LogFAQs > #950741653

I've been in the process of trying to do a new construction home for like half a year now.
Never bought a house before, but I don't like the ones available and they're all stupidly overpriced now (literally all shot up ~$100K in 2020, b/c apparently w/ COVID, everyone wanted a larger place to quarantine in).

It's been super frustrating getting anywhere, if you want anything different than the cookie cutter houses put up in HOAs (which is the whole reason I'm doing new construction in the first place, to not have that).
I have a real estate (buyer's) agent and talked to half a dozen builders, but tracking down all the specialists from ones to do the siding I want, finding available lots for sale, finding land surveyors, finding the best bank loan offers, getting estimates from drafters and architects, verifying water and sewer hook up of the lots, getting answers on building code requirements, etc...
...Has 99% been done my me.