Who would you pick in BCS to build your 4500 sqft custom home in Indian Lake?

Borski Homes

Raven has built some really nice, higher end homes.

Bluestone Builders

The BCS Parade of Homes starts April 23rd. Go look at their products first hand.

We built with CGM Homes in Indian Lakes. Highly recommend Billy Chenault and his team.

OP gonna have to get accustomed to a new term:

BOHICA or "BOHICA'd"

Bend Over Here It Comes Again.

My boss/mentor is building a house, taken him 14 months and lots of beaching with the GC cause things aren't done properly by the subs. Not to even mention the costs of lumber or other materials.

We built with Raven 2 hrs ago. Overall very pleased and I highly recommend them.

We had a few issues along the way, but nothing that couldn't have happened with another builder.

I also recommend going to the parade of homes next month and get a feel for builders and their work. Narrow it down and then set up meetings with the ones you like. Try to visit some of their current work sites. The condition of the work site can say a lot about how they manage their subs and the projects overall.

I posted this in another thread, but still relevant.

Most builder's websites will say "Here at XYZ Builders, we build custom homes..." However, my thoughts on what a custom home is versus some of these builders' thoughts on a custom home is are different.

Let me give you an example. Say I own a franchise and we'll call this franchise...McDonald's. We specialize in hamburgers. In fact, we will custom make your hamburger. No pickles? No problem! We will custom make your burger with no pickles. Want ketchup instead of mustard? We will customize that for you as well. In fact, we do custom so much, we consider ourselves a custom burger maker.

To everyone else in the world, we call this "build to order." The moral of the story is, some of these builders let you pick out your countertops, style of cabinets, paint color, and fixtures and call it a "custom home." So when you're picking a builder, I would stick with the ones that more than half of their work is custom floor plan homes. That doesn't include moving a wall in one of their plans, but true custom floor plan homes. That would be the first weed-out question I have before we went any further.

We did not ask that question, but we did look for builders that specifically said "custom homes." That caused us several delays. Most of the builders will say they can do it. They probably can. But I would still advise going with someone where that's the majority of their work. If you see a builder that says "Design-build," that's probably where you want to start.

Hope this helps! While we don't have any specific experience with either of these builders, from talking to them, Kolby Homes, Magruder Homes, and Schaefer Custom Homes might be worth looking into. We're still finalizing finding a builder ourselves.

Ive heard really good things about Keys & Walsh for higher end custom homes.

Exalted,

Who did you go with?