Our energy team has looked at many options for building your own home. In addition we have gathered and tested many energy saving products. The ultimate goal of this research and evaluation is to create business profits for ourselves and the associates we work with.

Entrepreneurs are very important people in an economy. I remember when I was a student at Johns Hopkins School Of Advanced International Studies working for an MA degree being very impressed by the role the entrepreneurs play in moving a nation from the poverty level into the world of prosperity. The entrepreneur was the key to progress.

When I was a student at Claremont Graduate School working for a PhD, I started researching the role of resources and new technology in improving the economy and the standard of living.

Since then I have looked at many new technological innovations and recently I have been working with business people who are marketing and creating new and effective products to improve life and increase business profits.

Often times the inventors miss out on the prosperity because they do not turn the innovation into something that will create wealth in the market place. It is the entrepreneur who takes the inventions and turns them into business profits by using them in new and cost effective ways that will be rewarded with prosperity.

In this report we will share what we have learned about building a home that is cost effective. We will also report on how to make it energy efficient. Finally we will explore some ideas for taking these positive innovations and creating business profits. Readers who are interested in these goals are welcome to contact us.

How To Save Money By Building Your Own Home

We have not yet endorsed a building program but we have picked a front runner that we will name the APlan. The APlan will be connected to a middle class family with good credit, a strong work ethic, reasonable talent and some extra labor in the form of strong young workers who are known as children and a son in law. The parents will pay the basic bills, provide food (fuel) and manage the various resources to create the cost effective house.

There will be many benefits. The parents will have a dream home. The children will learn a way to make a living which will be a fall back option if their white collar goals fall short and of course they will learn first hand why they should work on a great career so that back breaking labor will not be their only option.

There is some precedent for this as we look back at history and see the role that a family farm played in creating an independent business and hard working children who would then go out into the world with a strong work ethic and respect for nature and adults.

The man of the house will be the inspirational leader and the woman of the home will be the motivational manager. The man will be focused on the benefits of having hard working productive children and the woman will be intrigued with the options of bringing the family together in a custom made dream home.

In our research we discovered that the marriage may be a bit strained by this type of venture because men and women are different so we have picked a plan that is very easy to do to reduce conflict and increase cooperation.

The APlan has many benefits. It is designed for the owner/builder and most of the technical work is done by the company. This plan can be done in every state in the USA. Projects have ranged from $100,000.to $3000,000.

While the company does the hard part, the rest of it can be done by the family which will save money. This means that a large down payment will not be needed. In fact the up front cash out lay will be $1000... which will pay for some of the work.

When the project is done the savings will be equity in the home and a down payment will have been made in the form of sweat equity (on the part of the children) and brain equity (on the part of the parents).

This benefit will make a new home affordable for many more people and it is very attractive. The list of benefits is extensive:

1. The Family Gets To Choose Features And Quality

The family will choose what goes into the home and who works on the home. They will inspect progress from the inside out and from the top to the bottom. Creative and freedom loving people will love this benefit.

2. The Financing Is User Friendly

Paying $1000 up front is much more attractive than paying 20% to 30% cash up front. The company will make the payments while the construction is taking place. The family can live in their current home while building this new home.

Inspection can be communicated with pictures and draws can be made as needed to pay the subcontractors. You will save the cost of a General Contractor. There will be a building loan by people who know the system and a long term mortgage that will be very competitive.

3. Savings For The Family

The company gives a comparative example of the benefit of having cost savings come to them. They suggest that by the time a family buys a home for $400,000 that the closing costs can come to $10,000 so the cost is really $410,000.

With this package the cost of the home is projected to be $320,000 which includes interest, closing costs, land and building costs. This is an advantage of $90,000. More advantages come over the life of a lower mortgage payment.

5. The Family Gets More Home For The Money

With more equity in the home the home value will appreciate much more. With a smaller cost of interest there will less money lost. The family ends up with more value up front and much more value and money over the long term.

Think of this as another retirement package. Think of this as an estate that can be passed on to the labor force (children) who will think often about the inheritance to come.

6. Build Your Home And Build Your Family

After one week of flipping burgers the labor benefit has very little more to offer the children. With this plan the children learn how to work in a family, to respect the parents, to build a home that has value and to have a way to earn a living in live or to create extra income.

The self esteem of the children and the family will go sky high and the family will be more united and joyful.

7. The Benefits The Entrepreneurs Bring to the Family

The company does the hard part. They have economies of scale. They have factory controlled quality. They have experience and expertise.

The hard part is the frame of the house. It is built at the factory and comes with a roof and a floor. It goes up quickly. Fewer materials are lost or stolen. The quality is better and meets all the inspection and engineering standards. The windows and doors are pre framed. The sub contractors will have a quality project to work on and inspection will be easy.

Action In follow up reports we will talk about how to make this home energy efficient and how to use it to launch a prosperous business (if done properly). For readers who are interested in more information you are welcome to contact us. We are looking for a group of discount buyers and for potential fellow entrepreneurs.

Best Regards, Bryan Anderson PhD