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Originally Posted by tiger_handheld
are you guys doing it for the custom layout/quality or can you actually save money this route?
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Forgot to answer this - it's both for us.
For the size of house I'm looking at (about 1700-2000sf) the designs tend to be horribly compromised - the 1900sf duplex I live in has a terribly laid out kitchen (I spent $20K redoing the kitchen 2 years into owning it and it was a new build). Quality wise, the home we own is pretty shit - bad sound insulation, flaky plumbing, etc.
Cost wise it can be a big savings as well - for what I'm considering it could be as much as a $400K savings for both sides of the duplex which I'd split with my BIL or whoever else we build with.