What are the differences going with a Home company (eg Greenland Homes) company...

Hi Aimee, This is all personal opinion You will probably have 3 different setups. 1. will be a franchised company where a builder buys a license to operate under an umbrella company (like Golden, GJ’s) and the bulk of their operation are done out of a main hub. 2. will be a bigger building (Kevler/Greenland) owner/operated company where they may have a few staff in-house. 3. may be a builder that has no staff in house, dependent on how many jobs they do in a year. Dependent on franchise fees/buying power, what I usually find when quoting is the franchised companies & owner operated companies come in at the same price. However, when you compare the spec of the build, the owner/operator builder spec is wayyy higher than the franchised builder. If you ask the franchise builder to match the spec of the owner/operator builder, it could be another 15-20k on top of their original quote. What we did is went around a bunch of different places and got copies of their specifications and what is included in their house & land packages. What we found with our building company was the ability to downgrade some stuff, upgrade other stuff. Whereas a lot of franchise builders have an entry level spec so downgrading really isn’t an option. E.g our standard spec was a huge tiled shower in en-suite, engineered benchtops in the kitchen, bosch appliances. Those upgrades would be close to 10k from an entry level spec. So if you wanted to save cash, you could have the option of downgrading those. Just depends on what your preferences are!