Residential construction consists of sky rocketing costs. Once you decide on having your residential house built or a part of it constructed, you should also be decided to shell out a good amount of money. Although monetary aspect is an important factor in building a good house, you must be wise enough to choose contractors and builders that will not set high mark-ups for materials and labor costs. Knowledge is power. It does not necessarily mean that you know all the sides of construction but you must at least have an approximation of the costs. There are available online residential construction costs calculators which let you generate detailed material and direct costs estimates in consideration of your house designs. Generally, residential building construction costs are categorized into soft and hard. The soft costs include labor and materials while soft costs include title insurance, appraisals, architect's fees, etc. There are important variables accompanying the basic res...