Sunstate Custom Homes
Michael Rowan
Florida home builder · Brevard County, Florida
Most of what decides how a Florida house turns out is settled before the ground is touched.
Sunstate builds new houses in Florida, on land a buyer already owns and on lots in communities where the groundwork is finished. Most people who come in have built somewhere else or have never built at all, and the first job is saying what Florida asks for that their last state did not.
Start here
The owner walks the land before anything is drawn. What the ground is, where the water goes, which way the house should face and what the setbacks leave you are all easier to settle standing on the lot than on paper.
You are told what a change does to the schedule before you are asked to decide on it. Most delays on a build are not the building. They are a decision left open too long.
A clear local starting point for building a new Florida home.
How a house gets builtIn this order
1The land is looked at first
Before any drawing. What the ground is, how it drains, where the setbacks fall, and what will actually fit on it.
2What Florida asks for
Wind, elevation and permitting are not what they were in the state you came from. What that changes about the house is explained before it is drawn.
3The drawings get finished
Finished, not nearly finished. Ordering against a drawing that is still moving is where most of the trouble on a build starts.
4Permits and approvals
The county, and the community if there is one. This is the longest part and the part nobody can speed up.
5It gets built in stages
Slab, walls, roof, windows, the rough work, drywall, then finishes. You are told what stage it is at and what comes next.
6Walk it before you close
A list made on the walk, the list finished, and then closing. What the warranty covers is handed to you in writing.
What we buildSix ways in, one builder
New home construction
A plan that is already drawn and has already been built before. The plan is settled, your choices are the finishes, and it is the quickest of the routes here.
Custom homes
Drawn for one family on one piece of land. It takes longer, because every decision is yours, and the drawings are finished before anything is ordered.
New communities
Choosing the land, in places where the roads, drainage and utilities are already in. What the community rules allow, and what they do not, is read to you before you pick a lot rather than after.
Build on your lot
Building on land you already own. The lot is looked at first: what the soil is, how the ground drains, what the setbacks leave you, and whether what you want will fit on it.
Design-build planning
Drawing and building under one roof, so the person drawing it knows what it takes to build. A change is settled when it is made rather than discovered at the end.
Warranty and service
What is covered after you move in, for how long, and who to call. Handed to you in writing at closing rather than explained at the door.
Who it is for
This suits anyone moving to Florida who has built somewhere else and expects the same rules to apply. It suits a buyer who already owns land and does not yet know what will fit on it, and a buyer who wants a lot in a community where the groundwork is finished. It suits somebody who would rather be told what a decision does to the schedule than find it out later.
Who it is not for
It does not suit somebody who wants a house started before the drawings are finished, anybody looking for repairs, remodeling or an addition to a house that already stands, or somebody who wants a completion date promised before the permits are in.
Walk the land with the builder before anything is drawn. Most of what goes wrong later is settled in that hour.
The words you will hearPlain meanings
Sunstate Custom Homes
(321) 555-XXXX
Brevard County, Florida · Design center · On-site · Video
build@sunstatecustomhomes.example
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