Construction progress: Duplex with WU basement and developed attic

I can only ever be amazed at something like this.

With us, each trade was only awarded to regionally well-known contractors – there are plenty you know.
You recognize their advertising signs from every newly opened construction area in the region.

And if I were to come up with the idea of hiring a completely unknown one, I would inform myself very well in advance...

Therefore, I can only always laugh when I see the typical reports on YT or ZDF.

With something like this, I can only ever wonder how someone can assume that everyone builds in the immediate vicinity of their hometown and knows 100% about the local craftsmen.
People, really...

I can only ever wonder how someone can assume that everyone builds in the immediate vicinity of their hometown and knows 100% about the local craftsmen. People, really...

I am building once in my life. I inform myself at most about the general contractor. No matter where he is.

Congratulations! I hope there will be time to relax soon.

I can only be amazed by something like this. In our case, each trade was only awarded to regionally well-known contractors – there are plenty you know. Their advertising signs are known from every newly opened construction area in the region. And if I ever came up with the idea to hire a completely unknown one, I would inform myself very well in advance... Therefore, I can only laugh when I see the typical reports on YT or ZDF.

I don’t know in which construction phase you are right now, but I can only hope for you that your laughter doesn’t fade. Because 1. things famously turn out differently than 2. you think. Acquaintances hired the locally best-known and most expensive company, and they messed up the order five times. By the way, I’m not building for the first time, but for the second. The first time everything went smoothly, the second time almost everything went wrong. And I wouldn’t rely on advertising signs for a long time anymore. A good company doesn’t need them. But in the end, you’re always wiser.

As I see it, you have to marry into a good craftsman family and then do as much as possible yourself. Kit house!
Could actually be worth it. 2 years sabbatical might cost you 200k EUR, 50k EUR kit, another 200k EUR interior finishing, 50k EUR exterior facilities, 50k EUR incidental costs, 50k EUR helper wages. That’s also 600k EUR, but you don’t necessarily have to pay yourself a full salary and craftsmen are getting more and more expensive.
Of course, it’s all useless if there are no more materials.

I don't know in which construction phase you are currently

Finished for two years.

And I wouldn't rely on advertising signs for a long time.

I would, if I see them hanging multiple times on the construction fence/shell in every new development area and can view the completed work in finished form.

By the way, this is not my first time building, but my second.

Also "lucky" the first time – sorry, then I have no sympathy when you (apparently) take the first one you find and know nothing about him.