You Can Loose If YOU Snooze, Why You need a Log Home!

You Can Loose If YOU Snooze,
Why You need a Log Home!
This is a very sad story. So get out your box of Kleenex.

A couple wanted a new home in Portland Oregon. This home was to be their special once in a life time custom home. It was a stick framed home not a log home.
After picking their floor plan and finalizing their plans they asked for bids. They finally accepted one of the lower bids. The main contractor did not do any part of the work but farmed it out. It cost them $500,000.00.
When they finally moved in it started to rain. During the next several months the rain destroyed their home. The roof leaked everywhere. The siding started to fall off and the windows leaked profusely. This destroyed the sheet rock the expensive flooring along with much of the interior doors and trim. Basically they had to start all over.
What did they not do before they hired the main contractor? They did not check his past record or any one he had previously worked for. That contractor made over $100,000.00 building their home. When the new owners approached the Oregon State builders board they found that the total they could get back was $15,000.00. The contractor made over $85,000.00 for doing very little.
When they finally had their home redone it cost them another $400,000.00. The moral of the story: if YOU Snooze you loose. Take the time to do your home work. Get out of that comfortable arm chair, stop watching TV and check on back grounds and other homes they have built. And most of all do not pick the contractor by price only.
I had some people tell me that they do not take the lowest price, that they always take the higher bid. Later I found out that they had been taken as well, so don't think just because this one is higher than the other bids, that it is better. Not by a long shot.
So why do you need a log home, First ONLY IF IT IS THE RIGHT LOG HOME will it be better. Most log home companies talk a big deal and love your money but you can end up with a pile of fire wood, an expensive pile of fire wood.
The right log home will not leak through it's siding. The right log home will not have sheet rock to replace on it's inside walls. The right log home will have to be built only once. And the right log home can be built for $100,000.00 less than the original price they paid.
If they would have picked a log home company builder using the 10 point system in my blog, How to choose a great log home, they would have a great energy efficient log home.
I can show you how to build a log home with a life time warranty for the same or less than a standard well built home. This home will use 30% less energy to heat it and cool it as well as be a safer home in case of earth quakes, fires, or tornadoes. This home will not need to be resided in 10 or 20 years. It will be easy to maintain when properly done. And like most of the people I have built for in the past you will not ever want to sell it.

Log home are dream homes but you can make it a reality. Please do your home work first.
Have a great one,
Log Man Dan