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1- Schedule a Discovery Meeting

Schedule your meeting with Patricia, an expert home builder, and we'll have a no-pressure conversation about your vision. Our meeting typically lasts just under an hour. Choose between an online meeting or in-person meeting at our Heber office.

2- Discovery Meeting

We learn about your vision and needs. We'll walk you through the design and build process, including the 3 keys to building a successful custom home. We'll guide you through the important design decisions, help you understand your options and how they affect the project.

3- Build With Us (or Not)

Whether or not you choose to move forward with us, our goal is to be the most helpful homebuilder you have ever met. If you choose to move forward, we will enter into our pre-construction phase and agreement and guide you along with a clear step-by-step plan for success.

Our Process

Building a home can be a hugely rewarding– but also overwhelming– process. As homebuilders, we want to help conquer the chaos and soothe your anxiety; we’ve thought through every step of the way. Below you’ll find an overview of our process and general timelines for building amazing homes while satisfying our homeowners’ expectations. We build every home as if it was our own. We want to be proud of the finished product, because we want to run into you again at the local grocery store with a smile of approval.

2-3 Months: Consideration and Interview Phase

This phase helps you determine if building a home is really something you are able and want to undertake. At the end of this phase, you have a pre-qualification letter from your lender, a budget, and a realistic understanding of what you want in a home, including size, location and amenities. You’ll also have done your homework and met with several home builders. Here’s some things to be thinking about:

  1. Type of home desired– Google different styles and builder plans online to see what you like, and what you don’t like.
  1. How it will get used– Is this a full-time residence or a vacation home? Do you need lots of storage? An office? A media room? A garage? Will you be entertaining guests often? Do you want outside living spaces?
  1. When you’d like to move in– plan for +/- 2 years out, then select the month you’d like to be moving in. Consider family plans, employer plans, schooling, travel requirements, and weather.
  1. Possible location(s) to build– review lots currently available, prices, HOA requirements, and community amenities.
  1. Size desired– how many bedrooms, bathrooms desired. How big of living areas do you want? Kitchen size? What additional amenities– like media rooms, office, laundry, workout spaces, and storage do you want? Don’t forget outdoor spaces like decks and garages.
  1. Talk to multiple lenders. Determine financing options. Local lenders can provide insight into builders and their history of finishing projects on time and on budget.
  1. If you don’t have cash, get a pre-qualification on your loan. Based on your income and credit, you’ll get an idea on what kind of budget you have to work with. You’ll also want to consider what you are comfortable spending on a home. What a bank is willing to lend you and what you’re willing to spend can be two different numbers.
  1. Evaluate your budget and determine if this is a key driving factor on whether you want to proceed with building or not. Remember, you are ultimately the one responsible for paying for the loan in the end.
  1. Remember that homes can be designed to meet just about any budget. The key to not blowing your budget is builder assistance in the planning process!
  1. Interview multiple builders. How can they help with the analysis, planning and building processes. They may have resources for financing, as well. You’ll want to hire your builder early in the planning process so they can help monitor and control the cost of the project. Determine which builder would best benefit you with their services, but make sure you’re a good fit for the builder, too.

5-7 Months: Pre-construction and Design Phase

During this phase, we help you navigate through the architectural and structural design phase. We are your cost consultant and help you stay on budget. When complete, you will have a full working set of drawings ready for permit. You will also have the total budget for the construction of your home, based on initial selections. If applicable, your loan will be ready to go for building.

Stage 1: 1 month

  1. Discuss architects and home designers with your builder and how they differ
  2. Walk through the design process
  3. Sign pre-construction agreement with deposit
  4. Select an architect or designer that can meet your needs
  5. Get your construction loan, if applicable.

Stage 2, 3-4 months

  1. Preliminary design and review: meet with architect and builder to design your dream home
  2. Preliminary estimate and review: builder estimates main design of home and interior bid allowances

Stage 3, 2-4 weeks

  1. Final drawings: design finalized and sent to engineer
  2. Engineering: engineer prepares and marks up design for building

Stage 4, 2-4 weeks

  1. Preliminary selections process: go to vendors and get hard bids on materials (rock siding, floor types, etc)
  2. Fixed bid process: review and finalize budget, and understand the benefits of fixed bid vs. cost plus

Stage 5, 2-3 days

  1. Final Bid Price: review fixed bid contract
  2. Construction Agreement: If you are happy with your design, specs, budget, and our services, then we sign a construction agreement and get a deposit. This is an agreement that commits to building your home as planned out in the design phase for a fixed price.

10-14 Months: Construction Phase

  1. During this phase, the rubber hits the road. When complete, you will have your home built, inspected, and ready to move in! Time frames will vary based on size and location. There will be a few variables outside of the fixed price– like final interior designer choices and unpredictable variables like subsurface soil conditions, etc.

    1. Permits: Depending on your city/county/HOA, plan 1-3 months
    2. Start construction on your beautiful home
    3. Work with our in-house designer finalizing all selections
    4. Final Inspections: Depending on your electric, water, sewer providers, and city/county/HOA,  plan 1-3 months
    5. Final cleaning
    6. Move-in day!

Remake Your Space

4 Steps to Remake Your Space:

Onsite Discovery Visit
Desires: We review what you want to accomplish.
Budget: We review your budget.
Measurements: We take measurements.
Photos: We take “before” pictures.
Initial Ballpark Estimate
Team Review: We go back to our office and crunch the numbers.
Proposed Budget: We provide an initial rough budget and timeframe.
Pre-construction Consulting Agreement
Bids: Before we provide a final budget and commence work, we price out building material.
Final Budget: Once we have bids on materials, we provide a final budget for your approval.
Construction Agreement
Permits: Once a construction agreement is signed, we proceed with permits.
Construction: Once permits are granted, we begin construction.

Core values

  1. We do what we say we’re going to do when we say we’re going to do it. If we fail in some way to do this- we make it right. (S.M.E.E.)
  2. We Own It! We build every home as if it were our own (and we love amazing homes) In our team driven company we have ownership for our processes We own it, we take responsibility for our actions.
  3. We Plan it! We plan every day and we prioritize our tasks so the “Urgent and Important” gets done before the “important but not urgent” & the “urgent but not important”. We plan 15 mins to start each and every day.
  4. We are Process Driven! We create, follow, and refine our process to sell & build defect-free homes on time and in budget (When in doubt follow the process).
  5. We create and maintain a safe workplace of predictability, trust, happiness, and (A place you would want to work that helps you reach your full potential).
  6. We show gratitude and give back (We acknowledge that God is the source of all blessings and we show gratitude by helping His children in need).
  7. We succeed by producing work, satisfying our customers, and making a profit so we can provide for our families. Revenue kills, profit thrills. We are not a revenue driven company, we are profit driven. “Production Produces Profits.”

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Email

rogerspatricia@virefex.com

Address

1015 COUNTY RD D E APT 302, MAPLEWOOD, MN 55109

Phone

(480) 407-8233

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