That was my first thought too.


Here's another thing to consider. Make sure when you place the foundation, your surveyor figures in the stairs or front porch when calculating the location of the footing/foundation to comply with the front, side and rear yard setback requirements.

At our local zoning board, we had a builder make an honest mistake when calculating the front yard setback. Nice guy and I'm sure his was an honest mistake. But he was six feet closer to the state hiway right of way than our ordinance allowed, and we made him move the house.
(He had a couple of clear February days and his surveyor couldn't get to him, so he went ahead and measured it himself and goofed up. He measured from the edge of blacktop, not edge of ROW)

Lift the house, move it back six feet, relocate the foundation and set the house back down. Couldn't have been cheap.