You apparently have a different understanding of comparability or you haven’t been reading here long enough.
Well, I’m not comparing a solid house with a wooden house. You just have to pick out what interests you, for example, which ventilation system is installed, how large are the standard roof windows, what material the interior walls are made of... I don’t deny that this is very cumbersome. I’m actually lamenting here that comparability is difficult because you can’t just place the information side by side like a table.
asking around a bit and choosing a few favorites from recommendations (e.g., in new development areas) to then look at more closely, or also then taking up the personal conversation.
That’s a good idea, but many “new development areas” in urban environments are practically large multi-family apartment blocks or endless townhouse settlements. Single-family homes are rather rare there; you’d have to go further out into the countryside and approach complete strangers. Asking around then sometimes leads to funny results like “We just felt well looked after,” “It just fit,” or “They sensed what we wanted,” or “They just matched our taste,” or “We were lucky, everything went well with them.” That only helps you to a limited extent. And as it’s said in the other, actually correct forum section for this discussion: There are also black sheep consultants / construction manager sheep at construction company XY here and there. I think it therefore makes sense to take the hard facts from a construction service description and make a decision from them.
to be taken by the hand sales-advisor-style
What is that supposed to mean?
wanting to recognize for the further procedure whether you are a prospect or a last-price requester.
Here I don’t understand the meaning of the maximally complicated wording. Why am I not a prospect (but a bad “last-price requester” – I love framing and labeling!) if I want the construction service description and concrete prices (including options) without much beating around the bush and two hours of harming the climate by a car ride? By the way, I am surprised that you want to know so exactly what the advisors think about customers – have you ever worked as one or do you work as one?