Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Eagle homes experience 11May 29, 2023 3:13 pm A cheap builder is cheap for a reason. You're likely going to have a bad time with a bad outcome. You've even had people here say so. Shopping around based on price doesn't work in this industry unless you don't care about the quality of your home. Re: Eagle homes experience 12May 29, 2023 3:54 pm stonesthrow A cheap builder is cheap for a reason. You're likely going to have a bad time with a bad outcome. You've even had people here say so. Shopping around based on price doesn't work in this industry unless you don't care about the quality of your home. Thanks for being candid in your reply. I guess it's the shock of seeing the building prices post-Covid. I used to see numbers like "3,4,5" in front of house prices, ie. 300k, 400k, etc. Those same houses now are fetching 2,3,4 ... Millions, all in the space of 25 - 30 years, when house prices rose 10x, but my salary rose 2x - 3x only. ( I should have bought _anything_ 20 years ago, when I could ) Building costs have also risen, but not only that, the bushfires, global conflicts & inflation has created an odd set of circumstances: high cost, low margins...so, like a profit-less boom. So, in trying to 'curb my enthusiasm', I'm finding myself drawn to a budget, rather than drawn to workmanship, and it's hard act now. I've looked at kit homes and want to even go down that route, as I can see the price is quite "fixed", and it's the labour that I can _try_ to have control over. Re: Eagle homes experience 13May 29, 2023 4:44 pm qrius stonesthrow A cheap builder is cheap for a reason. You're likely going to have a bad time with a bad outcome. You've even had people here say so. Shopping around based on price doesn't work in this industry unless you don't care about the quality of your home. Thanks for being candid in your reply. I guess it's the shock of seeing the building prices post-Covid. I used to see numbers like "3,4,5" in front of house prices, ie. 300k, 400k, etc. Those same houses now are fetching 2,3,4 ... Millions, all in the space of 25 - 30 years, when house prices rose 10x, but my salary rose 2x - 3x only. ( I should have bought _anything_ 20 years ago, when I could ) Building costs have also risen, but not only that, the bushfires, global conflicts & inflation has created an odd set of circumstances: high cost, low margins...so, like a profit-less boom. So, in trying to 'curb my enthusiasm', I'm finding myself drawn to a budget, rather than drawn to workmanship, and it's hard act now. I've looked at kit homes and want to even go down that route, as I can see the price is quite "fixed", and it's the labour that I can _try_ to have control over. Yeah it's difficult now and I think the gap between haves and have nots has grown significantly over the last few years. We've had to put off building to save and strip out a lot of things to make it work for us. Still need a bigger loan than we wanted. Have stuck with a good quality custom home builder though because we want to try and minimise the likelihood of things going pear shaped. If you gotta go down that path I think you have to prepare for a tough time and put in a huge amount of diligence. Critique everything and get inspections as much as possible. Anyone care to share their latest experience with Eagle Homes..? Would love to hear their latest feedback and concern and advice? Thank you 0 1072 So it seems like they just take on a lot of projects to get the cashflow for their own builds. COULDN'T AGREE MORE 14 45140 3 51696 |