"Classical" approach to vendor selection - To-Do list

If I haven't overlooked it, unfortunately no one has written yet that a timber frame house is NOT simply a timber frame house! The construction of the walls has significant qualitative differences. You should take a close look at that. Setting priorities was also important to us, including the room layout. You can only compare prices once you know all the offer details and get the price for the same house!

a few prefabricated house manufacturers that seemed "sympathetic" to us. These are Bien-Zenker, Weiss, Schwabenhaus, Bittermann and Weiss, Fingerhaus, Hanse and Weberhaus.

In addition, there are two regional solid house construction companies with which we had a good first contact.

Honestly? On the surface, they all build the same mainstream. But if you look closely, you can see differences in the construction performance description and equipment. Also, I can't believe that the gut feeling is the same for everyone. Please try to feel something!

Should we make a closer selection or even expand the circle? Should we have a consultation meeting with each company?

For God's sake, don't expand. With 1,2,3...,10 providers, you should be able to cut 6-7.

I think you will quickly notice in conversations what we are referring to here in the forum.

You don't necessarily have to have ten different ones in the portfolio again.

If everything fits right away with the first one, then why look at 9 others? Maybe two or three more....

We had the developer we built with now as the first on the list. And he was actually our favorite right away, but we thought, we can't just take the "first one"... So we kept looking and comparing (always with the favorite offer)... well. It ended up being the first one anyway... in total, we inquired about 5, 3 were then in the shortlist.

And we found ours by chance. Because 2 were quite good, but somewhere the kidney stone was complaining. In the evening, we turned on Google and found it. Small around the corner.

What I mean is: you go into a conversation with certain expectations. And actually, you can tell after three or four sentences whether it could work out or not.

Sometimes you can really sort out after 5 minutes. When I think of that one salesman, he was so aggressive, or the one with the smell, or the one who tried to convince us of high instead of wide doors, or the one who treated someone as if they were a beggar, or the one who doesn’t talk about prices because you have enough money, otherwise you wouldn’t be here, and so on. Then there are those who take their time, who engage with you, who take you seriously.