Owner/Builder info.

[hooligal]

"not web design and maintenace - and my designer got a big time design job in Hilo!"

Um Cat, I can fix that for you silly! Send me the username & password for the site and I'll have it done in 5 minutes. I eat web sites for lunch

[jdirgo]

Behold hooligal, Destroyer of the Internet!

(I mean, if she eats websites for lunch, then they go away, right?)

Please don't eat Punaweb, hooligal...

John Dirgo, R, ABR, e-PRO
Aloha Coast Realty, LLC
808-987-9243 cell
http://www.alohacoastrealty.com

[hooligal]

Tee hee. I got an image of Godzilla eating Tokyo when I read that - RAWR!

I guess I should say I eat *broken* HTML for lunch & spit out fixed web sites I was ribbing Cat ... I lived with her for 2 months & she knows I'm uber-computer-web-geek.

I promise not to eat PunaWeb. I bet it would be tasty though!



Edited by - hooligal on 11/03/2007 15:04:31

[HADave]

I stumbled on to this paragraph, from Aloha Package Homes under the state regulations pertaining to owner builders......


Property owners who meet certain requirements, however, can register as an Owner-Builder with their county building department. This exempts owners from the requirements to be licensed as contractors yet still allows them to obtain building permits.


I must admit the mention of certain requirements has me abit befuddled and was hoping someone knew what these certain requirements might be.??

As Always Thanks !!

Aloha HADave

S.China / Kurtistown

Forget about World Peace... Visualize using your turn signal.

[Rob Tucker]

Interesting question. To the best of my knowledge you need to be alive and breathing.

[John S. Rabi]

quote:

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Originally posted by Rob Tucker

Interesting question. To the best of my knowledge you need to be alive and breathing.

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Well, having some money to build the house helps too!

Aloha,
John S. Rabi, ABR,CM,CRB,FHS,RB
http://www.JohnRabi.com
Typically Tropical Properties
"The Next Level of Service!"

[jdirgo]

You also need to understand that you still need licensed plumbers and electricians and sign-off on the statement that as an owner-builder you will not sell for one year from the date of completion or face some significant (read: HUGE) penalties that can be as high as ?30 ?35% of the total accessed value of the house.

Help me out here, Cat, what's the percentage of the penalty?

John Dirgo, R, ABR, e-PRO
Aloha Coast Realty, LLC
808-987-9243 cell
http://www.alohacoastrealty.com

[HADave]

John I think this is in reference to what you are thinking but still does not have much to do with the certain requirements, as I understand it.

Depending on the type of infraction, a first offense may result in a fine of up to $5,000 or 40% of the appraised value of the building, whichever is greater. Subsequent violations may result in a fine of $10,000 or 50% of the building's appraised value.

Rob, Alive and breathing would be a Good News kind of Thing, I'm sure county has something different in mind, I'm holding out for Cat's or Hotcatz's thoughts on this one

But John R The best things in life are free.... or have no interest or payments for one full year. []




Aloha HADave

S.China / Kurtistown

Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.

[jdirgo]

Whoa, that's exactly the thing I was thinking of -- I just had on rose-colored glasses thinking it 30-35%.

$5,000 or 40% of the appraised value of the building, whichever is greater

I'm guessing it will be the 40% []

John Dirgo, R, ABR, e-PRO
Aloha Coast Realty, LLC
808-987-9243 cell
http://www.alohacoastrealty.com

[Hotzcatz]

Check out these links, Mgeary: http://www.hawaii-county.com/permits/how...ermit.html
http://www.hawaii-county.com/permits/permits.htm

That URL gives you the information on how to pull a building permit in the County of Hawaii the requirements for it.

There are probably about as many different ways to build a house under the "Owner-builder" rules as there are owner-builders out there. Some folks do it all, from drawing it up to building the house while others have all the work done for them and even hire someone to keep track of all the other workers. You are required to sub out the electrical and plumbing work and get a few engineer's blessings on certain types of plans but other than that you can do basically everything else.

If you already have a building permit, then basically follow the plans (more or less, there are always at least a few changes made on the jobsite). Technically, you are supposed to get the changes approved before making them, but sometimes that isn't necessary. It all depends on the changes and how much of a change it is. Moving a doorway over a few feet usually isn't a problem, adding additional square footage is a problem.

The requirements for an Owner-Builder permit are listed on the County website somewhere, it's been awhile since I looked them up. I think the basic requirements are you can't build more than one Owner-Builder house in more than a specific number of years and you have to live in the house when you are done with it for several years, too. They want the "Owner-Builders" to be just that - folks who are building their OWN house to live in when they are done. If that's what you are doing, then you shouldn't have any problems.

There was also some concern about Owner-Builders hiring unlicensed contractors to build their homes. If you are building your house with the help of family members and friends then there is no problem at all. You have to hire licensed plumbers and electricians so that's not an issue but some unlicensed contractors were pulling "owner-builder" permits and then building the houses and the County doesn't approve of that and if those folks get caught they levy big fines.