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How to Buy a New Home
One of the American Dreams that seems to attract many is being able to have a home designed for you by an architect and built especially for you by a well-known home builder.
<<==Fine example of well-planned new home.
Or the other option.  To find a home builder who builds a few homes each year in already developed and mostly built out subdivisions, and buy one of his.
The main buyer rational is that your home won't be from a cookie cutter.
Over the years I’ve roamed through many such homes, throughout the stages of their building, and then after they’re completed. 
The numbers of mistakes and overlooked errors in design I find are often mind boggling.
Some years ago, I was with a company that was little league track home builder.
Our homes were designed and built for the affluent; for the top 15% or so of the Houston wage earners.
We would have, say, eight different models designed by a well-known architect, then build one of each as our models in our subdivision's model park.
What was interesting was that when we began furnishing the models, we would find one error after another; not always serious, ... more

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