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Originally Posted by jcvdd1
Speaking only on the basis of money, is it cheaper or more expensive to buy a newly built home as is or having a new home built by the New HomeDesign Center?
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I'm not sure that question can be answered definitively. My guess is that you could easily spend more on a custom design when presented with all of the options, including the lot. In the end, did you pay more or less for your counter tops than the same counter tops in a spec home? Don't know. I'm just speaking to overall cost. On the other hand, if you find a spec home that checks most of your boxes, but maybe there are a few things you want to change, it's almost certainly cheaper to make those changes after buying than to have had them included in the spec home or even the custom design.
Ideally, if you find the perfect home, but it has carpet where you want tile, laminate counters where you want granite, no pool but room for a pool (if you'd even want one), then you would be better off from a cost perspective, changing those things after the fact. The trade off is all the time and mess dealing with those things.