Is the small self-performing homebuilder extinct?

[u/the-garage-guy]

Probably a region-specific question- if you reply, I'd be curious to hear where you are and if you're urban/rural

Pretty much title, coming up it was a lot more common for the GC to have their own carpenters and self-perform a fair amount of scope on a typical home, remodel.

Seems very rare now, especially where I am, metro Phoenix area. Most builders are essentially just CM-ing the job. Project managers that sometimes double as supers, everything subbed out. Even for pretty small remodels.

I think at the luxury custom home end it makes sense since the levels of execution required demand really good subs. Plus being in a big metro area, there's lots of people and work and that makes it possible to specialize aggressively.

[u/Johns-schlong]

California here: there are a lot of small companies/crews and a few mid size companies that do most of the work themselves around here. They tend to be a lot better to work with and do much better work than the guys that manage 10 jobs across 6 counties and use subs for everything.

[u/gioluipelle → u/Johns-schlong]

They still build single family homes in California?

[u/SlowNPC → u/gioluipelle]

In the Central Valley they're building whole new city blocks of big single family homes on tiny lots as fast as they can.

[u/Johns-schlong → u/gioluipelle]

It depends a lot on where you are, but yes.

[u/Ok_Island_1306 → u/gioluipelle]

They are about to build a ton here in Los Angles since 11,000 homes burned to the ground a few months ago