[quote=CA renter]I’d agree with BG’s definitions. A true “custom” home is one that’s uniquely built from the ground-up. It is not a “modified” tract, which some builders try to classify as “custom”.
I desperately wish we could go back to the days when families could buy their own lots and build their own, custom homes, however funky they may be. I HATE the big developers who’ve sucked up all of our land inventory, only to parcel it out and sell crappy, boxy, stucco boxes on tiny lots — with HOAs and Mello-Roos to boot. Yuck!!!![/quote]
I thought BG’s definition is a “custom” home can’t even be in a sea of tract home, even if it was uniquely built from the ground up? Example would be those houses in Scripps that were burnt and got rebuilt. The area are full of tract houses, but the houses that were rebuilt got rebuilt uniquely from the ground up.
Like you, I would love to go back to the days where families could buy their own lots and build their own custom homes. Unfortunately, custom lots these days are all HUGE and in far flung places. Too bad big developers have been putting up tract houses in all the places I want to live in for the last 40-50 years and I don’t see the trend reversing. My only real option is to modify one of the tract house and “customize” it to my want/needs. To me, customizing a custom home and customizing a tract home will be the same result, which is a custom home to fit my needs/wants.
