Larger versus smaller – who is better home builder

To have a great home aside from having a house’ good sketch and layout, selective materials used to build home, there are great responsibilities lied on the hands of the individual site manager or the home builder who actually translates the ideas into realities.  This is always a tricky part because home builder can always influence your decision on building home in a number of ways including the level of service, choice and the specification of your home, changes of construction materials, timing as well as layout modification.

You really should shop around before deciding which home builder you will hire to construct your brand new home.  Practically speaking you should start with established, national wide well known house builders who have a strong and solid proven track record and importantly dedicated and knowledgeable customer care division who can attend your request enthusiastically and get back to you with satisfying answers for any concerns you may have over a period of one to two years during construction.  The larger the home builders the better deals they can give you because they have significant bargaining power over their suppliers to get the best value for their customers, i.e. you! However, keep in mind these established and well known companies are not many and very profit driven.  They tend to use economy of scale model to maximize the companies’ shareholders’ values therefore there are waves of mergers and acquisitions in this sector to make large construction companies, either horizontally or vertically.  Practically speaking, the largest home building companies decides on the schedules of most demanding construction programs, which being monitored closely to ensure deadlines are being met.  Should your home is part of this program, then the upside is it gets accelerating services while the downside is the quality of your home may be compromised for meeting the deadlines.

Unlike smaller home builders, larger ones spend significant resources on promotion of their developments which include fully furnished model homes wrapping around by beautiful landscape gardens, pools and fountain.  They have a team of professional salesmen who attend full time selling and promotion programs to serve their customer’s every needs. Larger home builders a limited in offering choices of home building programs because their developments are tied to national agreements and the technical specifications are set by headquarters.  This is sometimes regarded as disadvantage to some customers who want customized construction.

The smaller home builders, on the other hand, do not have the resources or flexibility to promote discount programs but they sure can accommodate any personalized design expected for your home and often met your liking.  Since smaller home builders have limited resources therefore it may take longer time to complete construction, this also means they probably pay attention to details better than the big guys therefore ensure higher quality of the construction of your home. However, upon completion of construction and after moving in, attempting to request fixing any faults may create some trouble.  This is because smaller home builders have not yet established reputation and has little to lose if things go wrong.  It is wise to work with the smaller builder closely while construction is going on and try to fix any faults as quickly as they are still on site.