What would it cost to build this house?

Caim

Hello,

I was wondering how much it would cost to build a:

6 bedroom (All 6 bedrooms will have about 16-18 ft. long walls).

3 full bathrooms(Toilet, Sink, Shower).

A Full Kitchen( All the utilities, Long counters, Island in the middle of the kitchen [Imagine the kitchen on Fresh Prince of Bel air]).

A Dining room with room for a table that can fit 8-10 people.

And a large living room (for a 72 in. Flat-screen TV, 2 leather 3 seater couches with a L shaped style).

All this without the cost for a builder (My brother, nephews, and myself are going to be building it. They are professionals, i'm going to be the, for the lack of a better word, chore boy.)

Also without the price for land. I am currently looking at a 2 Acre flat area in Western NC that already has the underground set up to build a house on. Which is very affordable for 7,000.

So basically I wanted to know the cost for just the materials to build the house. I asked this question before and got a real bullshit answer from this idiot, so i'm asking again. I JUST want the estimate for the MATERIALS only. Don't go on about how I would have to factor in labor costs when I explained there will be NO labor costs.

Thank you very much in advance for all the help!

Answer
I have checked 6 bedroom homes for sale in your state and they average around 130 per sq ft so it will cost aprox 66% of 130 which is 85 per sq ft...for the price you need to know your sq footage calculated from your floor plan...hope this helps!!

Big apartment dogs denied an enjoyable life?

silly!

many people I've met, and even my husband, thinks that small dogs are for apartments and big dogs are for houses. what do you think? this really stresses me out and makes me upset. i have a 8 month old hound mix who weighs 60 pounds. he has the lean body and face shape and a few other features of a greyhound. everyone is pretty sure that the hound he has is greyhound. anyhow, he's a puppy. just turned 8 months old. i know they are basically done growing around 1 year old. he'll probably put on a few more pounds. i wouldn't be surprised if he got up to 80 pounds.
anyhow, my husband and i have a 2 bedroom apartment. it has a full living, dining, bedroom, kitchen and laundry room. not big, but a standard apartment. many people swear up and down that my dog will become too big for my apartment. they say he needs a yard to run in, stairs to run up and down on, etc. why is it that people think that medium to large breed dogs won't do well in an apartment? that makes me soooo mad. my pup is well behaved in our apartment because i trained him to be. he rarely barks unless it's some call of the wild instinct thing. he runs around when we play, but it doesn't bother the neighbors downstairs. our other dog is the same weight, and will probably get bigger seeing as their a pup too. we actually got him a companion so they can be friends and keep each other company. they love each other. when they start to rough house and get loud, i set them on the balcony outside to play it out. the balcony is a standard balcony. it could fit a 2 seater rattan and a table and chairs for 4 with a small grill.
i take them to the dog park 10 mins outside our house everyday for a MINIMUM of 2 hrs whenever the weather allows, which is basically everyday. most times it's longer. they go for long walks around the base at least once a day. they socialize and are standard trained (sit, stop, eat, etc) and are working on their training all the time.
that being said, i honestly don't see how my apartment dogs are being denied the "good life" of not having a backyard and stairs when all they would do is run into the furniture and crash in the stairwell if we did live in an actual house. it hurts me so much because i love my pups, and they're well behaved. they seem just happy. so what am i doing wrong? what do you think? i guess you should curse me because i decided not to have the ever so popular chihuahua and min pins as small apartment dogs. forbid i'd be the one to deny a dog a home because i live in an apartment. it's not like i have a 300 pound mastiff whose head is bigger than mines. i don't have a Great Dane. but no, i'm bad, right? geez....
plus, may i add-we won't be living in that apartment forever. we live on a military base and will be moving around a lot within the years. we will one day have a house with a yard. my pups are potty trained to go on the balcony. i don't see what they're missing.
for those who say it's too long.....? then don't read and stop posting saying it's too long just to get free points. idiots. the title says it all. do you think big apartment dogs are denied an enjoyable life? the rest that i put was just details. never learned how to skim over reading material?
sisu-your'e right. i too used to think the same way, but you would never know or understand until you try it. personally, it helps my pups. it helps them to learn how to behave in a smaller place than the dog parks they go to. i would much rather have my pups grow up in a smaller place, then move into a bigger one. that way they can learn to adapt to different changes. forbid i'd get a big dog that only has been in a big house and downsize to an apartment.....lol there would be a lot of sudden changes. it works, though. it looks odd, but it works if you're determined.

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i could not agree with you more ... the size of the home is not important to a dog, they don't know they are not living in a mansion, they are more enjoying owners who exercise and love them ... i think you could define that as the "good life" :O) dogs, regardless of size can live in apartments ... even great danes are known to be good apartment dogs ... i have lived in large houses with fenced yards and doggie doors and i currently live in 400 square feet, regardless of where i have lived the dogs want to be with the people ... i have lived most of my adult life in downtown city cores with dogs and there are big and little dogs in the neighbourhoods ... i actually find dogs who live in apartments are more socialized and balanced because living in an apartment you can not have a poorly behaved pet because you would be evicted, and the dogs get out of the apartment at least 2 to 3 times a day, unlike the house-living dogs, who get let into a backyard for exercise (it is not exercise people !!!) ... i go to my parents neighbourhood and the house dogs are barky, aggressive, do not get along with other dogs ... walk around downtown vancouver, dogs are not going for each other because they are used to other dogs and trained and socialized ... so don't get mad at the people for judging your situation because in reality there is absolutely nothing wrong with your situation, and you should more feel sympathy for people with closed minds and ignorant views, usually not based anywhere in reality ...

little dogs are not more barky than big dogs in apartments ... the building i live in has over 600 apartments, the only dogs with separation anxiety are BIG DOGS ... two of them that will never shut up and in three years i have lived here, never heard a small dog bark in the building ... two buildings before i lived here, again a big dog had separation anxiety and would not shut up ... my next door neighbour has a portuguese water dog, will not shut up ... that is real life experience and not a myth that people like to perpetuate ... a small dog can be trained not to bark just like a large dog and there is no difference in how much a dog barks based on their size ...

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