Need help with pricing a kit home & alternates

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thanks everyone for your observations, its helpful for others that are looking at these types of considerations...i'm trying to balance the convenience of a kit home vs. time and money spent on sourcing everything individually. From a basic and convenience viewpoint, then personally i think a kit home is the way to go...the downsides are lack of personality and interesting floor plans and no real savings...one of the bummers i found in considering a kit home is that any minor changes to their plans completely requires news sets of plans to be drawn which negates their incentive for free plans...i don't consider their prices competitive, but as bob says alot of personal time/effort may outway the efforts unless a person is ready to make that effort or hire a 3rd party to ensure those objectives are met, which i'm currently considering as my alternate.

again thanks for everyones sinput.