Depends on your stress level and how well you know the builder. When we moved from Philadelphia the South Carolina, we built a dream home and only came down twice to see it and everything worked out well. I have also you know seen people have a lot of poor experiences. So you would want to know your builder. When you are building it's also easy to go over budget by wanting to add things; upgrade the wallpaper here or upgrade the carpet. But I will say that a lot of my real estate students have indicated that the first one into a subdivision you may or may not have the best value. If you buy the last house that comes into the subdivision you might get the best value because a lot of people when they move in to a brand new subdivision they really stretch themselves because they are trying to buy more than they are really comfortable in paying. And within a year or so they start selling. A resale house probably won't sell for the same amount of money as when it is brand new. So you lose money if you are the first ones in.
