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Originally Posted by Biggd
I think today it's, whatever the customers can bare.
Most of the good builders are out 2 years and the ones that aren't, aren't for good reason.
One of my neighbors is having a new waterfront home built. He waited over a year for the builder to start and was told it would be another year to completion.
Sorry, that doesn't answer your question but whatever prices you get you can probably add another 20% to that as the final cost almost always overruns the estimate.
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Some are actually a bit faster now...
But they have a system that keeps the customer on track.
Customers don't always realize the number of decisions that need to be made, and can some times fall into delay and stall a project.
Some builders just want to build, so the customer does the general contractor work... and that can really slow down a project, because they don't have a structure to force them into decision making.
Since they don't have the experience of a seasoned GC, they are unable to run multiple tracks at the same time or understand how lead times need to be scheduled to make a project go smoothly.
The better known contractors tend to be building larger projects with higher end finishes... so for windows or doors the lead goes from three weeks to three months. Those will generally get installed before other phases of a project, and a seasoned GC will have that all scheduled out.