re: General Contracting your Home Build

Just GC our house in 2010. Would do it again if I needed to.

Pros:
Saved about $30000 on a 3400 sq ft house.
Pick your own subs. You do not get stuck with the builders "guy".
Put exactly what I wanted in house (ie flooring, granite, insulation, home audio)
I know what I put into house and quality of the work.

Cons:
Banks are going to give you more shite about $$$ if you do it yourself.
Its going to take you longer. Subs will blow you off, plus you are going to mess up the schedule at some point.
Better know what you are doing or trust your subs.
Very time consuming. I was at the house almost every morning and every evening and alot of lunch hours. Plus plenty of times you get calls that a sub needs you at the house ASAP.

I now have an awesome house with alot of bells and whistles and I know exactly how it was built for way less than a builder would do it. But I had to work for it.