08-13-2010, 09:49 AM
Oh yes, I know what your talking about. I have seen some beautiful homes in Hawaii and when I walked through the door, my god, hope they can get a refund from that interior designer!
I guess I'm use to some of the midwest-southwest rural ways of home buying. It's not that uncommon to find builders offering shell homes or raw homes. Even now, some of the big tract home builders are offering sweat equity homes. Since I know there are people out there somewhere who have no issues doing their own interior finishing, I figured if for whatever reason I decide to scrape this project for something else, I didn’t want to invest anymore than required, but I did want it to be a finalized habitable home.
I will say, the final permit and inspection requirements reads like a subway sandwich menu. Fortunately, it's a little less strict from what I see with raw homes on the mainland.
I guess I'm use to some of the midwest-southwest rural ways of home buying. It's not that uncommon to find builders offering shell homes or raw homes. Even now, some of the big tract home builders are offering sweat equity homes. Since I know there are people out there somewhere who have no issues doing their own interior finishing, I figured if for whatever reason I decide to scrape this project for something else, I didn’t want to invest anymore than required, but I did want it to be a finalized habitable home.
I will say, the final permit and inspection requirements reads like a subway sandwich menu. Fortunately, it's a little less strict from what I see with raw homes on the mainland.