Hello,
Now I looked up model house parks in NRW and there aren’t many. Is it worth checking out a park with about 20 houses or so? What’s the point if we’re not really interested in the providers? Is it a waste of time and should I rather keep searching online for floor plans and eventually get some fancy drawings done by an architect?
I’m always surprised by the idealized notion some people have about visiting a model house exhibition...
I myself worked for a long time in W’tal and it’s anything but romantic, because the purpose of this exercise is to excite a potential customer about their own offer within a very short time. Since the old park in W’tal had plenty of competitors (by the way, can someone please tell me if W’tal is now purely a prefab house exhibition or if there are still solid houses to be found?), there was also plenty of competition in the race for the order.
From my point of view, the biggest problem was – nowadays I only work with shells or customer houses – refuting the often bundled, nonsensical statements of the “fellow exhibitors”; many examples of such statements can also be found here in the HBF discussion, up to a user who has a fixed architecture in mind that simply does not fit on his plot at all.
I see model houses as helpful only to get a feel for sizes/proportions; especially girls struggle with this. The respective furnishings – especially those in wet rooms – rarely survive the transport to the later, own property. Furthermore, model houses tend to deviate from the standard; even in size, as I just noticed myself with the esteemed red competitor colleague. By the way, this colleague has his selection hall right on site for exactly this reason; too much time between the first visit and further talks harms his business ;)
What I recommend to any prospective builder instead is a visit to a new development area nearby; it also saves money on fuel prices, nerves anyway, and works all over Germany. The builders there are so full of drive and enthusiasm that they willingly show their dream of homeownership in various stages of construction. In addition – especially if a visit is planned for the weekend – they also provide honest statements about the behavior of their building partner; free of charge and usually priceless. If these statements are confirmed later during a visit to a finished customer house, the first hurdle to finding a reliable provider is overcome. Also, little trouble during the construction process itself is a good indicator.
Best regards from the Rhineland