Part 13- How To Have A Successful Custom Home Building Experience
From The Builder’s Perspective
Treat The Builder Fairly. Ok, I get it, building a new custom home is a big investment, perhaps it’s the most personal money Homeowners have ever invested. As such, it has their attention. Working with a local Custom Home Builder is quite a different experience from dealing with a national company. I can always tell when I first meet Clients if they had the production home building, experience, previously. The walk into our first meeting like they have 2 six-shooters mounted on both hips, one eye squinted closed and extra ammunition belts strapped across their chests. It looks like something out of an old western movie. They are loaded for bear!
The questions are pointed with a determination not to be ripped off again. They feel like they were squeezed like a loaf of "Wonder Bread" after their last home building experience and determined not to have that happen again. I spend the next several meetings and sometimes the entire time building their home getting them to trust me. Custom Home Builders are normally small local building companies that build a handful of homes to feed their family and put a few bucks away for their kids college fund and retirement.
A Production Builder is some huge corporation that's building 10,000's of homes throughout the country. One is beholden to a bunch of stockholders distributed throughout the world and the other depends upon your support to feed his kids. One hires people that are only as good as the last home they delivered vs a builder that puts his heart into each home that he builds. A Builder that has a team of suppliers and subcontractors that he's created a relationship with over the years vs one that hires the lowest bidder to build your dream home. Custom Home Builders are interested in creating a relationship with their Homeowners, a win, win. Owners and Builder alike should expect to be treated fairly.
Have an awesome day!
Mike
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