Your home should reflect the aesthetics and ambiance you’ve woven into your dreams. This is, after all, the most important investment of your life. The Parksville housing market has just reached an 11-year peak, so this is the moment to amplify your return on investment. It’s also a seller’s market, though, so inventories are so empty they’ve developed an echo. It’s tough to find your dream home in the current market, but custom home building has swooped to the rescue. Custom building grants you the personalized home of your wildest fantasies while overcoming soaring property values. This isn’t a prepackaged solution, however. You’ll need a tight project management strategy that incorporates a solid paper trail and expert schedule-juggling. With Alair Homes in your corner, your project will run without a hitch.

Making Your Project Possible

Land acquisition is the first step towards custom home building, but before you even begin your project, you’ll need to make sure you have the financing to see it through to the end. Our team will assist you at this early stage, helping you to track down just the right designers to handle your preliminary plans. This is your opportunity to put your most thrilling design ambitions on paper, but you can’t dream without a solid budget. Your financing will guide your project from the first sketches to the last throw pillows, so you’ll need to perform a complex risk analysis before you can make your architectural dreams a reality.

Risk Analysis Tools

No custom home building project is smooth sailing all the way. Preempting risks before they happen will remove your reactivity and the errors that go with it. We perform a range of thorough risk calculations before we lay the first brick. SWOT analysis identifies the weaknesses and threats facing your project while simultaneously highlighting its strengths and opportunities.

Applying for Permits

Even the smallest home improvement projects require permits, and every region has its own unique regulatory landscape. Parksville’s building permit requirements are strict, but luckily my team and I are familiar with these restrictions. The City of Parksville requires long-range planning that’s in keeping with official community plans. It also requires custom homes to be sustainable, zone-conscious, and water-aware. This is something that aligns with our ideals as a team, so some requirements are easy to fulfill. Once we’ve made sure your project is feasible, we’ll assign you a project manager.

Verifying Your Plans

As your project kicks off, you’ll need to take inventory of the professionals you’ll be working with in the coming months. Builders, trade partners, engineers, and masons must be slotted into your schedule and fit your price projections. We’ll join you for a project consultation meeting to inform your process. After, our proprietary online system is made available to you so you are kept up-to-date on all of your project details.

We’ll also prepare drawings and the financing budget that goes with them. This part of your project leaves no room for error, so we verify structural scope and fixed costs against your plans. Many custom home building companies offer a fixed price process, but a more client-centered approach can overcome many of the challenges presented by that modality. We give our clients an upfront cost without removing their flexibility. You get to adjust your vision from the first day of planning to the final dab of paint, all with the price transparency of a fixed price project. You can’t make decisions without knowledge, after all.

FIXED PRICE COST PLUS CLIENT CONTROL
Ability to make finish product selections.
Client keeps 100% ownership of the property throughout the process.
Buying power passed directly to the client.
Full breakdown of management hours.
Clients have complete transparency to the costs, including markup.
Ability to change selections and scope during construction with no penalty.
The price of the job is known up front, prior to construction commencing.
All encompassing service, from lot sourcing and designing to move-in services.
Clients have absolute control over their vision for the project from day one.

Team of Expert Tradesman

Juggling tradesman requires the kind of strategic thinking and planning smarts few homeowners manage on the first build. Alair’s Client Control Model gives homeowners the freedom they need to create an inspired home while offering them access to a professional team’s management expertise. You can adjust your budget, schedule, and design preferences, but you needn’t create your own time and labor breakdowns. We make our skills your own, and our online portal lets you oversee plans to help ensure your home is suited to your unique requirements. Our cost breakdowns give you all the data you need to adjust your expenses to fit your custom priorities. Only after consultations and getting to know one another do we draft a construction agreement to prepare you for the start building.

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Constant Communication

Your construction agreement isn’t the end of your project management strategy- it’s just the beginning! I like to think of this as the start of a great partnership. Each day comes with its own challenges. Storms may set your schedule off-kilter and career commitments push you off-deadline, so we rely on daily project management and financial reporting to keep clear communication among the whole team. This way, small problems don’t get the chance to blow up into catastrophes. We take our work schedule seriously, so we also offer weekly client status meetings to keep you abreast of your custom home building. You deserve transparency, so our client control process ensures that you sign off on each trades person and supplier we use. 99% disclosure is no disclosure at all. You should know every aspect of your project at every stage.

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Our luxury home construction framework puts your ideas first. It combines the best traits of a fixed and cost-plus model, so your voice plays the starring role in your project. If you’re interested in partnering with us to customize your property, give us a call today to schedule a complimentary consultation!