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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you already start building? Could be too late. Check your contract.

At the very least hire an independent inspector.[/quote]
We haven’t started building. We haven’t even contacted the developer. There are a few units left at an EYA development and I’m wondering if we should take the plunge.[/quote]

I recognize you didn’t ask for this advice, but we recently sat down with EYA (just us) and it was a good experience—their agent was really professional and organized. Didn’t end up buying one of the units, we ultimately realized we did want a SFH so it was out to the suburbs for us, but just passing along our experience. [/quote]
Thank you! Did you ask about pricing for upgrades and stuff? Did they offer anything since you were coming in without an agent? The place we are looking at has an optional loft, and we will really only pull the trigger if we can get good pricing on that. It’s not worth it to us without the loft. [/quote]

Yeah, they’ll provide all pricing for options upfront in your meeting. Absolutely no reference to any concessions/benefits for not using an agent, which tracks with our previous experience buying new construction. I saw a PP mention that they were told by a builder that there would be a price benefit to not having an agent, which really really surprised me. I think that’s extremely unusual based on what we’ve researched and experienced.

I recognize I am just a random person on the internet so can’t really prove this in any way, haha, but we have family friends that happen to be buying in the same development that we ended up picking. We aren’t using an agent, they are. We’ve compared notes (not about the realtor thing, just generally) and were offered all the same incentives. Basically nothing was up for negotiation for either of us. They wanted an agent because it’ll be their first time buying in Maryland, which made sense to me. We didn’t use one because we had built a home previously and are attorneys familiar with the state. And also, being transparent, because we visited the model and spoke with the builder a bit on a whim initially—and then, once we realized that’s where we wanted to move, knew we were likely too far in the process to bring someone in so just decided to go it alone. Believe it or not, we’re actually responsible adults. 
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Thank you. This is all very helpful. It sounds like once you make contact with a builder you have to keep the method you were working?[/quote]

Yeah, I think so—this is the PP who didn’t use an agent the first time we built and is using one now. That said, Toll Brothers and Wormald both let us bring in an agent after we toured the model. Our agent told us some are stricter, but their rule seemed to be we had to have an agent for the first sit-down meeting. That’s when our agent filled out one of those little agent cards (I’m blanking on what they’re called) to go on record as being there with the builder. [/quote]

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