Chapter Seven Tools & Guides

Get your answers before you get a salesperson

Most people are a year or more from breaking ground, and that is exactly the right time to start learning. Everything here is free, nothing here requires a phone call, and all of it is the same information we would walk you through in person.

Real numbers, honestly explained. Use them however you like.
01 Cost Range What a build like yours actually costs in our market. 02 Square Footage The size of house your list of rooms really needs. 03 The Planbook All 35 plans, with drawings you can print. 04 Lot Checklist Fourteen things to confirm before you buy land. 05 Builder Questions Twelve questions to ask every builder, including us.
Tool One

What will my build cost?

Most builders will not put a number in front of you until you are sitting across a desk. Here is ours. Move the pieces around and see a real range built on what we are actually building today in Montgomery, Harris, and Grimes counties.

Conditioned square footage 3,200
2,000 SF 6,500 SF
Level of finish
Where you are building
The things people forget to budget
Your likely investment
$0,000,000
to
$0,000,000

Your range is ready. Tell us who you are and confirm your email, and we will show it to you and send a copy you can keep.

This is an honest planning range, not a bid. It covers the house and site work, and excludes land, and it moves with your lot, your selections, and the market. A real number takes about two weeks and a set of drawings.

Get a real number
Tool Two

How many square feet do I really need?

Square footage is the number everyone guesses at and almost everyone gets wrong. Tell us the rooms you actually want to live in and we will work backwards to the size of house that holds them comfortably.

The essentials
Bedrooms Including the primary suite
4
Full baths Including the primary bath
3
Half baths Powder rooms and pool baths
1
Garage spaces Counted separately, not conditioned
2
The rooms that make it yours
The house that fits
0,000
Conditioned square feet

We have your number. Tell us who you are and confirm your email, and we will show it and send you the room-by-room breakdown behind it.

Tool Three

Take the floor plans with you

Every one of our 35 plans has its own page with elevations, dimensioned floor plans, and specifications you can save or print. Take one, take all of them, mark them up at the kitchen table. Confirm your email once and the whole collection is yours to download.

Filter by size and beds
35 Plans in the collection, from 2,000 to over 4,600 square feet
4 Lakefront townhome plans at The Harbor on Lake Conroe
1 Email confirmation, then every tool on this page is yours
7 Counties we build in across Greater Houston
Tool Four

The build on your lot checklist

Before you buy the land, and before you fall in love with a plan. Fourteen things to confirm about a homesite in Greater Houston, in the order we would confirm them.

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Looking at a specific piece of land and want a second opinion? Send us the address. We will tell you what we see, whether or not you ever build with us. Ask about a lot

Tool Five

How to interview a builder

Texas does not license home builders, which means the vetting falls to you. Print this, take it to every builder you meet, and write down what they say. Including us. We would rather be chosen carefully than chosen quickly.

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Want the longer version, with what a good answer sounds like? Read Choosing Your Builder.

When you are ready, we are here

No pressure and no timeline of ours. Bring your notes, your questions, and the lot you have been driving past. We will tell you what we honestly think.

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