What do you need to do before signing a building contract on your renovation or new build project?

Especially if you want to save time, money and stress, and set your construction phase up for success.

HOME Method member, Ben, shares the key steps he took before signing a building contract, and ensuring a great working relationship with their builder as well.

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Hello! This is Episode 371, and I’m joined once again by HOME Method member, Ben, to talk through the big milestone of choosing his builder and stepping into the pre-construction phase of his project. 

If you’re navigating your own decision-making process or weighing up quotes, builders, or final selections, this conversation is going to be incredibly valuable.

Ben was first on the podcast back in Episode 352 and Episode 353, sharing how their project began, and taking us through the decision to put pause on the project, and spend time redesigning to help the project align with their budget expectations more effectively.

In this latest episode, Ben shares how he and his partner, Mike, chose between two builders after over a year of due diligence, the surprising insights they discovered when comparing revised quotes, and the steps they took to ensure their contract, scope, and selections were clear and locked in before construction began.

You’ll also hear how they approached their communication with the builder, how they handled their mechanical services, and the way they’ve structured regular site meetings to support a smoother experience during the build.

This is such a great example of what it looks like to apply what we teach in HOME Method in real life: removing assumptions, documenting clearly, asking the right questions, and building a relationship that supports both sides of the project.

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Before we dive into the conversation, let me give you some context on timing. 

Ben and Mike joined HOME Method in April 2021. 

The last conversation I had with Ben in Episode 352 and Episode 353 was in November 2024. This latest update was recorded in August 2025. Ben and Mike’s project is due for completion in early 2026.

Here’s Part 1 of my conversation with Ben.

I hope you find the conversation we have about personal relationships vs professional relationships super helpful. It’s always really interesting to navigate the human journey inside the project one, and to see how it impacts communication and mindset for both you as the client, and your professional team. 

I know a lot of the conversations I have with members inside HOME Method can be related to this, as it’s totally understandable for it to feel incredibly significant and personal, and for that to cloud your ability to have objective conversations, especially if they’re about difficult subject matter, calling someone to account, or treading into territory you’re nervous about discussing.

For some builders, the first time they work with a HOME Method member can be the first time they’ve had a truly informed client, and I get to hear on the back end how builders get excited about that, see the difference it makes in the project, and adjust how they do things to work inside the context of that working relationship. I think it serves everyone really well ultimately. 

It enables a client to feel more confident and is able to trust the process more, and the builder and designer or architect can really bring their client into the process more collaboratively. It really does benefit all involved – and the home they create together as well.

Let’s hear from Ben now.

This is the transcript of my conversation with Ben, as he shares the key steps he took before signing a building contract, and ensuring a great working relationship with their builder as well.

Amelia Lee
Well, Ben, it is so awesome to have you back on the podcast. I am super excited about sharing your latest updates with the listeners, because I know that you’re at a really exciting stage in your project. It’s felt like it’s a long time coming, I know for you personally, and so I think it’s going to be really awesome to share more about how you’ve got to this point and what you’re navigating at the moment. So last time we spoke, you had found two builders, both of whom you were happy to work with. And so there was that analysis of who was going to be the best choice, and how are you going to do that? And then also, I think too, there can be a personal thing of worrying about letting down the person that you have been working with. And how you have that conversation with them about that they’re not the one that you’ve chosen. Can you talk through about how you went about actually selecting the builder that you decided to work with?

Ben
Well, we came to that choice, as you recall, once we had undertaken a redesign of our project, because the first one was just well outside our budget. And in terms of making that decision, a big part of it was all the work that we had done with both of those builders over. It was at least a year at that point, the due diligence we had undertaken, but also, asking questions, the way that they had reacted to queries, the delays, and even when we decided to go to a redesign phase, what advice they had, and the level of communication responsiveness, and from what I could tell, technical building capability.

And the truth is, they’re both very strong, but in different ways. They both had a very good degree of experience, but took a bit different approaches, one of them being on the tools, one of them much more in a project management and very highly organised from having run his own building company for a very long time. And a lot of it came down to working through the updated pricing. We did a lot of work to take costs out of the build in terms of simplifying and focusing on what was really important to us, and taking out what ended up being a lot of extras that, in retrospect, were added through the design phase, but weren’t part of our brief. Classic extras. Just a little bit of “why not” adds up into a whole lot of extra budget.

Once we did decide to seek updated quotes from both of those. And one of the biggest things was the builder who had the building business for that longer period of time and definitely offered what we would regard maybe as a higher level of service, more of a white glove approach, the cost didn’t really change, which we were really surprised about. And we tried to unpick that with him. And there were some responses around some things had increased, but it didn’t simplify as much as we thought it did, which was kind of curious, because the advice that we got from him through that redesign phase was that we were undertaking simplification. And then with the other builder, the price did come down, and it was within where we wanted it to, and being within budget, plus the satisfaction that this is somebody that we could and we would like to work with, made that choice for us. 

Sometimes it does come down to money. A lot of times it comes down to money.

Amelia Lee
Well, it’s come down to money, but you’ve also been making some judgment calls there in terms of the kinds of businesses that they operate, how they work. You gave yourself a long runway in terms of testing the relationship with them prior to the contract as well, which gives you a lot of exposure to what they’re potentially going to be like to work with whilst the project’s under construction. So, I think, that’s a very different exercise to sending your project out to tender, getting 3/4/5 builders to price on it, and then choosing the cheapest quote off the back of that. What you’ve done is actually a lot more thorough and constructive in terms of that negotiation and figuring out who’s going to be the best fit alongside who’s going to be able to deliver it within that budget framework.

And it’s interesting that with all of that reworking, that the price didn’t change. And that also, it sounds like that that builder wasn’t able to give you a satisfactory explanation as to why it had stayed the same, which, if the builder had said, “Look, prices have increased, or we feel X, Y and Z is the reason why it’s not changing.” Perhaps you would have had a different outcome. But it sounds to me like they weren’t able to sufficiently explain to you why with after all that reworking, you weren’t seeing the price coming down.

Ben
It’s true, and I should probably add that it is well, on the first point, that by the time we had started building we would have known both of these people for a year and a half. So, really understanding them for a long period of time absolutely gave us the comfort to move ahead. But then on the revised quotes, the one that didn’t come down that much, what it actually did is, the quote that we got back from the builder that we didn’t go with, actually, the bottom line that they provided came down on as a percentage wise, about the same as the other one. But a lot of that was due to elements that were removed and that were then put on us to purchase and arrange. So that actually took a lot of work in terms of, well, not just comparing quotes, but knowing what is required and the things that we would have to do, and preparing a spreadsheet and adding those back in. And that really revealed the extent of the difference. So there was quite actually a bit of work to do once those quotes came in to understand their comparability.

Amelia Lee
Can you talk a little bit about how you went about doing that?

Ben
I looked at both the previous and updated quotes that we got from both builders. The key thing was, I was very grateful to the builder that we didn’t go with, that one was closer to a line-by-line pricing, which I didn’t necessarily expect, because I understand everything comes together, and I shouldn’t expect line-by-line. But in terms of the scope items that were included, I was able to break that down and prepare comparison. And then using the knowledge of what else we were going to need for the build, be able to add some stuff back in and make a comparable judgment. It still wasn’t perfect, but when I was comparing from the other builder that didn’t have line-by-line pricing, but again, comparing scope items before and after.

The other thing too, though, is I asked each builder a lot of questions around what’s included, and also just making sure that all the latest plans were referenced, not just what was drawn by the building designer, but the engineering, the selection schedule, just making sure that I was taking as much assumption out of what I was reading as possible, and ground truthing it and writing. That gave me the confidence.

Amelia Lee
Fantastic. I can just picture you with your spreadsheets. Knowing you the way that I do Ben, the way that that analysis would have gone down. Your credit to yourself. Awesome. In terms of setting things up for construction and getting things going, what steps did you take in order to feel some confidence that you’re going to be heading into construction, having not really left anything on the table, being confident that had checked all the boxes, and that construction would go as smoothly as possible? How did you navigate all of that pre-construction phase?

Because you can have a huge sense of urgency, particularly when you have been waiting a little bit of time to get things starting on site. And I can imagine once you’re locked in, “Okay, this is the builder we’re going to work with, and this is what we want to do.” You do want to race and make that site start as quickly as possible. What did you do in terms of making sure that you were covering everything before that happened?

Ben
That is interesting. From the time that I was looking back at the timeline between making that decision in our heads, my partner and I, that we were going ahead with that builder and sending that “Yes, we would like to work with you,” to then actually the words, accepting the quote, and then actually signing the contract. There were a couple months actually between each one of those. Once we decided that we wanted to work with the builder, I was conscious of making sure that even though we thought the quote and the scope of works was 85 to 90% there, I didn’t want to rush on that last 10 to 15% after all this time, to make sure that either there weren’t things unforeseen, things that I was leaving out, maybe decisions that I had made a year ago that maybe weren’t as current as I thought, and took the opportunity to go through all the drawings, the selection schedule, the scope of work, to make sure that everything that I was assuming was included. So there was a series of five comprehensive emails just to understand number one, what I thought was being included as part of the work. Number two, verifying that the list of questions that I had from the first quote were still current for the second quote, really didn’t want to leave anything alone.

And also then, some of the high level decisions that we had made, maybe with mechanical ventilation and roofing, I think, whether that was a chance to go into a little bit more detail and understand the supplier that he was planning on using. One of the great experiences that I had in putting the quote together in the first place was finding a window supplier that we really liked and visiting their showroom, talking to them, researching their product, because that’s such an important part of the home that we’re building. And for other large components of the project, I wanted to do the same thing because I could. And I knew that a little bit of time would pay dividends in the end. So we had all that documentation. The other thing through that process, the way that the builder responded.

Number one, they responded respectfully, professionally, and in a reasonable amount of time. And number two, when I was asking whether this was included or that was included, a lot of the answer was yes. So that also gave me at least an indication that it was less likely to be a, “Oh, well, that’s extra. And, I didn’t account for that.” And just trying to reduce the number of assumptions and increase the amount of facts and evidence.

Amelia Lee
I love it, because we talk in HOME Method, don’t we, about assumptions being big holes that money and time fall into, and your job is to really eliminate those assumptions as much as possible. And being able to do that prior to signing the contract is a very helpful thing, so that you don’t have that problem on site where you have that confusion about something you thought was included and it ends up being a variation. So I love that you took the time to go back as well. I think that that’s a really great piece of advice for listeners, because we talk about all of the conversations, all of the decisions, all of the things that happen along what can be quite a long time frame, and you can just think that, yeah, surely this has all been factored in. But I love the fact that you took that opportunity to reflect and check, are they still current? Are they still relevant for you? And if they are, have they been included so that you can have certainty about that before you sign the contract. So that sounds brilliant.

Ben
Thank you. I think the other thing that I was doing at the same time, and I think is worth mentioning, just at the same time that I was being very conscious, I mean, because we’re taught in HOME Method to be conscious of the way questions are being answered, and how other individuals, and especially builders, are conducting themselves. I was also reflecting on how I was conducting myself and trying to make sure that the builder could get to know me with the questions that I was asking, but also making sure that I was being professional and respectful. And whether he was interested or not, explaining why I was curious about these things, and the stuff that was important to me to take maybe some of the guesswork out of maybe what he was thinking, but also set up that relationship for the longer term.

Amelia Lee
Yeah, that’s awesome. I think it’s really interesting, isn’t it, because it’s such a personal endeavour for you, and yet this is a business relationship for the builder. And you talk about being professional and respectful, and I think also trying to be neutral in that as well. Like, to not load this communication with a heavy emotion or expectation, and at the same time, to be very clear about what you’re curious about, trying to also operate from a place of curiosity, rather than it sounding like an instruction or a demand. There’s this incredible nuance about the communication and navigating that. And I think, what I see from homeowners, and I know I’ve experienced it myself, just the human need to be liked, need to belong, need to please can really wreak havoc on something that’s a really personal and emotional endeavor for you in terms of creating your long term home. 

And then you’re dealing, potentially, with builders who haven’t been trained in communication, haven’t necessarily always done it very well, and so, I really love that you were taking on board that conversation that we have in HOME Method about asking the questions is as much about getting the response as seeing about how you responded to.

Ben
It is. And I will say, it may not be a personal relationship, and it’s a professional arrangement, but it is a professional relationship. Like, there is a relationship, part of it. There’s humans involved, there’s two parties that are working together, so not to be unemotional and cold, and part of it’s the builder certainly wants to understand what I want to achieve as an individual, but I also want to contribute to just making it mutually beneficial, and understanding that there is a human on the other side of that, and a professional relationship is still a relationship, but certainly not a personal one.

Amelia Lee
And being able to ensure that you are setting your expectations with how you want that relationship to go, whilst remembering and trying to keep in perspective that this is a relationship between you as a client and them as a business, not two people and not just trying to reduce the personal from it, but it’s completely understandable, because you’re investing in hopes, dreams and ambitions for your future, and this is the person that’s standing between you and this finished home on site. And so, it’s very natural to then want that to be a personal kind of connection as well, because you’re going to be dealing with this person for a long time. So it’s such an interesting line to tread as a client, isn’t it?

Absolutely love it. So now, I’m just looking at some of the notes that you’ve made about some of the things that you were doing in that lead up to setting up construction. So you talked about finalising your selections. Can you talk through how you’re doing that to make sure it was all locked in pre-contract?

Ben
Yeah. So, the approach that we took in the first place, was to, and these words are just burned into my head, is bringing forward as many decisions before you sign the building contract. Which I think is not just helpful in terms of getting accurate pricing in an accurate scope, but, I think, from being in HOME Method and seeing how much happens during the build phase, I couldn’t imagine having to make decisions during the build process. Not to mention just the head space and getting the timing right, but also a lot of decisions that you make, other other parts of the build depend on. So, all this customisation, I wouldn’t want to compromise my ability to have what we wanted by not putting in the work to make the decisions ahead of time.

So one of the key things, we made a great many design decisions related to the actual building design, and then, as I said, big ticket items like the windows, but also working with an interior designer through the process to prepare a comprehensive selection schedule, seven pages of internal selections on a spreadsheet. And I think it was two and a half of externals. And it had, just line-by-line, those decisions. And trying to strike the right balance between, with the redesign of not revisiting too many things that we had made good decisions on for a reason, but for some things where we’re comprehensively changing something, like we were changing the kitchen layout and changing some of the joinery, but whether we wanted to revisit things around the edges, but also when we were looking at taking costs out of the project, finding the areas that could make a significant difference, and whether there were alternate choices that would still achieve our objectives.

Like, I think the flooring is a good example where I think, sometimes, with a certain type of carpet, I can get wrapped up in, like, “Oh, this super plush wool, this luxury product”, and just like, wait a minute. Is this functional? Am I getting caught up into just extra costs for no reason? And just examining some things that we decided to go through. And again, it was another prioritisation exercise. It was just like when we looked at the building design to understand, really, what’s important to us. Also with the selection schedule, where we’re spending some of the larger amounts of money, where it would make a cost difference and where it wouldn’t make a functional difference to optimise.

Amelia Lee
I love too, that you were documenting it all. I think a lot of people can fear investing the effort and time in documenting it all in case A, they need to then change it down the track, or B, it doesn’t end up being the price that they want, but it gives you a place to start from. And it gives the builder something accurate to actually price so then you can have that conversation.

Whereas if you’re working from the builder’s assumptions about things, you’re just working from allowances, then it creates a lot more scope for there to be variations through the build. So it’s really awesome that you took that time to lock those things down. In terms of your services and things like that, can you talk through what you were doing? Because that can be a big bucket of money in a project as well, things like, if you’d have air conditioning, your lighting, all of your plumbing infrastructure. How were you navigating that to have confidence before you dived into the contract?

Ben
I think the biggest thing was probably the first services, was the mechanical ventilation. That was actually the only thing that came back with the revised builders quote on a provisional sum and an assumption that was being made there. So because, again, for better or worse, but we had additional time. As we were negotiating a contractor, waiting for things to happen, I wanted to understand. It was 10s of 1000s of dollars. I wanted to know what assumptions were going into that and why. Respecting the process, I was asking the builder the questions, the builder was sending them to the mechanical person, coming back to me, that happened a bit. And then, just in terms of optimising, then we took the opportunity for the three of us to meet to understand what assumptions they were doing and why. So what I’m going to say next, I don’t know if I’d necessarily recommend to everybody, but look, I like to understand things and I want to make sure that I get things right. So I also spoke to other potential.

The builder was planning on using a certain vendor, and I understood it was likely to go that way. But I also took the chance to talk to other professionals who were willing to talk to me about how they might approach heating and cooling that sort of building, and renovation and extension, and understand how they would approach problem solving, etc. And then I took the knowledge and the information that I received, and then this further three-way discussion, and got to a stage where we weren’t having the gold-plated solution, and we weren’t undercooking it, but I was a lot happier with where the price was, but also why certain things were being done. Because in our last renovation, I think we had a bit of an overcooked heating and cooling system, and I just wanted to avoid that.

Amelia Lee
Yeah, I absolutely love that, Ben, that you did that. Because to me, it just speaks to the fact that you wanted to be informed about this big expense. And something like your heating and cooling infrastructure can be quite a chunk of money in a project budget, and particularly if it’s sitting inside a provisional sum. And you know that it’s potentially got some flex in during construction, trying to lock that down as well, so that you understand where the potential variants might come from, and are they things that you can potentially mitigate now, because somebody’s making an assumption about something they just haven’t had a conversation with you about. And I remember my days at Mirvac, we would have the HVAC contractor come in during the design phase to literally do a pencil drawing over the top of our floor plans to say, “Look, this is how we will air condition this home, or this is how we’ll run the infrastructure. So we need to have ducts here and here and here.” And it’s just so helpful when you know that it’s something that is going to take up space and need to operate a certain way.

And then you as a homeowner, it’s a system you need to maintain, it’s something that you actually have to service long-term in order for it to go well. So I think understanding the mechanics of all of that is super valuable for you as a client. And so I love that the builder was open to you having that kind of collaborative conversation. To me, this is speaking volumes about your builder selection and about the kind of relationship that you’ve crafted with them, and lots of green flags about how open this builder is too, that they don’t see your involvement as a challenge to their expertise and their role. But they’re actually seeing that their job is to help you feel more confident and informed about it. A lot of builders aren’t used to having clients that are so educated and they can see it as a threat. And so, I love that. 

There’s lots of green flags with what you’re saying about how this builder is navigating your desire to have agency in your project. And so that’s boating really, really well. So absolutely love it.

Ben
In terms of the green flags, I should also mention, besides the due diligence and speaking with other clients beforehand, before we approached this builder in the first place, we kept in touch with some of the people that we spoke to who he’d done other projects for. So the fact that we had that extra year really helped us understand what things were like after the build also, and that helped us make a confident choice.

Amelia Lee
Yeah, absolutely love it. Now, with the builder’s timeline, how did you go about that? Because we talk in HOME Method about making sure that you’re A, going to be able to have regular site meetings on site, understanding the terms and conditions of site access, how’s communication going to occur during construction, what are you going to see a program or a schedule, how’s the builder going to report about that in terms of timing and money.

How were you going through all of those kinds of conversations with the builder pre-contract?

Ben
So as part of, as part of our choice of builder, that was definitely one of the questions that we had asked, like, how are things scheduled? And the response to that question from the top two builders that we were choosing between, that was probably one of the biggest differences, I think. The builder that we didn’t choose to go with has a sophisticated software system that gets updated on a regular basis. And the subbies have a version of things on their phones, and it’s highly up-to-date, and it’s quite detailed. And the builder that we chose to go with, it was evident, didn’t take the same approach and approaches that particular aspect of the process in a less detailed way. So we’re going into that eyes wide open. I think, if I could have everything I wanted, I would like a detailed schedule. And we spoke about having that soon after the contract was fined, and there’s a certain number of days in the contract that things are going to take. And I understand it’s still a work-in-progress, but this is something to note that we do not have a detailed schedule. And that’s something that we’re going to have to be aware of and note.

And that’s going to be interesting. I’m hopeful that we will get something, but revisit this in the upcoming weeks and months ahead.

Amelia Lee
And in terms of your access to site, what have you been able to set up with the builder In terms of visiting site and having site meetings?

Ben
Oh, another HOME Method life lesson, arrange regular site meetings with the builder. And again, we asked the builder about that, and he was very happy to accommodate. And we said, “How does weekly work?” He said, “Sure, I’m happy to do that.” And from the very beginning, we had our weekly Friday, 7:15 site visit.

And after a couple of weeks, it’s like, “Oh, do we really need the site visit the next week?” It’s like, “Do I want to get up extra early and do that?” Usually not that early. But that notion of having a forum for regular communication actually does make a lot of sense. And it keeps communication, I guess, like, outside the week. Because I don’t need to contact the builder all the time when they’re doing their work. We did all this work to be really specific and detailed about what we were wanting. So if we have a mutually agreed time for communication, unless there’s anything that urgent or emergency, that should be the time that we talk about it, and that has gone really well so far. And I’m really satisfied with how we’ve approached that and how the builder’s dealt with it.

Amelia Lee
Awesome. Are those site meetings being minuted?

Ben
I am keeping notes. I think the right decision for the relationship is for us to keep notes and not call them minutes.

Amelia Lee
It sounds like this builder, like, I think of the work that we do in Live Life Build, and we have builders that come to Live Life Build who still on the tools. And they have a couple of team members, and they’re working maybe one or two projects at a time, and so they’re doing a lot of their admin after hours. And they don’t necessarily have all of the systems and processes or tech platforms to navigate that. And then, as they start to grow, or make a concerted effort that they’re going to shift and change that as a business, they’ll start to look at implementing systems. And it might be a platform like Wunderbuild or Buildxact, or BuildPass, or something like that.

And then they also start to then have some admin support. And it might be through their partner might get involved, or it might be that they hire somebody, either locally or remotely, and they start to then snowball into operating more. They get more off the tools and operate more at an administrative level in their business, we talk about how inside building businesses, 80% of what a builder actually has to do is off-site, not on-site. On-site only represents 20% of what it takes to run a building business. And so, it’s really interesting, your builder… I don’t know if you listened to the conversation that I had on the podcast with Anthony Hickey from Two Tone Construction, who’d worked as a builder with some HOME Method members. And he said that the HOME Method members kept the minutes, and now he does it because he saw the value in it. And he joked about how it was a bit humbling that they were the ones doing it.

But I think that you’re wise to recognise that you’re just going to call them notes and not minutes. Because, I think too, there can be a resistance amongst builders, particularly builders who still see themselves as trades people, not business owners, that anything that looks corporate is to be avoided. And so, I think it’s really interesting that you’re recognising this in the way that you’re navigating stuff, and at the same time, you’re still managing your risk and protecting things, because you won’t remember all of those conversations that happen on site. And if something comes up in 3, 5, 6 months time that was discussed, you’ll have a record to go back to. So I think it’s really wise. And I love that you’re recognising that the importance of those site meetings is that it aggregates all of that communication into one hot spot during the week and then streamlines things overall. And because you have taken the time to effectively document your project, schedule your selections, the builder should have the information that they need to know what they need to execute.

And so your job is basically to be there, seeing, being informed of anything that does come up, because it can in a custom project. Just have that comfort level of the fact that you’re going onto site and you’re taking your drawings, and you’re seeing that things are being done, and you can ask any questions that you might have about things that are confusing you or you’re curious about. And the builder, if they have any questions, knows that they’ve got a time frame within which to ask you, and that’s all done, rather than them having to call you at the end of the day, give you a time frame to get back to them, all of those kinds of things. So it bodes well for all of that going smoothly. The schedule is a tricky one because it is one that I would love you to have, but I also understand that it can be tricky to extract from some builders.

Again, this is a conversation that we have with builders. They are doing this work anyway, because they have to as part of planning the project and pricing it. So, any builder that’s listening to this, could you please just figure out a piece of software like Tom’s Planner, or even an Excel sheet, and just map it out. Because all you need, as a client, is to see the stages that are aligned with your progress draws. And you’ll have so much more comfort about what is the timeline overall and how that marries up with the dates in the contract. So, yeah, it’s quite interesting, because it’s work that they’re doing anyway, but that next leap of putting it into something that they can give to you graphically is often their stumbling point.

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Ben’s previous episodes on the podcast:

• Episode 352 ‘How to Design a Home Renovation and Extension, with Ben’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-how-to-design-home-renovation-extension/ 
• Episode 353 ‘Managing Your Renovation Budget When Designing, with Ben’ >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/podcast-managing-your-renovation-budget-when-designing/ 

Access the support and guidance you need (like Ben did) to be confident and empowered when renovating and building your family home inside my flagship online program, HOME METHOD >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/courses/the-home-method/

Learn more about how to interview and select the right builder with the Choose Your Builder mini-course >>> https://undercoverarchitect.com/courses/choose-your-builder 

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