is done—prebuild done, engineering done, structural stamps done, soils tests done, well to be installed soon on our own, blueprints done, dirt work + excavation almost entirely done, etc. Literally all he has to do is show up with materials and assemble our house. 🎉💗 It only took 2 years to find, haha but he is also the first GC that is willing to build our house within our budget! 🎉 Those of you following us know that we talked to several builders that wanted over $1M+ to pour a concrete basement and assemble our cabin kit with builder grade materials 🤯. But we KNEW it could be done for much much less. Which is why we never gave up, kept interviewing and kept doing as much as we could ourselves! We have probably saved ourselves hundreds of thousands at this point in researching the true cost of materials, sourcing all the materials ourselves, doing the hiring process ourselves, doing the dirt work and excavation ourselves, doing pre-build out of pocket and compiling the research + information ourselves, etc etc etc. Y’all, we even know we need 2,100 man hours to build our house (after the basement is poured). We have it down to science! Which is power in the construction industry. So literally, with a crew of 6 people working 8 hours a day, this house is built in 44 days. 🤯 Which is another few hundred thousand in labor savings. Never give up on your dreams!!! Instead, RESEARCH THEM! 💗😍🙌🏼💯

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