On Friday, December 2, 2016 at 9:38:57 AM UTC-5, rbowman wrote:
On 12/02/2016 06:48 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
THEY will build whatever kind of house you want, provided YOU are
willing to pay. Most people want the cheapest house with
granite countertops, and don't care that they're basically made
of toothpicks and tissue paper.

I worked for a contractor years ago. Every house had a fireplace and
hardwood floors. Everything else from the roof to the leach field was
one step down from toothpicks and tissue paper. Even the lawn was seeded
with annual ryegrass guaranteed to last until November.

When I said "willing to pay", what I meant was "willing to pay for
a custom house and able to enforce the desired level of quality
by riding the contractor on every little detail". I probably
should just have typed that to begin with, but I figured in this
newsgroup, everybody knew that already.

Cindy Hamilton