Anonymous wrote:Wrong again. Bought the house fall of 2004, escalation clause and all.

Something tell me your math is off what did you pay for the house, size, age etc... neighborhood

Wrong again. Bought the house fall of 2004, escalation clause and all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We added about 1000 soft and renovated the kitchen for about $325k in McLean.

crazy stuff

keeps these guys rich!

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1207217.html

I could sell the house in a few hours for well over every cent we've spent on it. Other houses in the neighborhood with similar additions are always under contract in less than 3 days. What's your problem?

Maybe if you bought the original house before 2004

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We added about 1000 soft and renovated the kitchen for about $325k in McLean.

crazy stuff

keeps these guys rich!

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1207217.html

I could sell the house in a few hours for well over every cent we've spent on it. Other houses in the neighborhood with similar additions are always under contract in less than 3 days. What's your problem?

Anonymous wrote:We added about 1000 soft and renovated the kitchen for about $325k in McLean.

crazy stuff

keeps these guys rich!

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/1207217.html

*sqft

We added about 1000 soft and renovated the kitchen for about $325k in McLean.

It also very much depends on quality of the building. For example, a high end home will have floor/ceiling joists at 12 inches on center instead of 16...you may also have insulated sheathing instead of standard OSB. How about engineered studs? These costs can easily add 10-15% to the cost of an addition.

Also, a dry well can easily cost $30,000 for a large system.

We did a 1,200 SF addition, all in cost was about $350k...the new construction (about 600 SF) was relatively insexpensive, the expansion to the eixsting home was much costlier.

No one here, OP included has referenced what the square footage they are discussing is. Obviously this makes a big difference. A lot of the prices quoted here are CRAZY and you have more money than sense if you pay them.

I am in the process of building a two story addition to my DC row house. Total sq footage is 400 (across two floors). this includes one bathroom, but not a kitchen. Total cost will be about $110k. Very nice finishes and price includes permitting. For a single family home the costs should be lower, relatively, because some of our costs are related to the complexities of adding in to a 120 year old row house. Assuming that the addition the OP is discussing is bigger than hours the per sq foot cost should be lower than ours because it's the first couple of hundred or so sq foot that are going to be the most expensive.

sorry but take this chevy chase home with addition, it looks no better and in fact worst than any NDI

Anonymous wrote:200k per sq ft is what is ideal. Quotes any higher than that are considered boutique and you could essentially build a new house for 300k sq ft. Consider this if you are doing a construction loan...you house has to appraise for the value of the loan or else you come out of pocket. So keep looking until you find a builder that can do it for 200-250k per sq ft.

looking at mls listing and seeing what the sq footage breakdown of the home should show you that 300k plus is too much..at that price just move.

none of what you have said has made a single word of sense. do you understand what you are saying when you say 200k per sq foot? That's $200 thousand dollars for every square foot. So if it is a 1000 sq foot addition that's 200,000 x 1000 = $200,000,000. What are you talking about?

Anonymous wrote:NP, I agree on the $300k to $350k range. And to the tear-down lovers, in some parts of close-in MoCo the homes are built to prior zoning and would not meet current zoning or setback requirements. So additions are more common than rebuilds. Also, the costs associated with new build (sprinklers, dry wells) often push new construction on even NDI crap well over the cost of an addition or renovation.

You must pay a lot for sprinklers and drywells...

NP, I agree on the $300k to $350k range. And to the tear-down lovers, in some parts of close-in MoCo the homes are built to prior zoning and would not meet current zoning or setback requirements. So additions are more common than rebuilds. Also, the costs associated with new build (sprinklers, dry wells) often push new construction on even NDI crap well over the cost of an addition or renovation.

much better than the unlivable midget garbage in chevy chase

hence the need for the addition LOL

Tell us, do you often quote your own posts one minute apart?

OP, we seriously considered doing a 2-story addition on our house and you need to consider not just the cost of creating the additional space, but the $/sq foot to renovate the existing space so that in the end you have one cohesive-looking house, rather than your original house plus an addition. When we priced it all out and sent preliminary plans out to builders, it ended up being too much money for us ($250K + additional % for overruns, etc) and honestly, what pushed us over the edge was how expensive it was going to be to renovate existing space. B/c doing that renovation isn't that much cheaper than the $/sq foot to create new space. It's a frustrating experience.