Approval meeting - wednesday, March 30, 2022
Bidding
After receiving our final approved plan from Allen on Thursday, March 30, 2002, we decided to think about and discuss our direction over the weekend to decide who we were going to give our bids to. Basically, who would we trust to make our dream home a reality.
We have been talking non-stop with friends and family on local builders. We already knew that Matt Cetwinski was our first choice and he has already helped us from even before we owned the land. We did not want to pollute the bidding pool by giving it out to everybody and anybody that had the capability to build a house. We believe that it is not fair to just pass out a bidding plan to a builder that we would have no intentions of hiring for our home. The amount of work that goes into getting all the information from the subcontractors and all the little minute details is something we realize how tedious and important this part of the plan is and we would never want to make a person go through all those efforts for nothing. It was very important to us that we pick our top 3 choices that we would be honored with having build our dream house.
Here is a side note on our bidding process: We will not discuss what the individual bids come in at. Again, it is not fair to the 3 builders that we carefully chose to post what their cost would be. Throughout the building process, we will have no problem on discussing what certain costs were when it comes to "our" costs or what allowances are for certain aspects of the build, i.e. kitchen cost, fixtures, cabinets, flooring, etc. These costs would be the cost regardless of who our builder is. Basically, we will keep each individual builder's costs and charges confidential to keep it fair to them and the profession!
Our area has many, many tremendous builders! We went over almost everyone of those builders in our area over the weekend of April 1 - April 3, 2022. We had individual Pro's and Con's, recommendations and discussed with customers what they liked or disliked about a certain builder. Again, this is something that we will not make public. On Sunday, April 3, 2022, we had come to our conclusion and had our 3 builders that we wanted to pursue in getting them the plans for a bid and potential to build our dream house.
Our Top 3 list of builders is our decision and in no way is saying anything negative about any of our builders in our area! These 3 that we chose were our personal decision and please do not think that these are the only 3 we believe in. Several other builders were extremely close, but, in our opinion, it would not be fair to make extra builders go through all the work with the minimal chance of reward involved.
We decided to give our plans out to Matt Cetwinski with Cetwinski Construction http://cetwinskiconstruction.com/ , Dean Tieman with Tieman Builders http://tiemanbuildersinc.com/ and Jeff Gochanour with Gochanour Construction https://cityofwenona.org/community_post/gochanour-construction/ . We have full faith in all their abilities and on Monday, April 4, 2022, we sent them the plans. Now starts the not-fun part of waiting for them to finish their tedious work of getting all the costs wrangled up.
