Home architects Rand Soellner now offering the low flat fee to perform initial on-site review Site Consultation with the following services and terms:

Site Consultation – Site Visit Service

If your project site is within 10 miles of Cashiers, NC (that means within: Lake Toxaway, Glenville, Highlands, Sapphire), Rand Soellner AIA will visit your project site, if you wish, for a flat fee of $600 and do the following site consultation:

1.  Meet with you on your site.

2.  Walk your site with you on reasonably pedestrian navigable surfaces and analyze best general location for:

•        home
•        garage
•        porches
•        entry

3.  Best apparent location for:

•         Septic (client will need to obtain County Health Dept. verification of this).
•         Well (client will need likely need State and County approval of this).

4.  Best apparent location for :

•          entry driveway
•          guest parking
•          garage backup

5.  Best view directions:

•           view orientations, with specific compass view angles
•           suggestions for view clearing (client will likely need clearing approval from your HOA)

The above site consultation assumes that your site is less than 5 acres and that the site walking will occur on reasonably flat terrain and that you have one building to be built on one site and that the weather is reasonably mild and dry.  You will have had laborers perform some rudimentary clearing of undergrowth where you expect us to walk.  More than one site and more than one building and distances greater than 10 miles will be charged more, to be determined on a flat fee basis by Rand Soellner.  Fee for intial site investigation, if you are not already a Rand Soellner Architect client, must be paid at least one week in advance prior to the site trip.  Prices are subject to change without notice.  There are no documentation drawings provided for the above service.  Any site drawings would be extra.

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Particularly in our initial webpages and through the SERVICES pages, we have provided a list of possible available services and locations in which we perform them or wish to perform them or from which we have received inquiries from people just like you.  There seems to be recurring questions about: Where do you design?  What would you be willing to do there? and the like.  Some people say: “We do not want to pay to transport you to this location.”  And that is fine.  We have worldwide high-resolution computerized 3D satellite imagery (the entire planet) that allows us to fly around your site in our virtual helicopter, land, rotate around to see your views and take off again, seeing things that you can’t see due to trees and other vegetative growth on your site.  In addition, we will go wherever you wish to pay us to go.  Also, we coordinate with your surveyors to obtain a computerized topographic survey, on which we design our site plan(s).  Also, you and the surveyor and others can take digital photography and e-mail that to us.  As we said, we would prefer to be at all of our clients’ sites in person, but sometimes they would rather not go to that expense and for those, we have the above virtual tools which are powerful.  For instance, we have had inquiries from the mountains of China and from Venezuela and South Africa.  While we are happy to visit these places, some clients think that just because we happen to live in the United States that we may not be availble to design their project “over there.”  Our answer to such questions is a resounding: “Yes we can!”  Because people like to see there specific location mentioned, we have provided the following list of services and locations. 

Let’s start first with the professional services: we are Environmental Architects, Luxury Residential Designers,  Healthy Home Architects,  and Country Family Estate Planners.  We also provide Green Home Analysis and design Small Homes and cottages, as well as stone castles and just about everything in between.

We are also Custom Home Architects, Post and Beam Designers, Mountain Home Architects.  And we provide Log Home Architecture, Timber Frame Architecture, and Mansion design.  We are also certified by the DOE/EPA as Energy Star Architects. 

We have project(s) and/ or requests from Vermont, Connecticut, Idaho, Pennsylvania,  Adironacks, Massachusetts, Appalachians and many other places.  We will make ourselves available to create your project wherever you want our designs in the United States and the World.   In locations outside of SC, FL, NC and WA, the services above are limited to residential design at this time.  We do have an NCARB certification, which allows Rand Soellner to become licensed in most states throughout the United States in a matter of weeks, if necessary.  As home design does not require state licensure in any state in the Union, of which we are aware, at the present time, licensing is typically not required, however, we will consider this, considering each project’s situation.  For resort projects, we will either obtain our license through reciprocity, or form an association with a local firm.  Thanks again for reviewing this information.  We hope to be of service to you.

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