The purchase price of Select Built Homes is substantially less than homes built entirely on-site. The savings come from:
Reduced labor costs
Our construction teams work 40 hours a week/50 weeks of the year - and when it rains...they can still work - because their work on your home is done INSIDE. Site-built construction workers can only work an average of 9 months of the year and HAVE to make more per hour!"
Each team member is a seasoned, tenured, licensed, and well-trained veteran of the construction industry. In their working environment however, it never rains, never snows, never is very hot or cold, and there aren’t any fire ants. So just working in a comfortable environment alone increases their productivity 2-fold. Combine that with the skills that develop over time as each team performs their special tasks day after day. If you did the same task every day, as you probably do, you too become very efficient – thereby again increasing productivity 2-fold!
But for each team to properly do their job, to the best of their abilities – they must also have the proper tools and equipment. And, they do. They have the latest, cutting-edge technology and equipment available in off-site built homes – and the same applies to their training. On-going training seminars conducted by off-site builders keep all construction team members well educated.
A reduction in lost and damaged materials caused by on-site weather conditions, pilferage, and vandalism
Have you ever seen a home under construction sit for days with no one around? This gives thieves the opportunities to steal materials from your home’s construction site – materials that have to be replaced. Theft and vandalism also result in construction delays, which also increase the cost of a building a home. So is it any wonder it takes nine months - or longer - to build most custom homes …at a higher cost?
Volume purchases of materials
Who is going to get the best prices on materials and labor? If a builder constructs a 500 homes a year, their prices are going to be much better than builders that construct 10 homes a year. Home builders that build the most homes each year always get the best prices!
Lower financing costs
One of the greatest expenses in home construction is the amount of interest paid to a bank on a daily basis on the money borrowed to build your home. As an example, if a builder needs $100,000 to build a home, the interest rate is eight percent, and it takes nine months to build, how much in construction interest is paid to the bank daily? Who is going to pay the interest? YOU are! The price of your home always includes the costs of construction financing. This means a Select Built Home constructed in TWO months is going to cost much less than a home built in NINE months!
Increased productivity
A serious problem for homebuilders is finding, and then keeping skilled labor – a major difficulty especially for small builders! If a builder cannot keep all of the trades busy twelve months of the year working – the crews must go to other jobs. This in turn creates yet another problem for the builder – scheduling! What happens when the plumber and electrician are on other jobs when they are supposed to be on your job? You and your builder wait, and wait. Who pays for this waiting? YOU do! Remember, the money borrowed from the bank to build your home is earning interest every second of the day – 24 hours a day – 7 days a week!
These are two major and very serious problems (keeping skilled labor and scheduling) for on-site homebuilders – but not for Select Built Homes! Our tenured, seasoned and continuously trained construction team works in an environment protected from the weather, under our direct supervision. Our teams have been working together, building homes for many, many years – and our quality and pride of workmanship shows – we guarantee it!
The protected environment in the plant allows workers to complete a full schedule, day after day, increasing productivity.
Just imagine what an automobile would cost if it were built from scratch in a mechanic's BACKYARD! |
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