The second tip is to ask the different contractors you are considering for references. If a contractor will not give you references you will probably want to stay clears of working with them. If a contractor will not give you references it probably means that people don't have good things to say about them and the contractors probably don't live up to agreements that they make. You will also want to make sure that you ask the different references you get how many years it has been since the contractor built their home and how they were to work with and how long it took to build their home. You will also want to make sure to take into consideration what type of house the contractor built as to how much time it took them to build each house. For example a 1400 square foot rambler is going to take less time to build then a 4000 square foot two story.

The third tip is if you are going to do sweat equity to help make your house cost less. You will want to make sure that the contractors allow you to do sweat equity and you will also want to make sure you find out how much money they will knock off for you doing the sweat equity. Some contractors will not allow you to do any sweat equity while others will let you do sweat equity but not give you the full credit of what they were going to charge you to do the same job. You will want to make sure that you pick a contractor that is fair and is willing to give you all of the credit for the sweat equity that you do.

The fourth tip is to make sure that the contractors have contracts and are going to put everything in a contract from the price of what the contractor is going to charge you to build your house to what upgrades are included and any other extras that were talked about along with any sweat equity that you are doing. There are a variety of things that you can compare between different contractors to make sure that you choose the contractor to build your house that is right or you and that you are going to be able to get along with and work the best with. You will want to make sure that you take contractors personality into consideration. If you don't like how a contractor talks about other clients or how they deals with other people on the phone while you are in front of them you might want to take into consideration that this if this is how they treats people in front of some one that they are trying to impress to get business from imagine how they are going to treat you once you become a client.