The design fees are adding up really quickly. We have already paid $ 7,115.15 as of today for our "design". We thought for sure that our design fee was going to be $4000 or lower given that we pretty much designed the entire layout by ourselves before going into this whole thing. We keep getting invoices from Rocio, seems like a lot of time is being spent on our project, but we still have not seen the final product yet, which is just a bunch of drawings needed for the building permit process. We really made only 1 minor change that was suggested by Rocio from our original google sketchup layout. Seriously, this getting out of hand. Our first phone meeting with Rocio, she even said herself that with our detailed plan and layout, this project would be "very straight foward". Not sure what changed from the time of that conversation till now.
We've been comparing some old projects that people have posted up and their design fees are not nearly as much. I'm beginning to wonder if it's because Rocio is on maternity leave and due to this, a lot of delays and extra fees have been accessed. This really puts a damper on building an affordable prefab home.
We should be in the home stretch now, only expecting 1 more invoice and that's it! I hope...and with each design invoice, we have to give up on something else.
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