Cost comparison between a duplex and a single-family house realistic?

Nope, by the way our offers are completely identical, but I specifically created a table yesterday with the items that are already included for the Müller family and what would be added on top with us, there is still a huge GAP.



As I said, all other items are the same, and if you also consider the comparison with 23,000 for one house wall, that’s already massive. As mentioned, we have a smaller house without an additional attic, and most of what we still need is already included in their base price.

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But somehow it remains unclear what the question actually is?

Originally, the question was only whether the listed additional costs from single-family house to semi-detached house for one house wall are realistic or completely exaggerated. The table resulted after discussion but reinforces the position that we have completely unequal and, as I find, unfair offers here, and that really bothers me.

Fairness is rare in the industry, but you can't do anything about that. The BU surely won't change its prices just because you find them unfair. Maybe it also realized that not much was left at the semi-detached house of [Fam. Müller] and adjusted its prices. There can be many reasons for that.

I think you are confusing something. The additional costs are not 1:1 material costs or wage cost benefits.

The general contractor also has to make a profit. For that, he defines a profit margin for himself.

It is up to each entrepreneur how high this is; or sometimes he deviates significantly downwards from it to do the business. Also, as says; maybe he has paid his dues on other projects.

The other phenomenon emerging right now is that the order situation is simply so good at the moment that you can afford to sometimes charge more than usual without being at risk of standing around idle at the station soon; and if it works out, it means *cheers*

I have compared both offers with each other. But it's not about the other positions here, it's only about the additional costs for the one house side. By the way, there are still massive differences regarding what is already included in the base price for the friends and what is not for us. This aside entirely.

As bitter as it may sound: the industry is perversely messed up and currently everywhere refers to a simple legal principle: that of freedom of contract. "You are free to sign elsewhere."

It hurts, but that's how it is at the moment.

Our general contractor backed out when we started to work through the deliberately left open uncertainties of the contract for work and services. Quote: "I expect too much work from you!"