subject: Why Do You Pay More For A Custom Home Builder? [print this page] You go and get two quotes from home buildersYou go and get two quotes from home builders. One home builder gives you a quote, and the next home builder gives you a quote that is more expensive than the first. When you look into this, you find out that the first home builder is a production home builder, while the second is a custom home builder. What is the difference and why do you pay more for the second home builder? Well, there is a simple reason for that and it comes down to the fact that the second home builder is a custom home builder.
A production home builder builds many houses in the space of a year. The amount of houses they build can push 100 houses in one year, and the production home builder will make a home based on a series of prepackaged plans. Yes, you can make your own choices on some things, but generally you are at the mercy of the options available to you. If you want something more unique, well you need to go to a custom home builder.
The custom home builder is more expensive because they make less than 25 homes in one year, and they make the homes exactly to the specifications of the main home builder. They make homes that are truly unique and they make them different every single time. As a result, it often takes more expertise, more materials and more time to make a custom home. For this reason, a custom home builder is going to be more expensive.
Now, if you think that you should not choose a custom home builder because they are more expensive, then you need to rethink things. You are getting a home that is not a cookie cutter home and you are getting someone who probably has over 25 years experience, rather than a new company making homes from a template. You are getting something that you can feel pride in because there is not another home on Earth that is like yours. Yes, you have to pay more money to a custom home builder but sometimes something you truly love and have pride in is going to cost more. You are paying for quality with the special place you will call home for the coming years and decades. That in itself is worth the price of a custom home builder.
