We've gotten one concrete bid back, and one guestimate. Both are really high -- on the upper end of what I considered worst case. Up until now our mindset has been that if they come back high we would figure out some ways to trim things down to pull it back in range. Given what we have I'm not sure that's going to be possible. We've inquired a bit about not finishing the basement and possibly moving the extra bedrooms upstairs (smaller footprint in terms of square footage), and while those things do help it's still not even in the ballpark of where we wanted to be.
So what now? We may have to start over. I'd like to get one more bid, maybe from a less "high-end" builder. And we're certainly going to look at existing houses differently. But that's still a real problem. There is just not much available in the area where we want to be.
There really aren't any great options at the moment. We've hit a wall...
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