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The process of building a house requires a lot of careful planning and thought, especially while deciding on the floor plans. The process of finalizing a floor plan can be challenging, but it can be made easier if you follow the steps given below:

Specify your budget

This is probably the most important factor of deciding your home plans. You need to set a specific amount as your budget and ensure that you do not exceed it at any cost. By setting a budget, you would have a better idea of what you can and cannot add to your home floor plans.

Consider your lifestyle and family requirements

When you are working on the floor plans for your home, you need to ask yourself what you liked and disliked in your previous house. You should consider your lifestyle in your previous home and try to add some aspects from that in your new home. Moreover, your lifestyle may change drastically if you have just married or got a promotion or a new job. In simple terms, your house plans have to suit your lifestyle requirements. If you live with your family, then it is not just your lifestyle that matters. Ask your family members what they want from the house and include their inputs in your home plans.

Think about the location of your house

The final important factor you need to think about is the location of your house. The shape and size of the house, the arrangement of the rooms and everything else depends on the location of your home. The direction of each room in the floor plans also needs to be determined. Even if you do not believe in the astrological implications, you need to consider the effect of the prevalent climate and noise. For example, your bedroom would have to be fitted with an overhang if the climate is always sunny, and it would also have to be placed away from the noise so that there is no disturbance while sleeping.

At MonsterHousePlans, we made the plan searching job really easy for you. You can search plans from our database of more than 22000 plans. Visit https://www.monsterhouseplans.com/house-plans-advanced-search.html to search and get an appropriate plan for your house.

 

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Home-buyers tend to have a difficult time with getting organized for the financing of their shiny new house. Well, we have some tips to help prepare you for the process. With just a little knowledge about what to expect, a home-buyer can make the whole process quick and smooth. It can all be broken down into four simple steps to get a head start.

 

1. Check your scores. Surely, you have already heard about the FICO scores or your credit scores in the past. Before even looking at houses, make sure that your score is up to par. It is free to get a copy of your credit reports from all three bureaus once every six months. Use these as goals. Try to remove any bad markings that might be on these reports. For instance, if you had a water bill that you owed from your old apartment, it might show up on here. Try to take care of this before looking into financing your new home. It will easily raise your score a few points. These scores determine the monthly cost that you will incur and the down payment needed for this new mortgage. Continue reading →

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One of the most common reasons people give when asked why they are improving their home is that home improvements increase house value. While this can often be true, it is by no means as universal as some people assume it is. When you’re about to pay out lots of money for a home improvement, it’s worth checking whether the value of your house will increase by enough to pay for it – or, worse, whether it might actually force your house value down.

Let’s start with bathrooms and kitchens. While well-maintained and nice-looking kitchens and bathrooms do add value to a home, there’s nothing to say that they have to be the very latest thing. An older room that is well looked-after and wasn’t a complete abomination to begin with can often help the value just as much as a newly-installed one. Continue reading →

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MonsterHouseplans.com, a Planworks, LLC company and a leading supplier of stock house plans online, announced today that the company’s house plan collection now exceeds 22,000 premium plans. The milestone was reached with the recent addition of over 1,000 new house plans and includes designs from several top architects and home designers in North America. Achieving this milestone represents the fast growth the company continues to experience by striving to provide the best selection of high quality house plans and the very best customer experience.  This is being achieved by our efforts to constantly update the website to provide the most efficient methods of finding the perfect house plan, while filtering out the plans that do not have the features the customer is looking for.

“We are very excited to now offer our customers over 21,000 high quality house plans,” said Jeff Spring, Founder and CEO of Planworks. “We look forward to building upon the momentum created through the active support of our designer community, and maintaining a focus on our mission of establishing ourselves as the leading destination site for smart owner-builders and professional home builders.  This is a remarkable milestone for MonsterHouseplans. Our proactive efforts to cultivate strong relationships with top designers and architects enable us to add exciting new house designs to our site every day. This ensures our customers have the most extensive selection of exceptional house plans to choose from, as well as on demand professional assistance with any related topic.”

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I would like to offer a prayer for all of the families and friends of the victims of the horrible tragedy that occurred last Saturday in Tucson Arizona.  This was the work of a totally deranged person.  At a time like this, we need to resist the knee-jerk reaction to assign blame to this.  There is absolutely no evidence that this had anything do to with politics as some pundits have tried to suggest.  This is not a time to use this horrific incident to get in political points or assign blame to political philosophies that had nothing to do with this.  Unfortunately, there is no way to completely prevent this type of tragedy.  In a country of over 300 million people, there are going to be insane people that will do insane things.  I feel that our focus needs to be on the victims of this event, period. Read the stories of the people involved.  From those that perished to those that exihibited extreme heroism in face of unspeakable terror.  America will survive this and become a stronger nation if we keep this in perspective and continually strive to make this a better place.  Violence is never the answer and we must reject it always.

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Pending home sales have increased for the second consecutive month, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said the latest data is consistent with a gradual improvement in home sales in upcoming months. “Attractive affordability conditions from very low mortgage interest rates appear to be bringing buyers back to the market,” he said. “However, the pace of a home sales recovery still depends more on job creation and an accompanying rise in consumer confidence.”

At MonsterHousePlans.com, we are excited at this news, but realize it is just the beginning.  Housing always leads the country out of recessions. However, this one might be different.  We have added 5 trillion dollars to the US debt since 2007, but Speaker Pelosi promised that we were entering a new era of “pay as you go” and “there will be no increase to the national debt”  It hasn’t quite worked out that way.  This, and other policies recently enacted could bring a screeching halt to any recovery most of us are counting on.  However, we can stop this.  We can vote.  Anyone that has ever balanced a checkbook knows that our current rate of spending is unsustainable.  We need to vote in new representatives that actually possess character and fiscal disipline.  Let’s return this country the values it was founded on.  Personal responsibility and self-reliance.

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At least some analysts are bullish on housing.

William C. Wheaton, professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argues that the housing market is due for improvement, calling home construction, “a sleeping giant that is about to wake up.”

Wheaton believes that because there has been so little construction that demand exceeds the level of building and it will soon absorb excess inventory.

“Housing construction will not only rise, but it will stay high for a while, which didn’t happen in previous recoveries,” Wheaton predicts.

At MonsterHousePlans.com we believe we are in a “Pre-Boom” period!

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Monster Cost-to-BuildMonsterHousePlans.com, a leading online supplier of stock and small house plans, announced today it has launched three new Monster Cost-to-Build™ services. The new Cost-to-Build services provide very accurate cost estimates for construction of each of its 20,000+ plans for every zip and postal code in the US and Canada. And, in an industry first, detailed home construction cost reports can be calculated interactively online in real time. Instant Cost-to-Build calculates detailed and accurate cost to build reports instantaneously with a few button clicks. It includes the ability to interactively select the quality of construction and foundation type and view adjusted costs in real-time. Click here to find out more about these services.  Monster Cost-to-Build

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Written by Business Journal staff
Wednesday, 15 September 2010 10:59
Homes-constructionThe latest building permit report by Construction Monitor shows that single-family home building in the Central San Joaquin Valley crossed the $300 million mark by Sept. 9.The weekly publication says this year in the region, 1,693 single-family housing permits were granted with a value of $303,992,369. Centex Homes remained the lead builder with 132 homes being erected this year at a value of $22,718,469.K. Hovnanian Homes and Wathen-Castanos Inc. each had 117 homes being erected this year, the former with a value of $19,241,323 and the latter with a value of $18,075,020.

Commercial construction was up only slightly from the previous week, the report said, with a year-to-date project value of $230,805,920.

At MonsterHousePlans.com, be believe that the best is yet to come.  All we need to do is stop reading the headlines about doom and gloom and focus of those things that are positive in all of our lives.  This is still a great country filled with great people that are capable of amazing things.  We will pull ourselves out of this like we have in the past.

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Talk in the home builder and developer trenches going into this past weekend waxed academic, focusing on an analysis that flashes harsh light on the realWall Street Graphity of a rebound. Then, lo, authors of said analysis, Steven Gjerstad and Vernon Smith of Chapman University (Orange, Calif.), show up with an op-ed piece in the Saturday Wall Street Journal. Briefly, they say, recoveries just don’t get going unless housing gets going first. Likely take-away? Policy makers won’t be able to resist more plans to fix housing. Read more…