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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

• HOW DOES PAYMENT WORK?
• You pay 50% of the total fee to initiate the service (our sales team will work with you on this and relevant terms and conditions). Once you have agreed to your renderings and floor plans (see work process below), you will pay 25% of the remaining fee to initiate the development of construction drawings. Once construction drawings are complete you will receive a review set. After the review set is approved, you will need to pay the remaining 25% of the fee to receive your house plan in PDF, CAD, & Revit formats.
• WHAT IS THE DESIGN PROCESS LIKE?
• The first thing to note about this design process is that it will occur all over e-mail, web, and other forms of electronic communications. It is important to note that to deliver a custom house plan product for such an attractive price we need to work very efficiently. In general the design process will occur over three phases:
  
  Phase 1 – Design
  
  This phase begins after you have submitted your initial 50% payment. Once the deposit is accepted, an assigned designer will reach you via e-mail and collect your thoughts, dreams, requirements, and of course related documents necessary for your home design. Some of this information will be collected via a proprietary FreeGreen Questionnaire, and some will be collected via e-mail communications between you and a designer. You can give as much or as little information as you wish; the key is to be to-the-point and direct about your design goals and needs. Once the designer receives the needed information, they will begin to design your home. You will work with them through three rounds of iterations. The first round will focus on floor plan development. The second two rounds will focus on floor plans and exterior elevations. In each iteration you can give as much feedback as you like, and take as much time as you like. At the end of the third iteration you must decide if you want to continue on to the next phase, stop the process, or if you want an additional design iteration round. All additional design iteration rounds cost $500 per round, and allow you to give feedback and receive updated drawings for both your floor plan and elevations. If you decide to stop the design process at this point, no further payments will be charged. You will own the floor plans and elevations (per the terms and conditions) that have been create and may use them as you wish in the future. All floor plan and elevation design deliverables are only delivered in PDF format.
  
  Phase 2 – Construction Drawings
  
  This This phase begins after you have submitted Design Phase approval and 2nd payment (25% of total). In Phase 2 FreeGreen will use its knowledge and extensive building detail library to develop a house plan that is optimized for your design requirements and location (climate). These construction drawings will come with the rigor and detail that you have come to expect in FreeGreen home plans. At the end of this a review construction drawing set will be sent to you for your approval.
  
  Phase 3 – Final Approval & Delivery
  
  This phase begins once you have received your construction drawing review set. Once received, you can review this set to assure it is correct. Once you give your final approval, and pay your remaining 25% fee FreeGreen will send you your full house plan in PDF, AutoCAD, and Revit formats.
• CAN YOU REALLY CREATE MY DESIGN IN 2 WEEKS?
• Yes. But this all depends on you. To meet our 2 week turnaround time you will need to be able to respond very quickly to our initial design survey and all of our design feedback rounds. To achieve a two week design process you typically need to respond to all design feedback request within one business day. Most of our users do not meet such a speedy turnaround time, which is completely fine. The key is to develop the perfect plan for you.
• WHO IS CREATING THESE PLANS?
• Well...we are. FreeGreen Inc. is one of the largest distributors of house plans in the world distributing over 40,000 house plans a year. Our design team is made up of experienced residential designers with a focus on producing quality house plan documents in effectively and efficiently. To be clear this is NOT an architectural service. Full architectural design from a licensed architect is the best way to get a home design. The service FreeGreen provides is for a custom house plan. About 30% of the new homes built in America come from stock house plans. This likely due to the fact that is a dramatically cheaper source of design. This is an affordable way to obtain a house plan that perfectly fits your lifestyle. Every year thousands of Americans use house plans like these to get homes built.
• IS THIS A HOUSE PLAN OR A CUSTOM DESIGNED HOME?
• This is a house plan. This is not a full custom design service, and for that we would always recommend using a local Architect for your design work. Using the Custom House Plan service is like buying a Dell Computer. You are still buying a product, but you are getting it customized to your needs and specifications. A Custom House Plan allows you to obtain a house plan that actually fits your needs and goals, for a reasonable cost.
• WHAT FILE FORMATS DO YOU DELIVER HOUSE PLANS IN?
• PDF, AutoCAD, & Revit. We deliver your custom house plan in editable formats so that you may easily work with local builder, building departments, engineers and others on your home building project.
• HOW MANY TIMES CAN I USE THIS PLAN?
• We know that many of our clients are Builders, so the anwser is as many times as you would like. There are no restrictions or limitations.
• WHO OWNS THESE PLANS WHEN THEY ARE COMPLETED?
• Per the terms and conditions a completed Custom Home Design is co-owned by you and our design partner FreeGreen Inc. You may do what you want with these plans, and through co-ownership FreeGreen Inc may also use these plans for purposes that they deem appropriate. If you wish to have exclusive rights to your Custom Home Design please speak with our sale representatives about this process and associated exclusivity fees.
• DO I GET A FULL COLOR 3D RENDERING WITH MY HOUSE PLAN?
• We provide wireframe (black and white) images of the design throughout the design process, and a single full 3D exterior rendering of your home with your construction documents. We can create a full set of 3D interior renderings of your home with your chosen materials, colors, and external features through our own Rendering Service. If you are interested in obtaining additional renderings for your Custom Home Plan to explore design details in 3d photo realism we can provide those for between $100-$200 per view.