1. Choosing Your Home

The first step to owning your new home is to choose a home design from our more than 20 floor plans. Then choose the level of completion you would like your home built to. We offer three levels of interior completion to save you money.

2. Pre-Construction

Once you’ve chosen your new home, we need to sign a contract before construction on your home begins. You should review this carefully. We will review courthouse records regarding the title to your property. We’ll apply for the building permits we need to begin construction.

You will need to do some building site preparation, which includes eight very important steps. We recommend meeting with your construction manager before you begin as he can offer advice on how best to complete each of these steps:

• clear and grade the property,
• test the soil if you’re unsure of its stability,
• check drainage on the property,
• provide access to your property for the construction crews,
• provide running water,
• provide a safe source of electricity using a ground fault interrupter circuit,
• mark any utilities and trees or shrubs you want to keep, and
• stake out the exact location of your house, with our help.

Then, we hold a pre-construction meeting to review and verify the contract and building plans. We confirm the location and position of the home on the property. This is the last chance to make any changes to the floor plan, because changes cannot be made by subcontractors.

3. Watching Construction

When you visit your home site, please be careful. Any construction site can be a dangerous place, especially for unsupervised children.

Along the way, you may have several questions about the homebuilding process. Please address any questions or concerns you may have to your construction manager, not subcontractors. Subcontractors are not in a position to answer your questions. If you have trouble obtaining what you need from your construction manager, you may also contact the Neatherlin Homes branch in your area.

Neatherlin Homes is responsible for all permits and inspections for work to be performed by Neatherlin Homes under the contract. Where required, we post a building site sign to post permits and give information to subcontractors. Please keep this sign upright and in position. If you do finish work on your home, you may need to get permits and inspections necessary for that work.

When a Neatherlin Homes employee inspects your home, we are checking that it is built to meet or exceed all appropriate codes and standards, and to make sure it includes all the options and features you have selected. If we spot something that needs to be changed, we add it to a list of corrections to be made by a subcontractor.

4. Construction Completion

Once your home is completed according to your contract, we tender the home to you.