I highly recommend starting your home-building experience with Turner and Son-you won’t be disappointed!Īfter persistently researching for weeks, we decided that we wanted Turner and Son Homes to build our forever home. They have been great about staying in communication with us and I truly appreciate how they have kept the worksite extremely clean! This says a lot about their integrity.
It has been very exciting to be a part of the building process each day. Once this was resolved, they began the building process and have kept us involved step by step. They helped turn around this hiccup in our home-building experience and we were able to come up with an agreement with the city. Turner and Son backed us up 100% by helping foot some of the court costs as well as standing by our sides as we went in front of the city. All along our plan was to remain in our current home until we could move into our new home. Early on, we ran into a stressful situation with the city wanting us to remove our current home before we could begin the building process. I appreciate how they are extremely personable, on-schedule, and always coming up with solutions. If it weren’t for all of Athena’s efforts in our home building process, we wouldn’t have a new home! From deciding on our house plans to coming up with a plan on removing our current home from the property (and of course making sure we will be able to give Kevin his building) Turner and Son has done everything to make our experience as stress-free as possible. We have worked closely with Tim and Athena, along with Todd. Turner and Son was the first company we considered and we didn’t have to look any further. We love our property, and made the decision to build our new house there. The current home on our property has been in existence for over 80 years.
#FLOOD PLAIN PROFESSIONAL#
With the help of a professional land surveyor, you can do your due diligence and figure out whether it is possible to build your forever home. It was that simple.ĭon’t let flood plain issues scare you off that perfect piece of land. The city granted the permit, and we’re ready to start construction. When the surveyor measured the height of the pad where the home will be built, he found that the pad itself was already four feet higher. The land is located in a FEMA 100-year flood plain, and the city required a certification that the house elevation will be a minimum of two feet above the highest potential flood elevation. We recently had an elevation survey done for a client whose home we’re about to start building. He or she can measure all the elevations needed and certify the measurements officially. The surveyor will be familiar with the FEMA flood maps and the city or county requirements.
In each situation, and since you’ll want to know for your own peace of mind anyway, you’ll need to hire a land surveyor licensed by the Oklahoma State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Some will require an elevation survey of the entire piece of land so they can see on paper where the proposed home site is relative to the potential flood water. Some municipalities only require a certification that the house will be elevated enough to be above the highest flood elevation.
The third thing to consider is the permit requirement for the city or county where the land is located. It’s possible that the spot where you want to build is several feet above the highest flood elevation, in which case your home will be safe from flooding due to its height.
The next thing to consider is the elevation of the flood plain boundary. On a five-acre tract, for example, the flood plain boundary might be a few hundred feet away from the part of the land you want to build on. FEMA maps are general, and the flood plain might only touch a small part of the land. The first thing to consider is where the boundary of the flood plain really is on the land. There are a few factors to consider, and it might require some digging to figure out what you can really do with land that’s located in a flood plain. So the land you’re looking at for your forever home is in a flood plain… does that mean there’s no way to build your home on it? Does that make the land worthless? Not necessarily.