The Insider's Guide to Custom Homes
Welcome to The Insider’s Guide to Custom Homes—your expert-led roadmap to building smarter and better. I’m Rick Bell, founder of Landmark Custom Homes, with over 40 years of experience building across South Florida. Each episode gives you practical insights into the custom homebuilding process—materials, floor plans, budgeting, timelines, and how to avoid costly mistakes. If you want to build with confidence and craftsmanship, this show is for you.
Episodes
Episode 5: Financing Your Home
In this episode, Rick Bell walks you through the essential steps of financing your custom home. Whether you're paying cash, using a construction loan, or a hybrid approach, understanding how financing works can save you time, money, and stress.
What You’ll Learn
- Pros and cons of paying cash vs. financing
- What to ask when selecting a construction lender
- Key documents required for l...
Episode 5: Financing Your Home
Rick Bell walks you through the essentials of financing your custom home — from choosing a lender to navigating the approval and draw process.
What You’ll Learn
- Pros and cons of paying cash vs. financing
- What to ask when choosing a construction lender
- Key documents required for loan approval
- How the draw process works during your build
- Understanding construction-to-permanent loa...
The Insider’s Guide to Custom Homes
Episode 3: Construction Phase – Life in the Fast Lane – Show Notes
Episode Summary
In this episode, Rick Bell takes you deep inside the construction phase of building a custom home. From the rapid early progress of foundation and framing, to the slower but critical rough mechanical stages, Rick explains what to expect, how selections impact your schedule, why flexibility m...
The Insider’s Guide to Custom Homes
Episode 2: Design to Budget
In this episode, Rick Bell walks you through one of the most important (and overlooked) concepts in custom home building: Designing to Budget. Discover how to balance dreams and dollars through each phase of the design process—from conceptual drawings to final construction documents. Learn how transparency and teamwork can keep your plans on track and your costs unde...
In this first episode of The Insider’s Guide to Custom Homes, builder Rick Bell shares what it really means to build smarter — and how to avoid common missteps from the start.
🎯 You’ll learn:
– What makes a custom home different from production building
– Why choosing the right team early is critical
– How to approach design with your budget in mind
– The mindset successful homeowners bring to the process
With over four ...
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