Have you understood your construction service description?

Thank you, also for the absoluteness in your answer. Then there is no way around it. At the moment, about 80 pink notes are stuck in the construction service description next to the points I did not understand. I regret once again not having done a manual training or worked on a construction site.

You can have it checked. But I just think it's unrealistic to demand 35 construction service descriptions. That is overwhelming! At most 3 in the close selection

At a later stage, I will have the contract and the service description reviewed by at least one expert. But first, I want to gather as much knowledge as possible myself.

So far, I am only reviewing the documents of my favorite. My husband is reviewing the documents of his favorite. Only if both are too expensive will we again engage in detail with other providers.

Thank you for the note that about 100 questions can accumulate. I already thought I was exaggerating. There will be at least that many for me as well.

So far I am only checking the documents of my favorite. My husband is checking the documents of his favorite. Only if both are too expensive,

You are getting confused. And that "I wish I had..." there was certainly a reason for not having received the appropriate training.
May I ask how you buy a car? Or a piece of land? How can it be reasonably understandable if the location is still about 30% subjective?

You make two mistakes: you only look at the price and fixate on something, thus giving yourself a corset.
But this is not about a catalog price, rather about almost incalculable earthworks, which belong to the ancillary construction costs. Exterior facilities, own contributions, garage, and garden.
Emotions also play a role, because not everyone wants the flair 113.

1. Define equity and financing limit.
2. Rough calculation, check: what do you want? What can you get at 2000€/sqm?
3. Visit home builders and regional companies. Websites, phone calls...
4. Gather impressions and listen to your gut
5. Compare 2-5 companies.
Etc... no guarantee, this is written from the gut now. Others can do it better.

And: whoever wants to keep an overview and control (written by you somewhere), does not buy, they build!

Reading the building description is necessary - unless you have an extremely casually fitting wallet. Only read the ones that are relevant. You can skim through the others out of interest. Question everything that you do not understand. Get help from an expert - even if it possibly costs a bit, because you will not have questions about passages that are missing. Overlooked and misunderstood things can potentially cost money.

And: whoever wants to keep an overview and control (something written by you), does not buy, they build!

That's true, you hit the nail on the head.

Isn't all this a bit of an obsession with control? When I buy a car, I neither understand every production step nor do I want to know how such an ESP works. It will work, I trust that. The same applies to building a house, truly no rocket science, it is necessary. Sure, craftsmanship is not big industry, you have to pay attention, but you also have to leave the craftsmen the dignity that they already know what they are doing and have learned it. I cannot be able to do and understand everything in life. It is a basic attitude. And that relaxes.