Find Your Land
Obtaining a piece of land that fits your lifestyle needs – convenience, a comfortable environment, views, and cost, for example – can be challenging for many people. Below we outline key information and resources to help you find the right piece of land, while avoiding sites with hidden problems. Ultimately, you need to rely on your site contractor and due diligence for final confirmation that a site works for you, but Blu Homes offers some services that can be of help in the process.
Key Questions to Ask About a Potential Site
Blu Homes can generally set a home anywhere a typical stick-built home can be built. Moreover, Blu Homes perform better in a variety of conditions thanks to their durable steel frames. However, when building any home there are many variables that affect site costs. Note that as part of the process of estimating these costs, you will likely need to consult a local site contractor. Blu can offer assistance finding and vetting a local contractor, and we can also help in your search for land. See our Key Questions to Ask About a Potential Site for a detailed look at some possible additional expenses in the following areas:
- Price: this includes price plus taxes, closing costs, etc.
- Proximity and cost of utilities:
- Septic
- Water
- Electric
- Gas
- Challenging locations
- Environmentally-restricted areas: See the Key Questions to Ask About a Potential Site sheet to get a sense of potential problem areas.
- Pre-site work
- Architectural / Historical / Homeowner’s Association aesthetic review
- Access: we always check site access — see our Delivery Assessment Overview & Example for an example of a service which is required for some sites
Key Site Information Needed to Get Started on Your Blu Home
The following is necessary to get started:
- Obtain a Site Survey that contains property lines, set back, contours (topo map), location of utilities (water, sewer, electrical, septic restrictions) and environmental restrictions (wetlands, conservation land, etc).
- Obtain a Soils Report.
- Obtain Planning Department Regulations (using your site’s Assessor Parcel Number or ‘APN#’)
- Find out if your local jurisdiction requires Design Review, Historical Review, etc.
- Obtain photographs of your site in .jpg format
Resources
- Key Questions To Ask About A Potential Site
- Blu Site Information Checklist
- Blu Delivery Assessment Overview
Our Included Services
After our sales team has spoken to you about your project and you have mutually determined that a Blu home is an ideal fit, a Blu sales representative will:
- Do an initial site visit to your land (either purchased or in escrow) to look at views, siting, and potential problem areas.
- This visit is not an official “Delivery Assessment” which may be required for more complicated sites, nor is it an official assessment of all the site issues and costs.
- Introductions to Ecobrokers in our network, if we have any nearby.
- Introductions to Site Contractors if we have any in our network that are nearby.
Required Additional Services
For complicated sites like sloped sites, Blu may require:
- An official Delivery Assessment to develop a delivery and installation strategy. Depending on your location, the fee for this Assessment will be determined. See the Blu Delivery Assessment Overview.
Optional Additional Services
The optional additional services Blu offers are:
- Detailed assistance finding and vetting a local contractor.
- Assessing sites that you have identified as potential Blu home sites.
- This does not include representing you as a broker/agent in a land search.
Please contact Blu Sales to find out more about the cost of these services.
