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Originally Posted by eagleeye
And to you, newtodieseling, the next time you feel compelled to constructively criticize someones post, perhaps you should ask them how they reached their conclusion. Perhaps they do business the old fashioned, face to face, not just looking up information the internet. While the internet is a viable asset, not all information is available, such as negotiation or people skills.
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Well, as I stated in a previous post; I just finished having a house built for me so I took that EXPERIENCE with what I found on the Internet and made my follow up post. And, since hurricane Katrina, most construction lumber price increases have well out-paced inflation. Not just because of Katrina, but also the housing boom. Do I believe the price of lumber will come down in price some? Sure, but not to levels from 15 years ago. The question was, what can he expect to pay. It is a lot like anything else; depends on what you choose. I built my house with all 2x6 exterior walls and I used quality grades of everything; not the most expensive, but certainly not the least. True enough, one must do a lot of due diligence when building a house, but I stand by my statement that when I built MY HOUSE, the materials were by far the most expensive piece of the puzzle. Where I live dirt work is pretty cheap, my septic system for a 4 bedroom, 3 and a half bath house was $5,000 and that was complete; drain field digging, septic tank and digging, the whole nine yards. Depends on where you are and what you want to put in the house; heck, my bath hardware, faucets, shower, tub fixtures cost 2500 bucks and that was just the hardware!
