Cost per square foot to build a house?

[B-Stealth]

Originally Posted by T-TOP

I am building right now, have concrete scheduled for saturday (in sulphur area). If you are just subcontracting your work out it may be hard to get down to $90. Think you would have to do a lot of work yourself to get that low. I am at $127 per ft living, with some float in there, and the living cost is elevated because we have a little over 2000sq ft of unheated area. Thats not including the land, clearing, dirt work, or house pad. Just home construction. But I only got estimates from contractors that I had good references for and I did get 4-6 estimates on every facet of the house. I had hoped to see the $90 range when we started planning but can't get close to that.

I just got my first quote today; reading your post makes me feel a little better. I was a little sticker shocked @ 138 a foot just the home construction. The builder only uses legal and insured subs whom he has worked with for many years. He only builds 2-3 houses at a time.

I know too many people that GC their house and regret their decision. It's a builders market right and the contractors are making $$ while they can.

All that being said we're gonna trim that 138 down to about 125 one way or another.