| Conception/pre‐design – sales and production crews listen carefully to what you are looking to build, will show you our most current catalogue of designs, and may even create a whiteboard or paper draft to assist in the visualization of your project, and to move you closer to architectural phase. | 1 Bus. Day |
| Project proposal – We give you a very basic initial guestimate (usually verbally or via email) of a timeline and cost based on the information we have gathered at this point, please note this will be a rough guestimate Only. | 1 Bus. Day |
| Land – Do you have a place for you project or do you need help locating it? Perhaps you have a home you need to sell first? Whatever the case, we are here to offer you turnkey solutions that will help to move your process along at the pace that works best for everyone. | 1‐90 Bus. Days |
| Financing – based on your initial proposal, and your land situation, clients should put funding in place for their project at this time, if they have not already, preparing for a down payment and moving on to the architectural phase. We are currently building our custom projects in the $265 plus per square foot range (land not included), however, it is your lender and your architect that will determine your final design and price. | 5‐7 Bus Days |
| Property Evaluation – During your design production with the architects, our team will visit your build location to assess what will be needed for land, utility prep, and foundation. This will ensure a firm total cost of your project. Without the construction documents from an architect and site visit to bid off of, any numbers we produce are not firm. | 4‐7 Bus. Days |
| Architectural process/permitting – At this stage, your architect, along with their structural engineers and teams, will assist you through the design phases, as well as the permitting phase. Not all architects work with our container based medium, so working with one of our team architects is key to a successful project. While you will be working with architects that are specifically picked for their experience with our medium, and you will be coming back to your build team after you have finished your design work, you will be working with your architect under a separate contract. This is a Very Important part of the process, as the architectural design, is what drives the cost of your project. Our architects know what it costs for us to build our quality products, and while we work on the budget you and the architect work out in the design phase, the only real limit with our building blocks is your pocketbook and your imagination. At the end of the day, your comfort and satisfaction are our biggest driving factors. Please Note – the architect will need a full topographical survey of your property where the unit is to be built, and in some areas a tree survey will also be required. | 3‐12 Weeks |
| Proposal Review/ Earnest Deposit/ Contract Signing– after architectural has been received, and property evaluation has been done, our team will review our project proposal with you in person, and take an earnest money deposit. Again, while the deposit is non‐ refundable (due to the work that we will have put in to this point), it does credit towards the final cost of your build. | 1 Bus. Day |
| Picking out of Exterior / Interior finishes – Let the fun Begin! While, your project is busily making its way through the permitting process, and the construction crews are preparing for your build, you will be working with the team, and our vendor partners to choose your interior and exterior finish outs. While somewhat time consuming, this is the Fun stuff that makes Your build so uniquely yours – so have some fun with it! | 1-3 Weeks |
| Ordering of containers – container prep – while each client’s project is in the permitting phase, containers will be ordered, and preparations on them begun. | 3‐5 Weeks |
| Permitting received – land prep/utilities/ foundation begins – Once permitting has been received, land preparations, including dirt work, utility work, and foundation work begins (all on as necessary basis). This work is VERY site specific, so the timeline is wide ‐ | 10‐12 Weeks |
| Delivery day – This is A Very Big Day!! This is the day that the containers that make up Your special project are delivered to your site and welded to the foundation. Depending on the size of your build, this might take a few hours or a couple of days, but when we are done, you will have the entire shell of your new project in place, and ready to be finished out! | 1‐2 Bus. Days |
| Interior/ Exterior Finish Out – Now that the land work has been done, and the containers delivered and permanently affixed to their foundation, it’s time to get down to business! Trades will start scrambling over the build site, getting the exterior and interior build out done, so the finish work can begin. Timeline varies heavily depending on size of build but roughly 10‐14 days per 160 sq ft. | 2 – 20 weeks |
| Final installations/ punch list/ walk through – Everything we have all been working so hard on has been done, and now it’s time to do a walk through, blue tape (mark) anything that needs to be touched up, and wrap it all up in preparation for closing and handing You the keys to Your New Home! | 1‐3 Bus. Days |
| Closing Day! ‐ It’s here!! The day you have been waiting for. If your building is going in a backyard or something similar, the handoff will happen on site, with a small celebration for all who helped make it happen. If you are building from the ground up on your lot, you will be closing at title company or attorney office. We will be there to celebrate and looking forward to your housewarming when you have it – we’ll bring the pizza! | 1 Big Day! |
| Coordination with any banks, lenders and title, will happen from contract signing to closing for ALL builds that require such
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