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Old 12-22-2017, 10:03 AM
 
Location: North of Boston
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One of these guys may be the one who already quoted you!

These are names I have collected as my wife and I have evaluated building in the Mid-Coast region.

David Chartier Building, Remodeling, Custom Carpentry & Property Services in Midcoast Maine

Building Contractor Bath & Brunswick, ME | Home Builder & Kitchen Remodeling

Home - Kennebec Builders

Long Cove Builders of Harpswell, Maine: Home Page

Morse & Doak Builders - Home

N-E Construction LLC - Home

Home Construction | Energy Efficient Builder | Property Maintenance | Midcoast Maine | Oceanside Builders

Paul Garber Residential Builders - Maine

http://www.portbuildersllc.com/

Welcome | R.L. Coombs, Inc., Maine Builders

Rob Shultz Builders - Premier home builder in Mid-Coast Maine

Home - Senecal Construction Services

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Old 12-22-2017, 10:35 AM
 
Location: Newburyport, MA
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Thanks very much, gf2020 :-) No, the guys who quoted me are not in there. Have you actually spoken to any of these firms?
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Old 12-22-2017, 07:32 PM
 
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If you find more builders charging high rates please let us know (not who, just that it's happening), that's good information to have.
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Old 12-22-2017, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Newburyport, MA
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I have one more firm I am in touch with and have ID'd another to contact tomorrow. If they are similar to the first, I will start to look at other options besides the local builders building stickbuilt homes onsite, for example:

Here is a modular home in Castine, that looks they executed it quite nicely. The company that built it, Downeast Homes, says they can also work with your plans, so that is a possibility:
Downeast Homes

Here is a company, EcoCor, building "passive houses" (super energy efficient homes, R-59 walls!) out of Searsmont. I wouldn't normally consider this either - these kinds of places use pretty radical (for housing anyway) construction, and they also tend to be quite expensive. Still, they look interesting, and the prices certainly can't be any worse than what I was given before, and they say they have a lot of design flexibility.
Home | Ecocor | Pre-Fab Passive House
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Old 12-25-2017, 07:11 PM
 
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Where in the mid coast are you looking to build? That price definitely seems asinine for 1200 sq feet on a level lot.

I'm based out of Portland these days for construction though I still frequent the mid-coast. Grew up in Waldoboro still have a different business up there, and have a cape in Bristol lined up for next year.

I'd have to see the documents he sent you back and/or the plans to maybe explain the $475k price. Could be he's already got enough work he's just throwing a large number out, not caring if you take it and if you do he's got a nice bonus. Though even in that scenario that still comes off as insane.

A lot of the new homes I notice when I'm up there tend to be modulars.
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Old 12-26-2017, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Houston
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you want to look into a PreFab home. before my wife and I found a 2800+ sq foot home built in 2013 on some acreage in SoMe we had gone as far as designing full blown layouts and getting pricing. We wanted the most sq footage with the prefab and ended up around a 4000 sq ft colonial with 9 ft ceilings downstars, and the attic utilizing "storage" framing and stair up to it to be built out later. we opted for all builder grade flooring, cabinets and counters, etc since we planned to update the home later on down the road. Our OTD price was around 170-180k delivered in southern maine (minus land, land work, foundation) this didnt include a garage ( I was going to build a detached shop) but i think they mentioned adding an attached 24x24 for 30k.
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Old 12-26-2017, 07:26 PM
 
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you want to look into a PreFab home. before my wife and I found a 2800+ sq foot home built in 2013 on some acreage in SoMe we had gone as far as designing full blown layouts and getting pricing. We wanted the most sq footage with the prefab and ended up around a 4000 sq ft colonial with 9 ft ceilings downstars, and the attic utilizing "storage" framing and stair up to it to be built out later. we opted for all builder grade flooring, cabinets and counters, etc since we planned to update the home later on down the road. Our OTD price was around 170-180k delivered in southern maine (minus land, land work, foundation) this didnt include a garage ( I was going to build a detached shop) but i think they mentioned adding an attached 24x24 for 30k.
You're not disclosing something.

The garage doesn't cost more than the house.

$45/sq ft won't get you a finished house. So either they're counting the unfinished upstairs sq footage, delivery and setup isn't included, or multiple other possibilities.

Anything "finished" below $80/sq foot is fishy.
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Old 12-27-2017, 09:42 AM
 
Location: Houston
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I did count the upstairs sq footage... sorry the house was around 3350 sq ft i believe. its been about 6 months now since we dropped the modular designs. it was 64' long 27'6" wide colonial. roughly 3500 sq feet and another 1000-1500 sq ft available on the third floor after build out. subtract the open loft area on the second floor (about 150 ft) we were also going to have full height 8' ceiling in the basement. the 170-180k was finished and delivered on site. this price didnt include land work, foundation, etc and it was all utilizing base builder grade materials, linoleum, cheap carpet, cheap faucets, etc. no garage and no patios or decks.
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Old 12-27-2017, 10:30 AM
 
Location: North of Boston
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You're not disclosing something.

The garage doesn't cost more than the house.

$45/sq ft won't get you a finished house. So either they're counting the unfinished upstairs sq footage, delivery and setup isn't included, or multiple other possibilities.

Anything "finished" below $80/sq foot is fishy.


You can definitely get a very basic made in Canada modular colonial house for $50 per sq ft. As Houston mentioned, you then need to add in the cost for site work, foundation, utilities, finish work, etc. Those items could easily add up to another $100K, getting you closer to $90 per sq ft before the cost of the land.
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Old 12-27-2017, 10:57 AM
 
Location: Houston
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You can definitely get a very basic made in Canada modular colonial house for $50 per sq ft. As Houston mentioned, you then need to add in the cost for site work, foundation, utilities, finish work, etc. Those items could easily add up to another $100K, getting you closer to $90 per sq ft before the cost of the land.
we saw these prices vary from 60k on up to 150k for site work, foundation, utilities, road work, etc depending on the property we looked at. one property was a 10 acre lot in kennebunk that had a 20' ROW access that was 1500+ feet to access the property. building a roadway and getting utilities back there would have been crazy.
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