How much does it cost to build a house in Mexico?
man - how long is a piece of string? So many variables. This is very difficult to answer. A smaller more modest "nice" house in the country, away from other gringos, beaches and big cities $18,000 USD (likely less if you wanted to do more leg work and could negotiate in Spanish). In a larger city in a nicer neighborhood $130,000 USD or more. Beachfront in a less touristy area $200,000 USD or more. Beachfront in a touristy area $500,000 USD or more. In fact in the most popular areas beachfront could easily be $1,000,000 USD or more. So there you have it a "nice" house in mexico will cost you between 18,000 USD and $1,000,000 USD.
Insurance Adjuster estimate less than what it will cost to fix my car?
I'm an insurance adjuster so please allow me to make this simple for you. Don't get real upset about my next statement here.......but if you are not a qualified repair person you really don't know if the adjusters estimate is too low. So many people go in to a claim assuming the adjuster is going to rip them off. Trust me it is much better for the adjuster to write an accurate estimate. It saves us a lot of time and effort later on. With that being said, you do not need to run around getting three estimates. That is a waste of your time and unneeded. Ask around to find a good reputable body shop that you want to repair the car. Take your car and the adjusters estimate to the shop. The body shop manager will write their own estimate and if they find the adjusters too low they will call the adjuster and negotiate a new price for an additional check, if necessary. That way the body shop does all the work for you. As long as you trust the shop you won't have anything to worry about. If you haven't already done so, make sure the adjuster provides you a rental car for when the car is in the shop. Good Luck
How much does it cost to build a new house in Los Angeles area?
If building a single house of about 2200 sqft, my Los Angeles contractor can do it for about $150/sqft for builder basic finishes: two-color paint, carpeting, stainless steel, sheet mirrors, and granite countertops.For tract housing with 8 or more houses, then the cost goes down to about $100-110/sqft.Of course, there's enormous variations to this rough figure. First, retail pricing can add 20–30% to those figures. Then, the site conditions (slope, water table, etc.) can add 10–100% in remediation. Finally, upgrades in finishes and change orders can drive up costs to the moon.For example, an artist decided to spare no expenses in building his home on a hill. He bought insanely expensive finishes, including special Italian tiles at $120/sqft. He spent over 20 years and ended up passing away before finishing his home. When he passed, the construction cost on his unfinished 4,500 sqft home had already passed $1000/sqft. Yet, the interior was so eccentric and already dated that we would have needed to spend another $100/sqft to make it marketable, making the deal a non-starter.The incredible variability in construction cost is why there’s no point in trying to find a standard benchmark. Getting a good, honest contractor is the only way to go.
What’s is the cost to build a 2400sq ft custom two story home per square foot in the Bay Area?
Contractor price vary a lot; I don’t think you will find a general cross-bay-area estimate. From my experience and some other comments on quora and online, the range you’re looking at is pretty wide — anywhere between $175/square foot to double that, or (very very roughly) between $400,000 and $800,000.That goes doubly if you count regulatory costs which can range from very low to huge depending on which city (or county, if in an area where the building permit aren’t handled at the city level.) Which doesn’t count buying the land, and non-construction costs… see for example Has anyone ever bought land and built a home in the Bay Area? How much time and money does that typically cost? Is it worth the effort? and it will depend a lot on how you have it designed (customizing plans bought online, hiring a designer if the project doesn’t need an architect/engineer, doing the base design with a designer or your self and then hiring an engineer to do the drawings and calcs, or most expensive of all, hiring an architect.)Similarly, what you want to build will make a big difference: materials choices and the complexity of the design can run up the bill a lot.We built a single-story addition onto an existing house, which is a much simpler project but which can be a bit more expensive per square foot because it’s a smaller job. The larger contractors who we spoke to were both estimating about $325/square foot for a single story addition for which we already had plans and permits without looking at our details. We netted about $200/square foot by using a smaller contractor for the structural work and then subcontracting all of the interior and finish work. We also had no plumbing in the addition. I wouldn’t recommend it going that route, unless cash is really tight — and we could have done a bit better if we’d subcontracted the various phases of the structural work separately. Not sure if it would have saved us enough to get us $175/square foot mark.That also assumes there are existing services on-site — the costs of setting up water, sewer, electric and potentially gas service at a new site can be high (although they’re relatively fixed) and that there isn’t a lot of stuff requiring demolition.
Average cost of building a house in Florida?
The cost will vary considerably depending on the amenities and fixtures you want. A basic plain floorplan with linoleum/carpet flooring and standard (cheap) kitchen and bathroom fixtures and a asphalt shingle roof should cost $60 to $80 p/sq ft. If you want high end flooring(wood/tile) stainless steel kitchen appliances and granite counter tops plus high end fixtures plus tile roof and updated electrical/entertainment wiring you can figure $120 to $150 p/sq ft. Any special grading,sewer or utility problems would be separate. In today's market you might save money buying a resale home or foreclosure rather than building. Good Luck
How much should it cost me to have travertine tile (18x18) installed (diagonal) in 1250 sq ft of my new house?
Im a tile contractor Most places would charge you approx $5.00 a foot (even lowes) for installation of tile, especially since your going on 45 degree angle. This actually increases your waste as well so it would be a little more footage than sqaure lay. our store charges .06 a foot to remove carpet Removal approx $75 dollars Installation $6250