Arizona Alternative Log Homes works with full service general contractors with the ability to construct your new log home from start to finish. We focus on the log portion and offer Southern yellow pine milled logs, advice, and training. We can sell log home shell kits for the "do-it-yourselfer". These kits will be raw milled logs sold by the linear foot with log screws and gaskets.

Though quality work and customer satisfaction are our highest priorities, building an Arizona Alternative Log Home is still cost effective. Our homes run as low as $8.50 per square foot in kit form and can be 1/3 less than a conventional home in a "turn-key" project.

We provide both kits (any floor plan you provide) and custom according to your specifications.

Why is this "alternative"?

We are not a "kit" log home company. The sooner you erase anything that has to do with conventional log home kits, the better off you will be. Get away from any kit companies slick marketing department as soon as you can.

Kit companies in the South East are such a problem that the attorney General of North Carolina had to get involved and issued the statement below. Since this is a government agency, they needed to remain somewhat politically correct, but if you read between the lines you will
will get the point. See the statement here: Click here (pdf file)

The issue is so bad that the Log Home Builder's Association of North America offers an extended class on specifically how not to get scammed.

Document number: 3836011453 log home building class offered by the Log Home Builder's Association of North America (http://www.loghomebuilders.org).

He are some details from the Log Home Builders Association:

"If you are thinking about buying a log home kit you should definitely take this class. We reveal all the "cheats" that log home kit manufacturers use that you should look out for, as well as teaching the entire process of building a log home from scratch instead of using a kit. "

Will Alternative Log Homes provide you with a Kit? Yes. But our products and services offer alternatives to conventional kits.

Bring any Kit company plan to us and we will kit out the same plan and beat the price.

Maybe you don't care about price, ok.

Ask this of your kit company:

1. What happens if I want to change my floor plan after the logs have been delivered and in the assembly stages? Will you
widen a window, widen a door, change a wall, etc? Do you have logs in local Arizona inventory that can be obtained immediately?

2. What if I am missing a log? What if one is defective? What if I want to add a wall? How long will it take your kit company to get you that log from the mill? Is that a $1000 log or a $1500 log.

3. What if there is damage during to shipping on log N8 just below your picture window? Do you have the freedom to move that log to behind the kitchen counter? What about about forklift damage, crane damage, etc.?

4. Will your kit company train your framing crew? Certainly, they will send instructions. Do framing crews read instructions? Will your kit company spend the first critical day with your framing crew ensuring proper assembly and sealing?

5. Does your kit company have local models at a dry-in only stage available for show?

6. Will your kit company align you with a local experienced framing crew if you desire?

7. Did you buy too many logs? Will your kit company buy excess logs back?

8. Are your kit company plans built to current county sheer requirements? I believe the answer most times is NO. Most kits are inadaquate for Arizona counties anyway. What about energy requirements for the local area?

9. Will you kit company provide you with log siding alternatives, timbers porch railings, knewl posts, etc.?

Below is an example of the leadership in a kit company that I once considered. Luckly I did my research prior to signing the contract.

www.plannedparenthood.org has an advocacy group providing the information below. The Man Described below is the CEO of an East coast log home company. Do you want to do business with the likes of these people? Read below.

Former Indiana Ku Klux Klan(1) leader and owner of *****Had to remove this****. is also a funder and leader of The Conservative Caucus, the foremost U. S. supporter of South Africa's pro-apartheid regimes.(2) Hehas a well-established record of unethical and illegal activity. He has two convictions for check forgery, has traveled through 11 states writing bad checks,(3) and has had many complaints of unethical business practices filed against Lincoln Log Homes. He is a donor to many Radical Right groups, and a key supporter of U. S. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC)(4), was also named as a principal in an AIDS charity scam.(5)

Its the information above (and more) That made me realize this industry has some serious warts. The only way for you to ensure your success is to become deeply involved in your own purchases and construction. This is where I come in. I will help you develop your own home package, possibily connect you to architects and builders, and sell you wholesale logs along the way. I buy logs by the FULL truck load. Your price is a wholesale rate for the logs, foam, sealant, screws, etc. plus shipping. My profit lies in the shipping cost of the extra logs I am able to purchase myself and load on the truck. I'm shooting straight, and have no room to negotiate. Its that simple.

Of course architectural plans, drafting, or other material that we work out will be extra.

You owe it to yourself, and your success to at least talk to me about your project.

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