first prefabricated house exhibition

Hi!

Soon we will be at a prefab house exhibition for the first time.
In advance, we have already looked at a few building descriptions and prefab house providers online and in brochures.

Now we want to look at the houses on site and talk to some salespeople.
Offers should also be obtained here.

What should one pay attention to or what general questions should be asked to the salesperson?
Do you have any useful tips, possibly from your own experience?

So first: don’t expect too much. Maybe take a closer look at the exhibitors on the internet BEFORE. Then take some brochures with you and maybe have some sales arguments prepared. Unfortunately, you get told everything there, and often there is an attempt to get a signature already. That can’t be right, can it?

Well, in any case you need to know that almost every show home is usually built bigger, for example with a conservatory or equipped with lots of special features, to make the potential customer’s mouth water.

If you are dealing with prefabricated houses, then definitely get involved with the wall construction. If you want to test sellers, then please ask them either to put you in touch with a local advisor, or have construction service descriptions given to you or sent to you. You will notice that some, mostly the cheap providers, are very reserved here.
Prices mentioned there are smoke and mirrors... usually way too low.

If you want to take anything at all away from it, then look at the rooms, get suggestions, and get a feeling for how much, for example, 16 sqm with a knee wall of 1.0 m is. Later on paper, that is very abstract.

You will see in the show homes that they are hardly furnished with storage space and are therefore usually not practical... mostly appearances count.

The show home for our house model had special accessories installed with an estimated value of €50,000. The stove alone, which stood in the living room, had an extra charge of €4,000 at the show center.
Mostly island kitchens are also installed, which hardly anyone actually builds when it comes to paying for them themselves :)

So my tip: check out 3 providers beforehand and then visit their houses. Then ask specifically what is standard here and what the house approximately costs as it is shown. Then request information material directly or by mail. Then you will see who gets back to you immediately and who takes weeks to respond.

Hello phobos, I see it a bit differently than Der Da. When you go to a model home park for the first time, collect ideas and impressions. The first time we just walked through and got suggestions for what we wanted to build in our house. Most of it was determined by the development plan, but bay windows, conservatories, balconies, French balconies - you can definitely get impressions of all that stuff. My wife could never really imagine floor plans on paper - so we went into the houses and looked at the floor plans from paper in reality. We found that comparisons between providers only work with concrete house ideas. Otherwise, what Der Da writes happens: everyone gives you an unrealistic price. Plus the individual details that can make a big difference: which heating system, which house insulation, how many windows, etc. The best thing is to choose your dream house and compare prices based on this house. If it is too expensive overall, then plan again and compare again. We had good experiences with that. Going through construction service descriptions is of course important afterwards - but I advise you: use the first visit to find ideas.

Thank you for the tips.
@der Da

You write

then please arrange for you either a contact to a local advisor

What do you mean by a local intermediary?

Then specifically ask what the standard is here, and approximately how much the house as it stands costs.

A few more questions regarding this:
1. So is it important at this point to find out what is standard in the model house and what is optional equipment?
2. Should I ask right away what the optional equipment parts cost? Do they even give price information on site?
3. Is it advisable to have them make me an offer right away?

@Wastl
Thanks for your information as well.

You definitely helped me out :) One more thing:

Request a consultation for the preparation of an offer

Should this consultation take place right there on site with the consultant/seller, or do you mean a separate appointment afterwards?

Extra outsourced.... usually these house exhibitions are well attended, the consultants usually have hardly any time, or are simply not the right people. So our house provider definitely has special consultants in many locations who have "their area" there. They know local companies and can later give good advice. So far I’ve only had luck with my consultant and always got good prices from subcontractors when I said who sent me.