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What to Expect During a Homesite Evaluation
How to Find the Right Lot for Your New Home
When building a Wayne home on your lot, the first step is finding the land! When you’re shopping for lots and you find a site you think might work for your new Wayne home, you can contact us so we can do a complimentary site evaluation.
Wayne Homes offers a free site evaluation to help customers determine if a piece of land is suitable for building a Wayne home. The evaluation can help identify potential issues and additional costs that may arise during construction.
How It Works
- Meet with a New Home Consultant and choose a floor plan
- Visit a Model Home Center to select a floor plan
- A construction team member will inspect the land
- A construction team member will identify any potential issues or additional costs
- A construction team member will walk the lot with the customer and discuss next steps
What We Evaluate
- Driveways: Whether the land has access to a driveway and if it needs to be created
- Home positioning: Where/ how the home can be positioned on the lot
- Land access: Whether the lot has access to maintained roads, or if there are sharp turns or narrow access points
Why It’s Helpful
The Complimentary Homesite Evaluation can help customers avoid unexpected costs and make an informed decision about purchasing the land. We know it’s not easy, and if you’ve never built a new construction home before, then you don’t necessarily know what to look for. Our team will help you figure out if there are any lot conditions to take into consideration. For example, signs of excess water on the property, trees that may need to be cleared, existing or previous structures on the property that may interfere with the new home’s location, etc. Our team can also determine if the preferred floor plan would need reversed due to the layout of the lot.
Know Before You Build
When planning to build a new home, there is so much planning and preparation involved before breaking ground. One factor that can’t be entirely planned for is what may be found once excavation begins. Diligent research and information gathered ahead of time can help to mitigate the chances of unwelcome surprises due to lot conditions. The complimentary homesite evaluation paired with the expertise of a Realtor who knows the area well and/or consulting local municipalities can uncover a lot of these unexpected surprises before they become issues. This allows you to gather info about zoning requirements, such as setbacks from the road, right-of-way, or what utilities are available at the property. It is also helpful to get property records to see if there were any previous structures on the property or mines/wells located there, etc. All of this “groundwork” helps to ensure there are fewer surprises later down the road in the homebuilding journey.
Questions to Ask During the Site Evaluation
Some helpful questions to ask during your homesite evaluation include:
- Will this home we’d like to build, work on this lot and will it be in our budget?
- What additional costs should I expect?
- Where on the lot should the home go, and do we need to consider changes to the floor plan?
Your Partner Along the Path to Home
We’re committed to providing our homeowners with expert guidance and helping them through each stage of the process–which includes at the very beginning when they are deciding where to build their new home.
Evan Tachoir, who built a Providence II Classic, highly recommends taking advantage of our complimentary homesite evaluation.
“Requesting for Wayne Homes to complete a complimentary homesite evaluation is a great idea to figure out any variables that may exist with the property that would impact the floor plan you select.”
Elizabeth Walther, a New Home Consultant at our Bowling Green office, said that the homesite evaluation delivers peace of mind.
“One of the hardest decisions when building a new home is deciding exactly where to build it!” Elizabeth shares.
For many of my homeowners, the Wayne Homes homesite evaluation is an opportunity to help to alleviate much of the stress of choosing the right lot.
Elizabeth was recently working with a homeowner who needed land in an area known for a high water table and flood risks. During the homesite evaluation, they were able to determine if the house would fit on the property and question the risk of flooding. This provided the homeowner with critical information to make an informed decision about which piece of property to purchase, as well as establishing a realistic budget for the land-related costs to expect during their build.
Jeannette Lengyel, a New Home Consultant at our Belmont office, shared that one of her customers used the homesite evaluation to determine that their home needed to be reversed.
“One of my previous homeowners had planned to place their home with the garage on the right side of the lot. To their eye, the slight slope of the property wasn’t concerning. However, when our team visited the lot, they were able to determine that there was more slope than it originally seemed. Just by reversing the floor plan, the homeowners were able to save thousands of dollars.”
To have a complimentary homesite evaluation done, simply contact a New Home Consultant and they will help you do the rest!
We encourage you to take this helpful, FREE step towards new homeownership.
We’re here to help! Reach out to request a complimentary homesite evaluation today.
About Wayne Homes
Wayne Homes is a custom homebuilder in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia (see all Model Home Centers). We offer more than 50 fully customizable floorplans and a team dedicated to providing the best experience in the home building industry. For more information, Ask Julie by Live Chat or call us at (866) 253-6807.
Disclaimer: The details of this blog are accurate as of the publish date, but are subject to change.
