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Building your retirement home in Sequim or Port Angeles can be a positive or negative experience.  There really is a proven method to make it a positive experience, and a large part of that success is knowing how to avoid the pitfalls and traps for the unwary.  The problem is that most people are unaware of the areas where people have the majority of the problems and stress.  This blog helps consumers avoid those nightmares by revealing what the traps are, and this blog continues to educate freely to help consumers with solutions to the challenges they face in building a home.  The first major hurdle every retiree will face is selecting a home builder, and that is the single most important decision you will make, because everything else (good or bad) follows that decision.

Far too many retirees select a home builder and/or an architect, but later regret their decision, because they hired the wrong person.  Here is a recent comment this author received from a retired couple.

We did do our homework in trying to have our home built. We still do not understand with the market down and continuing to go down, why contractors are not interested in “dealing”. They may change around some figures, but the costs seem to still be stuck in the range of building a custom home from 3 years ago. The architect said, it is a good time to build due to cost of materials being down.  I did not see that on our bids at all ! The biggest surprise was finding out about the cost of sales tax tapped on which we were not aware of. Only one architect had it listed on the bid and that is why the question came up. We were mad because we had told the architect do not give us surprises ! This was a big one which of course, cut into our budget. The word budget did not mean a thing to anyone ! . . .  Our project just kept growing like a weed.  . . . The eye opener for us is when we called the county to check to see if all was in order when we filed the building permit only to be told the county was still waiting for items the architect was supposed to take care of and did not.  . . . There must be others out there who have been in our situation, but afraid to post or embarrassed that they got hooked.

This couple got caught by a trap for the unwary and they selected the wrong home builder and the wrong architect.  That should be obvious.  It seems clear that they were not treated fairly, that there were incompetent or unprofessional people involved, and that there were intentional or unintentional misrepresentations made to this couple.  But ALL of these issues could have been completely avoided if this couple had made a wise decision to hire the right builder and the right architect.  Who is the right builder and the right architect?

Wouldn’t you like the opportunity to decide for yourself?  Honesty in your dealings from the very beginning, full disclosure, integrity in the professionals you deal with, and helping you know exactly what is involved in building your home is not something you will get from all builders, nor from all architects.

You can have a free consultation with an experienced professional who will answer your questions and help you decide how to select your home builder and your architect, and this will cost you nothing.  Call Chuck Marunde at 360-775-5424 for an appointment.  There are no hooks.  Just honesty and professionalism combined with experience (experience from the school of hard knocks).

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