Turnkey Construction

Hello everyone,
here are my experiences and the experiences from my environment on the topic
"turnkey construction".
I do not want to discourage anyone from building turnkey.
However, unfortunately, it is a wish that stems from the fact that one wants to have as little effort as possible when building. You can forget about that.
It is a pipe dream! Just ask your acquaintances, family, etc., who have already built.
Those who want to escape the hassle of building a house by saying: I don’t have time to deal with things and therefore "turnkey", will end up having many more problems.
The desire for turnkey construction is massively exploited.
You are building for the first time, the construction company, no matter which, has been around for 20 or more years.
All acquaintances in my environment who proceeded this way paid thousands of euros because of it.
Just imagine that before every 500 euro investment you hesitate for weeks and then, under pressure, put your entire life savings on the line in a very short time. Often also under the pressure that children are here or coming and you are practically standing knocked out. This is massively exploited
and will cost you hundreds of thousands. You have to imagine that, with normal financial means, everything will certainly cost double over the repayment period compared to what is on paper. Of course, this does not matter to companies that offer "turnkey", whether you pay off for a lifetime. This does not have to be the case. The cheating factor is enormously high. According to my estimate from acquaintances, this easily reaches 100,000 euros. Over the repayment period certainly double that. Have you ever considered how much you have left per month? You pay for everything out of the net!
I am not from the construction industry myself. However, I do see through the nasty business.

Suggestions on how you can do it better:
- Do not have the desire to get a house without effort. That will be expensive and you will work for it for the rest of your life. In that time you could have built your house by hand 5 times!
- Dial down your initial "King Ludwig" airs. With a normal financial situation, you pay everything twice!
- You know someone with experience who, for a fee, takes care of the selection of reputable craftsmen.
- Look in forums like this one to see how reputable a provider is.
- Don’t focus only on the tiles or on everything being as bright as possible. Those are the typical little problems that will cost you a lot of money in the end and a construction company knows that because they are stupid! Whoever is naive, pays/works himself to death!

The most popular trick in building descriptions for turnkey construction:
Specify very little and then send invoices for everything extra.
I have experienced this many times in my circle of acquaintances.
For example, "You will get a gas heating system." Well, which one,
where are the radiators, is the basement heated? I can come up with 100 other questions right off the bat that are not included!

Good luck building and whoever accepts that a house means a lot of effort, wins.

Good evening,


"Suggestions on how they can do it better"

Do not only look at the price at the bottom right and definitely do not sign with the cheap builder

Best regards from the Rhineland

Well, there are not only bad apples out there... I have built a turnkey house and spent "only" about 10% more than the price stated at the bottom right...

We have already purchased once (Neubau ETW) and have therefore already gained some experience. Everything that is important to us and that we definitely wanted, we have already included in the purchase contract. What is still to come, of course, is the upgrade for tiles if we exceed the material price, more sockets / SAT system as well as a slightly fancier bathroom ... but if you know that and inform yourself, I believe you can be positively surprised.

Good evening,

"Suggestions on how they can do it better"

Don't just look at the price at the bottom right and especially don't sign with the cheap builder

Rhenish greetings

I think that is exactly the right answer.
I also built turnkey and had no time to take care of anything because it seemed more sensible to me to earn the money for paying off the mortgage than to supervise craftsmen.
It cost exactly the agreed price down to the cent, there were no mistakes, no problems. Not quite true: there were problems with the basement,
kitchen, and heating. Those were exactly the three trades that I smart aleck did not want to leave to the house builder to save a few euros
and also wanted to involve local craftsmen.
What would be the alternative? Negotiate and award all trades individually? Good luck and much success!

Turnkey, individual contract award, own contribution.... if the client is naive enough, everything will go wrong everywhere. And no one is safe from the possibility of encountering a black sheep.