Affordable single family homes in the Tampa Bay area are a hot commodity these days. If you have grown weary of searching for that perfect house, you might consider purchasing an empty lot or a lot with a teardown and building your dream home instead. We put together a list of articles to help you decide if building a house on your own lot is right for you or not: Rent, buy existing or build a new house? Why building…

Chances are good that you had a floor plan in mind before you even bought a lot to build your dream home on. Maybe you walked through a model home in a new subdivision, or you found a plan online, or your friends have the perfect house and you want to duplicate it. Before you commit yourself to a floor plan, you might want to consider the following items, and rank these in the order of importance: Each person in…