11-11-2005, 07:48 AM
Aloha Guys,
Good topic and I love to talk building.
HADave has excellent advice and speaks with experience. The main question you need to ask yourself is Do I want to go permitted or unpermitted? Some will have no choice in the matter and will have to go permitted due to location of their lot, for example our house we are building in Ainaloa sub division would be impossible to build unpermitted due to the CC&R and it's pretty well enforced. Ajit your 3 acre parcel would be a prime example of being able to build unpermitted due to the size and heavy foilage of the property. On the East side (Puna) your main concern is keeping dry from the rain, You could build very inexpensively a covered structure with screened in walls and off the ground post & pier style. probably a 14 ft x 24 ft structure could be built for less than $10,000. You cannot get even temp power now without a building permit so you would have to go all solar. Catchment water and cesspool and you got a simple home. Figuire about $4,000 - $5,000 for a road and clearing a house pad. I Do not think much of these cabin kit homes? why? pay a middleman just draw out a simple plan and go down to Home depot buy the lumbar and build it. If you have a wife will she go along with roughing it? Most won't !
more later.
Lee
Good topic and I love to talk building.
HADave has excellent advice and speaks with experience. The main question you need to ask yourself is Do I want to go permitted or unpermitted? Some will have no choice in the matter and will have to go permitted due to location of their lot, for example our house we are building in Ainaloa sub division would be impossible to build unpermitted due to the CC&R and it's pretty well enforced. Ajit your 3 acre parcel would be a prime example of being able to build unpermitted due to the size and heavy foilage of the property. On the East side (Puna) your main concern is keeping dry from the rain, You could build very inexpensively a covered structure with screened in walls and off the ground post & pier style. probably a 14 ft x 24 ft structure could be built for less than $10,000. You cannot get even temp power now without a building permit so you would have to go all solar. Catchment water and cesspool and you got a simple home. Figuire about $4,000 - $5,000 for a road and clearing a house pad. I Do not think much of these cabin kit homes? why? pay a middleman just draw out a simple plan and go down to Home depot buy the lumbar and build it. If you have a wife will she go along with roughing it? Most won't !
more later.
Lee