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OP, are you pricing yourself out of your neighborhood for your age house?  Is it a knockdown?  Wouldn't it be cheaper to build new?

I have friends that added on, and they always needed more room, and wished they knocked down instead, for the money, that is why I am asking.

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Not the OP but we're contemplating a 2 story addition in downtown Bethesda with an estimated cost of $360,000+.  Our neighborhood is full of tear downs and we're torn between adding on or paying $800,000+ for a semi-custom new build.[/quote]

I think you can get a ndi home for around the addition price.

We added a second story in the past and looking back should have come up with the extra 75k to do a teardown ndi quality build.

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We're in the process of a new build semi-custom in a neighborhood filled with Sandy Spring and Cafritz homes.  A NDI home would be ridiculously out of place here.[/quote]

Not really, NDI builds there all the time.

BTW Sandy Spring is extremely over priced, they also use modulars to cut cost but don't pass along the savings.

It's funny how we are so gullible to think some extra trim here and there, a few kitchen ugrades justify paying one million to Sandy Spring.

In fact I had their cost sheet on modular homes they passed as custom and the profit margins were astounding. They didn't even change the design just the finishing. So they would take a preset haven homes modular, add a few extra finishings and  pass it as custom. This is no different than what ndi, anv and reel homes does except Sandy Spring homes have less overhead and cost because the homes come prebuilt. It was downright offensive and to me a very  misleading way of marketing custom homes. In fact you could consider the tract home stick builders more custom because everything is built on site.[/quote]

This is interesting.  Thanks.  Every other house is a Sandy Spring new build In the neighborhood we just moved in to, so I would think there has to be some advantage to them.[/quote]

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