Quote Originally Posted by HURRICANEBOB View Post
While it might sound good for the economy, I guess now is a bad time to start thinking about having a house built. Materials up, cost competition/price competition pushing prices down, sounds to me like owner risk in having a quality house built would be up. I'm being serious and not clowning like usual. Am I putting the pieces together wrong? Sounds like the builder gets pinched by lower housing market value, higher cost for material, and that to the consumer, that would make it that much harder to sort though builders to find the good ones.
You're sort of on the right track...material is high but...next year it's gonna be higher. So really there's no time like the present to purchase material. But yes, with so many contractors hungry like they are now there's plenty of them to weed through to get to the reputable one's. For instance, like DJD wrote, he's been doing hospitals for awhile now. I've been doing hospital work for a long time myself...but about three years ago or so when the threat of Nobama becoming POTUS started becoming reality and things started spiraling down hill like they did, well all of a sudden EVERY architect and engineer started claiming they knew hospitals inside and out.

On a separate note Bob, cemetary vaults will be more expensive next year too, just figured I'd throw that in for ya, lol...