Start with a GC (How not to Ready, Fire, Aim!)
You'd think they'd teach this in schools, but I guess they're busy with all the reading and geometry. Well let me read you the hypote-news then: you should hire a general contractor before you start picking out china patterns with your excavator and septic designer and god knows who else. Unless you're going to be your own GC, and in that case, you probably shouldn't. Be your own GC, that is. (Faithful readers may remember that time Dick talked me down from my innate cheapness .) Why hire the GC first? Well it may be obvious to you. Maybe even so obvious you wouldn't post this on your blog - and to you I offer my sincere congratulations on your maturity - but it's because of relationships. Your GC is local to the area. They'll know everyone and their reputations, and they'll know how to put together a good team who works well together. Well, I didn't do that - because I needed to assess buildability before I closed on the land for this cabin, I