Course 12

Site Planning, House Placement & Topography

The land guides the house, not the other way around. Learn to read sites, understand topography, and help your client place their home before the wrong decision gets designed in.

This course covers topography analysis, house placement, site layout strategy, and drainage and water flow management, the site planning fundamentals every land-literate realtor needs before the design process begins.

What Changes For You After This Course

✓You can read contour lines, slope grades, and drainage flow, and know what they mean for where a house should go
✓You understand how house placement affects the view, the drainage, the sun exposure, the privacy, and the access, and can help your client see those tradeoffs before the builder does
✓You know how site layout, driveways, parking, outdoor living areas, and future expansion, should be planned from the first showing, not the first design meeting
✓You understand surface drainage, erosion, retention, and stormwater planning well enough to help your client avoid a wet basement instead of a dry one