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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, to sum up our our permitting & plans related costs for site preparation, we spent:

Architect, 18K

Engineer, 15K

Permitting fees: 54K  (in many DMV counties, if its just land and not a teardown there is an additional impact fee. Our architect told us that for people with teardowns, that's why they'll leave a token piece of the house in place and incorporate it into the new build.  Those impact fees were about 1/3 of the total 54K)

Permit Expeditor was 35K--dysfunction at the County level added about 10k to this.  At one point, the County couldn't find key legal historical documents related to our property.  We had a stand off for about 6 weeks with them, and had to send the permit expeditor down a rabbit hole to find said documents through extensive research. ugh.

That puts us at 122K for this part of site prep.

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OP, you said at the beginning that you hired separate companies instead of design build because you thought it would be less expensive. But then you had to hire more people like a permit expeditor. I'm curious if it came out cheaper in the end. We investigated both ways and went with a design-build firm because it was less $ and also because I wanted ONE company responsible for everything. I didn't want the headache of one place pointing to another or things falling through the cracks that were no one's job.

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