[graciegirl]

I/we are NOT in construction...but...

We built our first house in the first year of our marriage. We had 20 or 25 percent down and it cost about 15K. It was a three bedroom house with basement and garage and had hardwood floors. We were transferred and built our second house about 18 months later and built three houses in that city and were transferred again where we built three more houses and bought a new house that we had not contracted to build. It was about nine months old. We watched our children build two houses.

The last homes in Ohio were custom homes and were high quality.

The two we had here, one we bought new and one we built were the best experience we had ever had with the process of building and of warranty. The minor problems were many fewer than had ever happened before and they were remedied within 24 hours of reporting them to warranty.

We bought and paid for each home by the sweat of our brows and by sacrifice and saving.

I think these homes are well built Florida homes, they are not constructed like Ohio homes at all. They coated the wood against termites, but not in Ohio. We had wood windows in Ohio that were prone to dry rot. Woodpeckers can't peck on block and stucco and power washing it here only costs 35 dollars.

You have a choice what price appliances you want. Ours are fine. I didn't like the dishwasher in our house in Hadley. It was middle grade GE and didn't completely get the dishes dry.

I would build again here and still may. Gotta lot of years left.