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View Poll Results: Custom Build, development build or Buy?
Design and have your own customer house built 12 52.17%
Buy in a development and choose between a couple styles 2 8.70%
Buy a house currently on the market for sale. 6 26.09%
Fernt 3 13.04%
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Old 05-16-2013, 09:38 AM  
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Housing. Custom build, development build or buy.

My wife and I found ourselves pondering this question. The real estate market (as I have mentioned before) is at a high in our area. Everything we are looking at is a premium price for a mediocre house. My wife's grandfather and Uncle own a construction business, and they have been building houses for ~50 years. I am to the point where I believe I am going to buy some land (acre or two) and have a house designed and built. Fortunately her Grandfather is an architect as well, he designed and built his current house last year. I know with the custom builds they can be very expensive, but I feel I would rather be in a condo for another year and have my house exactly how we want it, than buy a house for less that we really don't love.

The other option would be to buy a cookie cutter home in a development which I really don't care to do. What say you CP? Would you rather buy, build custom, or build templet style?
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:56 AM   #46
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Things to consider:

1. How cost-effective would it be to design and build a custom home? How will the dollars per square foot cost to build compare to the dollars per square foot average in the area? Will you receive any kind of family discount from the uncle and/or grandfather?

2. How radical will your custom home be and how will this affect resale value? It's all well and good to design and build something that you like outside the "cookie-cutter" models, but you may find it difficult to sell something if it is too weird.

3. Could you achieve similar result by purchasing a fixer-upper and doing custom renovations? In some situations, this can be much more cost-effective than a ground-up project.
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:56 AM   #47
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:57 AM   #48
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I think you should respond. Finally, this is getting interesting. See El Jefe, if I had taken your advice I would not be entertained.
I respond really however I want to, there really isn't a rhyme or reason. Sometimes I say brah, bro,lulz, mate and lad. I also respond with "brother" quite often.
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:57 AM   #49
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:59 AM   #50
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Spent 2 years building a modern, contemporary house. 2 GCs, 4 concrete subs, 2 electrical subs later, it is 99% done. Never again.

If you want a variation of a traditional house, build. Most GCs can handle it. Otherwise, buy and remodel.

Either way, you are screwed as most subs do average work, don't show up, and yet always want to be paid ASAP.
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Old 05-16-2013, 10:59 AM   #51
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Real Doctor LULZ, I am beginning to wonder if some cephalic trauma didn't lead to you being as bitchy as you are.
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Old 05-16-2013, 11:00 AM   #52
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I respond really however I want to, there really isn't a rhyme or reason. Sometimes I say brah, bro,lulz, mate and lad. I also respond with "brother" quite often.
Nope, now you ruined it.

I think you're trying too hard to be spontaneous. Do you have a list of those terms that you can refer back to? If you don't, you should. Maybe use Excel? Then you can track your usage so as not to overuse your favorite terms.
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Spent 2 years building a modern, contemporary house. 2 GCs, 4 concrete subs, 2 electrical subs later, it is 99% done. Never again.

If you want a variation of a traditional house, build. Most GCs can handle it. Otherwise, buy and remodel.

Either way, you are screwed as most subs do average work, don't show up, and yet always want to be paid ASAP.
This is the issue I was contemplating that could potentially be very detrimental to our pocketbook.
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I've been waiting on this one for a while.
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Old 05-16-2013, 11:01 AM   #55
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Nope, now you ruined it.

I think you're trying too hard to be spontaneous. Do you have a list of those terms that you can refer back to? If you don't, you should. Maybe use Excel? Then you can track your usage so as not to overuse your favorite terms.
Sweet sassy molassy, great idea Watson!
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Hop on partner, they have plenty of room on the wagon! I ain't neva scurred.
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Old 05-16-2013, 11:03 AM   #58
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Things to consider:

1. How cost-effective would it be to design and build a custom home? How will the dollars per square foot cost to build compare to the dollars per square foot average in the area? Will you receive any kind of family discount from the uncle and/or grandfather?

2. How radical will your custom home be and how will this affect resale value? It's all well and good to design and build something that you like outside the "cookie-cutter" models, but you may find it difficult to sell something if it is too weird.

3. Could you achieve similar result by purchasing a fixer-upper and doing custom renovations? In some situations, this can be much more cost-effective than a ground-up project.
I have seen for a cookie cutter home the cost per square foot being in the $104 up to $140 per square foot. I have got a couple ideas on a custom build that could get up to $200 per square foot.
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Old 05-16-2013, 11:06 AM   #60
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