[NJblue]

My suggestion is that for the current program that allows you to "personalize" your house by selecting from various packages that they provide some pricing information to go along with the packages. While our agent said that the costs fluctuate on a daily basis and hence they could not do that, I wonder how every other developer that we have ever visited manages to do just that. Even if they couldn't give precise price information, having a plus/minus range would go a long way to ease the purchasing process.

In our case, the developer missed out on selling some additional options because, not knowing how much the price tag was going up, we opted to leave out certain options and upgrades that we wanted. As it turned out, the final price was within our comfort zone but then, to get the items added in, we would have had to resubmit the quote with no assurance that the prices for the options already included wouldn't have changed in the meantime. Because of this and the fact that other clocks were ticking in terms of developer-imposed deadlines, we opted to just stick with the original quote and not get the extras. A simple sheet listing the options/packages and their approximate price would have made the buying process a lot easier and would have made for happier customers.