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> and give you no credit so, are you not getting an itemised bill? You agree to a number for a house and stuff inside is assumed? I wouldn't deal with a build

• rootusrootus 5y ago
  The way it typically works is that you agree to a price for the house, and it will come with a standard set of appliances, usually appropriate to the neighborhood. In our case, the appliances were generally pretty decent, it wasn't really "builder grade" garbage. During the build process you can elect to upgrade things if you want. That's where the gouging happens. You could theoretically pre-negotiate the whole thing in advance with exactly the appliances you want, and then try to get the price to be reasonable. But remember that you're negotiating for a house in a hot market with other buyers ready to pull the trigger too. Good luck, if you want to play games, buyers do not have the position of power in negotiations right now. Or you can just be your own general contractor. Or you could get a piece of land and hire a homebuilder to build to your specs exactly. What I'm talking about is more the typical neighborhood of homes built by one builder, where if you get in early enough in the process you can make customizations for surfaces, colors, flooring materials, windows, roofing, stuff like that. The basic architecture has already been decided (you can sometimes change the house plan to a different one, as long as it's one they already build, it fits the property footprint, and isn't a copy of another house nearby). Maybe you can adjust some walls or doors, but not much structural changes beyond that. You're paying for convenience, and 6 month build times instead of 2 years.