hello you're watching real estate agency the program that will bring you the most current information about real estate and home staging i'm karen bizzaro real estate agent and professional home stager today's topic discussion is how and why to build and county will be discussing selecting the right property and the steps you take during the building process we'll be right back with this edition of real estate agency today is mark hasse kins owner of benjamin marcus home marc is an accomplished construction manager with twenty nine plus years experience in all facets and site development from initial design and planning to development and project under into the building industry you began building in one nine hundred seventy nine attaining license in several different states pennsylvania west virginia ohio virginia a little bit in maryland quite a few single family spin good under control the way they've done it here in peter's the the city fathers do a really good job with it the planning commission and council they let you go a little bit of time and so like the area in the school district well being accustomed to order i think i believe more and in the quality of the home and the amenities at home and not the amount of homes that you build so you know if custom home that we do is kind of designed for you know they always call it great it's living  bird of it's not and we don't actually but always follow the national trends we kind of do our own thing but you know in general the four things are always constant or you're empty nesters so it's the people that are the kids or you get right to graduate from high school or go in college or might have gotten married a little bit smaller home your first time buyers so the newlyweds are in the the singles professionals or whatever the of you know don't want to read anymore they want have a place of their own higher end customer which is what we do a lot of a quarter of springdale roads and a trail and we did maybe six tenths of an acre almost and larger and larger frontage is on a lot of them so they have a little more of an estate setting and joe and i develop i try to keep as many trees as i can so we just kind of wait and cut the center out right kept all the perimeter trees give everybody their privacy and then we have another project we're working on called tuscany that's still in the planning stages and it's not just about roads and it's a little bit unique especially right now for peter's words  customer then accrues interest they have to pay interest on the money that's used but that's kind of the normal way that a construction on is done with no it's our process a little bit different in that we kind of go through the whole thing with a design price contract inspections and so forth and for them they save a good bit of money on interest because they're making interest on the money interest payments on the money today used great rate and a lot of people have this great picture of a house and they may come to you and say oh i want to build this dream ho maybe you can set it straight on the actual process and how that works well i always tell people it's important to take a lot before you pick the house so many times it's done in reverse they see the dream home and they're out trying to find a lot to put it on and you know lots aren't that plentiful around peter's so generally they're trying to force a house onto a lot where it really doesn't belong that it's all about the pog or feel like you know are you going to have one step up to the front door because you selected the wrong and so really by picking a lot first then you you can take ideas that you like in a house you can take a facade that you like and that on the front of the house but you really need to design the house this is the life and i try to design i want to fit the house it's kind of reverse what you have a lot picked and you select your builder and you know i always tell the people you know if you're new to the area especially or you see that around get yourself a good realtor somebody who knows the area knows the developments in those developers and that way generally they can match you pretty well they can they can match a buyer in a builder knowing maybe what the builder once and maybe or what the buyer wants and maybe that builder right that  once you do that you enter into a contract maybe in the building process and once it starts generally it's going to be clearing excavation foundation water proofing drains and then you're framing siding  the homes that you've built here right here so if we can have the first image cleaned this is this is three is seven buckingham drive right this is pretty much a unique house being that it's  all one level steep roof you would call it a ranch but if you look at it it really doesn't look like a ranch with right to dormers kind of given to parents of a story and a half but the house is very unique because it's everything a giant two story is and it's basically you cut the second floor off and put it on the first floor so four big bedrooms you know three and a half bath on the first floor living room dining room kitchen study family room  giant laundry big mud room pretty much anything you could ever want now and then being all on one level you have the same amount of square footage on the lower level so it's a lot of room in that hou to this this is actually one of the two windsor court ok yes yes and this house is pretty interesting it's a little bit eclectic you know it's kind of a little bit of the european flair we make some brick and it's got all these private areas but it's open but the front you know it has that red brick masculine brechin the big columns i think this columns are eighteen or twenty inch diameter columns as tall as yeah they're they're about twenty foot tall  what's nice about this house and seem so far is that the garage is on the side and you know have that garage door feeling right in the front of your driveway that's a nice very pretty picture and the next on the lawn i like to do a lot of detail work in my brick and stone and when does all the windows we use are a custom when pretty much they're made to order so manufacture i use pretty much anything i design they will they will build it for me so we do a lot of fancy put it together and you see it's got the other called a cad slider that will curved roof there than a little bit challenging a lot of roofline on that house but it's a really really nice floor plan first floor master on that also a mixture  stone again also we did one gated kutztown we did actually order creates a stone and cut them to set all the parts is above the window and around the front door i'd like to thank my guests mark our skins for giving us valuable information about building if you'd like to reach mark and ask any questions that you have about building please contact him at seven two four to five five zero eight six one or contact your preferred realtor now to recap our program building trends in peter's town to do not necessarily follow the national trends due to the land availability and topography financing is available with mark hoskins and buyers can choose to buy the house on completion of the building process with the help of your realtor building can be as easy as finding the right bill to satisfy your requirements and needs mark hoskins has open houses usually on sunday afternoons but any house can be seen by appointment thank you for watching milla state agency and remember home state homes out faster and for more money will see you next time