BG, how do you know the stuff inside the Crestview homes are fake or of low quality from just the pictures? BTW, I think “mission texture” is ugly as sin. I wouldn’t do it even if it’s free.
Let me repeat again, why don’t you compare apple to apple with regards to similar quality. Not all custom homes have top of the line everything and not all tract homes have cheap materials. You fail to account for the fact that with tract home, home builders will want a cut of the sell of the house as well. So, although you as a buyer of a tract home don’t have to pay for “design & engineering” cost like a custom home, you have to pay the builder for the profit they want to get from each house. A buyer of such custom home don’t have to pay that cost.
Let me be clear, I know and agree that the cost of building a custom home is MORE than a tract home. However, what I’m saying is, it’s not 2-5X more than a tract home. A 7000 sq-ft single story house custom built on a 4 acre lot in the covenant of RSF cost about 3.5M-4M depending on materials. I know this because I know someone who recently built such house on such lot in the covenant of RSF. If it’s a 5X more to build such a house than comparable tract house, then you’re saying a 7000 sq-ft tract house on 4 acre would only cost $700k-$800k? I call BS on that. Even a 4000 sq-ft Stonebridge with only 1/2 – 3/4 acre goes for over $800k.
It’s probably closer to 1.5-2X the cost depending on materials used, not 2-5X the cost. If it’s 5X the cost, then a comparable custom built house to a Stonebridge house (4000-4500 sq-ft on 1/2 acre) would cost $1.7M-4.2M to build. That’s where I call BS.
