MDV’s TruCost™ Project Pricing
Complete Project Costs BEFORE You Sign a Contract with MDV
Getting ALL the costs of your project before having to sign a remodeling or custom home contract is extremely important. Why? Because this is what happens when you don’t:
1) You probably won’t find out about extra costs you were not aware of until after you have signed the contract and started the project.
2) You won’t be happy with your contractor when you realize that many of these extra costs are very typical for a project like yours and your contractor knew or should have known about them.
3) You will likely be upset if you live in an upscale home and find out the contractor’s proposal only included costs to cover economy grade products, materials, and finishes and you suddenly have thousands to tens of thousands of dollars of “upgrade costs” you never expected.
4) You knew your contract had some “owner-supplied” line items but you never expected those to be as much as 30%, 40% or even 60% more than the costs outlined in the proposal.
Why MDV Provides You the “TruCost” of Your Project Before You Sign on the Dotted Line
We’re like you. We believe you should reasonably expect a remodeler or builder to provide you a proposal that includes the COMPLETE cost, the “True Cost” (TruCost™) of your entire project. You expect them to know all the types of costs that are regularly part of the kind of project they are estimating. If they can’t give you an exact cost, they should give at least an educated and realistic projection of the typical costs.
You go to professional remodelers and builders because of their expertise. Because of what they know or should know. You go to them because you want them to provide you with ALL the costs directly related to your project, not just some.
Many Remodelers and Builders Omit, Hide or Disguise Important and Significant Costs in Proposals
Unfortunately, it is easy for remodelers and builders to prepare proposals, even fixed price proposals, that do not include all that you will end up paying. Some contractors don’t have enough experience to know what costs to anticipate for some types of projects. Some may not think certain costs are their responsibility to tell you about. Others intentionally hide costs to make their price lower and easier to sell.
How it’s Done
Because most homeowners are not familiar with all the cost factors of a remodeling or custom home project, we’ve found this analogy a good way to explain how remodelers and builders can provide you a proposal that does not represent the True Cost of your project.
We Believe You Have the Right to Know All Costs Up Front, Not Just Some.
If you want to know the TruCost of your project up front, you owe it to yourself to talk to MDV before you select the remodeler or builder for your next project.
