New 30A Home Construction Cost

My bank has a full list of their approved builders. If someone isn't on their list they conduct full check before I get their approval..they are looking out for their money as well as my best interest..actually whole process is kind of intimidating..going slow!!!!

I'm assuming your bank has a fiduciary duty to you. That's how it should work. They also probably have no fiduciary duty to the Builder.

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Steel1man
Put the leg work in yourself. Getting approved on a bank list is easy. Remember you will have to deal with the builder throughout the whole project and beyond.

Steel1man
Put the leg work in yourself. Getting approved on a bank list is easy. Remember you will have to deal with the builder throughout the whole project and beyond.

Good point on the "and beyond", as not matter how well a home is built, there will always be warranty or other issues down the road. You want a high quality, responsive builder that you communicate well with across the board. Unfortunately, like in all professions, you have some bad eggs.

Tell me about it. We have completely gutted water damaged homes built by the highest cost builders on 30a over my 21 years building here.

Costs to construct a home on 30a are typical of any other coastal Florida market.

Calculate the cost of all materials to build a building and you have the cost. The difference in SoWal is what the human element believes they deserve.

Ask any experienced builder to calculate the cost of all the materials on your job first excluding all labor. If they can't give you the cost of all the materials combined then move on to someone else who can.

The cost of "materials only" to build a house in Rosemary Beach is somewhere near $75 per square foot. WaterSound Beach $73, Watercolor $71, Alys Beach $70. Then calculate the labor for every trade. A yard of 3,000 PSI, regular rock, no fiber concrete is currently +- $94. A 3,000 sq ft Alys Beach 100% concrete home will use approximately 320 yards of concrete

What does a human element deserve when they have a 40 year old cherry picker truck and are using it to shave off the weirdest and lumpiest material I’ve ever seen any oddball try to stucco over? Plus who wants to take that long.
- your numbers reflect what? Are you suggesting that homeowners in those neighborhoods sit and stare at unfinished walls and raw block? I’ve seen $350 a foot wall paper used in Watercolor. A bucket at Home Depot costs $5, fill it with crap for free, fill it with gold it’s $50k. Meaningless statements made and trying to sucker the uninformed and greedy.

What does a human element deserve when they have a 40 year old cherry picker truck and are using it to shave off the weirdest and lumpiest material I’ve ever seen any oddball try to stucco over? Plus who wants to take that long.
- your numbers reflect what? Are you suggesting that homeowners in those neighborhoods sit and stare at unfinished walls and raw block? I’ve seen $350 a foot wall paper used in Watercolor. A bucket at Home Depot costs $5, fill it with crap for free, fill it with gold it’s $50k. Meaningless statements made and trying to sucker the uninformed and greedy.

No reason to attack me. My building is not typical and I don't have to go any faster. You clearly don't know what I'm doing over there, but I know exactly.

What does a human element deserve when they have a 40 year old cherry picker truck and are using it to shave off the weirdest and lumpiest material I’ve ever seen any oddball try to stucco over? Plus who wants to take that long.
- your numbers reflect what? Are you suggesting that homeowners in those neighborhoods sit and stare at unfinished walls and raw block? I’ve seen $350 a foot wall paper used in Watercolor. A bucket at Home Depot costs $5, fill it with crap for free, fill it with gold it’s $50k. Meaningless statements made and trying to sucker the uninformed and greedy.

Are you referring to that awful house over near Balance Health Studio that has been under construction for years? Is that who Spring Street Builders is? No wonder there was no information available anywhere, which seemed odd for someone that claimed to be building here for 20+ years. He must have set up a new front to operate under after his previous bankruptcies and being banned from building at many of the major developments along 30-a. Feel so bad for the people that own that place. They got suckered.

Are you referring to that awful house over near Balance Health Studio that has been under construction for years? Is that who Spring Street Builders is? No wonder there was no information available anywhere, which seemed odd for someone that claimed to be building here for 20+ years. He must have set up a new front to operate under after his previous bankruptcies and being banned from building at many of the major developments along 30-a. Feel so bad for the people that own that place. They got suckered.

No reason to attack me. What's wrong with you people in this click? You don't know anything about me

Nothing but telling the truth. You (John Carroll, Chambers Street Builders) have left a trail of destruction in your path. Still getting sued, including in Federal Court in Alabama for breach of contract.

Let's all be 100% transparent. My name is John Carroll, I have been licensed as a Building Contractor for 20 years. This year I State Certified my license and my company and turned off my County Registered license. Anyone who thinks they know my building in Seagrove is 100% welcome to visit me there and I'll fully inform them on it. If you don't want to come into the facts about me and my building I'm not asking you to do anything, but stop spreading misinformation.

I'm doing a free "materials only" take off for a Walton County citizen who read this post. When he reviews it he'll ask follow ups on the parts list and I'll explain it so he's fully informed. I told him up front that my service on this is free and I am not looking for the work.
I've completed over 500 projects in 23 States and 30a Builders' pricing is abhorrent. It's not for the reasons that the colluders try to explain. Look harder at their talking points on why their costs are high and you'll see that they are all reading from the same script. Builders from across the country can't all be incorrect and 30A is honest and forthright. Builders here work with subs and crank up the costs on houses so that everybody gets ahead. The Realtors tell them it's par for the course and make these people think that they can sell their buildings for more so it's okay. It's not okay to practice collusion. If you want to talk about facts you can message me and bring along any skeptic or any crowd of Skeptics that you can gather and we'll do it publicly and curious individuals can walk away and make their own decision about who's telling the truth

Are you referring to that awful house over near Balance Health Studio that has been under construction for years? Is that who Spring Street Builders is? No wonder there was no information available anywhere, which seemed odd for someone that claimed to be building here for 20+ years. He must have set up a new front to operate under after his previous bankruptcies and being banned from building at many of the major developments along 30-a. Feel so bad for the people that own that place. They got suckered.

I made a shot in the dark but hit a bullseye it seems. His tone matched a previous incarnation from years ago before getting banned. Holier than thou while, as you say, “banned from building”. He mentions repairing water damaged homes that were built by the areas priciest builders when that is pretty much what happened on a house he started at the main drag in WaterSound. A house he either abandoned or was run off at the sheathing stage. Sat there for years until ChiMar finished it. The horror all around. This isn’t new just aggravating.

I made a shot in the dark but hit a bullseye it seems. His tone matched a previous incarnation from years ago before getting banned. Holier than thou while, as you say, “banned from building”. He mentions repairing water damaged homes that were built by the areas priciest builders when that is pretty much what happened on a house he started at the main drag in WaterSound. A house he either abandoned or was run off at the sheathing stage. Sat there for years until ChiMar finished it. The horror all around. This isn’t new just aggravating.

Please try and be correct, that's all I keep asking you. You won't tell people what your name is, you won't tell people what your livelihood is so that we can get you out in the sunshine and get a look at you. I have told you my name, I have told you my history and if you have questions I'll be happy to answer them.
I bought that lot in watersound and put $250,000 cash down payment. When I opened the ground I found buried construction debris in layers underneath the building. I went to Google images and found historic images showing that the St. Joe company used it as a dump. The lot was $1,050,000 so I brought my photographic evidence and carried in some of the garbage that I was uncovering, met with a Senior Vice President of St.Joe and she denied that they buried any trash there. The next week they hired a surveyor to sneak out to my lot and Survey the height of my building, but I was on the job everyday. To distract me, they asked me to bring my bucket truck down to the beach and boom up two St. Joe Company Executives on a gulf front lot that they had to photograph for marketing purposes. While they kept me there, they instructed the surveyor to go over and conduct a false survey which he did, and then he shared it with the HOA and then they published the false survey to the World Wide Web to do anything they could to discredit me. SoWal.com simultaneously banned me to shut down my communications. I sued the parties and the whole thing fell apart when the surveyor came clean and admitted that his survey was fake and that mine was correct.
Now, you have been chasing me around for more than 10 years saying stuff about me and you will never admit your name no matter how many times I asked you. I'm asking you again to please tell me what your name is, my name is John Carroll.

I made a shot in the dark but hit a bullseye it seems. His tone matched a previous incarnation from years ago before getting banned. Holier than thou while, as you say, “banned from building”. He mentions repairing water damaged homes that were built by the areas priciest builders when that is pretty much what happened on a house he started at the main drag in WaterSound. A house he either abandoned or was run off at the sheathing stage. Sat there for years until ChiMar finished it. The horror all around. This isn’t new just aggravating.

He has ruined many lives, been banned up and down 30-a, and is still able to con people into hiring him by hiding behind new company names and not disclosing his dirty past. Is being sued in at least two separate States right now, probably more.

SoWal admins, please let me to continue to respond to online attacks. We're getting close to exposing how the contractors orchestrate their inflated pricing models.

SoWal admins, please let me to continue to respond to online attacks. We're getting close to exposing how the contractors orchestrate their inflated pricing models.

He just can’t handle the truth and being exposed for who and what he is. Speak the truth.

He just can’t handle the truth and being exposed for who and what he is. Speak the truth.

If you are going to say something nasty about me please tell me what your name is. And while you're at it, please tell me 1 Project that I have completed without interference where in the owner's lost money. I'll wait

If you are going to say something nasty about me please tell me what your name is. And while you're at it, please tell me 1 Project that I have completed without interference where in the owner's lost money. I'll wait

How many communities can you no longer build in?

Why were you banned?

How many lawsuits are you currently the defendant in? How many are for breach of contract?

How many communities can you no longer build in?

Why were you banned?

How many lawsuits are you currently the defendant in? How many are for breach of contract?

Sorry. You already asked me a question and I already gave you several answers. You refuse to say who you are so that you can be fairly scrutinized. Anonymous people don't get to continue their cover-ups.
This Thread is about an honest question of a person inquiring about honest construction costs. I'm here to say that I've completed over 500 projects and I have no problem sharing real numbers with anyone who wants to message me. They can then take those numbers and scrutinize them, and explore them, and ponder them, and consider them, and make their own version if they want to.

For anyone interested in building a house, stay away from John Carroll, 500 Finishes Corp, Spring Street Builders and any other companies he is involved in.

Total rip off artist.

Chuck Evans.

For anyone interested in building a house, stay away from John Carroll, 500 Finishes Corp, Spring Street Builders and any other companies he is involved in.

Total rip off artist.

Chuck Evans.

Please tell us the name of a single client in 500 completed projects who lost money because of me. For 10 years I offered every new home client a money back guarantee plus $100,000 and never had a taker. I included the cost of the land, plus the amount they paid me for the work.
I suffered 12 contract breakdowns wherein the client unilaterally terminated our agreement. All 12 lost money and I'm glad they did.

For anyone interested in building a house, stay away from John Carroll, 500 Finishes Corp, Spring Street Builders and any other companies he is involved in.

Total rip off artist.

Chuck Evans.

I've never worked for anyone named Chuck Evans. 1 out of 1 names provided have been hearsay. Thank you for clarifying.

Please tell us the name of a single client in 500 completed projects who lost money because of me. For 10 years I offered every new home client a money back guarantee plus $100,000 and never had a taker. I included the cost of the land, plus the amount they paid me for the work.
I suffered 12 contract breakdowns wherein the client unilaterally terminated our agreement. All 12 lost money and I'm glad they did.

How many communities can you no longer build in?

Why were you banned?

How many lawsuits are you currently the defendant in? How many are for breach of contract?

Nothing more than a con man. Thankfully you have been banned in so many communities that the universe of people you can harm has been greatly reduced.