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This course is about wanting, designing, creating, and living in a unique custom home. The experience is different than renting or buying an existing home, or building a home in a subdivision that has one contractor. If you're involved in real estate, an agent, lender, or appraiser, knowing what makes custom homes special will improve your professional perspective.

This course chronicles a true experience, and is written in the first person. The author and his wife designed, organized, built, and now live in a custom home. It's a log home.

Professionals may find this course useful.

Real estate brokers and salespeople will learn what is required to create a custom home, and be better able to advise clients who are considering a custom home as a purchase option.
Appraisers who need to establish a custom home's value will quickly discover a lack of comparables. An understanding of a custom home's cost-to-construct or replace will be learned in this course. Log homes are definitely an appraising specialty.
Attorney's who have to protect the interests of buyers or sellers need to know more about the special characteristics of custom homes.
Lenders, who see custom homes as exceptional risks, should recognize custom home borrowers as committed customers who are devoted to their investment that they want to enjoy for a long time.