[faterikcartman]

I don’t know if it would be more appropriate to just start another thread, but I’ve wondered about approximate costs to build a custom home as well, though not necessarily in Santaluz.

I’m wondering about Spanish or Tuscan style homes finished to a level like a decently optioned Lennar Lakes or Bridges home?

When the market was strong the number I kept hearing was $350/sq ft. Not sure if this was inflated then, or even if accurate, has gone down now.

I do know you can really put the number through the roof if you get fancy on the finishing touches. I know someone who spent almost $700/sq ft. and that does not include the lot or even grading. And another friend went way over $1,000/sq ft., not including the lot (this house is in the latest edition of Electronic House (and is even nicer than the magazine lets on)).

We are trying to buy a lot in a very upscale area and would love to get the building costs as below $250 as possible.

Has anyone built acting as their own GC?

[faterikcartman]

I don’t know if it would be more appropriate to just start another thread, but I’ve wondered about approximate costs to build a custom home as well, though not necessarily in Santaluz.

I’m wondering about Spanish or Tuscan style homes finished to a level like a decently optioned Lennar Lakes or Bridges home?

When the market was strong the number I kept hearing was $350/sq ft. Not sure if this was inflated then, or even if accurate, has gone down now.

I do know you can really put the number through the roof if you get fancy on the finishing touches. I know someone who spent almost $700/sq ft. and that does not include the lot or even grading. And another friend went way over $1,000/sq ft., not including the lot (this house is in the latest edition of Electronic House (and is even nicer than the magazine lets on)).

We are trying to buy a lot in a very upscale area and would love to get the building costs as below $250 as possible.

Has anyone built acting as their own GC?

[faterikcartman]

I don’t know if it would be more appropriate to just start another thread, but I’ve wondered about approximate costs to build a custom home as well, though not necessarily in Santaluz.

I’m wondering about Spanish or Tuscan style homes finished to a level like a decently optioned Lennar Lakes or Bridges home?

When the market was strong the number I kept hearing was $350/sq ft. Not sure if this was inflated then, or even if accurate, has gone down now.

I do know you can really put the number through the roof if you get fancy on the finishing touches. I know someone who spent almost $700/sq ft. and that does not include the lot or even grading. And another friend went way over $1,000/sq ft., not including the lot (this house is in the latest edition of Electronic House (and is even nicer than the magazine lets on)).

We are trying to buy a lot in a very upscale area and would love to get the building costs as below $250 as possible.

Has anyone built acting as their own GC?

[faterikcartman]

I don’t know if it would be more appropriate to just start another thread, but I’ve wondered about approximate costs to build a custom home as well, though not necessarily in Santaluz.

I’m wondering about Spanish or Tuscan style homes finished to a level like a decently optioned Lennar Lakes or Bridges home?

When the market was strong the number I kept hearing was $350/sq ft. Not sure if this was inflated then, or even if accurate, has gone down now.

I do know you can really put the number through the roof if you get fancy on the finishing touches. I know someone who spent almost $700/sq ft. and that does not include the lot or even grading. And another friend went way over $1,000/sq ft., not including the lot (this house is in the latest edition of Electronic House (and is even nicer than the magazine lets on)).

We are trying to buy a lot in a very upscale area and would love to get the building costs as below $250 as possible.

Has anyone built acting as their own GC?

[faterikcartman]

I don’t know if it would be more appropriate to just start another thread, but I’ve wondered about approximate costs to build a custom home as well, though not necessarily in Santaluz.

I’m wondering about Spanish or Tuscan style homes finished to a level like a decently optioned Lennar Lakes or Bridges home?

When the market was strong the number I kept hearing was $350/sq ft. Not sure if this was inflated then, or even if accurate, has gone down now.

I do know you can really put the number through the roof if you get fancy on the finishing touches. I know someone who spent almost $700/sq ft. and that does not include the lot or even grading. And another friend went way over $1,000/sq ft., not including the lot (this house is in the latest edition of Electronic House (and is even nicer than the magazine lets on)).

We are trying to buy a lot in a very upscale area and would love to get the building costs as below $250 as possible.

Has anyone built acting as their own GC?

[faterikcartman]

Just because someone got a sweet deal yesterday doesn’t mean someone hired tomorrow needs to be offered the same deal.

Again, comparing groups or whether or not certain jobs are tough, etc., etc., ad nauseam, just muddies the water. All we should be looking at is if there are qualified people willing to do the job for less. I assert there are plenty.

[faterikcartman]

Just because someone got a sweet deal yesterday doesn’t mean someone hired tomorrow needs to be offered the same deal.

Again, comparing groups or whether or not certain jobs are tough, etc., etc., ad nauseam, just muddies the water. All we should be looking at is if there are qualified people willing to do the job for less. I assert there are plenty.

[faterikcartman]

Just because someone got a sweet deal yesterday doesn’t mean someone hired tomorrow needs to be offered the same deal.

Again, comparing groups or whether or not certain jobs are tough, etc., etc., ad nauseam, just muddies the water. All we should be looking at is if there are qualified people willing to do the job for less. I assert there are plenty.

[faterikcartman]

Just because someone got a sweet deal yesterday doesn’t mean someone hired tomorrow needs to be offered the same deal.

Again, comparing groups or whether or not certain jobs are tough, etc., etc., ad nauseam, just muddies the water. All we should be looking at is if there are qualified people willing to do the job for less. I assert there are plenty.

[faterikcartman]

Just because someone got a sweet deal yesterday doesn’t mean someone hired tomorrow needs to be offered the same deal.

Again, comparing groups or whether or not certain jobs are tough, etc., etc., ad nauseam, just muddies the water. All we should be looking at is if there are qualified people willing to do the job for less. I assert there are plenty.

[faterikcartman]

Sorry, but I don’t buy a lot of your points jpinpb.

First, I don’t think zillions of people made money on the bubble because their salaries went up.

Second, I don’t think that public sector employees had the ability, en masse, to go out and make more in the public sector.

Moreover, I reject the assumption that there are not people out there who would, and are capable, of working as a cop for less. If this were true, we would not be able to fill the ranks of the military.

With waiting lists for these jobs I know we’re not anywhere near to testing the limits of how low compensation could go.

I personally know quite people in law enforcement. Moreover, I know people going through the application and hiring process and have done the same myself.

Departments often put candidates through the process to determine who is qualified and just because you’re qualified does not mean you’re off to the police academy. Rather, you’re put in a queue, on a list, until there is an opening. The fact is there are many more QUALIFIED people willing to do these jobs than there are jobs available. We can know for certain that we’re paying too much up until the point we can’t fill the positions in a timely manner.

Unions in many industries and fields have ruined things for their constituents as they’ve struck and extracted so many wages that either the jobs go overseas or the employers collapses entirely. I’ve found that many of these people have a very, very, unrealistic idea of what they are worth outside their union job.

Lastly, I would like to clarify that I don’t blame police, fire, and other government employees for the largess they enjoy. I blame the politicians who bought their votes with unnecessary compensation packages, the bureaucrats they hired to put these packages together and make other employment decisions, and the people who kept voting them into office.

[faterikcartman]

Sorry, but I don’t buy a lot of your points jpinpb.

First, I don’t think zillions of people made money on the bubble because their salaries went up.

Second, I don’t think that public sector employees had the ability, en masse, to go out and make more in the public sector.

Moreover, I reject the assumption that there are not people out there who would, and are capable, of working as a cop for less. If this were true, we would not be able to fill the ranks of the military.

With waiting lists for these jobs I know we’re not anywhere near to testing the limits of how low compensation could go.

I personally know quite people in law enforcement. Moreover, I know people going through the application and hiring process and have done the same myself.

Departments often put candidates through the process to determine who is qualified and just because you’re qualified does not mean you’re off to the police academy. Rather, you’re put in a queue, on a list, until there is an opening. The fact is there are many more QUALIFIED people willing to do these jobs than there are jobs available. We can know for certain that we’re paying too much up until the point we can’t fill the positions in a timely manner.

Unions in many industries and fields have ruined things for their constituents as they’ve struck and extracted so many wages that either the jobs go overseas or the employers collapses entirely. I’ve found that many of these people have a very, very, unrealistic idea of what they are worth outside their union job.

Lastly, I would like to clarify that I don’t blame police, fire, and other government employees for the largess they enjoy. I blame the politicians who bought their votes with unnecessary compensation packages, the bureaucrats they hired to put these packages together and make other employment decisions, and the people who kept voting them into office.

[faterikcartman]

Sorry, but I don’t buy a lot of your points jpinpb.

First, I don’t think zillions of people made money on the bubble because their salaries went up.

Second, I don’t think that public sector employees had the ability, en masse, to go out and make more in the public sector.

Moreover, I reject the assumption that there are not people out there who would, and are capable, of working as a cop for less. If this were true, we would not be able to fill the ranks of the military.

With waiting lists for these jobs I know we’re not anywhere near to testing the limits of how low compensation could go.

I personally know quite people in law enforcement. Moreover, I know people going through the application and hiring process and have done the same myself.

Departments often put candidates through the process to determine who is qualified and just because you’re qualified does not mean you’re off to the police academy. Rather, you’re put in a queue, on a list, until there is an opening. The fact is there are many more QUALIFIED people willing to do these jobs than there are jobs available. We can know for certain that we’re paying too much up until the point we can’t fill the positions in a timely manner.

Unions in many industries and fields have ruined things for their constituents as they’ve struck and extracted so many wages that either the jobs go overseas or the employers collapses entirely. I’ve found that many of these people have a very, very, unrealistic idea of what they are worth outside their union job.

Lastly, I would like to clarify that I don’t blame police, fire, and other government employees for the largess they enjoy. I blame the politicians who bought their votes with unnecessary compensation packages, the bureaucrats they hired to put these packages together and make other employment decisions, and the people who kept voting them into office.

[faterikcartman]

Sorry, but I don’t buy a lot of your points jpinpb.

First, I don’t think zillions of people made money on the bubble because their salaries went up.

Second, I don’t think that public sector employees had the ability, en masse, to go out and make more in the public sector.

Moreover, I reject the assumption that there are not people out there who would, and are capable, of working as a cop for less. If this were true, we would not be able to fill the ranks of the military.

With waiting lists for these jobs I know we’re not anywhere near to testing the limits of how low compensation could go.

I personally know quite people in law enforcement. Moreover, I know people going through the application and hiring process and have done the same myself.

Departments often put candidates through the process to determine who is qualified and just because you’re qualified does not mean you’re off to the police academy. Rather, you’re put in a queue, on a list, until there is an opening. The fact is there are many more QUALIFIED people willing to do these jobs than there are jobs available. We can know for certain that we’re paying too much up until the point we can’t fill the positions in a timely manner.

Unions in many industries and fields have ruined things for their constituents as they’ve struck and extracted so many wages that either the jobs go overseas or the employers collapses entirely. I’ve found that many of these people have a very, very, unrealistic idea of what they are worth outside their union job.

Lastly, I would like to clarify that I don’t blame police, fire, and other government employees for the largess they enjoy. I blame the politicians who bought their votes with unnecessary compensation packages, the bureaucrats they hired to put these packages together and make other employment decisions, and the people who kept voting them into office.

[faterikcartman]

Sorry, but I don’t buy a lot of your points jpinpb.

First, I don’t think zillions of people made money on the bubble because their salaries went up.

Second, I don’t think that public sector employees had the ability, en masse, to go out and make more in the public sector.

Moreover, I reject the assumption that there are not people out there who would, and are capable, of working as a cop for less. If this were true, we would not be able to fill the ranks of the military.

With waiting lists for these jobs I know we’re not anywhere near to testing the limits of how low compensation could go.

I personally know quite people in law enforcement. Moreover, I know people going through the application and hiring process and have done the same myself.

Departments often put candidates through the process to determine who is qualified and just because you’re qualified does not mean you’re off to the police academy. Rather, you’re put in a queue, on a list, until there is an opening. The fact is there are many more QUALIFIED people willing to do these jobs than there are jobs available. We can know for certain that we’re paying too much up until the point we can’t fill the positions in a timely manner.

Unions in many industries and fields have ruined things for their constituents as they’ve struck and extracted so many wages that either the jobs go overseas or the employers collapses entirely. I’ve found that many of these people have a very, very, unrealistic idea of what they are worth outside their union job.

Lastly, I would like to clarify that I don’t blame police, fire, and other government employees for the largess they enjoy. I blame the politicians who bought their votes with unnecessary compensation packages, the bureaucrats they hired to put these packages together and make other employment decisions, and the people who kept voting them into office.

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