Saylor Construction Costs Estimating books are good for this.

Thanks, those looks pretty good.


Anyone have a stupid simple formula? Like $$ per acre or house or something really simple?


Any suggestions for books that go through the process?

I have been looking for something similar. what I have done is spend a lot of time on my cities website, reviewing rfps for redevelopment of city land.

I would also talk to a good contractor in your area.

project is HUGE (at least for me to grasp) and is so far from contacting a contractor (plus, it's half way across the country from me). It's a large, very rural site - very challenging.

There isn't any RFPs that I could look at for that town, just too small. Good idea for other things, though.

don't you have a civil engineer involved yet who could help?

scared and skeptical? hmmm....

No, there is no one involved and it's a long way from that point.

i'd try contacting the local chapter of the nat'l. association of home builders as a starting point. a project like that would probably have the contractors beating down your door to provide information.

Why is it so large, very rural, and so far away from you?

you could say it's a personal project for now

Well, good luck...

in my experience, there are far too many variables for infrastructure to enable a simple back of envelope calculation that would have any meaning. you need basic decisions or scenarios established - things like community utility access or private, topographical issues, specific federal/state/local regulations. without those established, any guess you make now could be off by orders of magnitude and are frequently pro-forma killers.

thanks...


I realize that this can not be accurate by any means, but we are not even close to creatinga proforma, so any idea, even if it's off by magnitudes, will be better than nothing.