[quote=plm]Yes, on both of my new house purchases, they allow you to pay for upgrades separately. And usually they make you pay half up front in case you don’t go through with the purchase. I have found that the builder charges quite a bit more for upgrades but your kind of stuck using them unless you want to replace it yourself later.[/quote]
Yes, that’s my experience as well. You got to watch them like a hawk about it because the great majority of folks just include everything in the sales price so the “default” for the sales staff is to just mindlessly adding the upgrades into the sales price.
Also, when possible really best to just hire your own guys to do the upgrade unless the builder somehow was competitive with their prices, which usually isn’t the case.
