What is the cost of tearing down the old home and rebuild a new one? Any good custom home buliders? (Sacramento: fit in)

[moonsky]

I do like a new home but Dh want to live in certain areas where majority of homes were built 30 or 40 years ago. I wonder how much is the cost of tearing down the old home and build up the new one(4bds with 3000 square feet).

Any good custom home builders in Sacramento areas?

[shelato]

During the housing boom, they were doing a lot in these areas of the following map. In Arden Oaks, in Sierra Oaks Vista, in Willhaggen and Willhaggen Estates (in the areas immediately around the Del Paso Country Club in Marconi North) and to a lesser extent in Arden Park, Marimont/Gordon Heights.

http://www.communities.saccounty.net/arden-arcade/docs/survey/map.pdf (broken link)

Not on this map, but where it also happened a lot was in Shelfield Oaks (which is in the Del Dayo attendance district)

Great Neighborhoods - Sacramento Magazine - March 2007 - Sacramento, California

Eichler Network: Neighborhood on the Rise: Shelfield Oaks (http://www.eichlernetwork.com/nbrhd_shelfieldoaks.html - broken link)

They were also doing along California Avenue, especially to the lots that overlooked either the American River or Ancil Hoffman Park in the Carmichael Creek and Carmichael Colony neighborhoods.

Carmichael Colony

Carmichael Creek Neighborhood Association (CCNA)

What you are going to want to do if you go the tear down route is talk to some of the people who went the tear down route and get recommendations regarding the builders they used, how much it cost them to do the tear downs and what kind of experiences they had with their custom built homes.

You might also find out how much it just costs to do an addition on a home to make it bigger.

Again, I don't have first hand experience with this process myself. So that is the best I can offer.

[Jimbo15]

If you were going to go down the tear down/fix up older big home, I would look at the houses in the neighborhood immediately around the Del Paso Country Club. There are some deals to be had in that neighborhood.

Here is a house across the street from the country club with almost 7000 sqft and it is going for just $750K.

Homes - MLS - sacbee.com

This house is more than 3000 ft and it is asking only $639k

Homes - MLS - sacbee.com

If you want to send your kids to Del Dayo or Mariemont, you can do what the parents in this neighborhood do, use the intra-district transfer process or just send them to private schools

SJUSD Departments

[ColfaxTeri]

For the most part in this market, it is cheaper to buy than build. A 30 or 40 year old house if well maintained could be updated to suit your needs and still fit in the neighborhood. If you find a trashed house to tear down it might make sense, but you don't want to be the million $ house in a 500K neighborhood.

Visit some open houses of custom homes and ask about the builder, then interview and investigate, there are lots of custom builders so you should be able to find one that fits your style.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by moonsky

I do like a new home but Dh want to live in certain areas where majority of homes were built 30 or 40 years ago. I wonder how much is the cost of tearing down the old home and build up the new one(4bds with 3000 square feet).

This mindset is precisely why so many places in California have lost their history and character. Out with the old. In with the new. Destroy custom homes beautifully and individually built anywhere from 50 to 100 years ago and throw up some pretentious, "modern," stereotypical, tan, stuccoed, massive, cookie cutter look-alike in its place.

Are you sure he doesn't want to buy two side-by-side, tear both down and build a McMansion on the adjoining lots? That's what the nuveau riche are doing where I was raised.

[edwardius]

When someone tears down a home and rebuilts it, the new home is a custom home (especially when the new home is much bigger).

The homes they are tearing down in Arden Oaks were fairly small California Ranch homes built on large lots during the 50's. If you wanted to argue the region needs to preserve the remaining pre war housing stock, you might have an argument, but this region exploded after the war when air conditioning made this place a lot more pleasant in the summer time. If the region is going to be doing tear downs, why shouldn't it be here?

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by d_deathrage

When someone tears down a home and rebuilts it, the new home is a custom home (especially when the new home is much bigger).

The homes they are tearing down in Arden Oaks were fairly small California Ranch homes built on large lots during the 50's. If you wanted to argue the region needs to preserve the remaining pre war housing stock, you might have an argument, but this region exploded after the war when air conditioning made this place a lot more pleasant in the summer time. If the region is going to be doing tear downs, why shouldn't it be here?

Granted, some things are not worth preserving. Most, if not all, of North Highlands would fit that description. However, one does have to be careful not to build something that will lose value because of what surrounds it.