[quote=AN] . . .At the end of the day, a house is nothing more than a bunch of lumber on a concrete platform. It’s all about location. Everything else can be changed/customized. So, I don’t understand this fascination about “custom” home.[/quote]

AN, here’s something we can agree on. That “bunch of lumber” can be plywood, “engineered wood,” or Brazilian hardwood and teak but you wouldn’t want to install the latter unless the property location and lot made it worth doing so. I’ve posted your phrase (above), “Everything else can be changed/customized” in all its variations countless times on this board but it doesn’t seem to have any effect on getting some Piggs to understand that “value” is all about location and nothing more, even if just a vacant lot.