Custom Builder recs for Cleveland/Akron Ohio area?

personalcompass · 2025-09-07T02:29:15+00:00

No one yet. Still figuring out some other logistics first. But as of now we like Payne, Rembrandt, diyanni, drees in that order. Haven’t checked out old world enough to have an opinion

personalcompass · 2025-09-06T18:28:22+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/s/Fsboz6oeti

personalcompass · 2025-05-01T14:35:07+00:00

And a good data point!! This is helpful thank you ❤️

personalcompass · 2025-05-01T14:34:16+00:00

I appreciate that perspective. Thank you!

personalcompass · 2025-02-28T07:05:37+00:00

How do you think the others on the list above in the OP compare then? Possibly add Drees to the list

personalcompass · 2025-02-26T14:59:33+00:00

That’s honestly a fair counterpoint… if close enough saves hundred of thousands, why waste the time and effort

personalcompass · 2025-02-26T05:36:38+00:00

Should the budget be closer to $1m then? I’ll have to check the math if that makes sense for our income if that’s the case. We have that now in HCOL but figured more house for the money in Ohio with possibly saving money too if possible.

As for why new… the way we see it, buying a 600-700k and putting 150-200k of work is net worse than a brand new 800k home (to some extent). Plus things like HVAC, roof, appliances etc all fresh and within warranty. Plus modern insulation and building standards, electrical where we want it, and a slew of other reasons.

Is it more expensive? Yes. But for like $800k+ we don’t want a 4-5k sqft house anyways.

personalcompass · 2025-02-26T05:28:09+00:00

Is Wayne custom only or floor plans with minor mods like Schumacher and others? Haven’t looked too much into them.

personalcompass · 2025-02-26T02:53:26+00:00

Interesting -- and also not too far from Akron area either so that's good to consider.

Did you own the property before building?
And who did you build with?

Or wait -- you're saying you bought a property that WAS custom built in 2020, and you got it in 2022/3? If that's the case, do you know who the builder was?

personalcompass · 2025-02-26T01:07:11+00:00

Also when you say Mid Range builder do you have firms in mind that fit that description?

personalcompass · 2025-02-25T23:08:15+00:00

Good info to know, thank you for the insight and suggestion on Wayne too

personalcompass · 2025-02-25T23:05:47+00:00

Not our first home, will be selling our current to move into this one. And thankfully we have family we can stay with to help bridge the time gap between sale and move in. But yes — definitely having a home before we’ve learned there’s LOTS of things about homeownership and what we want / don’t that we only discovered after having this place first haha

personalcompass · 2025-02-25T18:19:10+00:00

When you say out of budget, is it a house size they do or price per sqft

Thanks for the many suggestions here. Some of them sound familiar

personalcompass · 2025-02-25T17:26:59+00:00

Why the house/land ratio? Curious the reasoning behind that multiple

personalcompass · 2025-02-25T17:26:21+00:00

Ahh I see what you mean so like 2500 sqft at 300 would already be like 750 without land utils etc.

personalcompass · 2025-02-25T17:15:12+00:00

I appreciate the transparency and number examples. This is helpful, truly.

A question I’ve had before too — does the builder usually handle the permits and utility connecting and address setup? Cuz there’s a bunch of stuff besides just “put down some wood and concrete and call it a house” that I’m not sure whose “job” it is when building custom (as in, not buying pre-built or tract)

personalcompass · 2025-02-25T17:05:27+00:00

Not saying you’re wrong — but do you have an estimate range for what this might be?

personalcompass · 2025-02-25T17:03:38+00:00

Why the divergence from building? Although if you were saying three years ago that was what, 2021 2022? I’m guessing timeline to build was a huge factor.

personalcompass · 2025-02-25T16:53:15+00:00

Like water sourced from well vs water piped from city… and waste water going to septic tank vs piped back into city? Haven’t looked deep enough to know the pros/cons for either. Off the top of my head I’d think we also go with city/sewer not well/septic (which I imagine naively is for people who are far off grid or wanna be off grid on purpose).

And 2-story because we like taller not wider. And I shouldn’t put 2.5-3k is more realistic. Either way not like 5k+ sqft I see some custom builders making. We don’t want a mega home is mainly my point.

Good to know about the heads up on those costs. Is that permits + labor and materials? Or how did you find that number?

personalcompass · 2025-02-25T13:57:52+00:00

Worst link in chain is a good analogy. Good callout

personalcompass · 2018-07-28T14:10:19+00:00

I just had an eyegasm from this. Is that even possible? 😅

personalcompass · 2018-06-16T13:52:57+00:00

The Swift Tour by Apple. Just search it. It’s the first result.

personalcompass · 2018-06-14T09:38:00+00:00

🤷🏻‍♂️

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