[quote=AN]BG, what’s your definition of custom? If it looks like nothing else on the block (either inside or outside or both) then wouldn’t that be considered custom? Some houses are custom built from day one and others are remodel to be a custom home.[/quote]
AN, a “custom home” is not the same as a “remodeled tract home.”
A “custom” home is one never built on a tract in the first place, OR a home that was built in place of a tract home that was torn down to the studs or completely razed (i.e. a “custom” home built in a sea of tract homes). Examples of this could be found in all of SD County’s coastal communities (50-60 yrs old).
All tract homes that look “different” from their original model due to a second story or room additions are classified as “remodels.” Electric blue paint and bricks in your tract home is “redecorating the inside.” This “redecorating” and the addition of its second story did NOT turn it into a “custom” home. It is still a “remodeled tract home” on tract.
The only one “rare” exception to this is when a spec developer builds a small tract and builds a bigger, better house for his own family (unlike any of the tract’s floor plans) on the best lot ON the tract. That particular property, if listed, could be marketed as “custom” even though it is technically situated on a “tract.”
Custom neighborhoods and tract neighborhoods are completely different animals.
