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[quote=Anonymous]OP, do you have a lot in McLean?  If not, get a lot first.  In the meantime, or if you have a lot, look around in the McLean neighborhoods (or Vienna or anywhere else you are willing to travel) to see if you can find any houses that you like from the outside.  Ask the owners who the builder is and then interview these builders.

Prepare a house spec list (to be as detailed as possible) so that you can compare apples to apples when the builders submit a proposal or estimate to you.  You will find out that many not interested or semi-interested builders will not respond to your request.

When you are down to a few builders who are the final candidates, then make a decision or come to ask questions about their reputation and do reference checks.

A warning about custom homes...  Anything custom is likely to contain more "bugs" than a standard plan since the likely bugs for an existing plan were worked out during previous iterations.

In this area, builders are generally general contractors.  Thus, it is quite important to interview the project manager (or foreman) for your house.  If you have a decent project manager, then it will save you a lot of money and headaches.  To some extent, an experienced project manager is more important than who the builder is.  Construction crew will make mistakes, and how to spot the problems and how to fix them is super crucial.[/quote]

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