owner-builder-home-construction-loan

owner-builder-home-construction-loan
Make a list of subcontractors
and get bids

When you apply for your owner-builder-home-construction-loan, you'll need to take estimate bids from most all of your potential subs to take with you to the bank.

Until you get your estimate bids you won't be able to get a construction loan. You can't start building until you get funding. So get started right now by getting those estimate bids from all your potential subs so you'll have them ready to take with you to the bank when you go apply for your construction-loan.

When you go to the bank, if you take at least 2 bids with you from 2 or more subs in the same catagorie of work, (2 plumbers, 2 electricians, 2 framers, etc) you will show the banker you are serious and it will appear that you do know how to build a house, as you apply for a construction-loan. The loan officer is concerned that you have back-up bids in case one of your subs cannot do the job when you need it done.

Study this website thoroughly so you'll know your job as owner/Builder (GC) and then talk "shop" with the banker. Let him/her (banker) witness that you understand the building process.

Our Loan Officer admitted that even her best General Contractors didn't come with this much documentation. I never came across as "knowing it all", and I asked my Loan Officer for help whenever I needed to, and she was always willing to give suggestions.

First impressions are what last, so along with your plans take as many of your sub's estimates with you as possible.

If your credit is good and you have a solid job, plus if you take estimate bids with you to the bank, you'll have a better chance of getting an owner-builder-home-construction-loan, as long as the bank is looking to make home construction loans.

Searching for money is never easy, but consider it "shopping for money." It simply means you will have to search until you find a lending institution that is "hungry" for loans.